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When A Cat Faces West Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny to
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  talk. I am your host Robert.
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  And today we're going to be talking about when a cat faces
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  West volume 1. Now this series, just just a
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  cover, a couple of General things.
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  So this series, first of all, is Written by Yuki Arash.
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  Ybarra is the Arthur and it is published by kodansha.
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  Which, before I continue, I didn't have to say, shout out
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  and thank you to code atcha for providing me with a digital copy
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  of the manga for review. So greatly, appreciate it.
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  And thank y'all can do Co Dodger for providing me with that.
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  So, yeah, so that That is why you know that this is my first
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  time I thought think this is my first time reviewing a digital
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  version of a manga. So, you know, it's a little bit
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  different for me from the norm. I'm used to like being able to
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  hold it at stuff whatever but we will we will continue forward
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  but I will say that this series is only available available
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  digitally and it is a short-run series.
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  It's only going to be three volumes long.
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  Long, so and I think they might be reason of orange pretty
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  quickly, because this first volume just came out and met
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  volume to come out and at the end of June so that I don't have
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  a day providing three yet. But before I go on, so a little
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  bit of a background on when a cat faces West.
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  So, genre wise, it would be kind of more of like a Supernatural.
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  Supernatural mystery, kind of Slice of Life.
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  Top of story. That follows is his name, right?
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  He wrote, I who is the guy I'll see on the cover and his
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  assistant Chima, and they also have a cat named shacho, but the
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  series. Basically, centers around the
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  mystery of this substance called flow, which As the Scribe flow
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  is the phenomenon that occurs when matter falls out of balance
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  and changes form. Flow creates, Oddities both big
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  and small. They can be disruptive or
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  delightful equal measure. It is up to flow, disposal
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  departments, or and independent contractors to Shepherd, flow,
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  back to its natural form. So basically, it is just a
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  substance that kind of just like distorts various parts of
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  reality. And And a big part of the series
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  is the the female lead chaima. She is 35, but flow affected
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  her. And she woke up one day back in
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  her 12 year old body. So kind of made her life, pretty
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  difficult, being a 35 year, old woman who had a job and stuff,
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  whatever. And then, you know, basically,
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  she kind of kind of situations where nobody at work was taking
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  her seriously. This anymore and all different
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  things of that nature is. So she ended up getting a job
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  here at the, at this flow company to kind of learn more
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  about flow itself. Help them go out on different
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  cases and investigate and also try to find a way to get herself
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  back to normal. Now, before I continue on, I
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  want to make mention because the author of this series, Yuki, she
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  also did another series that some of y'all may have heard of
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  and shout out to zarya from past president from past present,
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  future podcast, because she talks about the series all the
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  time. She loves this series, but
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  mushishi. So before before I read, when a
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  cat faces West, I didn't know that the two were related.
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  By the same author, I mean, but when I started reading it, I was
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  like the art of this looks familiar, whereabouts, in it
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  from side, a little bit of research and Boom, music popped
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  up as so. Mushi is also another kind of
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  like fantasy Supernatural mystery type of series, which
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  kind of kind of similar vein, but it kind of deals with
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  different Spirits basically kind of known as Moshe, who can kind
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  of alter their surroundings or people and things of that
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  nature. So I haven't washed all of our
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  Watchman like five or six episodes, but it is definitely a
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  pretty Now, paste series much like when a cat faces West but
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  they really get you into the world and you kind of follow the
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  different stories and cases with the main character.
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  But like, I just want to give a shout out of mushy, because I
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  can say, if, if you have already watched that series, then you
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  might be interested in when a cat faces West and vice versa.
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  If you're not reading this manga and that interest, you go check
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  out. Music and like I said, once
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  again shot at desire, you for putting that on my radar, but
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  yeah, but back to when a cat faces West.
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  So, like I said in general, which let me see if I can show
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  y'all something real quick. CSR.
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  As you can see, the art of it looks great.
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  Nice clean. But like I say, it just has just
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  like a, a nice chill tone to it. And like I said, like, it much
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  like music, like I said, when you're watching it, the art, of
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  when a cat faces West likes, it just really fits the, the flow
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  and The Vow. Of of the series but one went
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  like I said, like I said, like I enjoy a series they're like, so
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  everything doesn't need to be crazy and action-packed things
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  can be kind of more slow-paced and for a series like this that
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  deals with these supernatural phenomena.
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  I enjoy that because like I said, it is a slower paced read
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  but with each chapter They really took the time to.
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  Going to the different cases and stuff that they're going to
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  investigate about. Okay, what is going on?
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  Give you a little context and a lot of times with with some of
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  the flow incidents. A lot of them are kind of tied
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  to people and situations that they were in.
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  So maybe somebody had regrets about a thing or a location
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  hose. A lot of Feelings or memories
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  then, you know, they have to now have some some there.
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  There are some things that there's nothing you can do about
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  it, and it just take x amount of time before it will revert back
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  to normal. Like example, there was a, it's
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  a It was it's dead of summer. So normally or I'm traveling
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  with the dead of summer are dead of winter.
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  My think it might have been dead of winter to wear.
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  Basically. It was the opposite season for
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  for cherry blossom trees to be blooming.
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  And so you had this truth, right?
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  One day. It was all weather than leaves
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  and then one day is beautiful and vibrant.
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  And that was just a case of my hey this tree is going to be
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  like this and I think I think it was like a month or a few weeks,
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  something or whatever. And just naturally, the flow
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  went away and everybody back to where it was, but then there are
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  other situations like, like example, I'll kind of talk about
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  a little bit about like one of the first cases, one of the
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  first cases Dealt with a situation where a ace a
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  intersection, got distorted by Flo.
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  And I just show. It was at through where a
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  three-way intersection became a 7-way intersection and that
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  ended up basically being due to somebody was passing through at
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  that moment when Flo was present and it was it was a young person
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  who basically was at the point where, you know, they are having
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  to decide what path they want to go on in life, like that.
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  Like their guidance counselors are, hey, what do you want to do
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  next? Whatever.
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  And they were just like, So troubled out like the weight of
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  the unknown future causes float, incident that created all these
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  split paths and so it like I said, it's just a really cool
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  thing like so just like just seeing The Oddities that
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  happened and then going along on the Journey of trying to
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  discover that. Okay.
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  What was what or who was the cause of this incident?
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  And then is this something that you know, okay we can help you
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  sort out your feelings and Boom. A reverse back to normal which
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  way is what happened with that situation?
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  Or or we have to just wait it out for weeks months, maybe even
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  years and so that is just one of the cool things about this
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  series. And so, yeah, so if, if you
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  enjoy, like I said, just Supernatural story.
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  Something a little bit different than the normal then I highly
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  recommend when a cat faces West. Like I said, it's available
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  digitally by kodachi. Ah, should be on if it were you
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  can get digital manga. But yeah, go check it out.
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  Like I said, it's a nice chill, really?
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  That you can just kind of just release it with and dive into
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  and yeah, but I'm very excited for the next couple volumes
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  because it had I'm glad that it's going to be a short series
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  because I'm very interested to see one how and if she were,
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  will be able to A Chima. Sorry, we'll be able to kind of
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  like, get back into her adult body.
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  And also, I'm just interested to see like all the different
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  incidents that they come across because of probably one of my
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  favorite. I'm not going to spoil what
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  happened, but there is one that involves mirrors, as so that one
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  was like really cool, really dope.
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  But yeah, and I said that that that's just a lot of like really
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  cool things in this first volume, so I can't wait to see
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  how it might ramp up and in the volumes to come.
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  But yeah, that's going to do it for this review.
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  Like so I want to kind of keep it nice and short and sweet.
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  But I hope you enjoyed what I had to say.
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  Like, say if you did, you know, drop me a like, subscribe to my
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  channel and support your boy likes it.
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  Once again, thank you to code Entre for providing me with a
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  digital copy. When a cat faces West.
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  And so with that, you know, I will see you in the next one.
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  As I always say, treat yourself to some nice racing manga, watch
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  them anime music, played some games and live your best life
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  and I'll catch our in the next one.
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  Yeah. I'll be easy piece.