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Manga Review: Kaiju No 8 Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all and welcome back to Danny to talk, I'm your host,
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  Robert. And today we're going to be
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  talking all about the Kaiju number 8, volume one now.
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  This was very exciting to dive into, so just for a little bit
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  of context as far as my history with the series.
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  So, kaju, number eight, this is a series.
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  I've pretty much been reading, I guess you can say weekly even
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  though it has a weird schedule, but let's just say weekly for
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  Simplicity sake. I've been reading weekly since
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  it first came out. So this one first started
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  running so it seems Shonen Jump. Us.
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  But a lot of those titles also show up on this channel job app.
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  So I've been reading it on the shoulder.
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  Jump app pretty much since it launched and it's launched July
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  of 2020. And we currently have, I believe
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  54 chapters? Yeah, 54 chapters.
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  Now, the manga took a, it just finished a Big Arc and the
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  Arthur took at one level Month, break Hiatus break, but he is
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  returning by the time. Y'all see this review it'll be
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  back. So I figured it would I figure
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  like you're always like, you know what, it'd be a good time
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  too. Wow.
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  No. I haven't had it to read for
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  like a month or whatever figure. This would be a perfect time to
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  kind of go back and revisit this series from the beginning.
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  Because going back and reading series, that is a very rare
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  thing for me to do and granted, I haven't been doing reviews
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  that long on this channel. But so far, I haven't done this
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  to wear a series that I'm current up with.
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  I've gone back in like, Given thoughts on the beginning.
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  So I never brother, let me just get it, get into the meat and
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  potatoes of it. So the series is done by Naoya
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  Matsumoto or not now. Oh yeah.
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  Matsumoto forgive me for butchering your name and yeah
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  this is the first volume this at an English.
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  This came out, think around Christmas time around the
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  holidays of 2021 and volume 2 is going to be dropping some time
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  in April, I believe. But yeah, so for a little bit of
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  background, For anybody that might not know.
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  So the series follows main character Kafka he Bono Who he
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  is. He is a 32 year old guy who
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  basically works. On a Kaiju cleanup crew.
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  Now as funny, especially because now because my birthday was my
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  birthday was the day of the last chapter that came out before.
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  It went on break and I'm now 32 as well.
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  So I already Droid Kafka cuz of the fact that, hey, we have a
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  main character who isn't a teen, who's not a kid who is an adult
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  in his 30s. But now I am literally the same
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  age as Kafka, but but yes, I'll buy a comforter.
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  He's part of basically the cleanup crew because in this
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  world of cauchy number 8, Giant Kaiju appear all the time and
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  Japan has the highest rate of Kaiju appearances.
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  And so, there is a group called The Defence Force, who come in,
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  they, they're the ones that actually fight and battle the
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  Kaiju and take them down, but Kafka is part of a company that
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  comes in in the aftermath and does the clean up everything
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  from dismantling, the car Due to clean up the building's just
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  locations and all that jazz, whatever.
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  And so, yeah. And then certain things happen
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  and he is up. I hesitate to even say this
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  because it is a slight spoiler. But the same time, it's like if
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  you look at the cover, and if you read the synopsis on the
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  back and gives it away, but basically, through certain
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  circumstances that happen, he is of gaining.
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  Meaning the ability to become a Kaiju but not just any kind you.
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  When kaju appeared to have a certain basically, a certain
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  fortitude /, power level /, Threat Level, then they are
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  given a classified title which is the numbering system.
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  So he is the eighth basically like highly dangerous or big.
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  It Kaiju that that's appeared. And so yeah.
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  So so going back, They pack, there is a lot in this volume.
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  So first of all, so that this volume covers the first seven
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  chapters of the series, and it's like, how many pages is, this is
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  basically over 200 Pages because chapter 7 starts on page 183.
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  So yeah, it's basically about 200 pages.
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  And for only 10 bucks, you get a lot in here because it was so
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  interesting. And of course, I'm not going to
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  spoil anything beyond this volume.
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  So bear that in mind. But just for context, sake,
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  going back and reading this volume, I don't know if is it
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  just because I'm getting a chance to kind of read several
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  chapters all together plus having been following the series
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  weekly for for what two years now, plus Just me kind of just
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  being a little bit more patient and paying attention to the
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  finer details. There are so many things that is
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  included in this one volume cuz you get the initial setup, you
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  get the transformation then you get big confrontations and
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  foreshadowing and enemy threats team different characters.
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  Whatever all set up in this one volume and a lot of this stuff
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  is stuff that was like a lot of these.
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  Events and some characters were very important to the plot even
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  up to what just wrapped up in the most current Arc in the
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  manga currently. So that's up something that I
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  like truly appreciated, going back and rereading.
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  This is, they do a really good job of really putting you in
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  Kafka shoes and Like I said, just the fact that he is a older
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  character who had dreams and aspirations of joining, the
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  Defence force with his childhood friend, who is a division
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  Captain, she is a day. What's her name?
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  Whoops. Did you do?
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  Mina oshiro she is the division Captain for a believe division.
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  Three or four more if I Hammer remembering my stuff correctly.
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  But anyway, so he know he's tried taking the test multiple
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  times over the years and eventually Kafka just gives up
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  on his dream of during the Defence force.
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  And that's how he ends up on the on this Cleanup Crew.
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  Well, a young guy named ichiko, Iowa joins the cleanup crew,
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  whatever, but he joins it basically as a way to prepare
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  him something and to get knowledge.
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  I don't guide you so that he can apply to join the Defence force.
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  And so through certain events that happened, they end up
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  having to deal with a Kaiju while they're out on a clean-up
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  on a cleanup project and And basically Kafka ends up, helping
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  out ichikawa during a during a vent and ichikawa and forms him
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  to like, hey, they recently another, they're starting to
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  like, to like recruit people again and they recently raised
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  the age limit of recruits to 32. They accept people up to age 33.
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  So with him being 32, currently not sure what his birthday is
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  coming up, whatever. But it basically means like,
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  hey, he now gets another opportunity to go and try to
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  chase after his dreams again, but when he is up in the
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  situation where he ends up getting the ability to turn into
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  a Kaiju, it basically adds this extra layer of now he is the
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  thing that he has kind of sworn to take down to get rid of.
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  I guess I don't want to put too much pressure on the series and
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  kind of get people too much of a preconception by using this
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  comparison. But just for example, psych
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  whenever a kind of on a basic level reminds me a little bit of
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  how Aaron is in it. On Titan to where he has sworn
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  to, you know, take out the Titans, whatever for Vengeance
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  on his family and stuff forever. But he is a being able to turn
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  into a Titan himself, or whatever.
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  And so, kind of a similar situation, you know, to where,
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  you know, Kafka ends up in this, in this case, whatever.
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  But yeah, this volume, this series in general is truly
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  something that y'all need to keep your eyes.
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  Jean. I don't want to dive too much
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  more into any any other details and stuff, whatever.
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  Just because you know, like I said, I feel like this is truly
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  a series that at least get the first volume, check it out or
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  hack it. If you have the Shonen Jump app,
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  you can read at least like the first few chapters for free, but
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  it is definitely one that I would definitely recommend just
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  hey just dive in, give it a shot because after a few Raptors, and
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  especially after this first volume, I think you will have a
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  pretty good idea of whether or not you will enjoy this series
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  and my recommendation identify highly feel.
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  Like if you like a good action series with solid characters,
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  with a older main character likes, especially if you're like
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  me, I'm in my 30s you know, so I can definitely appreciate and
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  enjoy seeing characters of Alderaan.
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  Ages and know in the 20s and 30s and older and stuff, whatever.
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  But yeah, but this this volume is definitely one that really
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  sets the stage of what is to come for this series.
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  So, yeah, and I would just say, you know if, if you end up,
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  check out this volume, or if you already in the series, whatever,
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  you know, hey, let me know, comment down below or tweet at
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  me. DM me on task.
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  I'm one of the cases, whatever hit me up and let me know.
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  And of course, you know, all my podcast, dentist Talk podcast.
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  I pretty much talked about, you know, for the most part I keep
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  it like, I keep up to date with the chapters as they come out
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  weekly. So, if y'all want to hear more
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  thoughts of mine on the series Beyond volume 1, then go find.
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  No. Check out my podcast.
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  I have time steps to all the times.
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  I talk about the series and stuff whatever.
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  So, but yeah. Like I said, this is a big, big,
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  big, big high recommendation from me and I am just very
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  excited for the series to come back, just because of the way
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  things was foreshadowed when it went on his Hiatus.
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  And like I said, just just the the things that were shown in
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  this first volume, I am just excited.
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  The where things go from here. Because cauchy number a is
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  definitely the part of the next wave of manga series.
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  And I definitely look forward to the day where this might
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  potentially get a anime because I feel like the manga is really
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  dope and I would love to see all this stuff.
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  Animated an emotion. But I know I've heard of that,
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  I'ma stop rambling but I hope that I gave you a good idea and
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  good context behind And the series because like I said it's
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  this only a couple years old but it is blowing up pretty quick.
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  So get on it. Go pick up your copy of cauchy.
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  Number 8, volume 1 and let's conversate.
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  Let me know what you think but that'll do it for me.
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  As always, you can find me everywhere at Danny's to talk,
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  make sure you're subscribed to the channel, or to the podcast
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  feed or all of it and support your boy.
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  And be on the lookout for more cauchy.
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  Number 8 and more manga anime game news and all things that
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  life brings this and with that me.
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  And cauchy number eight Kafka or out, y'all be easy piece.