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Manga Talk: Pandora Seven Volume 1 · 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 we're going to
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  be talking about Pandora, 7 volume 1.
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  Now the story on art for this is done by Utah, Kashima and it is
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  published by Empress which shout out to them for providing the
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  DRC for this. So, Pandora seven.
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  This is a sear. This first volume.
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  Reminded me of one, why I enjoy such a for new things.
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  And also why I need to go with my gut feeling and my instinct
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  on, when I see something, because I was kind of looking at
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  this one for a while, when I was kind of like browsing through
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  stuff, I could, I could review, I kept passing over this, kept
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  passing over it, and I don't know if it Because I had maybe
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  misread something on the description of first time or
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  just whatever but I am so happy that I circled back around.
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  Gave this a deeper look because this first volume does what a
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  good first volume potentially great should do.
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  Because it has the characters. The lore and World building has
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  some beautiful designs, and some very interesting Intrigue and
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  mystery going on. So, Pandora, 7, basically
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  surrounds our main character, I don't know, which is the right
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  translation for the name, because in the description, they
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  call her Rhea. But in the manga itself that
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  call her Leah. Now, I know it's that same thing
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  with no, The Elves and the are some of the same So for the sake
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  of this review, I'll be saying liya cuz that's what using the
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  actual story. So main character, the 17 year
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  old girl named Leah Frontier which that is a very dope name.
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  Sounds like she's about to go on an adventure because she
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  definitely does and she loves on this island that has all these
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  various creatures and stuff from different races.
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  Aces living together. Now, going back to the start of
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  this volume. So like I said, the the covering
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  stuff is pretty is pretty good. The title is decent, but When I
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  read, when I started reading through this volume and I got to
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  the table of contents, so it's got four chapters, but this is a
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  meaty volume with 250 Pages. Now, the first thing that caught
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  my attention was the title of each chapter.
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  The four chapters are titled chapter 1, the End of the World
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  chapter 2 departure of Despair, chapter 3, which of the
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  mechanical Forest. And chapter for the experiment.
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  Okay? That that is going to raise some
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  eyebrows with. Okay.
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  What am I getting into? Then you see a you get we get
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  like a little bit of like a narrator speaking and the
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  narration begins in the beginning.
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  There was a box. A millennium of prohibition had
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  ended hoping to spare, consume the world and all left.
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  The same words, the box is the one thing that must never be
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  opened. And we get this beautiful color
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  spread of some birds flying through the sky and we get this
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  beautiful shot. Of the island that the Story
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  begins on that is a dope looking Island that really picture
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  interest and then it jumps off into, we get, just like this
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  color spread. We're like this, like, weird
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  plant. We see all these people with
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  weird designs and stuff. It's like one looks like a demon
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  one. Looks like a cricket dude.
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  One looks like an onion and it is like what the heck is going
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  on? out the seven races that are in
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  this story are The first one of the, obviously, one of the main
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  braces is the humans. They're called a, he Mania.
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  Then you got the bird, the bird diinya's, which is a bird
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  species where all them pretty much have wings.
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  The plant a plant Isha all like plants like I said, like the
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  onion lookin dude. Earlier the crawl Delia which
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  are basically bugs reptiles and so on.
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  The drag on here Dragon species the warmia which are beasts of
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  different types of like, people that like, lions and pigs and
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  bears and stuff. And then the Dell Manya which
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  are demons fairies and organic creatures.
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  So those are the seven races, which is part of the title of
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  the Pandora seven. So, The setup for this story is
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  that. A millennia ago, the human race
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  obtained. Some mysterious power that
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  basically allow them to get the upper hand and to overwhelm the
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  other six Powers as a pretty much humans more or less took
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  over majority of the world. And so this island is kind of
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  like isolating it. Like I said, as all the
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  different races except for Leah, who is the sole human on this
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  island because she washed up as a baby.
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  And she was taken in an adopted by a dragon.
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  So there's this dragon that has been raising her all these
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  years. And so our Story begins with,
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  they are getting ready to celebrate.
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  The I believe it's the Millennia, Festival, something
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  like that? That they celebrate once a year.
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  But on this particular year, the think it's like seven stars or
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  something in the sky perfectly aligned, which only happens once
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  every millennia. and so, On this day, though.
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  So let me let me take a little quick backtrack real quick.
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  So Leah, of course, being the only human on the island.
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  She is always wondered and hoped that she might encounter.
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  Are the humans at some point in time.
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  Well, sometimes you don't like what you get or you would you
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  end up wishing for comes true in the wrong way.
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  Because during the festival humans, even They'd the island
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  and they're basically searching for Pandora's Box.
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  Now, all everybody on the island is claiming hey we have no clue
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  what this is what you're talking about.
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  Why are doing this? But the humans are just like
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  ransacking, the island, destroying killing everything
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  across the board. Nobody is safe.
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  Well, during all this pendemonium stuff, whatever
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  something happens to, where Leah somehow is up.
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  Unlocking Pandora's box and it leads to a wave of Destruction.
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  And Things kind of go on from there and from some of the stuff
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  I'm describing, you can see how some of the titles of the
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  chapters are making sense or what their kind of alluding to.
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  But yeah. So there's great Calamity
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  happens, and she ends up getting taken away taken hostage and
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  lots of other things happen along the way, but that was like
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  a super dope. Start to the story.
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  And let me say, I want to highlight real quick like I said
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  just like some of like the very cool different designs of some
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  stuff. So One of the characters we end
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  up meeting is this coo like why in based looking dude named
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  Leonardo but he looks like he's like very dope lion looking
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  thing like like he's like flaming like a flaming Main and
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  stuff. Whatever I like is designed like
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  I said it was just like all the different creatures and stuff
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  that you meet just have such a unique looking stuff to them.
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  And even let me show y'all There was a human stomach, like a the
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  ship, like one of the ships that the human fly.
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  Look at that man that that is like a very dope design but by
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  yeah. But just like I said just to say
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  like this first volume immediately just like knocked my
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  socks off. Because like I said, I was not
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  expecting all this world building and chaos and stuff to
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  to ensue, but I guess in hindsight, when there's mention
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  of Pandora's Box in the description it's not going to be
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  Sugar Plum, Fairies and happy things.
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  It's happening. But like I said, I was just
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  surprising the best way. Like, so, like once I saw like
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  freaking dragons and all these other creatures and stuff and
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  like I said, the first time of this, they show the design of
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  the ship and all is just different stuff that's going on
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  and even stuff that happens like, later on like cuz kind of
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  like someone somewhere like like the main enemy factions, there's
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  some potential there, you know, like that there's like a man guy
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  that kind of Pops up or he's kind of like getting set up.
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  I guess it'd be kind of like the big bad or maybe not like the
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  big big bad but a constant thorn in our MC side.
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  I guess it's the best way I can kind of frame him and we also
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  get a another another character that it is a general, who all
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  this chaos happened on her watch.
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  Show she is getting demoted something interesting to see
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  like what happens with her journey and stuff.
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  Through the story and like how what role she might play later
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  on. But yeah, and this volume is on
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  the freaking Cliffhanger and I am just very eager to find out
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  like what the heck is going on. I need more now.
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  And like I said, I'm just so happy that I gave this volume a
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  shot because like I said, I passed over it a couple of times
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  but There was something in my guys, saying Robert, you you
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  need to look at that one. You need to go back and take a
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  look at that and I am so glad I did and I got to find out when
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  Volume 2 is coming out because I'm like, man, I need, I need
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  volumes here right now, like I said, then that's also kind of
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  goes right there. There was another volume one
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  that I had missed earlier last year that it just it, just lives
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  in my mind rent-free and I haven't even I read it but it's
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  one that I'm also going to go back in and check out at some
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  point as well, but I think that's going to do it as far as
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  this like I said, I didn't want to dive too, too deep into the
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  weeds, but like I said, there's a lot of setup and Intrigue,
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  like I said, I like how they at the end of the volume that they
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  get, they gave that back breakdown of All the other
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  species and races and stuff and like, like like the different
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  characteristics and stuff. I like when a series does that
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  one's like hey there here are some characters or different
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  races or cultures or whatever and what kind of we're going to
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  kind of break it down, kind of reminds me of like how details
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  that go into with the stuff and Magus of the library which is a
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  manga super love. Y'all should check out but yeah
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  but Let me know what y'all think.
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  Like I said, I want to just keep going on and on and on even
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  though I could, but I feel like this is definitely one that
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  y'all need to go check out for yourself and and check out the
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  the ensuing chaos that I'm follows.
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  But yeah, I'm just very curious to see And learn more about Leah
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  as well as this at the lion, do Leonardo, the dragons that are
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  involved and all this stuff cuz I'll also just tease like she
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  also does have a dragon that is a accompanying her on the
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  journey and I'ma leave it that cuz that that whole moment is
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  pretty dope. But yeah and like I said just
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  sometimes humans suck. It's like why can't y'all just
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  come Here and be like, hey we come peacefully, do y'all know
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  about this Pandora's Box? It just like, no explanation
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  would you can just start destroying stuff and everyone's
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  like, whoa, he's in the middle of our Festival.
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  What are y'all doing? But anyway, like I said, go
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  check out Pandora seven like I said, is published by Yen press
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  and let me know what y'all think because I haven't really seen
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  too many other people talking about this one yet.
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  And so, I am excited to hear People's thoughts on it.
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  And if you do end up picking it up because of this review, or
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  just these Impressions, come back and let me know.
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  So, as always, thank you so much for watching and listening.
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  If you're on YouTube, make sure you're subscribed to the YouTube
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  channel. So you'll get more dope reviews
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  like this, as well as the podcast and other stuff that I
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  do. And if you listen to the audio
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  only version, make sure you're following on wherever you get
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  Podcast and stuff, because I'll put these up in audio version as
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  well. And And I'll catch on the next
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  one. Y'all have an awesome day or
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  week. Take care.
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  Peace.