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EP 70: The Art of Manga Deals w/ Manga Alerts · 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 joined by
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  Raphael as many of y'all may also know as manga alerts on
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  Twitter. What's up Rafael?
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  Hey what's up bro? How are we doing?
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  How we doing? Good good how are you doing
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  today man? Doing good man.
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  First podcast I've ever been on And I'm, you know, I'm super
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  excited to do it with you been a long time listener.
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  You know being a note like been an OG listeners since I was at
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  like what both I hit before 1000 followers, that's when we
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  followed each other. Yeah, I know, I came across your
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  episode on like the manga country without humans and since
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  then dog I've been hooked to your show.
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  Like I'm telling you like every manga at you like, featured on
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  your show, I picked it up, read it, loved it.
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  So very glad to be on this show today.
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  Yes. And I'm definitely very glad to
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  have you. And as always know for those of
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  y'all that this was your first time here, then welcome, but if
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  you're a returning Watcher and or listener than welcome back,
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  you know, here at Danny's to talk.
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  It's all about fatherhood and family manga.
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  Lots of among. Oh yeah.
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  Anime and sometimes little sprinkle of video games in
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  there. So let me cut the music real
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  quick. Because today, so we're gonna
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  talk about a lot of stuff, but one of the main reasons and I
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  guess know, just to kind of put people on for those who might
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  not be aware of manga alerts and what Rafael does over there
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  because, you know, your your primary page at least at least
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  that I follow and stuff is on Twitter even though I know you
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  have you have Instagram and stuff to correct.
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  Yeah, don't worry like that one. I'm Working on getting that one
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  back up and up and running. But the main one is Twitter.
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  That's my that's my bread and butter.
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  Yes. So so I guess also like like
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  Raffaele said we we met each other on Twitter earlier this
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  year because because what you started your page back in
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  February of this year, 2022. And yeah, the the growth that
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  you have had in these what? Six seven months have.
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  Yeah. Yeah as a spectator has been
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  fascinating to watch, but before we know dive too deep into all
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  of that stuff, I guess I guess I'll let you do a little self
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  introduction to you know who you are and and what manga alerts
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  is. Okay.
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  All right, I got you. All right, so everyone my name
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  is Rafael and I'm the guy behind the Twitter account manga alerts
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  which is a Twitter account. Dedicated to finding any Mantra
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  deals. Restock news and other stuff
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  related, to those topics. I also run an event on Twitter
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  called follower Friday which includes giveaways that are open
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  to everyone internationally every Friday, right?
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  And it and a collection thread so you can show off like your
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  collections and halls for that week.
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  So if you're looking for a place to you know show off or brag
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  then that's all encouraged in my thread.
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  So go ahead and drop your stuff there or whatever.
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  Idea pops into my head honesty on Friday.
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  Honestly, I win that stuff, but primarily people come for the
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  collection thread and the giveaway.
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  So there's that, but most importantly, at the end of every
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  month, I run a behind the alerts thread which gives you guys 100%
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  full transparency on, how much I make meaning like, how much
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  money I get from your, my affiliate links how that money
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  is divided up, and how my page is growing, which is often
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  Something That You Don't See. On a social media page at all.
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  I do this because it's sort of like, my way to thank you guys,
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  for all the support and all the, you know, time that you took out
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  of your data. Follow me and I'm someone who
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  takes things, very, like personal and I like, put a
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  little bit of myself into the things that I do.
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  And so doing this thread and doing everything that I've done
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  sup to this point is, you know, my personal.
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  Thank you to you guys for following me.
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  Yeah for sure man and yeah like if if you are on Twitter and
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  you're not following manga alerts correct it because yeah
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  he stays on top of all of the various deals going on.
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  Anytime, you know, there's a buy two, get one free sale
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  somewhere. Any time there is a restock of
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  stuff, anything you could think of renewed in.
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  Ours to the selling of manga. The at alerts manga Twitter page
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  is the place to have to follow because 4441, I guess, like I
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  said, like, for me as a spectator and all of this.
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  I just appreciate just having that type of resource because I
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  kind of a kind of equivalent it to a lot of people might also be
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  aware of the Twitter account, Wario 64.
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  Yeah, Pride. He's primarily in the video game
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  side of things though. He does do some other deals and
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  stuff along the way, but at least like for myself, I mainly
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  follow him. For those video games and stuff
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  for the video game deals I should say as so it's been nice
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  kind of having a equivalent of sorts for manga.
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  And so I definitely gotta say appreciate you and officer that
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  you do man. Thank you.
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  Cuz cuz anytime even if every not may not be nothing that you
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  know, I'm immediately. In the market looking for,
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  whatever I can still some artists are always just
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  appreciate, you know, a good deal in general especially oh
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  yeah. Especially if it's something
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  that's like a rare item to find especially when it comes to like
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  stuff like that. Like these various boxes and
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  stuff. Oh yeah, thinking so lately.
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  I know that's been like a very hot item.
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  Oh, yeah. I know.
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  Tell me about it like yeah. Tell me about it die.
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  It's crazy. Yes, SI I guess what kind of
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  before, you know, will take a little bit of a trip down memory
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  lane before before manga alerts was a thing.
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  Oh, you and your journey into becoming a manga /, anime fan in
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  general where where did it, where did Journey with manga?
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  And like I said, anime included. Where did where did your dream
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  with those things? Kind of begin.
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  So, okay. And I got you.
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  So first things first, believe it or not.
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  I was actually in the crowd that thought liking Manga and Anime
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  was weird. Yeah, I was, I was in that
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  crowd. Yeah.
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  And it wasn't until the pandemic started was when I was like,
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  okay, you know what, let's kind of open up my horizons a little
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  bit and shout out to the girlfriend because obviously she
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  is a big Pusher and getting me into an anime specifically my
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  hero Academia, nice. So now, I actually thought, you
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  know, it was really good. I liked it and from there it was
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  just As you know, you start with one, then you go with another
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  one. Then you go with another one.
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  So, it's crazy Glee. It's a snowball quickly.
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  Yeah. So, but for some trivia, my
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  actual first ever anime that I watched was Samurai Champloo
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  nice. And my first manga that I read
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  was chainsaw, man. Nice, nice.
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  Yeah, to to immediate Bankers. Oh yeah.
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  Absolutely. Like and you are like, I always
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  see people that are like, oh this Like a good starter like
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  manga or starter and I met and I just went, like the complete
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  opposite of what they want with and here I am now.
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  Yeah, that that is dope. So, okay, so that and it's kind
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  of funny that you mention because I feel like especially
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  even even with just some of the people that I've had on my
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  podcast and in this last year, since I've been doing this,
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  whatever is been many people who kind of were in like a similar
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  boat as far as like they, they were, maybe maybe To anime at
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  least or whatever, but didn't really get into like the manga
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  side of things until the pandemic a couple years ago.
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  So, that, that that's just very interesting of, you know, that
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  kind of reoccurring theme and that reoccurring story of, you
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  know, through this crazy world event that, you know, a lot of
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  people found, I don't know. I don't know if the old enough
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  to say Comfort, or Solace or Escape, whatever the reason
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  person might have been And for, you know, diving into into the
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  realm of manga. So yeah.
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  No, I agree. It's like this, I mean, it's
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  sort of like a blessing in disguise in a way because it's
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  like now that we've had for most people have this like extra free
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  time that we once previously did not have, you know, we, you
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  know, for all naturally going to want to find applets for the
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  stuff that we that we do every single day.
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  Yeah. So some people, it's more
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  movies, more like streaming stuff, more gaming.
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  And for me, it was Anime and manga.
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  Yeah, so yeah. So, okay.
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  So, so weird. That being a Just just within
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  the last couple of years damn, what kind of LED you to wanting
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  to start the Twitter page and go down to this road of bindiya
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  being the guy. The hook of the plug?
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  Yes. Yes I actually follow Laura 64.
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  I think when he before he reached I think it was like a
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  male. And I love big thing, that I
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  remembered from him was Target. Had this, like, error or
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  something? Where, if you signed up for
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  their like text alerts, you got a 15 to 20% code and right, so
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  it's pretty standard stuff, right?
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  But then, what happened was, there was like different
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  numbers. You could text and get different
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  codes each time. So you were able to stack, I
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  think like three or four. Or 15% off codes in one go.
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  So, like, so like those, let me see if I remember, right?
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  Like, Xboxes and PlayStations were, like, a hundred dollars
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  instead of 300. Yeah, I know guys who like
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  copped 4K TVs and OLED TVs, for, like, what was it 1002 like down
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  to, like 200? $300, I'm a bit exaggerating.
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  But that was how insane the deal was.
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  Yeah. And since then I've been hooked
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  on, you know, trying to find stuff that's you know.
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  On sale and on like clearance or prices or anything like that
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  because I just really like that Rush of oh crap.
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  That's a pretty good deal and I want to jump on it, you know?
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  Oh yeah. Yeah.
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  I definitely are. I definitely have seen.
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  Yeah, him kind of post some. Some insane stuff like that to
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  over the years of just like, hey if you do this or maybe not even
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  like a thing like that, but Tory, we're like Best Buy their
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  website, had a glitch and some super expensive thing.
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  King was ten dollars or something Reebok, you guys and
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  then you know, it's like, you know, it's always funny to her
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  as I do check it out and then sometimes sometimes it lasts for
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  a goat. Couple hours.
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  And sometimes it's like, 30 minutes later, he's retweeting,
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  it being like. All right?
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  They they found they found the error and it's like on it, it's
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  gone it's done and all that's happened with like the PS5 so
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  many times like yeah, I'm not sure if you were there but when
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  Sony announced like oh yeah, we're going to have the
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  Pre-order for the PS5 on this date 100% And then all the
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  Retailer's just completely ignored what Sony said and
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  released it like two or three days earlier.
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  Yeah. Oh yeah.
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  That was crazy. That was a crazy time.
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  Be a part of. Yeah.
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  So, okay, cool. So then then what was the next
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  thing to kind of lead letter to your page started?
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  Yeah. So like I said because of the
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  pandemic I really got into more and And manga.
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  And honestly, it was one of those like one thing led into
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  another where I'm like. Okay, so I like this stuff but I
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  didn't see anyone in my like immediate like circle on doing
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  like any like manga deals or anything like that.
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  So then my friends were like, I bet you could do that.
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  I'm like, really, I don't know, and you'll come to find that I
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  often doubt myself a lot on what I can and can't do.
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  Yeah. To, then like, do it.
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  And then I'm like, Like honestly surprised like, oh crap I've
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  actually done this. So I really did not expect
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  myself to like be where I'm at right now.
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  Yeah. I thought like only like one or
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  two people were going to follow and that's it.
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  But what I'm sitting at 8,000, plus followers and Counting.
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  Yeah, yeah, so yeah, so yeah. So yeah, that, that whole thing
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  is has been like I said, like I said, sound like a broken record
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  but it's just just, just fascinating like Just watching
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  just as Evolution and especially because, even though I follow
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  you it's like it's like I turn my head and I look back and then
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  it's like, you know, either you've no jumped some more
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  followers or you have all types of deals and connections going
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  on with all these various parts. Yeah, stuff.
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  And it's like, it's because like we said at the beginning it's
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  like I've been Following you since four, for sure, under a
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  thousand, if not weigh less than even that I think you were like
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  one of the first, like either 100 or 200.
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  Yeah. That sounds about right.
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  Yeah. But yeah, it's just been, you
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  know, and I'm just like, it's not quite his way.
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  He's, he's a pretty joking with it with the VIS accounts.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, no. Let me talk about that a little
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  bit. I could not so that whole thing
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  how it started was mean. We'll see commenting like jokes
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  and Do you like means under the videos video account?
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  Yeah. And then I think what it was
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  that got me sort of like that follow because everyone was
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  shocked that I got the follow. Yeah, even myself that I got the
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  follow. So it was there was someone that
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  asked for help. I think it was on by Gabon and
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  wanting to know when the reprint was.
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  And I actually went in, like, before it had like, a big old
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  tweet about like, oh, here's all the Vagabond stuff that you can
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  backorder on on. Rice of anime.
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  I posted that to him and whoever was running the social media
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  account was like, oh, dude, that's really sick.
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  And then like a few hours later, someone asked the viz media on
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  Instagram. Oh, Hey, where's this manga in
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  stock and I commented in early, oh, bro, you're like on
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  everywhere man. Like damn, and from there, I
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  think I was about to reach like 1,000 and I think fun fact that
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  they believe they are my 1000 follower on.
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  So I think they I think they like kind of saw me like close
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  to there and then like, all right we'll get more.
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  Throw them a bone, a little bit. Yeah.
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  Well so I threw me the bone and I, you know, every time like you
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  meet someone or meet something that like has inspired you, or
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  has like happen, such an emotional impact or attachment
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  to you. Yeah.
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  Or I wrote that social media guy, like a full-on, like a say
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  on, like, all the stuff that, like, you've done, how it
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  impacted me in everything, and he responded really well.
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  And And I think, yeah, and next thing you know, they said, hey,
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  you want some free stuff to give away?
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  I'm like, ain't no way like Stop Cafe and they're like, no, no
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  will give you stuff to give away.
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  And before I would do like, giveaways every like Some
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  history I used to do giveaways. Like every like 100 followers I
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  would reach and then out of the blue when that Vis, collab
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  happened, I think right before the VIS collab.
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  I did a Demon Slayer box that and that really, like, exploded
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  my account. Yeah.
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  That was like the one that like really exploded because at the
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  time for some history, you often see giveaways either like
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  limited to like us, or Canada only or just us only and It's
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  like socks because some of these other countries don't have the
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  same resources to access manga as easily as we do in the United
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  States. Yeah.
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  So when I said, okay, I'm going to make this Demon Slayer box
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  that which I know everyone loves Demon Slayer.
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  Yeah, completely open for anyone to win like anyone all over the
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  world. Everyone was like, bro, what
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  ain't no way. And and then right after that
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  was the viz media, one where I set the same thing again.
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  Again got a collab with viz media and it's open for
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  everybody internationally, everyone like, collectively lost
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  their minds. I was like everyone was talking
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  to the ain't no way you got this brother.
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  I think the dark Sage if you know who he is on Twitter.
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  Yeah. Oh yeah yeah.
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  Oh yeah. You know he he shouted me out in
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  a video and I think if you catch one of his older videos he
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  actually showed like dude. This guy got a visit video
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  collab and I'm like damn. That's crazy.
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  I'm like, I'm has, I'm as shocked as you are, honestly,
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  too. So, it's crazy.
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  I think right now I'm doing a collab with Kites and books.
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  The Publishers behind that yakuza's got that babysitting,
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  which I know will talk about a little bit and like, what I've
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  been reading and watching but yeah, the it's that conversation
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  was funny because that's ask me, I did a giveaway with them
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  before on. I think it was the yakuza's guy
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  that babysitting and like to other manga but this time around
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  Volume 3 is releasing, I believe two weeks from now.
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  I know today is like July 30th. I'm not sure when the episodes
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  going to come out. But yeah, whenever it comes out
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  I think the next two weeks they can reach up to me and they
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  said, hey you want to help us break the street date of her own
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  book? And I said, hell yeah, I do.
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  That's Dan next. Yeah, I would never expect a
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  publisher to come up to me and be like, do you want to help us
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  break the street date of her own book?
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  I'm like, I'm sold and well, here we are now doing a giveaway
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  on Twitter right now. Yeah, I think yeah, four volumes
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  1 through 3 of the yakuza's guy that babysitting and if not then
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  I'm going to be doing something probably crazier than that but
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  yeah yeah and I get I don't know if I even want to tease.
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  No no for you you know where I'm at ease I'm not going to give no
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  specifics yet but Hopefully, fingers crossed.
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  If everything goes right. We might have some type of
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  giveaway going on the week that this goes on as well.
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  So, like I said, you're just a little tease for the people out
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  there whenever this episode post, just keep on, just keep an
• 19:49
  eye out on both, the dentist talk Twitter account as well as
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  the alerts manga count, because we, we might have some some
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  goodies that stuff for you as well.
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  Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Like I said, just a tease that's the letter, the can't reveal,
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  too much Henry. Feel too much.
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  Yeah. Baba.
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  But yeah. So so yeah.
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  So that that holds that that story was wild and and like what
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  you just saw with that, you kisses got a base because I have
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  an upper, I'm a little second monitor over here and I'm
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  looking at it and stuff because I know like you said well what
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  touch on in a little bit or whatever, but I've been freaking
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  enjoying That show is so freaking much.
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  Oh yeah. But like I said, we're will get
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  this about it. I think Heights and books,
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  whenever they listen to this, and I mention them to them,
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  they're like, oh dude, see we picked the right guy to like to
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  promote our stuff with, you know, I'm like, yeah, yeah, you
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  did. Yes, Pusher.
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  Oh, so kind of I guess, kind of kind of go on a extension from
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  that. At.
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  Oh, what has been a Try that out of phrases.
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  I guess or I guess like how has that whole process bandwidth
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  getting all these various Partnerships and affiliate
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  links? And yeah.
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  All that stuff like like like like how has all of that stuff
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  bad for you, man? And I guess like, Has majority
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  of them been, you know, people reaching out to you, you know,
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  about that versus, you know, you initiating like what it's kind
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  of been, like, the balance, you know.
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  Okay. I got ya.
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  I got you. So when I first started out, I
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  did write stuff anime. And those guys over there were
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  really easy. If you want to be an affiliate.
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  Honestly, it's as easy as going. I think leave at the very bottom
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  of their page. There's a little section on
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  there. That says, would you I can make
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  money with us and simply put you go in there sign up with their
• 21:59
  like affiliate site or whatever. Yeah and once you get approved,
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  it's as simple as just taking a link from their website and
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  converting it to an affiliate link.
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  And then just posting it and doing like the proper FTC
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  guidelines like making sure. Okay.
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  This is an ad that I'm making money off of this all this other
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  stuff. So, for most of the stuff that I
• 22:21
  post, if I remember correctly, I was the one who initiated Ooh,
• 22:25
  she hated it because I think every store that you go to has
• 22:29
  an affiliate program that you sign up for.
• 22:31
  Now I will say some of them will deny you like for fun story even
• 22:37
  though I am now an Amazon affiliate link and have been for
• 22:40
  a while they denied me like a good I think four or five times
• 22:44
  before I got approved. I think like the first four or
• 22:47
  five was because I wasn't either quote unquote, big enough or
• 22:51
  something like that. Yeah.
• 22:52
  Was because I wasn't big enough. And I'm like, okay, all And that
• 22:56
  kind of inspired me to go and go be a little trihard here and
• 23:00
  I'll try to outdo everybody with you.
• 23:01
  Giveaways is such and next thing, you know, I applied and I
• 23:05
  got approved. So here we go.
• 23:07
  Yeah, awesome. And I guess just just for, I
• 23:11
  guess a little bit of inside baseball and just knowledge for
• 23:16
  for listeners or Watchers, they might not be afraid.
• 23:23
  Aware of what exactly is an affiliate program can kind of go
• 23:27
  into like, what exactly that means.
• 23:29
  Yeah. And what that kind of been
• 23:30
  Tales. Yeah.
• 23:32
  Okay, so as a supreme uh, chin affiliate is someone who not
• 23:36
  necessarily represents the brand but directs people to that
• 23:40
  Branson site, right? And when they do that, and a
• 23:44
  customer makes a purchase that customer purchased however many
• 23:49
  dollar amount like they it does we affiliates Get a small
• 23:53
  Commission because we LED you to the site.
• 23:56
  Hmm, now granted work, we don't work with the brand
• 23:59
  specifically, yes. Um, some do some don't, but for
• 24:02
  like the big ones that I post, like rights of anime, Amazon
• 24:06
  Books-A-Million, I am my own person and I have to abide by
• 24:10
  their affiliate rules, which is like, oh, I can't like mislead
• 24:13
  you guys. Or I can't like, say, oh, such
• 24:17
  and such brand said, this like know, there's a whole like list
• 24:21
  of rules in terms of Conditions that you have to like read
• 24:24
  through and everything to make sure you're following the rules
• 24:26
  on top of that. There's FTC guidelines to make
• 24:29
  sure that the people that you lead to, you know, that it's an
• 24:34
  advertisement, it's 100% advertisement and make it
• 24:37
  obvious and just being like super transparent with your
• 24:41
  audience with that sort of stuff.
• 24:43
  Yeah. Because no one wants to get in
• 24:45
  trouble by the law. Yes.
• 24:48
  That that is definitely a A very true statement because you like
• 24:54
  you said it's like hey, you know, we all were all here for
• 24:57
  the love of manga but but none of us wants to go to jail behind
• 25:01
  it. That no one wants to do that.
• 25:03
  No no light. Like man I'm on go.
• 25:06
  There's hasn't posted in a while.
• 25:10
  Yeah do the minute. I like stop posting for at least
• 25:12
  a day or two is when the whole internet's going to like go on
• 25:15
  like a Manhunt for me to be like hey what happened to this man is
• 25:21
  He okay. No, it's not need me to bail
• 25:25
  them out. What was that?
• 25:26
  That now you're off. Yeah, that day ever comes.
• 25:29
  Now, bro, I'm a lick. Like, let me fall if I get to
• 25:32
  that point. Nah, bro, I deserved it.
• 25:34
  Don't bail me out. That's all me.
• 25:37
  I don't need y'all to feel me out, or anything like that, then
• 25:40
  it's corny. But yeah, so I'm a trying to
• 25:45
  play around with stuff is sharp. Some of your stuff but oh yeah,
• 25:51
  go for it but yeah. So say yes some say yes some so
• 25:54
  you you do some of the the affiliate links and stuff and
• 26:00
  and I noticed like you mentioned that at the end of every month,
• 26:03
  you kind of do the behind the alerts thing which I didn't
• 26:11
  realize or I not necessarily Realize by.
• 26:13
  I didn't notice that you were doing until recently because I
• 26:17
  think I think I might have saw A thread or somebody else or not,
• 26:24
  not somebody but somebody I guess was responding with their
• 26:26
  stuff attached to yours and and then I was I was I okay?
• 26:33
  What is this? What?
• 26:33
  Every now and then I went through and I was like, oh okay,
• 26:37
  this is what's going on or whatever and it definitely know,
• 26:41
  like I said, for for me, as a Observer of what's going on, it
• 26:46
  doesn't wasn't site for the kind of see some of the
• 26:49
  behind-the-scenes. Things of our.
• 26:50
  Okay, so this is what's going on and things like that because,
• 26:54
  you know, me being a content creator myself a lot of stuff.
• 26:58
  I'm familiar with the terms and stuff but I've never myself done
• 27:04
  any of these like affiliate programs or sponsorships or know
• 27:08
  that stuff yet keyword yet, you know hey yeah.
• 27:13
  Hey man anybody on the market open market it's a boy that box
• 27:18
  yeah bro trust me. Trust me, I give give him my
• 27:20
  full endorsement as a listener and and all that wasn't picked
• 27:24
  to say that by the way, wasn't paid to say it in if it's facts.
• 27:28
  But but yes, also, a lot of that stuff, like I said, I've been
• 27:32
  aware of those things but kind of getting that breakdown of how
• 27:38
  it is for you behind the scenes, it has definitely been, you
• 27:42
  know, very interesting and very you know, insightful to see And
• 27:51
  so I guess, you know, if you don't mind us going into that a
• 27:55
  little bit or whatever like how how has that stuff banned for
• 28:00
  you as far as, you know, like the I guess I like about it.
• 28:04
  Someone like the benefits, you know, that you've kind of gained
• 28:08
  from, you know, being being a man on the inside now, so to
• 28:12
  speak. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:13
  No absolutely. Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 28:15
  I got you. So for so first things first to
• 28:19
  hit. Tan, your behind the alert
• 28:20
  stuff, I did that. Because again, I want to be as
• 28:24
  open and honest and transparent with y'all as possible.
• 28:27
  You often don't see that with some of the other content
• 28:30
  creators and that's fine. I'm not here to say all content.
• 28:33
  Creators should do that because everyone is different.
• 28:35
  Yeah, but for me, and in my page, I'm very personal and the
• 28:39
  fact that you guys have given your time to like out of your
• 28:43
  busy schedules, because everyone's schedules are
• 28:45
  different. The follow me, and look at me
• 28:47
  and like, all this other stuff. This is my way to kind of give
• 28:51
  you guys an inside look of like, how do I do things?
• 28:54
  How do I spend the money? How do I fund this sort of
• 28:57
  stuff? Because at the end of the day,
• 29:00
  like, This isn't like, oh, everything's free and
• 29:04
  everything. I kind of want to give it a very
• 29:06
  grounded, like, look at the behind the scenes of what I do.
• 29:09
  Yeah. And I know a lot of people
• 29:11
  appreciate that. I know some people didn't like
• 29:13
  me doing that and I had one person, obviously not going to
• 29:16
  name names, but yeah, said it was very unprofessional for me
• 29:19
  to do and that companies won't like go for people who do that
• 29:25
  sort of stuff and that I kid you not like the next week after I
• 29:28
  think I got a collab with another company.
• 29:32
  And I would like, well I guess I'm doing the right thing here.
• 29:35
  Yeah, but but definitely being a part of I guess the inside
• 29:41
  inside right, that often is not being like often shown from a
• 29:46
  local, it was really eye-opening to see sort of like how things
• 29:51
  are done, especially like when it comes to 0 Y, is this manga
• 29:56
  out of stock? Or why does this manga out of
• 29:58
  stock for so long or how? How I do some of these
• 30:03
  Publishers acquire these licenses.
• 30:05
  So I know a big one that everyone was talking about was,
• 30:08
  how did Yen press during their Anime Expo?
• 30:12
  Announcement, somehow steal the license of oshino Co and honey
• 30:18
  lemon soda from viz media. Yeah, that was like, huge and I
• 30:22
  know why, but for most people that I saw, they didn't
• 30:26
  understand why and I was like, oh wow, that's crazy.
• 30:28
  That I was able to sort of like, with the Influence that I have
• 30:33
  and the connections that I have on able to know and of course I
• 30:37
  have no problem sharing this. I know some people don't share
• 30:39
  it but for me I don't have any problem sharing.
• 30:41
  Yeah but yeah just being able to like understand that behind the
• 30:46
  scenes and stuff because I'm someone who loves behind the
• 30:48
  scene stuff. Yeah that I really appreciated
• 30:50
  that and I'm really glad that I'm able to No.
• 30:54
  That part of it. Yeah, for sure because because
• 30:58
  because like you said, a lot of times with this stuff, you know,
• 31:02
  like you said there, there are those people that are like, no,
• 31:05
  don't know, people should have no this or are.
• 31:09
  No. I'm going to keep this secret to
• 31:10
  myself. But I am also one that, you
• 31:15
  know, we're possible stuff. I definitely like to share
• 31:19
  knowledge of stuff with others because because even if In the
• 31:23
  little bit of stuff that I've gained knowledge on, in my time,
• 31:27
  you know, doing doing this podcast and content creation
• 31:30
  stuff. I want to help the next person
• 31:33
  because it's like, you know, it's like okay if I have a
• 31:37
  friend or somebody, you know that I see online that are
• 31:40
  trying to figure out, okay? I want to do a podcast or I want
• 31:43
  to do Manga reviews with whatever and they're just kind
• 31:48
  of like lost or don't know where they didn't know like where to
• 31:51
  begin or whatever. Well, even though I'm not like a
• 31:55
  super better and I haven't been doing this for like 10 years and
• 31:58
  nothing whatever. But yeah, I have learned
• 32:01
  something and I know even if it's just one small nugget of
• 32:05
  wisdom our information, it's more than what I had when I
• 32:09
  started. And so those things can go a
• 32:13
  very long way because because one piece of information that I
• 32:18
  gained in recent months, that literally everybody that I've
• 32:22
  had on my podcast since, And if we don't talk about it while
• 32:26
  this, while we're recording, I for sure.
• 32:29
  After, after we record, and we kind of, have my little chat
• 32:33
  time with whoever after we recorded ever.
• 32:36
  I just spilled the beans because I want one of those many things
• 32:40
  has been getting early access to stuff for review.
• 32:46
  Now, yeah, while I still haven't fully cracked the code on,
• 32:52
  getting the feeling the physical.
• 32:53
  Copies of stuff in or whatever. I'm still once again, Vision
• 32:57
  Fresco, Doctrine servants. I got, y'all want to send me
• 33:02
  stuff? Hit me up, but I will say, shout
• 33:07
  out to you and press because they pointed me in the direction
• 33:11
  of two websites called netgalley and I believe the other one is
• 33:17
  called believe it's pronounced idle waste either Weiss.
• 33:20
  I don't know how to pronounce it but those are Websites that you
• 33:24
  can go to for free, make an account for free and you can get
• 33:29
  access to digital copies of books.
• 33:31
  Not just manga is Manga comics, regular literature books,
• 33:36
  whatever, all that stuff, you can get copies of stuff
• 33:39
  digitally for free to review. And that is been very helpful
• 33:45
  for me in these recent months, for, for many reasons, because
• 33:51
  for one it It's giving me more flexibility with the amount of
• 33:57
  stuff that I cover all my podcast because I've come across
• 34:01
  stuff that you know I might not have even known a heard about,
• 34:07
  I've come across stuff that our digital only manga so I would
• 34:10
  have never seen it. No matter how many times I go to
• 34:13
  Barnes and Nobles or Books-A-Million.
• 34:15
  I would have never come across the because it's a digital only
• 34:17
  release and everything in between.
• 34:20
  But like I said, it's because, you know, I Reached out, the
• 34:25
  empress is one of the few who's DM's were open.
• 34:29
  Yeah, and, and luckily, shout out to whoever the community
• 34:32
  person who's running that account was nice enough to give
• 34:35
  me that negative information. Where I'm like, hey now, I know
• 34:38
  it now I show its share to everybody else who will listen
• 34:42
  and stuff. So, but, but that, that is
• 34:45
  definitely a very important thing that we need in this
• 34:48
  community is just, you know, just helping information.
• 34:53
  And stuff because, you know, like I said, sometimes it's just
• 34:57
  a simple thing of like, you know, people want to do stuff
• 35:00
  for want to get involved with these things.
• 35:02
  But a lot of times it's just nobody is talking about like how
• 35:06
  it is. Yeah.
• 35:06
  And it's like, yeah, absolutely. You know, we're seeing people
• 35:10
  all the time on Twitter or Instagram, or whatever being a,
• 35:14
  hey, shout out to whatever publisher for sending over this
• 35:17
  copy of this video game, or this box of manga or whatever.
• 35:21
  And, you know, We're in the comments Bellow.
• 35:24
  Like, hey congrats. But how.
• 35:29
  Yeah. Or they just don't like
• 35:30
  disclosed that it was provided which is what is it?
• 35:34
  Not everyone does this and I'm glad not.
• 35:36
  Everyone does is yeah but a majority of accounts that like
• 35:39
  do partake in these ideals or anything they just simply put.
• 35:43
  Just don't tell him people and they just say, although yeah
• 35:45
  look I got this stuff for free. It was sent to me for free but
• 35:49
  they just don't disclose it if it's an advertisement or
• 35:52
  anything like that, which is and get you in trouble if you don't
• 35:55
  just close it. But definitely like being able
• 36:00
  to like know who to go to and whatever not have a few people
• 36:03
  here that I want to shout out. So definitely big shout out to
• 36:07
  midnight Robo do for following me like early like 100
• 36:11
  followers. He was the main guy who pushed
• 36:13
  me to keep going and going and to do what he does.
• 36:16
  He does a lot of similar stuff to me.
• 36:18
  He does stuff about Topics in manga but before he also used to
• 36:23
  do like Like alerts on both the US and Canada and he kind of
• 36:26
  showed me where to look and such and then I was actually scouted
• 36:30
  out by someone and eight Discord server.
• 36:33
  I believe it's called Jake's Discord server and it's run by a
• 36:36
  guy. Funny enough named Jake who has
• 36:39
  a bot that crawls through all of like right stuff anime because
• 36:42
  the other sites don't allow for Boss to like rip quality your
• 36:47
  stuff. Yeah.
• 36:48
  For anything that comes in stock or anything because fun fact I
• 36:52
  used to do everything before I joined the server by hand so I
• 36:55
  would go on every single website, you know, Amazon
• 36:58
  Books-A-Million Barnes and Nobles, right?
• 37:00
  Stuff. Go through everything by hand
• 37:03
  and it was out of stock, I would sign up for the email alert and
• 37:06
  all that stuff and I would check every single day.
• 37:09
  Yeah. It wasn't until I got this
• 37:10
  Discord of this Discord server and they were like, hey just
• 37:16
  here we go. Here's a tool that you can use
• 37:19
  but just help us out and I did and everything was great.
• 37:21
  And that's how I met fire lunar. Who is the host of the restock
• 37:25
  round up over on? Take taught?
• 37:26
  That guy's pretty cool. Yeah, he was one of the first
• 37:30
  content creators. I did a collab with.
• 37:32
  Yeah. For I believe it was the Bleach
• 37:34
  box set and that also again kind of opened the door to
• 37:38
  collaborate with other creators as well.
• 37:40
  So we sort of have like a kind of a little bit of a restock
• 37:45
  crew in a way. Yeah.
• 37:47
  Have her own like DM group. So it includes fire lunar
• 37:52
  Pirate's chest who also does Does deals on manga, anime and
• 37:58
  anime figures. And let's see.
• 38:00
  And I'm a collective. Those guys are really awesome
• 38:03
  when it comes to do. We cope.
• 38:09
  Oh, hello and stuff. I know recently, they did a
• 38:14
  comparison video on the Barnes and Nobles version and the
• 38:17
  retail version of Tokyo Revengers which helped out a
• 38:20
  lot. So, shout out to them show Josie
• 38:23
  world. So for my fans of show, Joe and
• 38:26
  Joe say manga and you're looking for a really good like hub for
• 38:29
  deals and information and just news on Shoujo, say then
• 38:33
  definitely follow them. And finally, the homie cushy
• 38:36
  cushy does like Manga sitting out like synopsises of different
• 38:41
  stuff that you probably might not heard of, and every week, he
• 38:44
  does a shounen review week on like different shown in titles
• 38:49
  that had often come out. But all of us together, kind of
• 38:52
  like, form this sort of like group or something amongst
• 38:55
  ourselves and we just share like stuff with each other, like,
• 38:59
  someone find something. And you often see on some of her
• 39:02
  post, you'll see that like CC of like a bunch of different like
• 39:06
  post. And it's like, who the heck are
• 39:07
  these guys? Yeah.
• 39:08
  That's us, like, you know, letting each other know like,
• 39:11
  hey, there's a deal on this or oh, there's a deal on that, you
• 39:14
  know. And it's just, it's crazy.
• 39:16
  Yeah. Follow some of them because I
• 39:20
  for sure, follow a midnight row, boat.
• 39:22
  Oh yeah. Matter of fact out they they
• 39:26
  just made a post about they just read a Yakuza reincarnation for
• 39:29
  yeah. Yeah, I know that, that was one
• 39:31
  of my recent favorites. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 39:34
  And then I think they are the loaner personal.
• 39:38
  I think I followed them to and yeah, he's at least.
• 39:42
  I follow them on Twitter. Yeah.
• 39:45
  Yeah. He's primarily on Tick-Tock than
• 39:46
  Twitter but I kind of did some convincing to like get him on
• 39:50
  Twitter. Yeah, yeah.
• 39:51
  There you go. By my yeah.
• 39:54
  So yeah, yeah, those are definitely all very helpful
• 39:59
  resources. If you are in the hunt for for
• 40:05
  some for some manga that like I said either you know it just
• 40:08
  something that might have been out of stock or you just were
• 40:11
  just want to find the best deal on on am on a manga that you
• 40:16
  might have your eyes on. I guess, you know what?
• 40:21
  I want. One kind of fun question, I want
• 40:24
  to ask you is what has been what has been maybe like some of your
• 40:32
  favorite finds and, and that can be either just from a personal
• 40:37
  level of like, wow, I can't believe I found this or just the
• 40:42
  way that the or either the reaction that the community got
• 40:46
  from like, yo, thank you so much for finding this deal.
• 40:50
  For ya talking about this. So okay, yeah, I got a few but
• 40:54
  for yeah, I got a few. So the first one was definitely
• 40:57
  the one piece box that one like that, like there was a huge
• 41:03
  drought for One Piece. Blocks that one likes like I kid
• 41:07
  you not every other like post was a post asking about hey
• 41:11
  11-piece box of wine coming back.
• 41:13
  Hey where's one piece of one coming back?
• 41:15
  Hey I see one piece. Volume 86 come back in stock.
• 41:19
  But now what about the Box set. And I know some people may get
• 41:22
  annoyed, but me, I have a lot of patience.
• 41:25
  So I don't mind it too much, but I'm always like, all right, just
• 41:28
  hold the phone. We're almost there.
• 41:30
  We're almost there and then seeing like other countries.
• 41:33
  Get it. First, that was really exciting
• 41:36
  to see it again. My page is not just only u.s.
• 41:40
  and Canada. It's, I try to do as many
• 41:42
  International deals as possible. Yeah.
• 41:44
  It's just that what sucks is that there's often not many
• 41:47
  International deals as compared to let's say.
• 41:50
  The United States or Canada. Yeah.
• 41:52
  So seeing like a one-piece box it come in in like Amazon,
• 41:58
  Germany, or something like my German Fall River.
• 42:01
  Going crazy. There was one where it was.
• 42:04
  I think it was the Dragon Ball box set which went on sale on
• 42:08
  Amazon for like 10 euros but it was only for people in Belgium
• 42:13
  and the Netherlands. So for like the point 0, 2
• 42:18
  percent of people who follow me from The Belgium and
• 42:21
  Netherlands. They were going crazy.
• 42:22
  It was like absolutely and it was legit too.
• 42:25
  So you copped that box it for like 10 euros.
• 42:29
  That was crazy. Yeah.
• 42:32
  Wow. Yeah.
• 42:33
  No II, couldn't believe it and even more recently for some
• 42:39
  backstory Hot Topic. As you all, as we all know,
• 42:42
  different retailers are starting to now sell manga.
• 42:46
  So you may have seen like news or posts about 01, Now, still
• 42:50
  among or 00 Target selling manga manga.
• 42:52
  Now Unser pray player into the game that not too many people
• 42:58
  talk about is Hot Topic. So if you remember, from way
• 43:02
  back then, for anyone who is following, but for those that
• 43:05
  don't, there was a time where topic, for whatever reason, put
• 43:11
  the Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal, editions mind, you to
• 43:15
  MSRP was like 10 like night. 1999.
• 43:20
  So 20 bucks a book. Yeah, Hot Topic put them on for
• 43:23
  like I think it was either 5 or 10 bucks a pop and that was like
• 43:29
  yeah. And everyone was like bro what
• 43:32
  ain't no way that? That was crazy.
• 43:35
  And so fast forward to recently I was about to go to bed until I
• 43:40
  saw another resource. Y'all should probably follow his
• 43:43
  R / manga deals. I'm not on there too much but
• 43:46
  eyebrows it every so often and sometimes they find stuff that I
• 43:49
  do. And the kind of the overall
• 43:51
  theme is if I don't post something more than likely
• 43:54
  another page that I shot it out earlier probably posted about
• 43:57
  it. So it's just like overlap of
• 43:59
  different people who catch something or who don't catch
• 44:01
  something. Yeah.
• 44:02
  Stuff like that. Yeah.
• 44:05
  And I saw that hot topic was doing a clearance sale, but I
• 44:08
  didn't actually look at the deal.
• 44:09
  So I'm like, okay. All right, let me go check what,
• 44:11
  uh, what Hot Topics doing and lo and behold, I think it's still
• 44:15
  up there right now. Hot Topic is like having a bunch
• 44:19
  of like clear. It's manga for like three or
• 44:22
  four dollars each. Like, let me see.
• 44:27
  Like, I'll have to double check because this is, like, crazy
• 44:31
  stuff that was put on clearance. So like, yeah, it's still here.
• 44:36
  Okay. So, as of recording this, it's
• 44:38
  still there. So stuff, like chainsaw, man,
• 44:42
  volume, ten nine, Black Clover, 1 and 28, mark academe, my hero
• 44:49
  Academia 30 there, like four dollars and 79 cents each to.
• 44:54
  Like, I think the Cheapest. I saw is Black Clover. 14 $3.60
• 44:59
  when usually those go for like $10 each?
• 45:03
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 45:08
  Okay, and that's good to know. I need a, at the, add them into
• 45:13
  my, my, my rotation of places, I check on for four deals and
• 45:20
  stuff. Cuz cuz like you said, you know,
• 45:24
  the emergence of more places having manga shelves and stuff
• 45:30
  whatever has been very awesome to see and especially I noticed
• 45:35
  like with with Target and Walmart pretty much everything
• 45:41
  on the Shelf automatically has like a 20% off sticker or
• 45:45
  whatever. Just right there, just brand new
• 45:49
  up. This manga just came out 20%
• 45:51
  off. Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:54
  So yeah, that that Stephen been bam, fine, just seeing more
• 45:59
  places, get into it. You know, I wouldn't be
• 46:02
  surprised if that, you know, continues to to going to happen.
• 46:07
  Because what, what, what? The other one.
• 46:11
  Try to think. Well I don't know how widespread
• 46:15
  this this retail brand is, but do you have any stores called
• 46:20
  Five Below? Yeah, we do.
• 46:22
  Yeah, we do. Yeah, cuz I've even seen my
• 46:25
  granddad on going there as often recently but the last couple
• 46:29
  times I went in there they even had a little section with some
• 46:35
  manga and Staffing and Five Below as well.
• 46:37
  So it's like it's like yeah these companies are can h of a,
• 46:41
  hey, you know, there there's money to be made.
• 46:46
  No, absolutely. The some of these companies are
• 46:48
  like, man, y'all, we could make held up Bank on this on manga.
• 46:51
  And next thing, you know, you see like full sections dedicates
• 46:55
  a manga like how Barnes and Nobles before, didn't have that
• 46:58
  much of a big like spot dedicated to it.
• 47:01
  And now you see some Barnes and Nobles, like taking like full-on
• 47:05
  like aisles full of, or even walls of manga, because I've
• 47:09
  how, you know, over the pandemic and It's just exploding in
• 47:14
  popularity and so it's like, it's crazy.
• 47:18
  Yeah, as somebody who has recently, you know, within the
• 47:24
  last year and since I've been doing a podcast, got into the
• 47:26
  physical aspect of the physical collecting aspect of manga and
• 47:30
  stuff. I would be curious to go back
• 47:34
  and see how much the shelves and stuff has changed because
• 47:40
  because, of course, you know, I'm in, Barnes and Nobles and
• 47:43
  stuff like that all the time. So I know what it looks like
• 47:45
  now. But I will be curious, you know,
• 47:48
  pre-pandemic pre 2020 to see what some of those sections and
• 47:54
  stuff. Looks like back at those times
• 47:56
  in comparison because I know like you said from people who
• 48:00
  have been going there for years and stuff, whatever how much
• 48:02
  they talk about, how much, you know, it's grown and stuff, but
• 48:07
  yeah. And and even kind of expanding
• 48:11
  on that. I have really been enjoying just
• 48:18
  the wave of even, just more stuff getting license lately cuz
• 48:24
  it feels like it is just like and I said this on a couple of
• 48:29
  our podcast episodes ago, but it feels like especially this year
• 48:34
  in 2022. It has just been like manga
• 48:40
  readers dream of. Oh, yeah.
• 48:43
  Everything that if you've had something on your wish list for
• 48:49
  years of like man I wish somebody would pick up this
• 48:52
  series or I wish somebody would license it.
• 48:53
  I wish somebody would bring it over here or whatever is
• 48:58
  happening light. Like, every day, every week,
• 49:01
  something new got officially picked up or whatever and it's
• 49:06
  coming. Over matter of fact, today, I
• 49:09
  saw, I can remember who the publisher was, but somebody
• 49:14
  picked up the license for our March comes in like, a lion
• 49:17
  manga. I think that was Denpa.
• 49:21
  Who does missing? That's right.
• 49:23
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 49:25
  And so, you know, that, that that's a, that's a series where
• 49:29
  I live. I've enjoyed the anime and I
• 49:31
  loved watching when it when the couple Seasons that came out
• 49:34
  some years ago. And that manga has been going.
• 49:39
  Probably at least a decade. Yeah.
• 49:41
  Couple things like 2009. I was like, I looked at it
• 49:43
  earlier but the fact that like hey all these years later it's
• 49:47
  finally going to be coming over here and just so many other
• 49:52
  stuff I just feel like it's like a a Renaissance period of sorts
• 49:58
  with with everything across the board.
• 50:01
  From you know like said manga stuff getting picked up even
• 50:04
  with some stuff getting an anime.
• 50:08
  Cuz cuz what was it one? Okay.
• 50:13
  One example is at least, just coming to mind, was Ragnar
• 50:17
  Crimson. Yeah, that I think about that, I
• 50:23
  think we're maybe like five or six volumes in now, but that
• 50:27
  just start with into like the last year.
• 50:28
  Whatever coming over and then that also has an anime coming
• 50:33
  next year. Think what was it?
• 50:36
  That unchanged Soldier isn't? Yeah, I saw that one's also
• 50:41
  getting. Yeah, yeah, I did.
• 50:43
  I didn't retweet it. But, no, I saw it and I'm like,
• 50:45
  dang, that one was like, Been a while.
• 50:48
  I know another one was Shangri-La Frontier.
• 50:50
  I know it's just now getting yeah, I know that was your
• 50:53
  favorite. That's why I listen to that
• 50:55
  episode. I'm like, oh yeah, this guy's
• 50:57
  this guy really likes this one. I'm a pick it up when it comes
• 51:00
  when it comes out and yeah, we're just now getting volume 1
• 51:04
  physically and the enemy's coming out, not nice to hear ya
• 51:08
  next year. Yeah.
• 51:10
  Yeah. It is wild just to kind of and
• 51:15
  it just creates this excitement. Of stuff, whatever because it is
• 51:21
  I enjoy sometimes. Even just as an observer of
• 51:25
  seeing other people, get excited for series people there.
• 51:30
  Like, like man, I've been reading this online for years,
• 51:33
  hoping and praying for somebody to pick it up and now more
• 51:38
  people across the world will get to experience, whatever serious
• 51:42
  people have been loving and stuff.
• 51:44
  Now, more people will get a chance to too To love and to
• 51:48
  enjoy this which, you know, one of them I'll touch on and we, we
• 51:56
  can kind of circle back to the stuff later on, but in regards
• 52:01
  to something that I've been reading this weekend and more
• 52:06
  than likely by the time by the time, this episode post, I
• 52:10
  probably would have done a review or a few reviews over the
• 52:14
  series. But there is Monger that I had
• 52:19
  got Early Access to called the beginning after the end.
• 52:26
  Now, I think I'm trying to think, I think I think it might
• 52:30
  be classified as a webtoon or webcomic.
• 52:34
  It definitely is. I don't have to think about it
• 52:35
  just because of the layout of it is full-color.
• 52:38
  All that jazz well, volume 1 is just now coming out.
• 52:45
  Like I said, by the time, y'all see this volume 1, Came out on
• 52:49
  August 1st. So yeah, but but it's like I
• 52:57
  saw. So like I said, I want to to one
• 53:02
  of those review. Sites guy are the access to it.
• 53:06
  Shout out to them for giving me access to it.
• 53:08
  And I read the first Volume last night, which was eight chapters.
• 53:14
  It was not enough. It wasn't.
• 53:16
  It was enough to Is You by air is like there's not even a date
• 53:22
  for a volume 2, I can't wait. So I had to go and find it, had
• 53:29
  a growing read more and as of this moment I just finished
• 53:35
  chapter 56 which And webtoon sense that will be seasoned the
• 53:43
  end of season two for the series, for further for the
• 53:46
  webcomic and stuff I fell in love with this.
• 53:51
  So I guess the kind of give you a little bit of a background on
• 53:55
  it. So the story follows this, the
• 53:59
  main character whose name is King gray.
• 54:02
  So he's a king of a kingdom. Yada yada, yada he ends up dying
• 54:07
  and gets reincarnated. dated into the past the past of a
• 54:13
  different world, where kind of kind of, kind of like, kind of
• 54:17
  like a I guess in a sense kind of like a jobless reincarnation
• 54:23
  in the sense to where the character starts off as a baby.
• 54:27
  So you're following him from birth or whatever.
• 54:30
  But he of course still retains all of his knowledge and stuff
• 54:36
  and so when he was a king, he was a very mighty warrior has
• 54:41
  top-notch Source scales and stuff whatever.
• 54:44
  But in this world there is also this element Matter of magic.
• 54:51
  And so the the continent that the story takes place on it is
• 54:57
  the human Kingdom. There's an elf kingdom and
• 55:00
  there's a dwarf Kingdom. And so long story short he's
• 55:04
  growing up on ever and because he still, no, he's a freaking
• 55:09
  adult in this Baby's mind. He is able to kind of like start
• 55:14
  to grasp certain things early on.
• 55:18
  So whereas As in his previous life, they had key.
• 55:23
  We're in this world they have Mana.
• 55:25
  So he's able to kind of like, take similar Concepts and use
• 55:30
  that to his Advantage is further, helping him grow and
• 55:32
  learn. And basically, in this world,
• 55:36
  most people don't begin to awaken whatever their innate
• 55:40
  ability, magic, whatever until they're like mid-teens.
• 55:45
  Well, he awakens his ability, when he's three years old.
• 55:50
  You know, his dad is, his dad is a pretty solid fighter.
• 55:54
  His mom, she hasn't a feeling and an affinity for healing
• 55:58
  magic, but He just immediately starts to display this strong
• 56:07
  affinity for having mana and magic and all this stuff
• 56:11
  whatever. And it is just a very exciting
• 56:15
  story just because of the fact of like you see him start to use
• 56:20
  all these various Magical elements and stuff and
• 56:23
  displaying, you know, these crazy sword-fighting skills and
• 56:27
  stuff at an early age and so you get to follow him.
• 56:31
  His life over the course of some years as so that that is like
• 56:36
  what I got hooked on this weekend to wear.
• 56:39
  Like I said, I wanted to at least read volume 1 and likes
• 56:43
  and talk about that 44 when it releases next.
• 56:47
  Well like I said next week at the time of this recording but I
• 56:51
  fell. So in love with it to where I
• 56:54
  was like I can't stop, I need to keep going and it is just been
• 56:59
  just a fantastic read. Like I said, just from the
• 57:03
  action and the, The Mystery of the world and of course, you
• 57:10
  know me, I am a family man. So anytime we have a wholesome
• 57:15
  family in a story which a lot of serious, we don't get that, you
• 57:20
  know, it's a lot of, you know, abandoned kids or orphans or
• 57:23
  whatever. And so when we have a character
• 57:28
  who is no living with both his mother, And father and they are
• 57:33
  both good people than that. That's just an added cherry on
• 57:37
  top for me. So.
• 57:39
  But but yeah, that that has been what I've been engrossed in
• 57:44
  reading this weekend and so, like I said, don't be surprised
• 57:48
  if y'all see a video or two, by the time this episode post of of
• 57:55
  me talking about it and stuff because it has me hooked, but I
• 58:00
  highly Amend y'all pick that up and if y'all do pick it up and
• 58:07
  once you read that first volume goes a chapters, you will see
• 58:11
  what I mean that hey, I need more.
• 58:15
  So honestly like as you were see, I call this, I call this,
• 58:20
  the dad needs to talk effect where he talks about something
• 58:23
  and then you're like damn dude, I should probably pre-order this
• 58:27
  as I told like lit. No literally as you were
• 58:30
  talking. About it.
• 58:31
  I'm like damn I should probably report it's right now it's on
• 58:35
  sale on Amazon us for $18. So I'm like you know what?
• 58:39
  I'm just I'm a pick it up. I'm just going to add to my car
• 58:43
  and just throw some money on the empress has way.
• 58:46
  Yes, pick it up. But yeah, so for you, what is
• 58:51
  best, summarized some stuff that has gotten your attention lately
• 58:54
  where there would be manga anime, whatever what has been
• 58:57
  what has been on on on your plate recently?
• 59:01
  Okay, I got you. So what I have been reading and
• 59:05
  to touch on like your license thing a little bit.
• 59:07
  If there's a manga and this is something I'm surprised, not too
• 59:10
  many people know about. If there's a manga that you
• 59:12
  haven't liked seeing it in English release yet, you can
• 59:16
  actually fill out some surveys to let people like let these
• 59:20
  Publishers know. Hey, I want to, I want to see
• 59:24
  you guys licenses so I know. Everyone knows the Seven Seas
• 59:26
  license licensing survey. That one's a huge one.
• 59:29
  Everyone knows about Shout out to the homey, winter, Venom
• 59:34
  because that guy somehow found the viz media.
• 59:38
  License request. So, if there's a title that you
• 59:41
  want to see viz media license, definitely filled that out,
• 59:44
  that's another one. I know starfruit books has one.
• 59:48
  Yeah. There's another smaller
• 59:49
  publisher that has one and I believe that's all the three
• 59:54
  that I'm aware of at the moment. Yeah.
• 59:56
  But definitely Please use those resources.
• 1:00:00
  If you want to see a manga that want that you want to see, get
• 1:00:03
  like released in English officially.
• 1:00:04
  Yeah, cuz they're looking for more stuff the license so please
• 1:00:08
  let them know. Yeah.
• 1:00:10
  And and and, you know, and kind of like, well, what I mentioned
• 1:00:13
  earlier is like, don't, it doesn't matter how recent, or
• 1:00:18
  how old it is, it never hurts to shoot your shot because like I
• 1:00:22
  said all these years later March comes in like a lion, you know,
• 1:00:27
  is it's coming. Over here and like I said that's
• 1:00:29
  been going for freaking over 10 years and stuff.
• 1:00:33
  So so it is never too late, you know, to to see something, get
• 1:00:41
  picked up in to get license. So definitely Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:00:46
  So let's get into what I've been reading recently.
• 1:00:49
  So this one's a I would say this one's pretty underrated.
• 1:00:54
  Honestly, it's it's kind of got buried by some of the releases.
• 1:00:59
  I think it released Late July, I think.
• 1:01:02
  But it is box of Light by psycho every Sawa Hey hey, there you
• 1:01:09
  go. That one.
• 1:01:11
  Yeah, I haven't read it yet, but it is high priority on my list
• 1:01:16
  because from the moment I saw when Seven Seas does there,
• 1:01:23
  they're kind of like weekly fares of our.
• 1:01:26
  Hey, here's what's coming up or here's where we licensed or
• 1:01:28
  whatever. From the moment I saw this
• 1:01:31
  beautiful cover. Yeah, that's what got me to and
• 1:01:34
  then I read the description to I was like Okay.
• 1:01:38
  Put a pin in that I need to. I need to get my hands on that.
• 1:01:42
  So so okay. So you've got you've already
• 1:01:44
  started reading it a little bit. Yeah.
• 1:01:46
  So I actually did finish it and definitely like I would 100%
• 1:01:50
  recommend it 100%. Like if you are a fan of the
• 1:01:57
  anime death parade where it's sort of like this like you know,
• 1:02:01
  you're really nice relaxed, chill environment.
• 1:02:05
  Yeah. You know, something very chill
• 1:02:06
  to watch But also a kind of talks about stuff about like,
• 1:02:09
  you know, life and death in sort of like how people should treat
• 1:02:13
  that sort of Topic in, you know, as gracefully as possible box of
• 1:02:18
  light, definitely hits on those points as well too and I
• 1:02:22
  immediately fell in love with the art, the way it handles.
• 1:02:26
  Each person's journey through that place between life and
• 1:02:29
  death and seeing how our cast of character helps them guide along
• 1:02:34
  to whichever side. They think is right.
• 1:02:37
  So I'm glad you brought that comparison because until you
• 1:02:42
  actually said it that death for itís definitely even without me
• 1:02:46
  having ready yet just off of the first line on the back of the
• 1:02:52
  book and that that's all. I'm ready for y'all.
• 1:02:54
  The first line on the back of the book, is a quiet convenience
• 1:02:58
  store at the crossroads between life and death, how could they
• 1:03:02
  not get your interest but but but that definitely This with
• 1:03:07
  like you like what? You just described what the that
• 1:03:10
  death parade which if anybody hasn't saying that go watch it.
• 1:03:14
  Yeah. Now definitely watch.
• 1:03:16
  It's definitely another one of those shows that it's very chill
• 1:03:20
  and relaxed. Sure it has it talks about
• 1:03:22
  Dean's about death and life and all that stuff.
• 1:03:24
  But it is something that's honestly different.
• 1:03:27
  Like if you're looking for something different, Watch DEATH
• 1:03:32
  parade and then like a week or two later.
• 1:03:35
  Once you like right through like your typical manga that you want
• 1:03:38
  to go through, come back and read a box of light because it
• 1:03:42
  is is good. Yeah, really good.
• 1:03:47
  Sorry, if I'm people just watching the video.
• 1:03:51
  I just gave a whole face because I as we're talking I was looking
• 1:03:57
  through your impresses our upcoming Releases.
• 1:04:01
  And I just saw that another recent favorite of mine as far
• 1:04:09
  as I don't have to within Arm's Reach but but lost lad London.
• 1:04:13
  I just saw how my bro, you were the oh, okay, I saw, I was I
• 1:04:18
  listened to that and I was like, damn, okay.
• 1:04:21
  It's kind of sounds interesting. I sort of like, you know, I'm a
• 1:04:23
  huge fan of mystery than everything and it's not often
• 1:04:27
  that we see, you know, People of color on those in centered in a
• 1:04:31
  manga that as much as such as this one.
• 1:04:34
  And I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna go, pick it up and read
• 1:04:37
  what it's about and you know what?
• 1:04:38
  I like it. I like the, I like it.
• 1:04:41
  Yeah, I like the mystery. Yeah, I just saw Volume 2 is
• 1:04:44
  coming out at the end of August. So all of them.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah. Anybody that, if y'all enjoyed
• 1:04:52
  that first volume just know, hey volume to isn't, isn't too far
• 1:04:56
  away. So now, Dude, like all of August
• 1:05:00
  is going to be such a packed month, like we got so many
• 1:05:04
  releases from like this media Yen press, they all the
• 1:05:09
  Publishers have at least something good coming out at
• 1:05:12
  least once every week. And it's just like Yeah, it's
• 1:05:17
  crazy. Yeah.
• 1:05:20
  So what, what what, what else you been getting into?
• 1:05:23
  Well, you can think again, the homies over at Kites and books.
• 1:05:28
  I know they sent it out to me and asked me to break the street
• 1:05:32
  date for their own book. But the yakuza's guy to
• 1:05:35
  babysitting that, that one's the Yeah.
• 1:05:41
  So you can use this guide to babysitting.
• 1:05:44
  Bye. Sukhiya and translated by Jenny
• 1:05:47
  McKean my goodness, who would have thought that the way of the
• 1:05:51
  house husband was spark, a sub-genre of manga, who would
• 1:05:55
  have thought about that. Yes.
• 1:05:59
  So have you are, have you checked out any of the anime or
• 1:06:03
  you're just? Yeah, okay.
• 1:06:05
  No, I've done both because, you know, I kind of wanted to.
• 1:06:08
  I figured Like if chitin sending me all this stuff about the
• 1:06:11
  yakuza's guy to babysitting, yeah, it kind of be a little bit
• 1:06:14
  of a disservice not to wash the anime and read the Manga.
• 1:06:17
  So, I've done both. And I definitely say that the
• 1:06:19
  adaptation is really good and I definitely, I mean again for me
• 1:06:24
  I personally prefer Mago over anime, but it's adaptation, is
• 1:06:28
  really well done. And the story that's told within
• 1:06:31
  the yakuza's guide to babysitting is really well, told
• 1:06:34
  to. So, yeah, it has been kind of A,
• 1:06:41
  it is just been, just just a nice pleasant series for me,
• 1:06:46
  whenever I watch each other episodes and stuff.
• 1:06:48
  Just it has that very nice mesh between, you know, the cool
• 1:06:56
  action stuff, whatever that I forgot his name but the the menu
• 1:07:02
  cougar guy does, but then it also has these like very sweet
• 1:07:07
  and wholesome. Moments that he has between the
• 1:07:11
  daughter and and didn't even all of the family stuff in general
• 1:07:15
  is very well told. And so it is just like a very
• 1:07:18
  nice comforting watch, I guess it's the best way to kind of put
• 1:07:23
  it. Yeah, no definitely like seeing
• 1:07:27
  I think his name was Toro but seeing him sort of like act as
• 1:07:32
  sort of like a father figure role to the daughter of a crime
• 1:07:36
  family who doesn't often see their dad.
• 1:07:38
  Honestly, that was pretty touching and it's sort of like
• 1:07:41
  this Dynamic where you see this like, you know, Rough guy who's
• 1:07:46
  only seen nothing but like violence and stuff to have to
• 1:07:49
  show more empathy so that sort of dynamic where he has to show
• 1:07:54
  more empathy to the daughter of the boss and a daughter in
• 1:07:58
  response to that becomes more open with, you know what she's
• 1:08:02
  going through in everything. That's definitely something that
• 1:08:05
  was really well done and it translates.
• 1:08:08
  Well, both no matter if you read it or you watch it, it's really
• 1:08:12
  good. Yep.
• 1:08:13
  Yep. So that that That that just say,
• 1:08:16
  I double endorsement from both Daddy's, a talk and manga alerts
• 1:08:21
  telling you. We're on the same wavelength
• 1:08:23
  with this sort of stuff, like I was, honestly kind of shocked
• 1:08:26
  that you had box of like, because I'm like, man, what's a
• 1:08:29
  manga that no one's ever liked on my page, has talked about in
• 1:08:33
  box of lights. When I don't see talked about
• 1:08:36
  Mano. Yep.
• 1:08:37
  And you, you know me you, you know, as as you've been.
• 1:08:41
  All right. Listen to me for a while.
• 1:08:44
  That is something that I I kind of I didn't like, of course,
• 1:08:49
  when I first started doing this stuff, whatever it wasn't
• 1:08:51
  necessary for this purpose. But along the way I have found
• 1:08:56
  pride in finding those little hidden gems to where I'm like
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  nobody is talking about whatever series and stuff.
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  And that that is why I love like I said and I appreciate these
• 1:09:11
  companies like, you know, Jim press or seven seas or whoever
• 1:09:15
  Doing those updates and stuff like hey here's a you know every
• 1:09:19
  Wednesday we're announcing all of our new licenses and stuff
• 1:09:23
  whatever. And I'll make sure them to take
• 1:09:25
  notes and stuff, whatever. I, okay, that looks interesting.
• 1:09:28
  I'm going to put a pin in that and whenever it comes out months
• 1:09:32
  or a year later, you know, I will make sure to get to it.
• 1:09:35
  But but that is different, been very fun for me and sometimes
• 1:09:41
  like kind of Kind of eye-opening in a sense because while I know
• 1:09:48
  sometimes people might feel like, you know, been a content
• 1:09:51
  creator in this space, you know, and I'll just put many speak on
• 1:09:56
  manga coverage, whatever. Some people might think like,
• 1:09:59
  okay, you know, it's people, that's been doing Manga reviews
• 1:10:03
  and coverage for over a decade on YouTube or whatever platform
• 1:10:08
  there, there's no room for me, there's no room for nobody else.
• 1:10:11
  But in First year of doing this, I have quickly found out that
• 1:10:18
  there is always room for more people just because there are
• 1:10:23
  always, there's just so many series that there's no way that
• 1:10:30
  one person or one group of people can cover everything.
• 1:10:34
  And so the fact that And I've talked about this before on, you
• 1:10:40
  know, my podcast and stuff for them, but the fact that like,
• 1:10:43
  there are certain series to wear when you do a Google search or
• 1:10:46
  you search on YouTube and either, I'm the only person or
• 1:10:51
  I'm one of very few people that come up on ever, that's wild.
• 1:10:57
  Yeah. No, it's definitely crazy.
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  Like a good, another good example, is the whole me,
• 1:11:03
  Colleen, who runs a colony manga Rex, he especially for the show
• 1:11:08
  tonight. This Shoujo Manga that often
• 1:11:10
  doesn't get talked about on on these social media platforms,
• 1:11:13
  because don't get me wrong, I absolutely love.
• 1:11:15
  You know, shown in sign-in show, Joe and Joe say, but oftentimes
• 1:11:20
  like Shoujo Manga don't often get as talked about as some of
• 1:11:25
  the other demographics that are out there.
• 1:11:28
  And so seeing someone whose pride and joy is that
• 1:11:31
  demographic, and she can go on about like, all this different
• 1:11:35
  stuff. And even within that, there's
• 1:11:37
  still like you said. Before, there's still manga
• 1:11:39
  within that demographic that's not talked about so often.
• 1:11:43
  Yeah. So I yeah, I draw comparisons to
• 1:11:46
  if you ever talk to me, personally, I always draw
• 1:11:48
  comparisons to The Gaming Community because it's like,
• 1:11:51
  okay, sure you got all these big names playing all these like,
• 1:11:55
  big games and everything, but there's always room for someone
• 1:11:59
  to go and find the smaller games that no one ever talks about.
• 1:12:03
  Because so many games are being released on a daily basis.
• 1:12:06
  Now manga, isn't there yet? But there's so many different
• 1:12:09
  like titles being released each different week and often get
• 1:12:13
  overshadowed, like, box of light or I guess to an extent that
• 1:12:16
  yakuza's guiding the babysitting, but back on an
• 1:12:19
  anime. So I know that one's getting a
• 1:12:22
  lot more popular think earlier. I saw, Kites and books, like
• 1:12:25
  whoever the social media person was standing like a Barnes and
• 1:12:28
  Nobles and saw lots of people go after it.
• 1:12:30
  And we're very shocked by, like, lots of people buying it.
• 1:12:33
  But yeah, it's there's always room for someone.
• 1:12:36
  So if you are looking into It or have like the thought of it.
• 1:12:40
  I say the worst thing you could do is just not try it.
• 1:12:43
  Yeah just try it and see what happens.
• 1:12:44
  You'd be surprised like going back to my little history here.
• 1:12:48
  I was doing it until the homie midnight Robo do, who was
• 1:12:52
  already doing it? Pick me up and said, hey man,
• 1:12:55
  just keep doing what you're doing that next thing.
• 1:12:57
  You know, we're, you know, I'm here on this podcast, my first
• 1:13:00
  podcast with someone who have been listening to for a while,
• 1:13:03
  people who I've been like reading and watching for like,
• 1:13:05
  the longest time started following me now, I know I've
• 1:13:08
  had some Monica come up to me and either like, thank me for
• 1:13:13
  highlighting their work or retweeting my posts which that's
• 1:13:18
  always a really cool moment. I think my friend Pirate shows
• 1:13:23
  he tweeted about rooster fighter and the Monica of rooster
• 1:13:26
  fighter, actually liked commented and liked, thank you
• 1:13:29
  for highlighting and I'm like, dude that's crazy.
• 1:13:32
  Yeah, yeah that's crazy. That stuff is very dope and and
• 1:13:36
  it's fun. It's funny that you mentioned
• 1:13:37
  the Diversified among Jacques. Because he's, like a couple of
• 1:13:40
  times I've talked about talked about it too because when I did
• 1:13:43
  my my review for it a couple weeks back or whatever.
• 1:13:48
  Yeah it was wild that the he happened to to like it and same
• 1:13:53
  thing with I think I think the the creator of my boss Lord, my
• 1:14:01
  boss always get tongue-tied on. Oh thank you for having stuff.
• 1:14:06
  Easy access. I'm a war.
• 1:14:08
  My boss is a sheep. Yeah I like that Creator lights
• 1:14:13
  my post to whatever and it's just like very awesome defensive
• 1:14:17
  like even though there might be language barriers, you know,
• 1:14:23
  Between Us online, it is still cool that, you know, that that
• 1:14:30
  that appreciation can be shared, regardless of what language we
• 1:14:33
  speak because of the fact of like you just said it's like,
• 1:14:37
  hey, nobody else is really talking about this.
• 1:14:39
  So, I'm pretty sure when, when these are mangaka and various
• 1:14:43
  creators, see a post with their, with their series, they're like,
• 1:14:48
  wow. Body on the other side of the
• 1:14:50
  world, you know, is highlighting my work.
• 1:14:55
  Awesome. So yeah.
• 1:14:56
  There's a really, yeah, there's a place for.
• 1:14:59
  Here's a place for this community, no matter, you know
• 1:15:02
  who you are, what you are, who you identify.
• 1:15:04
  As you know, like there's a place for your dog.
• 1:15:08
  We want you, you want to see you?
• 1:15:10
  Why do you want to see you succeed?
• 1:15:12
  Yes. And I'm going back real quick to
• 1:15:15
  Colleen's Margaret's because she was the first person That came
• 1:15:19
  to mind when we started talking about that and I had shoulder
• 1:15:21
  stuff on on the video real quick.
• 1:15:25
  But just for those who might be interested, her Twitter account
• 1:15:28
  is at manga, underscoring nostalgic and light and light
• 1:15:34
  like Raphael said on YouTube, it's her colleagues Maga Rex but
• 1:15:40
  she's also been something that's been fascinating.
• 1:15:43
  Watch the growth that she's had as well because she's oh yeah,
• 1:15:47
  like because I I'm pretty sure I think I think she's had a
• 1:15:52
  YouTube for a little while but yeah.
• 1:15:55
  She kind of I guess I kind of like met that kind of pivot and
• 1:15:59
  like really dug into it deep this year and just like watching
• 1:16:05
  like her growth and her channels growth and stuff since the
• 1:16:09
  beginning of this year has been super wild to follow as well,
• 1:16:17
  flips and stuff. So, but but yeah, a lot, lots of
• 1:16:20
  great people to follow and stuff.
• 1:16:24
  So I don't let me see, hold on. So I'm looking at her page.
• 1:16:28
  Yeah. Five months ago, is when she
• 1:16:32
  kind of made that jump and Yeah, went from II.
• 1:16:37
  Can't remember what she was at the time but I know, I know, I
• 1:16:41
  know for sure she was under double digits subscriber wise.
• 1:16:46
  Yeah, I know, I know. I let me see.
• 1:16:49
  She's sitting at 18.7 K so. Yep.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah. So so yeah.
• 1:16:55
  So shut out to it's a Colleen and and all the work that she is
• 1:17:00
  doing over there. My yeah.
• 1:17:04
  So, so what, what else you been bit into you?
• 1:17:07
  You, you know, like you said, we're on the same wavelength
• 1:17:11
  where we're certain things and stuff.
• 1:17:13
  So I like what you been shining out now that came from you.
• 1:17:20
  Yeah. So as far as what I've been
• 1:17:23
  watching this season because yes I do.
• 1:17:27
  This was the one season that I'm like, okay.
• 1:17:29
  You know, I'm going to try to keep up with some of the stuff
• 1:17:31
  this season. Call the night, that one.
• 1:17:35
  Yeah, that was a good one. I've been keeping up with that
• 1:17:38
  one, because I really liked the manga when it came out.
• 1:17:42
  I wasn't really sold on the first volume and I'll admit
• 1:17:45
  there are some, like manga series were.
• 1:17:47
  I'm not too particular, they sold on like the first volume.
• 1:17:50
  Yeah. But then when I bought volume to
• 1:17:53
  onward, I'm like, holy crap. This is great.
• 1:17:56
  So, I know call the night. That was one of them and Undead,
• 1:17:59
  unlock, that was another one to that.
• 1:18:01
  I was like, I wasn't too sure about About.
• 1:18:03
  But then after like the organizations formed and they
• 1:18:06
  were going around in the different power system came out.
• 1:18:09
  Yeah, I was thought I was absolutely hooked with that one.
• 1:18:12
  Yeah, yeah that yeah, sorry. Yeah.
• 1:18:16
  I'm on the same time on the same page with you with both of those
• 1:18:19
  cuz I cuz ya cuz ya same thing with me I called the night was
• 1:18:23
  just come like this is okay. And then yeah, like you said
• 1:18:28
  after that is, you know, picked up from there and the anime for
• 1:18:33
  it. They have just done, they have
• 1:18:38
  done such a great job of bringing, the feeling I felt
• 1:18:44
  watching it to life in the anime because it sometimes it is
• 1:18:50
  almost ridiculous. How great this show looks.
• 1:18:55
  Oh yeah, dude, I'm telling you, if you have it.
• 1:18:57
  Have an OLED screen, whether it be your phone or TV, please
• 1:19:01
  watch it on that. Like, I'm telling you, like,
• 1:19:02
  those colors that, that they use for them backgrounds.
• 1:19:07
  Like, yeah, the, the colors, and then the music and sound track
• 1:19:12
  that, they mad it. The, the it is just that
• 1:19:17
  beautiful want to punch of talk about a show where atmosphere
• 1:19:23
  and Vibes, they call of the night would be be in the
• 1:19:28
  dictionary next to animate with Vibes.
• 1:19:31
  Because yeah, the, the visual aesthetic and the music.
• 1:19:35
  It is just like, it's not. Yeah, I did.
• 1:19:38
  This is a world. I would love to just be chilling
• 1:19:41
  and hanging out at night time. And, you know, I talked about it
• 1:19:45
  before that like kind of unintentionally, but call of the
• 1:19:50
  night was a series that I always found myself reading late at
• 1:19:53
  night, a lot of times like I said it wasn't intentional or
• 1:19:55
  just sometimes I was out. You know what is light?
• 1:19:58
  And I want to read something call of the night and same thing
• 1:20:01
  with watching an anime. I prefer to watch it late at
• 1:20:05
  night or late evening whatever just because it just feels
• 1:20:08
  right, you know? Because I said just like that
• 1:20:11
  Vibe and the color palette and stuff whatever.
• 1:20:14
  So and then and jumping over to Undead and look.
• 1:20:19
  That is also another one. Like you said, those honestly
• 1:20:24
  for me, same thing properly, like those For sure, it was for
• 1:20:28
  sure, not until like in the teens chapter wise there they
• 1:20:33
  started. Kind of like to like, kind of
• 1:20:35
  like come together for me cuz I cuz those are the chapters.
• 1:20:37
  I'm like this is weird. I was not like I'll admit I was
• 1:20:44
  not sold on it in the beginning but then right, when the
• 1:20:47
  organization came up and like all the path, like the power
• 1:20:50
  system was explained and their first fight with a forgot, which
• 1:20:53
  Luma they fought but that first fight and just seeing the whole
• 1:20:56
  power The power system at play. Yeah, yeah, that was really
• 1:21:01
  good. Yeah.
• 1:21:03
  Yeah. That is that, that is one that I
• 1:21:08
  don't know when because of just because of where the story is
• 1:21:13
  currently with the current chapters.
• 1:21:16
  But it is on my priority list of series, I'm going to do a
• 1:21:21
  discussion on. It's just like like I said like
• 1:21:24
  because originally I was wanting to do it back when it hit
• 1:21:26
  chapter 100 but life stuff happened and it didn't happen.
• 1:21:31
  Yeah. But with where things are going
• 1:21:35
  now, I'm like, I'm okay. Is this going to end soon?
• 1:21:40
  Or as or we bout to maybe hit like a second phase.
• 1:21:43
  So to speak with what's going on?
• 1:21:47
  No being vague. Yeah, with the road are cuz cuz
• 1:21:54
  where's about are you are with reading it.
• 1:21:57
  I'm caught up, I'm caught up. Okay, okay, so so then so then,
• 1:22:00
  you know, when I'll just say like a speaking beggar, whatever
• 1:22:05
  the Ragnarok stuff that is going on.
• 1:22:08
  Yeah. It is hard to tell.
• 1:22:12
  It's okay. Then maybe this is all going to
• 1:22:14
  end and, you know, ten chapters or maybe we might be in for
• 1:22:19
  another long haul. Yeah.
• 1:22:23
  Now I want to balance a crazy one.
• 1:22:25
  Yeah. So so that's kind of why band
• 1:22:28
  hesitant on pulling the trigger on on doing during a discussion
• 1:22:33
  on it yet because I'm like, I'm like, you know it's it's too
• 1:22:38
  shaky or foreground right now. Yeah.
• 1:22:40
  No. I agree but but but but it has
• 1:22:42
  been a very good read especially aren't that on.
• 1:22:47
  Luck has also been one of those series as well, to where I also
• 1:22:52
  liked it for a Binger eat or sometimes, I'll just let some
• 1:22:56
  chapters go for weeks, if not months and then have a girl, you
• 1:23:01
  know, 10, 20 chapters and Jess. But I'm the same exact way down.
• 1:23:07
  I I've done that with like I did that recently with spikes
• 1:23:11
  family, because don't get me wrong.
• 1:23:12
  I absolutely love spikes family. Yeah, but because it releases, I
• 1:23:16
  think it's bi-weekly. So, likewise a month, I just
• 1:23:19
  kind of like, Let It build up a little bit.
• 1:23:22
  And then I just honestly, just read through and rip through all
• 1:23:26
  those like, chapters on the. Okay.
• 1:23:28
  Yeah, I'm caught up. Yes, yes, yeah.
• 1:23:32
  I just not fair. A certain mood hit me after I
• 1:23:40
  read last week's chapter, which I think I think there was that
• 1:23:43
  chapter 60 59. I think 59.
• 1:23:48
  Let me look. Yeah.
• 1:23:50
  Thanks. Huh. look at my YouTube real
• 1:23:53
  quick, but Probably should be doing too much while I'm
• 1:24:00
  streaming but no whatever no no because my internet was chugging
• 1:24:06
  trying to load up that page when you normally doesn't show, okay?
• 1:24:09
  All right between streaming for this, I'm recording over here.
• 1:24:15
  Okay, chapter 65. So so I Oh after I read that,
• 1:24:22
  like I said the most recent chapter at the time of this
• 1:24:24
  recording I had to talk about it because I'm like this is too
• 1:24:29
  good. I gotta I gotta just a shout
• 1:24:34
  into the void or whatever and shout out to all the people
• 1:24:37
  that's been coming to my YouTube channel and and check out that
• 1:24:41
  episode whatever cop and get having a lot of great
• 1:24:43
  discussions and stuff what people in the comments or
• 1:24:46
  whatever. But but yeah that that is
• 1:24:49
  another. That is another really good
• 1:24:53
  binge read and stuff as well. And I love how I don't know if
• 1:25:00
  the say like keeps me, guessing is the right phrase, but I just
• 1:25:04
  love how they just keep it fresh and keep this surprises coming
• 1:25:08
  because you know we're without diving into specifics of
• 1:25:12
  whatever, okay? This is how I can phrase
• 1:25:16
  whatever I love. How recently we've gotten a
• 1:25:21
  stretch of chapters tour. We've gotten different
• 1:25:24
  combinations of characters interacting with each other.
• 1:25:28
  That is a good way to describe that.
• 1:25:30
  So like we got like on your and the head teacher had a chapter
• 1:25:35
  together Frankie and bond had a chapter together.
• 1:25:40
  We got, we got a fantastic handful of chapters going on
• 1:25:45
  going to Lloyd's backstory. So, Dave, and and, of course the
• 1:25:52
  most recent chapter and there was you're focused and what
• 1:25:57
  happened at the end of that chapter After it's just like
• 1:26:01
  okay we're getting more stuff. We're getting more background
• 1:26:06
  and development on these characters.
• 1:26:08
  Because it's like, it's like, you know, we already love these
• 1:26:11
  characters but them doing these mixed and matched combinations.
• 1:26:19
  Whatever it allows us to see other sides of these characters
• 1:26:24
  and to see like, oh, okay, I never really thought about what
• 1:26:27
  it would be like if If IL was hanging out with the head cheap
• 1:26:32
  teacher by herself or, or if Frankie and bond.
• 1:26:37
  Yeah, absolutely and stuff. So, but yeah, I'm right there
• 1:26:40
  with you. That, that is another really
• 1:26:44
  good. Really good series.
• 1:26:46
  Yeah, I'm trying to think of a firm.
• 1:26:51
  I'm trying to catch up anything else.
• 1:26:56
  I felt there's something else. Oh, well, I for myself, I've
• 1:27:01
  I've been still slowly chipping away.
• 1:27:06
  I'm reading through Saturn apartment, still.
• 1:27:10
  That, that is continue to be. It is It is a I guess I guess
• 1:27:18
  mundane maybe the best word to use for it because it is just a
• 1:27:22
  very slow. Hey we're going to put you in
• 1:27:25
  this world and you're just going to go through the life of these
• 1:27:28
  characters. Whatever type of story to where
• 1:27:31
  there's no Super Crazy Action sequences or whatever.
• 1:27:33
  It is just these characters who were window washers and space
• 1:27:40
  really good set up to me. Yes yes.
• 1:27:44
  So It is just been one on. I think I just I just finished
• 1:27:50
  volume for yesterday and so I just started Volume 5.
• 1:27:55
  So I'm I've crossed the Midway point because there are seven
• 1:27:58
  volumes total. Yeah, so so I've crossed the
• 1:28:03
  Midway Point through reading that story and still likes is
• 1:28:05
  still enjoying it. It's one that most times I'll
• 1:28:10
  read, right? As I'm laying down.
• 1:28:11
  Getting ready to go to bed cocks it because of how how slow it
• 1:28:15
  is. It also kind of helps put me to
• 1:28:18
  sleep. Not not which, which sounds bad
• 1:28:21
  knees, describing it that way. But but it is perfect for that
• 1:28:26
  because of how slow it is, it is like, okay, I'm getting a little
• 1:28:31
  bit slow progress with the story and hey, if I doze off, so be
• 1:28:35
  it. But it was, it was good while I
• 1:28:38
  was dozing off to it. Yeah.
• 1:28:40
  No, absolutely. Yeah.
• 1:28:42
  I guess, you know, I feel that 100%.
• 1:28:43
  Yes. So, I've tried think our firm, I
• 1:28:49
  feel like I've been. I feel like there was something
• 1:28:52
  else I had checked out. Recently.
• 1:28:58
  Oh I started watching a cone of tsuba.
• 1:29:03
  Oh, did you know that that show is funny that show is wild with
• 1:29:10
  some of the stuff. I'm only like I think I just
• 1:29:13
  watched maybe like a sewed, four or five, but it's just been like
• 1:29:17
  one that I have that. I wanted to check out for a
• 1:29:20
  while because I've heard people talking about it and stuff.
• 1:29:23
  So that that's one that's not a It currently airing show,
• 1:29:28
  whatever that I'm just a I've just had fun.
• 1:29:31
  Just just chipping away at a l watching and stuff.
• 1:29:36
  So Oh, so circling back to to to your account and stuff.
• 1:29:45
  I kind of wanted to ask this. How has it been like balancing
• 1:29:54
  stand on top of all these out of these deals and self with your
• 1:29:58
  normal life and stuff? Because you know, of course, you
• 1:30:01
  know, we've talked, you know, before doing this or whatever.
• 1:30:03
  But like, you know, obviously you know, you, you do have a
• 1:30:07
  life. Yeah, laughter probably.
• 1:30:11
  So how has that been so? Okay, I will admit, I was in a,
• 1:30:18
  in the workplace. I was at it was very like open,
• 1:30:21
  like I could do. I had lots of down time for me
• 1:30:23
  to be able to do some of this stuff.
• 1:30:25
  Yeah. So thankfully I had the
• 1:30:27
  privilege to be able to do this. Yeah, but I'll admit on days
• 1:30:31
  were like, it gets pretty hectic at work.
• 1:30:34
  Honestly, I heavily used the schedule tweets.
• 1:30:38
  Suites feature. So what will happen is I will
• 1:30:42
  see either I get tagged and like a post or something or a CEO.
• 1:30:46
  This manga got restocked today or oh, such and such sale came
• 1:30:51
  out today. I would try my best to cover
• 1:30:53
  like schedule it out as much as I can.
• 1:30:56
  Before I have to go get ready to get to work mobile block.
• 1:30:58
  And then I am a huge fan of public transit.
• 1:31:01
  I know some people might not like public transit, but hey
• 1:31:04
  it's there and especially trying to compute two big cities
• 1:31:07
  especially Like oil prices down such.
• 1:31:09
  Yes. I I utilize public transit as
• 1:31:13
  much as I can. Yeah.
• 1:31:14
  So, because I could. Yeah, because you tell me you,
• 1:31:19
  if I remember correctly, you have a pretty is a pretty pretty
• 1:31:21
  decent time. Commute.
• 1:31:25
  Yeah. So before I moved to the east
• 1:31:28
  coast I least lived in the Bay Area and before if I was a drive
• 1:31:34
  by car it would be I mean it would be about like a 45 Minute
• 1:31:38
  drive. But as you probably heard like,
• 1:31:41
  you know, the stereotype anytime you drive in California, like
• 1:31:44
  you have to make sure you drive in like a specific time because
• 1:31:47
  if you get caught like driving at a wrong time, either like
• 1:31:53
  everyone's getting home from work or on.
• 1:31:56
  I know what is it? Sometimes you have people doing
• 1:31:59
  some crazy stuff on the Bay, Bridge shutting down.
• 1:32:02
  The whole Bridge was his stuff and you're just stuck there like
• 1:32:05
  really like It went public transit comes into the day.
• 1:32:10
  Sure. It may take a little longer for
• 1:32:12
  you to get there but for me, hey, I'll take it and that extra
• 1:32:16
  time I used to like pass the time because again I'm just
• 1:32:19
  sitting there doing nothing. Yeah, I use that time to do my
• 1:32:23
  post. So I think I'm able to properly
• 1:32:26
  like balance both, you know, my actual personal life with this
• 1:32:30
  account and funny enough when I was doing the move because I
• 1:32:34
  moved from like I said before, Bay Area to the east.
• 1:32:38
  Goes, I was still like posting with like very little internet
• 1:32:45
  because there would be like completely dead zones and such
• 1:32:48
  and I looked at my analytics on that day and I think I like
• 1:32:52
  dropped a good half of what I used to post, but my page was
• 1:32:56
  still gaining followers. Some oh, okay.
• 1:32:58
  So even though I'm not posting as much people were still
• 1:33:01
  following me. Yeah.
• 1:33:02
  So I can like, you know, and I also that's how I kind of came
• 1:33:07
  up with the idea of Follower Friday sort of has like a data
• 1:33:10
  like mentally reset myself because another thing that
• 1:33:14
  people often don't talk about is how mentally taxing being in the
• 1:33:18
  content creation. Space is yes because you have to
• 1:33:21
  come up with not only a new ideas for every single video.
• 1:33:24
  But also keep up with the trends, keep up with what people
• 1:33:26
  are talking about. Making sure you're doing
• 1:33:29
  everything right. Making sure you like everything
• 1:33:32
  goes to plan. Yeah, for like that 5 to 10
• 1:33:36
  minutes of content, like it's so.
• 1:33:38
  So mentally draining and some people might not like realize or
• 1:33:42
  might not like fully understand it at first because you know,
• 1:33:45
  they're viewing from the outside but at someone who is starting
• 1:33:49
  to now look into, you know doing stuff outside of just posting
• 1:33:53
  deals on Twitter. Like for example, me being on
• 1:33:55
  this podcast. Yeah, there's a lot of like
• 1:33:58
  behind the scenes stuff that's like, man, this is just a
• 1:34:01
  mentally draining like that's, it's just man, like, I don't get
• 1:34:05
  me wrong. I love what I do, hurry, but
• 1:34:07
  I'll bet there. Times will.
• 1:34:09
  I'm like, do I really want to post today?
• 1:34:11
  Like, do I really want to like, you know, do this?
• 1:34:14
  Yeah. And that's where follow a Friday
• 1:34:16
  came in, because all I need, all I can do is just, you know, just
• 1:34:21
  comment, like, and retweet people's Collections and it
• 1:34:24
  forces me to be positive. Not saying I'm not positive, but
• 1:34:30
  it forces me to like, you know, compliment as many people as
• 1:34:33
  they can and like, like inspired them to, you know, be proud of
• 1:34:37
  like there. R1 manga collection because I've
• 1:34:40
  had some people like, oh, I only have like one or two manga
• 1:34:44
  volumes of my collection, dude. That's awesome.
• 1:34:46
  Like, I know not too many people like you know, praise that.
• 1:34:51
  But I do like sure it may not be as crazy or as insane as like
• 1:34:57
  some of these other guys who have proven collecting for many
• 1:35:01
  years and have like full rooms dedicated to manga.
• 1:35:04
  Yeah. But it shouldn't be all.
• 1:35:06
  Look how much manga I It should be, this is the stuff that I
• 1:35:10
  find enjoyment and and it made such an emotional impact to me
• 1:35:14
  that I wanted to have it in my thing.
• 1:35:16
  Yeah, and I and I feel like hosting that thread not only
• 1:35:22
  allows me to sort of like mentally reset myself from like,
• 1:35:24
  you know, having to hunt for deals and everything.
• 1:35:27
  But it also allows me to sort of like appreciate, you know,
• 1:35:32
  Appreciate the fans and just appreciate what I haven't.
• 1:35:35
  Sort of, like, remind myself, why I'm doing what I'm doing.
• 1:35:38
  Yeah, exactly. And you know, I myself like I
• 1:35:41
  said, as a as a Observer, I enjoy the follower Fridays
• 1:35:47
  because like you said, is it? No, a mix of, you know, just
• 1:35:52
  send people just be like, hey, this is what I've got, or what I
• 1:35:54
  picked up or whatever, but for me, it is also a way to kind of
• 1:35:59
  be like, okay, what's out there? What do I maybe need to put them
• 1:36:02
  out? Our because because it's okay,
• 1:36:05
  I've seen a couple people, you know, share they have this in
• 1:36:10
  their collection with the they Corridor that they picked up the
• 1:36:12
  bat or whatever. And so it's also kind of a fun
• 1:36:16
  way to just like you said just for the community as a whole to
• 1:36:21
  kind of come together and kind of yeah like he's like would
• 1:36:24
  like you just say just like share what we were enjoying what
• 1:36:28
  we're loving and you know putting each other on.
• 1:36:32
  Iran to some cool stuff. So and I'm because I'm scrolling
• 1:36:35
  through right now and I'm also I also enjoy people having fun
• 1:36:41
  with it as well and being creative with how they're making
• 1:36:43
  the post where like I'm looking at a post right now where
• 1:36:47
  somebody has a zero figure sitting on top of their one
• 1:36:51
  piece box set with with some other volumes sitting in front
• 1:36:55
  of it and their cat is in the background.
• 1:36:57
  Ya know, as so stuff out there just kind of For just say
• 1:37:02
  people, you know, just getting disc creative and stuff as well.
• 1:37:07
  Okay. I want to solve this manga but
• 1:37:09
  I'm going to do it in a fun way or or maybe?
• 1:37:11
  Nope. He's just you know he's just a
• 1:37:13
  stack of them. Yeah.
• 1:37:16
  And it doesn't matter how you do it or I you might have caught me
• 1:37:19
  do this too. Like there are many times where
• 1:37:20
  people just tag me in posts. Yeah.
• 1:37:23
  Stuff that they found like actually right now here I'm
• 1:37:25
  about to go ahead and retweet it since we were talking about like
• 1:37:28
  places you wouldn't expect to find manga.
• 1:37:31
  I was Just tagged in a post where they found manga over in
• 1:37:39
  Universal Studios now. Wow.
• 1:37:42
  And Universal Studios Orlando I just retweeted it so you can see
• 1:37:46
  it. But yeah it's it's crazy like
• 1:37:50
  that's just wild. Like I remember before.
• 1:37:53
  Like last time I went to that, I went to Universal Studios
• 1:37:58
  Hollywood, bro. They had nothing but they had
• 1:38:02
  Like, you know, your typical Universal Studios properties.
• 1:38:05
  They had, you know, Back to the Future Terminator, all this
• 1:38:08
  other stuff. But now to look look now to see
• 1:38:11
  like, oh crap. They're like, actually, what is
• 1:38:15
  it? That's the mean.
• 1:38:16
  Look at that post that. I just retweeted they have now.
• 1:38:21
  Bleach volumes. Hmm, Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo, Ghoul
• 1:38:26
  barroso and my hero Academia do. That's crazy.
• 1:38:31
  That's cool. I like that.
• 1:38:34
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so thank God.
• 1:38:45
  I felt that the fibula we've covered a lot.
• 1:38:48
  I'm trying to think of her. It's like there's something that
• 1:38:52
  cross maybe a skill in my mind, or did you have anything else
• 1:38:56
  you wanted to talk about that? Maybe I hadn't brought up or a
• 1:38:59
  question. I hadn't asked that you wanted
• 1:39:01
  to share or anything. Not really?
• 1:39:04
  I mean, again, like I said, I'm a completely 100% open book on
• 1:39:08
  this sort of stuff. I'm not someone who hides
• 1:39:10
  anything, I'm not someone who gate keeps information.
• 1:39:14
  Yeah, so, um, the my, pretty much my whole goal in this
• 1:39:19
  podcast is to again, too. Shot some people out there who,
• 1:39:22
  you know, helped me get to where I want to get to.
• 1:39:25
  This is my first podcast and I'm glad I was able to do with you
• 1:39:28
  rob. That's another thing to another
• 1:39:32
  thing is. Letting people know that there
• 1:39:34
  is a survey out there that you should probably fill out if you
• 1:39:37
  want to see these licenses get official English translations
• 1:39:40
  because as manga Gaspar popular. Some of these companies are
• 1:39:46
  actually looking at what people want and that's our only way to
• 1:39:50
  communicate. Ate with them and a civilized
• 1:39:52
  manner right to to what is it to tell them what we want.
• 1:39:59
  Yeah. Nice.
• 1:40:00
  A civilized and I put emphasis on that because I'm not sure if
• 1:40:04
  you've seen them or not, but one of the most funniest things I've
• 1:40:06
  ever seen on Twitter was on every single viz media post.
• 1:40:10
  There is a guy who I personally endorse.
• 1:40:15
  He's a guy who could comment on every single viz media post
• 1:40:19
  telling them to license. And oshino Co yeah.
• 1:40:22
  Every single day I was like, I was like, bro, this guy is 100%
• 1:40:28
  dedicated to it and as a joke I'm like you know what, even
• 1:40:31
  though viz media follows me and I love y'all viz media.
• 1:40:34
  I kind of want to see this guy succeed man if he's putting this
• 1:40:37
  topic much time and effort into doing this, I want to see it.
• 1:40:40
  Come to fruition. And then when Anime Expo dropped
• 1:40:43
  and in Yen press like Drop That massive bombshell that they got
• 1:40:48
  oshino Co lices, bro. I was like celebrating.
• 1:40:52
  I was telling people how much this man has fought his life
• 1:40:56
  every single day on this videos post.
• 1:40:59
  So I get this stuff license. Yes to finally, get it cool.
• 1:41:03
  Oh man, that was that was crate. That was a top 10 Twitter moment
• 1:41:08
  in history bruh. Like that was crazy.
• 1:41:12
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:41:13
  I definitely I don't remember seeing or not removed but I do
• 1:41:16
  see that guy. Yeah.
• 1:41:18
  All the freaking time and yeah. When when when One guy license.
• 1:41:22
  It was like a you know he was W. It was a huge job you for them
• 1:41:29
  and many people because it's not his like finally, even though
• 1:41:32
  like you said it didn't happen through the person.
• 1:41:36
  He was shouting at for four months whatever.
• 1:41:38
  But hey, somebody took notice was like, hmm, you know, maybe
• 1:41:42
  it's coincidence or it would be funnier.
• 1:41:44
  If like somebody at who'd you say well you said it was Jim
• 1:41:47
  press. Yeah.
• 1:41:49
  And I if you want I can actually tell Tell you how that whole
• 1:41:51
  thing happened if you want explaining this, okay?
• 1:41:53
  All right. Storytime some
• 1:41:55
  behind-the-scenes, okay. All right.
• 1:41:56
  So all right, so I'm going to paraphrase it.
• 1:42:00
  Yeah. But and again, I'm no expert in
• 1:42:03
  this. So, if I do get something wrong,
• 1:42:05
  please call me out obviously, right?
• 1:42:08
  But this is from what I understood.
• 1:42:10
  Yeah. So, whenever a, as we all know,
• 1:42:12
  right. All these English Publishers and
• 1:42:14
  everything are subsidiaries of the Japanese publisher over in
• 1:42:17
  Japan. So that's like, should we show
• 1:42:20
  Who con? I'm trying to think, kadhan.
• 1:42:25
  Shh, I'm trying to think who the 14 Yen press is.
• 1:42:29
  But again, press has a JAP like the main yeah person.
• 1:42:33
  Yeah, yeah, long story short, that's what it is.
• 1:42:35
  So whenever a manga gets enough like it's super popular over
• 1:42:39
  there, right? Whether that's through sales
• 1:42:42
  merch, whatever, right? They will first go to their
• 1:42:46
  United States subsidiary and say hey we have this manga that we
• 1:42:50
  think is Is very super popular? Would you like to license it and
• 1:42:55
  they'll either say yay or nay. So if they say yeah then
• 1:42:59
  obviously you know, hands are shaked papers are signed, you
• 1:43:05
  know business is business and then that publisher will go in.
• 1:43:09
  Translate it letter. It edit it.
• 1:43:12
  Make do the final touches making sure everything's good to go and
• 1:43:15
  it gets published. Yeah.
• 1:43:16
  Now if they say no, this is where it gets interesting.
• 1:43:20
  So, the Japanese publisher will go and just sit on it on until
• 1:43:25
  someone like makes a bid for it in which again, it's like, okay,
• 1:43:30
  this guy's wants oshino Co for example.
• 1:43:33
  Yeah. Right Vince.
• 1:43:35
  Do you want the Publishers? Do either?
• 1:43:37
  Say yes or no. So in this case, this said, oh
• 1:43:40
  no, we don't, we don't now we're not going to do it now, we don't
• 1:43:43
  want it and which should we just like, okay, all right.
• 1:43:49
  Again press. Do you want to do this?
• 1:43:50
  And then obviously, like I said before, hands are shaped papers
• 1:43:54
  are signed high-fives around everywhere and next thing you
• 1:43:58
  know they got their able to get that thing licensed in English.
• 1:44:02
  Now an interesting one is that maybe people might have known or
• 1:44:07
  I know I've seen some questions about is kadhan.
• 1:44:10
  Shh, listen, I love codon. Shh.
• 1:44:12
  Yeah, but they can be pretty weird.
• 1:44:14
  So most the most recent example is Tokyo Revenger.
• 1:44:18
  So yeah. Yeah.
• 1:44:20
  Yeah that's that. That one's a weird one and I'll
• 1:44:23
  check again do my best to explain it.
• 1:44:24
  So like before kadhan, shh is the Japanese publisher and could
• 1:44:29
  Dodge the u.s. is the US subsidiary.
• 1:44:33
  So when obviously, you know, Tokyo Revengers is such a huge
• 1:44:36
  hit in Japan. They went and went up to kadosh
• 1:44:40
  us and say, Hey, kid, don't you is we have this license that we
• 1:44:43
  think would do really well, would you like to do it?
• 1:44:46
  They said, yes, but for the digital Portion, not the
• 1:44:51
  physical the digital. Now the reason why is because
• 1:44:54
  there's like some old United States law, that's still in
• 1:44:58
  place. Now where it's like oh you can't
• 1:45:00
  produce as many like books or produce as many stuff, super
• 1:45:04
  complicated stuff, but long story short, there are
• 1:45:06
  limitations within the United States that limit Publishers how
• 1:45:09
  much they can publish? And one of the ways could Dodge
• 1:45:13
  it gets around, it is by going after the digital license of a
• 1:45:17
  work first. And then, if it does Super Well,
• 1:45:21
  then they come back and get the and get the physical.
• 1:45:23
  So a good example, is bluelock, I was on the kadosh.
• 1:45:28
  I hate train for the longest time because I absolutely love
• 1:45:31
  blue lock, and I was mad that like could do show us.
• 1:45:35
  Was not licensed, was that printing that book like the
• 1:45:39
  longest time and I think was like Japan.
• 1:45:42
  Was that? I think volume 13 digitally.
• 1:45:46
  We were at seven but there was no physical print and we, yeah.
• 1:45:50
  Finally got one like, what? A month or two ago.
• 1:45:54
  Yeah, yeah. Got my copy here.
• 1:45:57
  Yeah, I do to somewhere. But so in this case with Tokyo
• 1:46:02
  Revengers they did a fist. They did a digital but they were
• 1:46:06
  still trying to like figure out if could if Tokyo Avengers would
• 1:46:09
  do well in the United States. So, they got the, like I said,
• 1:46:13
  they got the digital but they left the physical completely
• 1:46:17
  open for anyone to take it. Then that's where our Dog, Seven
• 1:46:21
  Seas shows up and is like, hey, we want to print this because
• 1:46:25
  people were asking us to print this.
• 1:46:27
  Yeah. Can we print this and could?
• 1:46:29
  And again kadachan, one up to conduction us and asked?
• 1:46:32
  Okay. Do you want to print this and
• 1:46:34
  they're like, nope, we don't want it and Seven Seas went
• 1:46:39
  ahead and scooped it up. And well, here we are with a
• 1:46:42
  Tokyo, Revengers Omnibus now, and I'll be honest with you,
• 1:46:48
  Like I want to personally, thank whoever was on the lettering
• 1:46:52
  team and everything, because if you looked at the way, the
• 1:46:57
  lettering is on the kadaj version versus the Seven Seas
• 1:47:00
  version, it is so much clearer like I can actually read it.
• 1:47:05
  So in the very first panel, you see, Talking Michi being a lazy
• 1:47:09
  bum in his like, you know, apartment, right.
• 1:47:12
  And there's like us. There's a bit of text on the
• 1:47:16
  side and I kid you not because of the way, the building is like
• 1:47:19
  drawn and whoever at kadaj, I decided to make the lettering
• 1:47:23
  that font. You can't see what was said,
• 1:47:26
  like you straight up. Can't I was like, oh my God.
• 1:47:29
  It's like looking at a very contrasting like colors on like
• 1:47:33
  a PowerPoint presentation or just like I can't see anything
• 1:47:38
  like who decides to put a use red font on purple back.
• 1:47:44
  Route, like, that sort of stuff. Yeah.
• 1:47:46
  Crazy. So when again, when Seven Seas
• 1:47:50
  picked it up, thank you to whoever the letter was, because
• 1:47:53
  they made it so much clearer. Now, it's so much easier to
• 1:47:56
  read, and I was able to get into it.
• 1:47:58
  Finally, I haven't seen the anime yet, but I read the Manga
• 1:48:02
  for that one. And I actually like this.
• 1:48:05
  So, I like it. So yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that
• 1:48:10
  that is a yeah, that is definitely one of those are
• 1:48:14
  Legendary stories, like you said of like somebody sleeping at the
• 1:48:18
  wheel and somebody else came in and scooped it up II saw.
• 1:48:23
  I don't know if you saw this story too.
• 1:48:28
  Maybe I think it was a Anime Expo a month ago or whatever.
• 1:48:32
  Yeah, but there was a, it was during the Dark Horse panel.
• 1:48:38
  Yeah. Where they were talking about
• 1:48:40
  no, just just just various stories or whatever.
• 1:48:44
  And one of the stories that they talked about, I've like missed
• 1:48:47
  opportunities or whatever was that they was that they missed
• 1:48:51
  getting Attack on Titan. Yeah.
• 1:48:54
  Because at the time somebody was like this new thing I probably
• 1:48:59
  don't, you know, basically somebody didn't have faith that
• 1:49:02
  I don't know what that really is.
• 1:49:04
  We'll pass on it. And now it's one of the biggest
• 1:49:08
  phenomenons and freaking history.
• 1:49:11
  Yeah stuff. So, so it's just kind of funny
• 1:49:13
  just like, Like, seriously, like stories like that.
• 1:49:16
  Who knows how often they happened.
• 1:49:19
  And, you know, like like you said, I would do with what just,
• 1:49:23
  just different, seriously. Okay, one person is doing it
• 1:49:26
  digitally. Why didn't you do it physically,
• 1:49:28
  or whatever the case may be? It is all this stuff is just
• 1:49:32
  interesting, just just trying to find out a little bit of like
• 1:49:35
  the behind-the-scenes. Yeah, who dropped the ball?
• 1:49:39
  Get know. It's pretty interesting that you
• 1:49:41
  mentioned the Dark Horse thing, because at the time, Dark Horse.
• 1:49:45
  Manga was a so small that they couldn't, they straight up
• 1:49:48
  didn't have the resources to pick up.
• 1:49:50
  I think I saw that same threat to and they mentioned it was,
• 1:49:54
  Rosa Versailles and Attack on Titan.
• 1:49:58
  But then again, Dark Horse, being dark, or is there a comic
• 1:50:01
  book company first, not a manga publisher.
• 1:50:04
  So they didn't out really allocate that much resources to
• 1:50:08
  Mom and they still kind of don't really, but they're slowly but
• 1:50:12
  surely getting better at it. But at the time, they just
• 1:50:15
  straight-up didn't have the resources to take on Attack on
• 1:50:18
  Titan. So they said, okay, you know,
• 1:50:20
  what will will pass? It will pass on it.
• 1:50:23
  Yeah, so yeah, but yeah, again, not too many people know about
• 1:50:27
  it and that's what another thing I'm very privileged to know.
• 1:50:32
  And that's another thing too. People should probably know this
• 1:50:35
  sort of stuff. I feel like, because There's so
• 1:50:39
  many stories beyond what, you know, what's on our shelves
• 1:50:43
  here. But oftentimes, we take that
• 1:50:45
  stuff for granted like, we don't know the behind-the-scenes of
• 1:50:50
  how, like, for example, the Tokyo Revenger story or how Yen
• 1:50:53
  press took up oshino, Co and honey, lemon soda stuff like
• 1:50:58
  that doesn't often get talked about and I mean, I think it
• 1:51:04
  should be talked about more but, you know, nowadays, it doesn't
• 1:51:07
  because that gets kind of like drowned out by.
• 1:51:11
  Oh, this is my favorite manga. If you don't like this manga,
• 1:51:15
  then blah, blah, blah, or stuff like that.
• 1:51:19
  Yeah. That's what I've seen happen.
• 1:51:20
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:51:21
  For sure. And, and I want to kind of want
• 1:51:23
  to give a shout out to another account real quick, as far as I
• 1:51:26
  go for it. Helpful, resources, don't know,
• 1:51:30
  from where from where pronounce it right, but, but manga, Moger
• 1:51:34
  every manga manga. Yeah.
• 1:51:38
  And sat outside 22 whoever's behind that account.
• 1:51:42
  They they just crossed 100K today followers.
• 1:51:46
  But added that has been like another big resource for me on
• 1:51:51
  series. That don't get a lot of
• 1:51:53
  attention because either, you know, they haven't been licensed
• 1:51:57
  years or whatever, the case may be or whatever.
• 1:52:00
  Because that, that's how I found my home hero.
• 1:52:06
  I think I probably found Shangri-La Frontier Them as well
• 1:52:10
  and so many other series that I am like I'm like I've never seen
• 1:52:16
  or heard of this and as though checking their account is
• 1:52:20
  literally part of like my daily routine.
• 1:52:22
  So every day when I get on Twitter go on the count and I'll
• 1:52:28
  score back to the last post. I remember saying the day before
• 1:52:30
  or earlier in the day whatever and I'll just scroll through and
• 1:52:34
  just just to glance and see okay well whatever Or they might have
• 1:52:38
  been talking about stuff. So definitely shout out to to
• 1:52:43
  whoever's behind that account collected.
• 1:52:44
  That is that is that like a very big helpful resource now.
• 1:52:49
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for me.
• 1:52:51
  And And sorry. Sounds amazing real quick.
• 1:52:58
  Cuz I'm on the sense of like, you know, sometimes companies
• 1:53:03
  waiting for stuff to kind of like, jump up in popularity or
• 1:53:08
  whatever it is has been fascinating because even though
• 1:53:13
  what was it like back in May when they did the kind of like
• 1:53:16
  mid-year manga sales and stuff. Yeah, and even just seeing How
• 1:53:24
  much stuff has shifted around in just 6 months from when they did
• 1:53:28
  the the top-selling manga of 2021 to even now and some stuff
• 1:53:34
  that's like moved around, there's a handful of stuff that
• 1:53:37
  moved up to the top 10. There wasn't even in the top 10
• 1:53:39
  last year, you know, which some of it was a mix of stuff,
• 1:53:44
  getting anime or anime announcements.
• 1:53:46
  Like, you know, my just of darling.
• 1:53:48
  Moved up to number nine. Blue lockers at number 10, spot
• 1:53:52
  family is number three. Yeah, stuff like that.
• 1:53:57
  And what was the other one on? It is some mystery one.
• 1:54:02
  There's like number six. That just got announced for
• 1:54:06
  coming out of English Mysteries. Something I can't remember the
• 1:54:11
  name of it. Bye.
• 1:54:16
  But, anyway, the point is, yeah, it's just fascinating just
• 1:54:20
  seeing, like, what we talked about earlier just like this,
• 1:54:23
  like constant, fluctuation of just new stuff getting manga
• 1:54:29
  announcements. And actually, speaking of
• 1:54:31
  speaking of my home hero, I wouldn't be surprised if that
• 1:54:38
  one gets a English announcement soon because because that's one
• 1:54:43
  of the rare cases where they announced that.
• 1:54:45
  Getting an anime. Yeah.
• 1:54:48
  Before there's even a physical anguish release for it.
• 1:54:52
  So I won't be surprised if that one gets announced sometime soon
• 1:54:55
  or whatever. But yeah, but yeah, but it's all
• 1:54:59
  just fascinating and like I said, you know, you were
• 1:55:03
  definitely one of the people. Like I said that are that are a
• 1:55:07
  much appreciated resource and much needed in the community for
• 1:55:12
  bringing attention to, you know, the series either.
• 1:55:15
  As they're getting good now. So, as they're going, on sale
• 1:55:18
  coming back in stock, etc, etc. So, I definitely know God, gotta
• 1:55:23
  give you a big shout out as well as all the people that you've
• 1:55:25
  mentioned throughout the podcast alone.
• 1:55:29
  Yeah, yeah, definitely. Like, if you follow me for a
• 1:55:32
  while you've definitely like, notice the big shift in like
• 1:55:35
  what I do because before I would just do only like manga deals
• 1:55:38
  and restocks. Now I do I'm like in a mix of
• 1:55:41
  like everything else because I do if there's an anime I've
• 1:55:46
  spent on more than likely tweet about it, if there's like a, I
• 1:55:49
  think recently I've been starting to do statute
• 1:55:51
  prototype. So there's like a statue
• 1:55:52
  prototype. That's out there in the wild.
• 1:55:54
  I'm a post about it. If there's a anime announcement
• 1:56:00
  for among or for a manga, I'm gonna be there too, if there's a
• 1:56:03
  anime merch or something. Ima Be There anime figures.
• 1:56:07
  That's on sale. I'm a there's a whole lot of
• 1:56:09
  stuff that like I'm now starting to get into.
• 1:56:12
  Yeah. That I guess it's a A healthy
• 1:56:16
  Evolution because for me, don't get me wrong.
• 1:56:19
  I don't mind people who do things like just one thing all
• 1:56:22
  the time and that's great. Yeah but for me I get bored like
• 1:56:27
  pretty easily doing the same thing over and over and over
• 1:56:30
  again. Yeah.
• 1:56:30
  And I kind of want to do different things on top of what
• 1:56:35
  I'm doing. So that's again, that's why I'm
• 1:56:37
  very glad to be presented the opportunity to do this podcast
• 1:56:41
  because it's something different that I want to challenge myself
• 1:56:44
  on to see if I Like an idiot on the mic or something, but, you
• 1:56:48
  know, it's something different. And something that I would like
• 1:56:51
  to try and kind of get into, and if I like it, which I really do,
• 1:56:55
  who knows? Maybe I might come back again as
• 1:56:57
  another guest or talking like that.
• 1:57:00
  Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure.
• 1:57:02
  And there was one of the things I was going to mention.
• 1:57:07
  Yeah, save my brain circles back around.
• 1:57:10
  Now you're good. She has you talking about bridge
• 1:57:19
  now doing other stuff? Yeah, branching out doing other
• 1:57:22
  stuff. Oh, oh, oh, I know what it is
• 1:57:28
  because speaking of inside, baseball, if, if you ever get a
• 1:57:32
  contact the connection, whatever?
• 1:57:33
  See see, see if maybe you can investigate and find out what is
• 1:57:37
  going on with Crunchyroll manga, I will add that to my list
• 1:57:43
  because this is the first I heard.
• 1:57:44
  Okay, give me a rundown. What's going on over there?
• 1:57:46
  That's well more. So they are just confusing to me
• 1:57:52
  because Now 441 myself included, a lot of people, whatever.
• 1:58:00
  A lot of people forget that you know if you have a crunch your
• 1:58:03
  subscription you have automatic access to the manga side of
• 1:58:06
  things. So for one and they don't really
• 1:58:09
  ever, they barely promoted or whatever in general and to With
• 1:58:16
  the way that they post, some of their manga stuff on there,
• 1:58:19
  whatever. I don't know, if its a mix
• 1:58:21
  between licensing stuff, or what, appreciate, probably plays
• 1:58:24
  a part of it or whatever. But it's like, you know, they
• 1:58:28
  might have like, a couple of the first few chapters of something.
• 1:58:32
  Then there's like a 30 chapter Gap and then it's like recent
• 1:58:36
  stuff. And then a recent one that hurt
• 1:58:40
  my heart. And like I said, don't know if
• 1:58:43
  it's a licensing thing or what happened, but They took
• 1:58:47
  Shangri-La Frontier off of the app.
• 1:58:51
  Yeah. So I now I guess I could kind of
• 1:58:55
  speak on it because I've been kind, I've been they just
• 1:58:58
  happened with another manga streaming at my forgot what.
• 1:59:03
  I shouldn't probably forget what it's called, but there was
• 1:59:06
  another one that just recently got super popular.
• 1:59:09
  They just lost all of their like, hadashah licenses on
• 1:59:14
  there. Yeah.
• 1:59:15
  And the Current theory / rumor is that because of how well the
• 1:59:21
  Shonen Jump like app is and how many people?
• 1:59:24
  Absolutely love Manga, Plus? Yeah, other Publishers are now,
• 1:59:29
  starting to copy that sort of formula and style further own
• 1:59:33
  thing because it's like, hey if this media can do it or season,
• 1:59:37
  obvious media? Should we shh can do it?
• 1:59:39
  Yeah. Why can't we do it sort of,
• 1:59:41
  like, how Netflix used to be this, like all-in-one, like
• 1:59:44
  thing for everything. And Now everyone has a
• 1:59:47
  subscription service. Yeah, I think the same thing is
• 1:59:50
  going to happen here where you have all these different spots
• 1:59:54
  and places for manga, that's like this one, big ol Hub.
• 1:59:58
  Yeah. But as time moves on each
• 2:00:00
  publisher is going to have their own saying.
• 2:00:02
  Yeah. But I will say that I do want to
• 2:00:06
  even though I like partner with these with these with these
• 2:00:10
  companies and different Publishers and everything I can
• 2:00:12
  still be very critical about that too.
• 2:00:15
  Yeah. So For sure, I want 100% give
• 2:00:18
  Crunchyroll some Flack for not really pushing it or not really
• 2:00:23
  mention. Because I'll be honest, I didn't
• 2:00:25
  even I kind of knew about it, but I didn't know it affected
• 2:00:30
  Crunchyroll as much as it did until you mentioned it and I'm
• 2:00:34
  like, dang what? And again, it's like I didn't
• 2:00:39
  know like, I'm looking at it right now and the only
• 2:00:42
  announcement that I see most from like January, January 15th
• 2:00:47
  of 2015. Yeah.
• 2:00:50
  Yeah. That ya cuz ya even.
• 2:00:52
  Yeah. Expedia that, that's another
• 2:00:53
  thing like like they're like the actual Twitter account for that
• 2:00:57
  side of things that it's like they don't even touch it anymore
• 2:01:01
  and stuff. But yeah, but the weird thing I
• 2:01:03
  would Shangri-La Frontier like I said like, like like for me
• 2:01:06
  personally why I kind of rubbed me in a weird way was because
• 2:01:09
  one, you know, I found the fella series recently fell in love
• 2:01:14
  with it or whatever. And I did Myra, Review and
• 2:01:17
  discussion for like, a few weeks ago, or maybe a month ago at
• 2:01:19
  this point, whatever, whenever it was and in my discussion, I'm
• 2:01:22
  talking about. Hey, you can read at least some
• 2:01:26
  parts of it over here and now that's completely gone.
• 2:01:29
  So he even in front of things like, even if you search for on
• 2:01:33
  Google Shangri-La Frontier Crunchyroll, you know, the, the,
• 2:01:38
  the Lincoln stuff was the pop-up but then you click on it.
• 2:01:41
  It just goes to like a 404 page. Doesn't exist thing anymore,
• 2:01:44
  whatever. And so you Of course, you know,
• 2:01:47
  like you said like with these different companies, having
• 2:01:50
  maybe trying to do their own thing or whatever.
• 2:01:52
  But I also this kind of goes back to the slide where we
• 2:01:56
  talked about the beginning of this of this discussion was
• 2:01:59
  transparency because like nobody can find any news and
• 2:02:05
  information as far as like, somebody being like, hey, we got
• 2:02:08
  to remove it because the XYZ, it's just somebody just one day,
• 2:02:11
  want to go read or look at the chapters and just saw the 44.
• 2:02:16
  Or page missing thing or whatever and it's like what
• 2:02:19
  happened and you know like we said like yes volume 1 is coming
• 2:02:24
  out of English very soon in the coming months and there's an
• 2:02:28
  anime coming next year. So of course, you know, the
• 2:02:32
  timing of it seems like. Okay you might come maybe
• 2:02:36
  through context clues, put some stuff of potential reasons of
• 2:02:40
  why disappeared happen or whatever, but it's still just
• 2:02:43
  sucks and stuff. So, but because what was
• 2:02:46
  another, Another one that I read the whole series of on there is
• 2:02:53
  a inside Mari. Okay, I happened to read that,
• 2:02:58
  you know, like I said, the whole series from chapter 12, the
• 2:03:01
  Final Chapter, it's all on there.
• 2:03:04
  But like I said it was, I just found out about it because I
• 2:03:06
  just happened to one remembered. The oh yeah, I have access to
• 2:03:10
  this thing. Well, let me just browse through
• 2:03:12
  and see what's on her because even though The manga for to
• 2:03:17
  your eternity is on their stuff like that.
• 2:03:22
  So, but anywho like I said, just like I said, you're just one of
• 2:03:26
  those just mysteries of like this thing is there that the MS,
• 2:03:31
  a people have access to that, never even know that they have
• 2:03:35
  access to it or whatever. And and even, you know, like I
• 2:03:38
  said, those of us that might read it from time to time.
• 2:03:40
  It's like, okay, y'all aren't consistent.
• 2:03:44
  It's like, okay stuff is there. It's not there.
• 2:03:46
  Chapters missing. So yeah like yeah, no, like, I
• 2:03:51
  hunted like don't get me wrong. I 100% agree with you on that.
• 2:03:55
  Like yeah, everyone like I don't sure I have done collabs with
• 2:03:59
  like viz media chitin and everything but as a whole like
• 2:04:04
  Community wise and like just manga, why's everyone, I think
• 2:04:08
  needs to be a little bit more transparent.
• 2:04:10
  A really good example is, you might have followed this up, but
• 2:04:14
  the whole summer time, rendering hard covers it.
• 2:04:16
  Situation. So I'll break it down.
• 2:04:19
  I see the disappointment your face, but let me break it down.
• 2:04:21
  So yeah, summertime rendering, originally was on Maga plus.
• 2:04:25
  So on by shueisha, and I used to be all on there for free, and
• 2:04:31
  then udon entertainment picked up the license.
• 2:04:35
  So of course, you can't read it on there anymore.
• 2:04:37
  Only like the first three in the last three chapters.
• 2:04:39
  Yeah, but so they got it. Which no issues.
• 2:04:43
  No problems there but here's where it gets interesting.
• 2:04:46
  They announced a paperback which most Publishers do and a
• 2:04:52
  hardcover. So the paperbacks came out.
• 2:04:57
  No, it's just, no problems. Yeah, but then the part covers,
• 2:05:02
  I remember correctly. They just never came out.
• 2:05:07
  And then everyone started attacking you Don like, hey,
• 2:05:10
  what happened? And then people started noticing
• 2:05:13
  the day getting pushed back and all that other stuff people.
• 2:05:16
  Will got upset. And then udon made a blog post,
• 2:05:21
  telling of, we had some issues at the printer which okay,
• 2:05:25
  that's fine. That's great.
• 2:05:26
  Glad to know, and it will come out the first week of July,
• 2:05:31
  great. Okay, first week of July
• 2:05:33
  perfect. So then first week of July,
• 2:05:38
  Cayman went nothing, you know word.
• 2:05:42
  No. Nothing then people started
• 2:05:45
  asking again. And again, no word, no nothing.
• 2:05:51
  Yeah. And they were like completely
• 2:05:53
  dead silent on what happened and it's even funnier to because a
• 2:05:59
  box set of volumes 1 2 and 3 of the paper bags were coming out
• 2:06:04
  also in the middle of July and people but there's no way this
• 2:06:08
  box it would come out before the hardcovers And it did and
• 2:06:13
  everyone was really mad. And I'll be honest, I bought
• 2:06:16
  that box set because I'm like, I'm not waiting for these hard
• 2:06:19
  covers and I'm still kind of disappointed in that box.
• 2:06:21
  It gets, it's not really even a box set.
• 2:06:24
  It's more of a slipcover case for all three.
• 2:06:28
  And if you've seen my thread about it, it's like comparing.
• 2:06:33
  I would say the comparison I would use is like those kadosh
• 2:06:37
  up, like part boxes. Like, you know, how like, on
• 2:06:40
  Attack on Titan they Like Season 1 Part 1, it sees a 1 part 2.
• 2:06:44
  How they do like those parts, like box sets.
• 2:06:47
  Now I'm personally not a fan of those but still kadampa.
• 2:06:52
  Did those and constructed those boxes.
• 2:06:55
  Way better than what you done did like, I'm sorry who Don but
• 2:06:58
  I'm you're all going to have to take the L on that one and then
• 2:07:01
  it wasn't until Comic-Con came out.
• 2:07:05
  Which Again, by the way is an event that not many people can
• 2:07:08
  access because there's, you know, Sure, going to Comic-Con
• 2:07:12
  is cool and all. But again, they don't tell you,
• 2:07:14
  the cost of the ticket, the cost of Necessities, the cause of
• 2:07:17
  amenities, making sure like you're all good and healthy, the
• 2:07:22
  the fact that we're still in a pandemic, so not too many people
• 2:07:25
  take that stuff seriously. So you're still running a risk
• 2:07:28
  at being like that close proximity with other people who
• 2:07:32
  might not take this whole situation as seriously as you
• 2:07:35
  do. Yeah, that was then were they
• 2:07:40
  did still didn't even like An official announcement.
• 2:07:42
  I had to look at the home EV Lord, who was there at the
• 2:07:45
  panel, which was then, they announced.
• 2:07:48
  Oh, so yeah, that was my bad before that.
• 2:07:54
  They didn't say anything. I tweeted out the multiple
• 2:07:56
  people tweeted at them and then one random person with like like
• 2:08:01
  one random fan posted about it and then that's when they
• 2:08:05
  responded and said oh yeah it's coming soon.
• 2:08:09
  So fast forward back to Comic-Con the V Lord was there,
• 2:08:13
  right? And that was when they said oh
• 2:08:16
  so those hard time like summertime rendering hardcovers
• 2:08:19
  like volumes one, two and three. Yeah, those are coming out.
• 2:08:22
  The end of October and everyone was like, bro, what are you
• 2:08:26
  serious? October again, they still
• 2:08:31
  haven't posted it on the main account yet.
• 2:08:34
  They have because I'm I've been scrolling through the account
• 2:08:38
  while you been talking. I'm like, I'm like I'm ready,
• 2:08:40
  going back. Joan and I don't see nothing
• 2:08:42
  about some, but there's nothing. It's like, that's very important
• 2:08:46
  information. Now, at the time of recording
• 2:08:49
  this Barnes and Nobles did open up the pre-orders again, and the
• 2:08:53
  supposed date on that is August, I think 16.
• 2:08:57
  So like the middle of August, but again, I don't know if I
• 2:09:00
  should trust Barnes & Noble or V Lord.
• 2:09:03
  Who was there at the at the udon event panel?
• 2:09:07
  Yeah, at Comic-Con, and they said, October, yes, So, that's
• 2:09:14
  which again, don't get me wrong. I understand there's some other
• 2:09:17
  things behind the scenes that I personally don't know about.
• 2:09:20
  I mean, I will probably find out maybe later on, as the more.
• 2:09:24
  I like more influence. I get, the more me, I talk to
• 2:09:27
  and all other stuff, but on a surface level, I feel like when
• 2:09:30
  it comes to stuff like that, you should, at least say something.
• 2:09:34
  You know, you should at least say, like, oh, we have a delay
• 2:09:38
  or something. Even you don't even need to like
• 2:09:40
  X, give the explanation. Just yeah, something.
• 2:09:43
  Because now what you're doing is you're allowing the general
• 2:09:47
  public to fill in these gaps of information.
• 2:09:50
  And again, there are some people who come in with good intent and
• 2:09:55
  understand but the general public being the general public,
• 2:09:58
  right? You're going to have those
• 2:09:59
  people who take that information to heart and will literally
• 2:10:03
  harass bully or anything and sure they should probably like,
• 2:10:07
  know how to conduct themselves better on the internet.
• 2:10:09
  I agree 100%. But that could have been
• 2:10:13
  prevented if you have said something because then at the
• 2:10:16
  end of the day you have said something, then nothing and more
• 2:10:19
  people will appreciate you for saying something about it, then
• 2:10:22
  just completely ignoring it and directing them to a blog post
• 2:10:27
  about it and not updating that blog post.
• 2:10:30
  And then still Like not even say anything about it, after a
• 2:10:34
  Comic-Con event to like, you know, it's like, come on that.
• 2:10:39
  That's something that I 100% don't like and I think udon
• 2:10:43
  should take this as a lesson to do better, are they going to do?
• 2:10:47
  So I don't know, time will tell. But yeah, so I'm a hold on me,
• 2:10:54
  let me change the thing on that. Yes, I'm I'm looking I'm looking
• 2:11:04
  at Barnes & Nobles website right now, whatever.
• 2:11:07
  And they still have all these hardcovers even if you like
• 2:11:10
  volume 6 listed for August 2nd, which is like three days from
• 2:11:15
  work from the tongue, we're recording.
• 2:11:18
  Yeah. That's another thing to be for
• 2:11:19
  like there's there's some that was another like rhetoric that
• 2:11:22
  was going around where it's like, there's no way y'all are
• 2:11:24
  going to like, release. The hard covers were four five
• 2:11:27
  and six before one two and three.
• 2:11:29
  Right? And I'm like, of course, for me,
• 2:11:33
  I try to keep my post about my account, like a very like, no
• 2:11:36
  opinions do nothing because again, that's not a for me,
• 2:11:40
  that's not a platform for me to be doing that.
• 2:11:42
  Like other people can do it. But for me, I choose not to
• 2:11:45
  because I want to be as inclusive and as like open to
• 2:11:50
  everybody. Yeah.
• 2:11:51
  Because honestly at the end of the day you'll see you'll come
• 2:11:54
  across a Twitter argument and such and it's just such a
• 2:11:56
  Negative headspace. Yeah, I don't want my page to be
• 2:11:58
  a - heads. Case I want people to like come
• 2:12:00
  in look at what you're looking for.
• 2:12:02
  Oh that's a cool manga get out. Like that's what I want, but I
• 2:12:06
  was there like very tempted to be like there's no you guys
• 2:12:09
  know. There's no way that food on
• 2:12:12
  entertainment is going to delay four, five, and six.
• 2:12:15
  A whole what? Three or four months?
• 2:12:19
  Because of volumes one, two and three.
• 2:12:22
  Yeah, that's not how that's not unfortunately, that's not how
• 2:12:24
  businesses work and they're going to still push it.
• 2:12:27
  So Yeah, I also got to just comment in general, that I am.
• 2:12:36
  So sad of how summertime rendering across the board.
• 2:12:42
  Everybody has dropped the ball udon with the manga and Disney
• 2:12:47
  with the anime. Yeah, everybody why?
• 2:12:53
  Why is such a great series getting No and I'll try to keep
• 2:13:00
  it at family-friendly but just based double left not a really
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  long size because yeah because like like like like like every
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  pretty much everything you just said with how who Don has
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  dropped the ball at the no communication and everything
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  with the manga and then with how there has been zero
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  communication from Disney with the anime because it's like in
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  the lead up to it, coming out. It was understood that, okay?
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  This is going to be airing as is going on and it's like, you
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  know, Disney already does weekly shows on their platform.
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  So this isn't like a Netflix situation to where it's like,
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  y'all are pivoting to something new.
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  It's like, you know, y'all have always done weekly releases of
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  stuff and then for the fact that like, you know, where we're on
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  the back end of this season and they're still being No message.
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  At least saying hey, when the season finishes, it's all going
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  to be put on Disney, plus whatever age is being complete,
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  radio silence. And it sucks for people like me
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  who are creators, who are like, you know, I'm talking about my
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  podcast, people who are doing, you know, reactions on their
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  YouTube channels or whatever. And it's like, you know, we're
• 2:14:24
  talking about how exciting this series is, and then it's like,
• 2:14:28
  now you have them. Both sides where people are
• 2:14:30
  like, oh, I'm gonna go to the store.
• 2:14:32
  Pick up the manga. Wait, where is it at?
• 2:14:35
  Oh, it's on when I Google summertime resonant rendering
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  and where to watch it. I see Disney plus listed, oh,
• 2:14:43
  but it's not there. Hey, where are you watching, a?
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  Hey, how are you reading this? It sucks.
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  Yeah, I know. And it's like It's like
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  Imagining the alternate reality to wear what if summertime
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  rendering was streaming on Disney plus every week, like DDD
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  amount of conversations that are already happening.
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  Imagine how much that would be magnified if everybody could be
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  in the conversation of stuff in real time, man, it'll be, it'll
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  be fantastic. So Yeah.
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  No I agree but what can you do? But you know for us to just to
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  continue to you now be vocal that our voices be heard whether
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  you know regardless of this you know, respectfully you know,
• 2:15:39
  tweeting at these companies or, you know, talking about it on
• 2:15:45
  our podcast, YouTube videos, whatever and just getting the
• 2:15:49
  awareness out there and you know, both from The hey we're
• 2:15:53
  enjoying this series you know? Hey give us more to also a
• 2:15:58
  little bit of you know disappointment of like hey We
• 2:16:02
  want more people to be able to read this.
• 2:16:04
  It's a wash, this whatever help us out, you know.
• 2:16:08
  So so those little things can go a long way and yeah, so I think
• 2:16:15
  oh, I think we might give her up this conversation up but yeah,
• 2:16:20
  I'm not for sure. But before you go, did you have
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  any other final thoughts or anything that you wanted to
• 2:16:29
  share? You know, this time?
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  Of course, you know, I had a lot of fun with this conversation.
• 2:16:34
  So of course you were definitely.
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  We will figure something out you.
• 2:16:38
  You will return. Yeah.
• 2:16:41
  Like I said, I mean I'm an open book and I got plenty of
• 2:16:45
  stories, so whatever. Think that you want to talk
• 2:16:47
  about? Let me know.
• 2:16:48
  I'll do the research. And I'll come back on here and
• 2:16:52
  definitely chop it up with you. Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 2:16:56
  And, and, and for sure, you know, when you know who knows
• 2:17:01
  you might even be, hey, once you become a, you know, a year from
• 2:17:06
  now, would you got a million followers?
• 2:17:09
  Okay, all right. Listen.
• 2:17:10
  Listen, I told I told there was this one person that like I
• 2:17:15
  respond to and I still I'm gonna find it like I'm really honest.
• 2:17:18
  If I hit like 10K before, like the end of this year, I'm
• 2:17:22
  crying. I'm a straight-up be crying like
• 2:17:24
  listen, dog. But it's just like, and that's
• 2:17:27
  what I'm talking about where it's like, you don't see that
• 2:17:30
  behind the scenes, but it's like, it's just crazy because
• 2:17:34
  front of like, think that of that number.
• 2:17:37
  But I remember when you hit 1,000, I was like, dude, that's
• 2:17:42
  that's a thousand people on Twitter that could Look like
• 2:17:48
  about like a grocery store or to who check into your tweets and
• 2:17:52
  see what you want to do, like what you're doing or talking
• 2:17:55
  about for me, it's like dude, like about like a good small
• 2:18:00
  size like football, stadium of people are coming in like every
• 2:18:04
  other day, looking at what I'm doing or checking, what deals
• 2:18:08
  are up for that day and it's just crazy.
• 2:18:11
  And honestly. Yeah, when I hit 1000 followers,
• 2:18:15
  I cried and My girl was on the phone like are you okay?
• 2:18:19
  I'm like nah dawg I hit 1000 and I was crying and she was like
• 2:18:24
  well Savor this moment man. Cuz you know, you're only going
• 2:18:28
  to hit 1000 once and if I hit 10 K by the end of like this year
• 2:18:34
  which According to some people might happen, I'm still like I
• 2:18:38
  said, I'm not type of person who often douse myself a lot.
• 2:18:40
  Yeah, I might show. I don't know.
• 2:18:42
  We'll see. We'll see if.
• 2:18:44
  But yeah if it does happen, you're gonna see me cry.
• 2:18:46
  Hundred percent. Yeah.
• 2:18:48
  The Watching some of watching this stuff.
• 2:18:52
  Like I said, as a Observer it is kind of Interest.
• 2:18:56
  Like you know, like try to estimate like when somebody
• 2:18:58
  might hit certain Milestones because real quick going back to
• 2:19:01
  a manga. IPad morge.
• 2:19:08
  Yeah, mon come on girl. Yeah manga mugger.
• 2:19:10
  Thank you I've been kind of eyeballing that account like the
• 2:19:14
  last week or whatever cuz and and they hit that 100 k.
• 2:19:20
  You're faster than I was thinking because because they
• 2:19:22
  were maybe like like 95 light real talk, maybe like barely a
• 2:19:27
  week or so ago. And so I'm I'm okay at the pace
• 2:19:31
  whatever you know because I thought because I'm you know I'm
• 2:19:34
  saying that that you know that 90 whatever Point what I've seen
• 2:19:38
  in the point whatever slowly ticking up throughout the day or
• 2:19:43
  whatever. And so I'm I'm okay you know I'm
• 2:19:45
  like maybe by the end of the bat at the end of August or whatever
• 2:19:49
  and Then it's like yesterday, like just two days ago.
• 2:19:53
  They were like a 98 and then they went up like another 2K
• 2:19:58
  Library. Yeah, and hit that hit that.
• 2:20:02
  Hit that Milestone or whatever that fast.
• 2:20:05
  It's like, you would be surprised.
• 2:20:07
  And sometimes it's like, sometimes you can predict it
• 2:20:10
  sometimes. You can't or whatever, sometimes
• 2:20:14
  you just you know, sometimes the algorithm is on your side and
• 2:20:17
  sometimes it's not, ya know and it's one of those things where
• 2:20:21
  it's like even though I'll admit some of it does come to chance.
• 2:20:26
  Like as you can probably tell in my like upbringing.
• 2:20:30
  It's like some people like people came out and reach out to
• 2:20:33
  me and again, not everyone has that same privilege.
• 2:20:37
  Yeah, I still like a hundred percent say if you were Will be
• 2:20:42
  passionate something don't let anything don't let like these
• 2:20:47
  other like myself or robbed or anyone else tell you oh you
• 2:20:51
  can't do this like do it because you want to do it, do it.
• 2:20:55
  Because you are very passionate about the topic or passionate
• 2:20:58
  about the thing that you want to like share to the world and if
• 2:21:02
  people like it great and if people don't like it, fine,
• 2:21:05
  whatever. All that matters is that you are
• 2:21:08
  happy with the content you produce.
• 2:21:10
  And that you are honest with the audience that you are producing
• 2:21:12
  it for. Yep.
• 2:21:14
  Yep. Can kind of set it up any better
• 2:21:17
  myself, man. Cuz cuz yeah, you'd be surprised
• 2:21:21
  of, you know, people can tell keep people can tell when
• 2:21:27
  somebody is Passionate about something versus, you know,
• 2:21:32
  they're just doing it because it seems to be the popular thing to
• 2:21:35
  do or whatever, you know. So yeah, definitely, I second
• 2:21:41
  that thought of yeah, if you got an idea of something, whatever,
• 2:21:46
  give it a shot, start with what you have and you'll figure it
• 2:21:52
  out along the way and stuff. So you know, because like I said
• 2:21:56
  that, that is why I continue to do what Do add two to talk about
• 2:22:01
  the things that I want to talk about and release content.
• 2:22:05
  And the way that I release it, because, you know, there's times
• 2:22:09
  where I'm like, man, I am, I am posting too much.
• 2:22:14
  Yeah. And that's the thing that I
• 2:22:15
  really like about you Rob is that like uh I mean, don't get
• 2:22:18
  me wrong. I am friends with like a lot of
• 2:22:20
  these like content creators in the space and don't get me
• 2:22:22
  wrong. They're all pretty cool.
• 2:22:25
  There's just some content that I see out there that I can tell
• 2:22:29
  either, they just have to do it because they do it for the money
• 2:22:32
  or they just do it because it's what's the it's what's the, what
• 2:22:39
  they call Meta or something? And that's fine and all, but you
• 2:22:43
  should be always take creative risks.
• 2:22:47
  And not only that, you should also do it at your own time.
• 2:22:50
  Like you don't owe yourself anything to the general public,
• 2:22:54
  you should do it for yourself and trust me.
• 2:22:59
  If you start doing that people shirt and you might not grow as
• 2:23:02
  fast as some other Pages. Yeah, you will cultivate in my
• 2:23:07
  opinion, a better audience that way.
• 2:23:10
  Then following the trends and following that stuff doing stuff
• 2:23:13
  your own way, people will come to you like minded as you and
• 2:23:17
  you'll have a more tightly knit Community than some of these
• 2:23:19
  other Pages out here. So yeah, by I can definitely
• 2:23:23
  attest it and so many aspects because it it always warms my
• 2:23:27
  heart anytime somebody. Either comments on a video or
• 2:23:32
  damaged me on Twitter, or Instagram or whatever, and just
• 2:23:37
  be like, hey, you know, they found me however way that they
• 2:23:40
  found me and whether it be, hey, it's cool to see another dad,
• 2:23:44
  you know, talking about this stuff or or hey, finally,
• 2:23:48
  somebody else talk about this series or hey, I never even
• 2:23:52
  heard of that. Thank you for putting it on my
• 2:23:53
  radar all that stuff, you know, just like really warms my heart
• 2:23:58
  and makes Me love and appreciate what I do.
• 2:24:02
  And kind of last thing I'll say is, you know, and I touched on
• 2:24:06
  this last. Well, when I did my research my
• 2:24:11
  recap of when I went to dream con that was another kind of
• 2:24:16
  situation to where like it made, all of this all these
• 2:24:20
  conversations. I have every day with all
• 2:24:22
  everybody online and stuff. It just made it that much more
• 2:24:25
  meaningful of when I was introducing myself to people.
• 2:24:31
  And, you know, when I was like, hey, I'm you know, I'm talking
• 2:24:37
  about timid and stuff in my eye. Hi, I'm Rob from from Danny's
• 2:24:41
  talk and then they're like, wait from where am I from Danny's to
• 2:24:46
  talk and they're like, yo, what's up, man?
• 2:24:49
  And it's like the smiles, the hugs, the embrace all that
• 2:24:53
  stuff. It was just like, okay, there
• 2:24:56
  are people actually paying attention.
• 2:24:59
  Yeah. So what I'm doing and sometimes,
• 2:25:02
  you know, and I was talking to talk about this to somebody
• 2:25:06
  recently to of, like continue to do what you do because you never
• 2:25:13
  know who is watching, and who might secretly be a fan and
• 2:25:22
  somebody, you know, they're, you know, there's a lot of quiet
• 2:25:26
  supporters and stuff for for various reasons.
• 2:25:29
  Either just a matter who they're not big on talking on social
• 2:25:32
  media, but they just enjoy following people for their
• 2:25:35
  content or whatever or further post, or it could be somebody
• 2:25:39
  from a company from a publisher, whatever.
• 2:25:42
  Who just searches the community is, like, hmmm, this alerts
• 2:25:46
  manga, persons things, cool off, all their page and then that
• 2:25:49
  could turn into something down the line of like, okay, I've
• 2:25:53
  been watching you for a while. Here's an opportunity or hey, we
• 2:25:56
  would love to work with you because we like what you do You
• 2:25:59
  just never know. Yeah, absolutely.
• 2:26:03
  So it's especially with the with the anonymous nature of the
• 2:26:07
  internet. Yeah.
• 2:26:09
  Absolutely. Somebody could work for the
• 2:26:10
  biggest company in the world and you'll never know because they
• 2:26:13
  have a Pikachu profile picture. Ya know like I know like like I
• 2:26:20
  here's the some behind-the-scenes I actually
• 2:26:21
  look at who follows me and every so often I try to follow some
• 2:26:24
  people back. Yeah and I know I had these have
• 2:26:27
  a few people in the Editing translating and lettering
• 2:26:31
  Community. Follow me.
• 2:26:32
  Yeah. And I was, I was shocked like,
• 2:26:35
  dang, I did not know like you let her Tokyo Ghoul or oh, I
• 2:26:38
  didn't know you translated popular title that I liked and
• 2:26:43
  it turns out, I read your work. I'm like, holy crap or like I
• 2:26:47
  said earlier, when I had some members of the gaming
• 2:26:50
  Illuminati, follow me, which don't worry by the time this
• 2:26:54
  episode comes out, I'm going to try to reach out to them and
• 2:26:56
  thank them for, you know, being a really big Like, you know,
• 2:27:00
  solid impression on me to want to, like be more passionate
• 2:27:04
  about the behind the scenes stuff.
• 2:27:06
  Like you never know. Oh yeah.
• 2:27:09
  Oh yeah. So so yeah.
• 2:27:11
  So that, that will kind of wrap things up and like, we just say
• 2:27:16
  it is like ain't for the Stars you know, don't don't be afraid
• 2:27:21
  to shoot your shot and to put yourself out there, don't be
• 2:27:24
  afraid to reach out to to quote unquote.
• 2:27:31
  Cards and credit stuff in the space because you'll be
• 2:27:33
  surprised of. We are all everybody.
• 2:27:36
  We are all people you know? And yeah and regardless of if
• 2:27:40
  somebody only has, you know, 100 or less for 100 or less
• 2:27:45
  followers, or somebody has double digits, several,
• 2:27:48
  thousands of follows whatever. You know, we all are here for
• 2:27:54
  our shared love of these various series and stuff.
• 2:27:58
  So But with that we're going to start wrapping things up.
• 2:28:02
  So like I said, once again, thank you to verify lak a manga
• 2:28:09
  alerts for coming on. And joining me, of course, IMA
• 2:28:15
  have links to all the Social Media stuff in the comments
• 2:28:19
  below. So make sure if y'all are on the
• 2:28:22
  hunt for the manga details or just to be in the know of what's
• 2:28:29
  going, On and among a community, like we said earlier from,
• 2:28:32
  what's coming out upcoming releases stuff, some stuff on
• 2:28:35
  sale and everything in between follow at alerts mother.
• 2:28:41
  Yep. So any other parting words, you
• 2:28:45
  want to say before we go? Nah, just follow me on Twitter.
• 2:28:50
  Make sure you if you're looking for some free manga like I said
• 2:28:53
  I could do giveaways every Friday.
• 2:28:56
  Open everybody. So if you if you've always
• 2:28:58
  wanted to like you know, No, try to win some free manga.
• 2:29:01
  There you go. And I also host a collection in
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  Hall threat. So if you're looking for a spot
• 2:29:05
  to, you know, Flex what you cop that week or you want to show
• 2:29:10
  off your really huge like Jeffree Star style, manga
• 2:29:16
  collection that you got then shoot just come or if you just
• 2:29:20
  want to like talk to me. I think I've always have my DMs
• 2:29:23
  open and you can at me and I will honestly interact with you
• 2:29:27
  so give him Keep it professional that key professional because,
• 2:29:31
  you know, I like having some fun, but let's keep it PG-13.
• 2:29:36
  All right, let's keep it. PG this.
• 2:29:38
  Yes. Yes.
• 2:29:39
  And and and I can for one a test to know the dams are open.
• 2:29:45
  Yeah. I know my DM's are like I have
• 2:29:48
  at least hear some behind-the-scenes.
• 2:29:50
  I have at least one, two, three. I have so many people like it
• 2:29:54
  could either be like you asking me like what's my favorite
• 2:29:58
  manga? Huh.
• 2:29:59
  Or just a question that like, I have, I think one time I reached
• 2:30:05
  out to tighten comics, who's a really big titan comp, like
• 2:30:10
  who's a really big comic publisher, the ones who are
• 2:30:13
  going to release. I think the upcoming, Afro
• 2:30:15
  Samurai. Yeah, yeah, that's one's going
• 2:30:18
  to be. I'm going to top that with 100%,
• 2:30:23
  you never know, or you could be like heights and be like, hey,
• 2:30:27
  you wanna help? Let's break our own Street date
• 2:30:31
  of our manga and then we'll be like, yeah, we do so yeah.
• 2:30:38
  So yeah. So go go ghost, go support my
• 2:30:40
  homie. And as for myself, you already
• 2:30:43
  know this has been Dandy to talk your place.
• 2:30:47
  Like I said for fatherhood and family, manga anime and video
• 2:30:52
  games and so make sure to follow me on all platforms.
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  Make sure if you enjoyed Watching to subscribe to the
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  YouTube channel or if you just enjoy listening to to the sultry
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  fatherly tones, then you can find me pretty much on every
• 2:31:09
  podcast streaming service in existence.
• 2:31:11
  If I'm not there. Let me know, so I can get there
• 2:31:15
  but to send us out, as I always say, treat yourself to some
• 2:31:20
  nice, recent manga, watch some anime play some video games and
• 2:31:25
  live your best life. And with that, we are out y'all
• 2:31:28
  be You take care of yourselves and we'll catch you on the next
• 2:31:32
  one ace. I was.