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Manga Talk: The Country Without Humans Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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  talk, I'm your host, Robert. And today we're going to be
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  talking about the country without humans, volume one.
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  Now, this is one. I've been interested in checking
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  out for a while. Yeah, pretty much ever since
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  ever, since I came out and as well as I heard some good
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  thoughts on it from one of my buddies.
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  Otaku and training because he did a review on it back when
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  brought you when it came out and I listen to like a couple few
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  minutes of it or whatever. I didn't want to get spoiled her
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  brother's into enough to get my interest and so, so yeah.
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  So I had recently picked it up in this country has been sitting
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  on my shelf and I decided today. I was like, you know what, I'm
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  in the mood to read something. And volume 2 is coming out soon.
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  As I was like, you know what, perfect timing.
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  So country the humans the story or is done by Iwatobi Nico of
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  them pronouncing that right and it's published by Seven Seas.
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  So like I said, volume ones, out volume to coming out soon.
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  I'm actually, by the time you see this, probably going to
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  should probably already be out on shelves, but basically the
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  story follows, this young girl named shi shi, I Or maybe shy.
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  I don't know how to pronounce. I'm I'm saying she she or shy as
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  seemingly. She is the only human in the
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  whole world and she ends up encountering, this Golem named
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  Bob. Now the premise in general is
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  enough to kind of get my attention but honestly I kind of
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  like how at the beginning of it. They start off with kind of
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  showing you a few different golems and kind of give you some
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  information as far as like, what they are or what they what their
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  types are and all that stuff. But but yeah the the general
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  premise of this girl seemingly being the only human left on
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  Earth and her starting to bond Tomatoes this relationship with
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  this Golem that enough was enough to kind of get my
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  intrigue. But kind of like, pretty much
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  try out the gate, it starts off just like immediately where she
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  is being chased down by these golems that she calls triangle
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  has because I have a triangle shaped head but they're chasing
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  her. You don't know why?
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  You get these very great looking panels, that kind of immediately
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  just like grabs your attention. And this one for chapter one,
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  when we start with a city, with a view of this kind of cityscape
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  that she's in, that was I okay you got my attention right out
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  the gate. And then just kind of reading
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  through this and, just kind of saying, just like the constant
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  sense of kind of Mystery as well as unease just because
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  everywhere she goes. Like all the golems all eyes are
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  on her everywhere. She goes into it, they're
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  constantly know just looking at her whatever and you kind of
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  find out throughout the volume that like a lot of the Golems
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  are kind of program to the goals were originally no program to
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  service humans and so a lot of them like they have a different
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  functionality and stuff to where they can kind of feel.
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  Some of them can kind of like feel human emotions that kind of
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  like you have to respond. - oh, okay, you're hungry or thirsty.
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  So on and so forth. But there's just like so many
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  just like panels. Like I said, just like grips
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  your teachers just like, whoa, okay, it's kind of creepy, but I
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  want to know more and that's best to have felt the whole way
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  through and even just immediately I really liked the
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  immediate bond between the Bulb the Golem and she just by, you
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  know, him immediately kind of protecting her and forming this
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  Bond. And then, you know, you kind of
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  eventually finding out the reason why He kind of was bonded
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  to her and I guess I'll kind of say like white spoilers because
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  I need to talk about some of this whatever.
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  But but basically the reason why he got her, he brought her back
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  to where he raced quote unquote stage or whatever is that she
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  wanted her to meet her master. But I kind of feared the reality
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  of the situation. Fear and of being true.
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  And then because of what was revealed then Bob was basically
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  about to go into disposal mode, basically, as okay?
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  Well, I my original function is no longer necessary.
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  So I'm forced to go and basically just scrap myself and
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  that's what Bob was in the process of going to do until she
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  in the. Cuz like, there's like this
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  other kind of like, little Little Robot thing that's kind
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  of floating around as well. I think are like like me Q or
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  something like that. Let me see.
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  So I'm trying to see if I can find this now.
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  I know it starts with the m. Do.
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  Do, do, do do. Yeah.
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  I'm not seeing the name immediately at the moment, but I
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  guess I think you was make you or something like that.
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  Let's see. Let's see.
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  Let's see. Yeah, I'm not seeing any melee
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  at the moment, but I'm bringing you the other kind of my little
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  small robot. Basically just know, helps kind
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  of helps fill in both she as well.
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  As you as the reader into little bit more background about okay,
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  what's going on, why certain things are happening?
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  What's the different function of these various columns?
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  So I kind of like that that story divisive like okay there
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  is a A thing in the story that explains stuff both to the main
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  character, as well as to the people that are reading without
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  it feeling like, like like the narrator just like being like,
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  hey, we know you're reading, check the size, like no, it
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  feels really natural and you know, like so once again, like
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  both of these first couple chapters like immediately start
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  off with some really great or in them.
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  But yeah, just just all throughout.
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  I really enjoyed the Intrigue and especially cuz I cuz it's
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  kind of reveal later on that basically hewmet him humans.
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  Has it having been around for, like 400 years?
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  And so she's trying to figure like she has little to no memory
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  of what happened. How she got their stuff like
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  that. And so yeah, like I said, I am
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  super excited to check out the next chapter, like I said this
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  first chapter, he immediately had me sold.
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  Cuz like I said, just like the Intrigue is enough, but then,
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  like I said, just The I'm just really want to see more of the
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  bond between bulb and she and I also really appreciate these
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  really dope action panels. Like the art looks really cool
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  whenever bulb is fighting, you know, you know these are various
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  enemies and like I said, it's just so wholesome, just like the
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  bond. That is formed between them on
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  the kind of reminds me and I've been I think I'm trying, I'm
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  trying was Taco and Chinese had this or somebody.
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  I spoke to a kind of mentioned that that their relationship
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  reminded them of Sorry, let me look at that hand.
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  My real quick. Yeah, so Somali in the forest
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  spirit, that also involves a young child and the Golem.
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  So, so maybe that maybe there's another reason why this kind of
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  like really intrigued me because I really enjoyed that and a man
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  stuff though. I also knowing how
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  heart-wrenching that show was already you already get like
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  some like pulling at the heartstrings moments within its
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  volume as well because other characters kind of get
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  introduced along the way that are trying to I guess former
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  wedge between she and balls relationship and so kind of like
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  cuz cuz of course she is very young, you know, kind of naive,
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  especially, you know, you just remember waking up in a
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  facility, you're being chased by this triangle head Golem things,
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  and then you're told all you're the only your the last year
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  long. The only human has been seen at
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  400 years. You know, that's a lot to take
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  in likes, especially for a kid. So, you know, you might be able
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  to be easily influenced by certain people and stuff so, but
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  but yeah, overall likes are just really good.
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  I don't like so I don't want to get to involved or two spoiler,
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  whatever. But I do want to say that, There
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  were some hints and stuff because she starts to kind of
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  like remember recall certain. Oh I remember seeing a lady or
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  had a dream about a lady that I remember saying and a certain
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  symbol and the kind of like a little mini Arc that they kind
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  of go on trying to find out more about that symbol and the Golem
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  they encounter during that part. It's kind of interesting kind of
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  like learning or just seeing how You know, the Golems take stuff
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  take requests very literal. So you know you kind of to be
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  careful how you phrase certain things and certain requests you
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  know otherwise you might have that's a goal don't fully
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  dismantle their selves. In order to give you something
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  that you said that you were wondering if they knew about so
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  that was a very striking moment. They really hit.
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  She is, she's like, no, I didn't want you to do this, you know, I
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  just wanted to know if you knew anything and then the little the
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  little helper by Alexa things called me cute.
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  Whatever his name is, he was like, well, you asked they had
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  information and this is how they give get you that information as
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  so. Sorry, I so like I said, it's
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  really good. and it off and a very big crazy, flashy way, you
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  know, where Bob and she or kind of bombarded with a lot of these
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  triangle Golems, you know, as they are as the this other
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  character that kind of came into play, is also Manipulating
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  things that stuff on the side as well.
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  So lots of moving Parts, like I said, I am very excited to to
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  check out the second volume and to see How things further
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  progress. Because like I said this this
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  really this really got my Intrigue from like I said, from
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  pretty much those opening Pages up until the very end so but
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  yeah the country without humans definitely recommend.
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  Like I said, if you were kind of into or looking for a series
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  that has a little bit of mystery, little bit of intrigue
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  but also has a horse relationship between likes it.
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  It's this young girl. And this Golem creatures.
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  So go check it out. Like said, volume ones out now,
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  volume to it. Also will also probably be about
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  time, this is up but yeah, I'm trying looks at trying to keep
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  these nice short sweet, but it's always.
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