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Manga Talk: Soara and the House of Monsters volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny's
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  talk. I'm yours, robber, and today.
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  Today we're going to be diving into volume one of Sora and the
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  House of Monsters. Now this is one that I've been
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  highly anticipating coming out because I heard about him like a
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  little over a year ago and when it looked up a little bit of it
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  online checked out like the first chapter or so and loved
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  what I saw, loved what I read and not long after that 7 C's
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  and now. So they picked up the rights to
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  to print it. And so here we are a year later
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  with the English volume out and the story and art of this is
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  done by Hiddenori Yamaji. Now, first of all, this is a
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  very awesome cover because it makes you, at least for me, I
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  asked a lot of questions like, okay, what is this?
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  What is going on in this picture?
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  And so basically the story behind this is that you follow
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  this young lady named Sara who was an orphan girl.
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  She was brought in and raised by Knights in order to train to
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  fight monsters. When she becomes old enough to
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  join the war and stuff, well, years later, through all this
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  training and hardship, she's super strong.
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  She's ready for battle, and it is announced that, hey, the war
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  is over. You know, there's no more
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  fighting with the monsters. They've the monsters have, you
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  know, decided to, hey, they don't want no more fighting.
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  And now Sora's life purpose is just tossed at the window.
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  And so she then pretty much begins to roam the land in order
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  to search for a new purpose for life.
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  And she ends up stumbling across these three dwarves who are
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  architects. And here's a shot of the three
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  dwarves with their their leader in the middle, Keurick.
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  And so basically these guys are on a mission to provide and
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  build custom custom houses for various monsters and stuff they
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  requested and stuff. And the reason behind this was
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  basically during all the fighting and stuff with the
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  humans, one thing that the monsters continuously noticed
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  and admired was the humans living situation.
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  Because most of the monsters had never even thought about that.
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  They're just like, hey, wherever I can find a place to lay my
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  head at night, a cave, you know, within a tree, whatever, that's
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  cool. But as they got to see how
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  humans are stuffed for a living, they began to admire their way
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  of life and that's what lead to what's going on now.
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  And so pretty much the story follows Sora joining up with
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  these dwarves as they travel around doing various requests
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  for different creatures and stuff.
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  And so one of the cool things that I love because obviously,
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  yeah, I can't remember if I mentioned this or not, but but
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  one of the dolphins I enjoy of this is the art and the detail
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  of it and how they do a very detailed breakdown in a fun way
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  of the situation and what's going on.
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  So like for example the first monsters that they build a new
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  or they renovate a new house for and some goblins and so they
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  kind of give a rundown and even give you a detailed image of
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  what the goblins current living situation is with notes and
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  stuff as of the living space as well as notes for what the
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  monsters themselves are. And you kind of go through the
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  chapter or whatever getting detailed information on what the
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  like basically what the complaints are of the monsters.
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  What are they looking at hoping to to fix the.
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  Because I did this is an example of a of what the stuff of the
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  goblins looks like. You know the pointy rocks and
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  The Dirty floors and all this stuff and it's just pretty dope
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  kind of getting to see then walk through the process them doing
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  the teardown or the remodeling or however they do it for
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  because each creature and stuff and each of course is different.
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  And then you also get this very beautifully detailed finished
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  look of the hey, here's the before, here's the after once
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  again with all the detailed information as far as a hey,
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  here's all the changes, here's why they did this, why they did
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  that. Here is how they solved whatever
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  problems or complaints that the various monsters and stuff had.
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  And it's just a very just heartwarming thing to see,
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  because like I said, for the most part in a lot of these
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  series is, oh, you hear about goblins and different monsters
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  and stuff. It's all about killing and
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  fighting and destruction and no. Now yes there is some action and
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  stuff, whatever, but the focal point of this, I would say it's
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  kind of more of like a slice of life in a way.
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  I guess maybe like a slice of life coming of age kind of
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  mixture thing going on. And yeah, it is just very
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  beautiful and like, this is probably one of the most
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  infamous or like images that have gone, gone, gone around.
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  Just this shot of character Myron is working the God bless
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  just jumping for joy and rejoicing at their new home and
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  stuff like that. And so that is honestly like
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  like like the most exciting thing about reading this that
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  I'm curious about going forward. Because I won't spoil all the
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  monsters and stuff in this one, but I did enjoy the other couple
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  of monsters that they covered in this volume and how they
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  addressed their various concerns and stuff for the living
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  situations and stuff. And so they did.
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  This volume also kind of a ended on a little bit of a cliffhanger
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  for the monster that they're going to be helping out or or I
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  guess like the monster request that they're going to be diving
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  into in the next volume. Though of course, volume to
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  isn't coming out until February of next year, so it's a very
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  long wait. But I am very much looking
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  forward to. But but yeah, Sora and the House
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  of Monsters is something very cool, very unique and one that I
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  definitely highly recommend. Like I said, if you're looking
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  for something a little bit more chill with some beautiful art
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  and just something with the sense of wonder.
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  Because like I said you just always curious to figure out
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  what they're going to do next and to see that OK who's the
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  next monster is going to request something what probably going to
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  encounter and all those various things and stuff.
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  So but but yeah so Sora and the House of Monsters, this is
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  another cool one like. So I'm very happy to add to my
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  shelf to my collection that I am looking forward to to talking
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  about more in the future and yeah just the art and stuff even
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  on the back is just like very beautiful and stuff like that.
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  So, but yeah, very dark series. And I'm also looking forward to
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  seeing Sora continue to grow because obviously she's been
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  trained her whole life to fight and hunt and kill monsters and
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  so kind of having to get over those perceptions and stuff.
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  Because even the dwarfs and stuff kind of call her out like
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  man, you kind of, you know, showing a little bit of
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  prejudice here, man. And you know, and the way she's
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  talking and trying to attack the monsters and stuff on a site and
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  they're like, whoa, man, you need to, you need to slow your
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  Rd. man. You know, you kind of your
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  racism is showing, but but we'll talk soaring the House of
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  Monsters. Let me know if you've checked it
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  out or if it's one that you're interested in checking out.
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  Like I said, beautiful series, wholesome series, and we'll see
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  where this goes. But that's going to be all for
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  this one. Thank you so much for watching
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  and or listening. You can catch me everywhere at
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  Danny's to talk and I'll catch you in the next one.
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  Y'all be easy. Peace.