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Manga Talk: Prince Freya volume 1-7 · 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 today, I am finally
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  getting a chance to dive into Prince Freya.
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  Now, Prince prayer. Is a series that has been on my
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  radar on my to relist for a very long time, pretty much ever
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  since A year or so. A little over a year ago.
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  When I first started physically collecting manga and you know,
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  I'm going out in the stores, browsing looking around or
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  whatever and I'll never forget. I saw some of the covers for the
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  volumes for the GI watching the YouTube video of this.
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  I got the all seven of the current volume so the covers of
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  them rotating out but by yeah but it just always caught my eye
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  but vol 1 always eluded me. Granted, I know I probably Kind
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  of found it online, ordered it online, but John know when it
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  possible I just love, you know, finding stuff in person and
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  picking it up at that moment. But any who finally had an
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  opportunity to get access to a digital copy of volume 1, as so
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  here, I am a couple days later, seven volumes later, I am.
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  Now fully caught up. I have read it all now,
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  backtracking a bit It's of so, Prince Freya, this is a Shoujo
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  series that is a fantasy romance that follows.
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  Basically a young girl named Freya, who happens to look just
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  like the Crown Prince of the, of the Kingdom that she lives in
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  the tier Kingdom. Prince Edward.
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  Edward something like that? Well, long story short.
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  Things happened to The Prince and Freya ends up needing to
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  basically live his life because of the fact that she looks
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  pretty much identical to what the prince looks like.
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  And thus here we are honestly kind of reminds me a little bit
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  of for those of y'all that have read Kingdom, the situation,
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  that shins best friend was In where The Shins best friend
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  look, just like the king or the young prince I guess at the time
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  but anywho so, yeah. And so that that that's, that's
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  the kind of long. And short of the start of this
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  series is that Freya is a sin, This is a girl from a country
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  town outside of the Kingdom, just living her best life with
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  her sickly mother. And she had to close guy friends
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  that she grew up with that, that her mother took in when they
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  found them. I think when they were younger,
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  they got captured and young little Freya happened to free
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  them, and then they came to sleep with her her mother.
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  And they are Aaron and Alexi. Yeah, Aaron and Alexei so as
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  they've gotten older, whatever. Aaron is actually one of the
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  like main guards for the prince whereas Alexi is kind of like
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  he's there but he's not like as big of a deal ranking rise as
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  his older brother. But yeah, and so this story
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  surprised me in so many ways just because like I said, like
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  like the only thing I've known about the series for a while is
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  it it just follows a girl who has to take the place of this
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  Prints but I did not expect. It too.
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  I don't know what to have all the twists and turns that the
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  story has because you know while the prince himself was always
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  kind of flashy and I don't know if I would say flamboyant but
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  because the prince was beautiful and Freya herself is beautiful,
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  you know a lot of people were very infatuated with the prince
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  and so now with Freya in that room and just because of how her
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  personality and stuff is she just really becomes a career
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  that you like really want to root for And there are a lot of
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  the characters in the story really want to protect and some
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  of them start to get feelings for Freya.
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  You know. Now there's a there's a very few
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  people who actually know that. Okay, the prince is no longer
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  here and this is somebody else actual girl standing in for the
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  prince but everybody else just thinks it's still the prince.
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  And so I just kind of criticism a lot of like really interesting
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  and some sometimes funny situations were some coaches are
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  kind of like man I'm kind of I'm kind of you know really alert by
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  the prince not knowing that you know it is a it is a Freya but
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  The art of the series is also like really beautiful as well
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  and very fit, it just like really fits this story and stuff
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  as so. Yeah.
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  But but but throughout the course of these seven volumes
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  one that was saying is that this series does not hold back.
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  You know, there is death, there is dismemberment.
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  And also the source of things along the way because even in
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  their first volume, very big thing happens.
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  That I did not expect and I'll just like, whoa.
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  Okay. Did they really just do that?
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  And they did and they continue to do it.
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  But I really like Freya because she is just a character that you
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  just really want to root for. You can really see she really
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  has a passion for wanting to help to help people to protect
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  people and to want best for those that are around her.
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  And now granted some Sometimes she jumps into situations
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  headfirst without really thinking about them or just
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  doing stuff on Instinct. She sometimes speaks up and
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  voices her opinion or thoughts and stuff on certain matters.
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  You know, the maybe she should have like hair back on the bed
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  and plus with with fraying now in a royalty position there's
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  also even more weight to The wires and actions that Freya
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  takes along this journey, but I do enjoy that throughout these
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  seven volumes. We kind of get to see
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  progression across the board from them, traveling, to
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  different countries, for different purposes, to some of
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  the other characters thrown to like, slowly, open up to Freya
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  and also seeing freya's growth as well.
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  Well, and being put into this, this leadership position being
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  surrounded by, you know, all of these men characters and things
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  like that. And and I understand even some
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  of the women along the way that she has to encounter and deal
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  with, but but all of the characters are other characters
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  are really, really cool, really beautiful?
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  Really interesting. And I don't know, it's just a
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  lot of just intrigued and things that I am just curious to see
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  more about as the story goes a long.
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  So, now, the series has been going on for, I think like four
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  years or so roughly, I think for five years somewhere in that
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  timeframe and while it has seven volumes there's only about 20 21
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  chapters because their lengthy chapters which is why Okay, yes,
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  no 20 chapters but, you know, they only do like three or four,
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  three or so chapters per volume and so they're pretty lengthy
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  pretty meaty chapters. But but this is one that like I
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  said, it feels like, you know I've seen a few people here and
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  there over the over the couple of years, I've been really
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  covering manga and stuff talk about this series, but I
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  definitely feel like this is one that would really blow Oh up if
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  there ever is an anime done. But because of the pace of how,
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  when the chapters in the volume stuff come out or whatever
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  because I think I think Volume 8.
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  It's slated for I think maybe January of 2023 and so it might
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  be a while before we have enough material.
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  You know, to truly have You know, enough for and he's not
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  like a solid season just because I like based off of what I've
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  read so far. There might be one spot.
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  I think maybe like the inner volume 6 beginning of Volume 7,
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  maybe that you might could stop at.
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  I could see but otherwise I don't really see too many other
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  light like good spots just because of the story is still
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  kind of early on it. Still kind of like really just
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  now wrapping up and still building but like I said, there
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  is still a fair amount of things.
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  That happened. So, but, but, yeah, we're
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  Prince, failure, is definitely a series of encourage y'all to
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  give a shot to check into Like I said, especially if you're
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  looking for like a new fantasy romance series, then this is
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  definitely one to put on your radar at the checkout.
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  So because like I said, I am I had a feeling I would like it
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  just by being based off of what I read off of the synopsis early
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  on. But I didn't anticipate reading
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  through everything available Then a day or so.
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  But here we are. Seven volumes later.
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  I am, I am a supporter of Prince Freya, and I hope that you are
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  too. And I think with that, I don't
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  think there's too much as I want to touch on.
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  Actually, you know what just very briefly?
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  I could, because I like doing this talk a little bit more
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  specific, so I'm going to touch on some Plot Point, spoiler
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  stuff whatever. So just for a couple of minutes
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  but I just kind of just want to get my thoughts out there on a
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  couple of things. So if you're watched so far, go
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  check out Prince Freya pretty cool series, but I need to dive
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  into a couple spoiler. So you've been warned, spoilers
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  beginning now. So First surprise, they're like
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  really caught me off. Guard was damn.
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  Killing off the older brother Aaron.
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  And that first volume, when that happened.
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  I was like and it wasn't know how he got stabbed, right?
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  As I not had just gone and so was I.
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  Oh, okay. So I did not know that they were
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  getting down like that in this volume or in this series in
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  general. but saying that seeing freya's just saying Fred just
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  break because she had never really seen and been exposed to
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  that type of Trauma and stuff. And so that was wild later on
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  with the young girl that they had with them.
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  When they were heading to to that warmth Fortress and Freya
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  try to get the girl to stations I know hey go there's a village
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  down here whatever go chill there while we go and see if
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  your village is stuff, whatever is good.
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  And it goes like no no no let me come. and, Damn catapults with
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  the giant rocks. Just freaking crush, a poor
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  little girl's legs and then pretty much took her out.
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  I like Alexei he tried to save her and at that moment to is
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  wild to where they was on the edge of the cliff when he was
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  holding a picture of the girl, from of the Boulder.
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  And then like him in the girl, fell off the cliff into the
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  water below. Now I had a feeling with him, he
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  wasn't gone because I was like, that would be too cruel.
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  That would be too cruel. Take both of the brothers and
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  thankfully he didn't die. He was injured.
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  He did lose a lie though, because I freaking Tara, that's
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  what it was. The arrow hit him and he went
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  off the cliff but but he did make this pact with this Forest
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  tribe and stuff. Whatever.
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  And I'm interested to see like what is going on with that but
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  but yeah those things, oh, the The, the emperor that the Young
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  Lion is, I call them with the, with the Flaming red hair.
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  I loved his encounter with Freya on the boat, just because they
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  both didn't know who each other were and stuff like that.
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  And but they also had a little bit of, like a of a, of a
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  connection of sorts. And so it's going to be
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  interesting to see the moment when they actually me again,
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  face to face knowing each other's titles, which is Why I
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  love this cover for Volume 5 just them two together but but
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  yeah, that that there's a problem.
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  But but yeah, all the twists and turns and stuff.
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  Oh what's her name? Erica finding out that she was
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  actually the queen of the Kingdom.
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  But this lady from this up from the from the Secret Kingdom
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  basically. Took out over.
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  Took her husband made her a made with no name but luckily they
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  hid away their child, but that whole scenario was wild.
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  But you know, it was cool to see how it all kind of came together
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  and played out in the end. All of that was just your just
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  really, really dope. And yeah.
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  And so I'm not sure. I like where things are about to
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  go. Now with them in this seemingly,
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  like, Other Kingdom or whatever is going on there.
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  But yeah, all I know like said that this has been a very
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  pleasant surprise and they really good read.
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  But but yeah, I just look forward to seeing Freya and all
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  the other characters. All of their continuous growth
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  seeing, Julie has continued to open up to Freya and starting to
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  fall for her as well. And everything.
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  So but I'm just running at this point.
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  Like I just had to just touch on those couple of plot points that
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  just like really took me aback when I read them.
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  I was like, whoa. Oh.
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  And the last one to freaking out freya's, mother pulling out the
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  sword because obviously you know you your Stickley mother.
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  You've been in bed for a long time and your daughter and your
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  adoptive signs, you know, you haven't seen them.
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  You're getting you're getting messages from the capital.
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  But, you know, as a parent I understand there's something
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  just doesn't feel right. And so, at the end of a thing
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  was Volume 7, when she got another letter and she just like
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  this, just something just doesn't feel right.
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  And we see her open up just like secret compartment in the house
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  and going after them until I can figure like a shield on the on
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  the wall or whatever and we see her wielding a sword or holding
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  up a sword. It's like, yo, it's his mom
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  getting ready to set out on a adventure to see what happened
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  to Freya. And so I look forward to the
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  day. Day when they get to reunite and
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  stuff though, it will be sad. Like wench.
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  They have to tell her about Aaron passing away and all the
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  other stuff that has happened over time.
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  But yeah, it was just really wild.
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  Oh, speaking of parents freaking a prince Everett's father the
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  king like his condition and stuff and like that.
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  That was a fun child. Are seeing him at Freya, going
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  out into town and stuff where they were when they were trying
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  to like get him to give up the the jewel thing.
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  But even in his mental state, he was in, he knew that there
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  wasn't his son. He had fun with Freya or
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  whatever, but he ended up asking the guard who was like, who is
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  that person? And that that's not my son.
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  Who is that person? And so yeah, so it's just a lot
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  of things that are kind of like slowly bubbling in the
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  background that it might be a while before we get any PayPal
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  funny, that stuff, whatever, but I still look forward to
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  following it to seeing what comes out of it in the future,
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  but, yeah. But Prince Freya, Pleasant
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  pleasant surprise, and between this and villains are destined
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  to die, kind of think I need to. I need to look into more some
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  more romance series and stuff as well.
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  So but that is another discussion for another day.
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  This has been going on for a while, so I thank you so much if
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  you're still listening in or watching for your time.
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  Yeah. As always, let me know what you
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  think. Have you checked out prints for
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  you or you in? Going to check it out prints for
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  you and like I said, hopefully someday we get to see this.
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  This beautiful manga animated. And speaking of which, I didn't
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  even say this is a series from a published by videos, I might
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  have said that but the Arthur is the story of art is done by
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  Keiko ishihara and it's just been so sweet.
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  Like at the end of all the volumes since I got to binge,
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  read it all saying like her nose.
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  It's and stuff. Whatever, of like, oh I am
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  finally had a series go past, you know, three, four volumes,
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  whatever. And hey, we made it to seven
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  volumes. Just hearing the story and
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  everything, whatever of how the the Arthur has been going
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  through it. You know, over the years, just
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  trying to learn and adapt, and, and do her best so, so much love
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  to the author Keiko. Ishihara of Prince Freya, but
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  With that. I am out.
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  Thank you so much for watching and listening.
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  Yeah, I have an awesome day and or a week and I'll catch you on
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  the next one. Yeah, I'll be easy piece.