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Manga Talk: Self Reflection in Downfall & Solanin · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up y'all and welcome back to Daddy to talk, I'm your host
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Robert. And today I'll be talking about
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a couple of series from the Arthur any.
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Well asano and the two series and question our downfall as
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Sullivan Now. Just a little bit of background
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story, whatever. Some of you might have heard of
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both of these series, but this author is also the one who also
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wrote another series called goodnight pumpin, which I still
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haven't read. And I think is looking over like
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the list of his works because he also wrote another series.
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The recently ended dead dead. Demons dead.
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Did it? It did destruction.
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But I looking across all his works and stuff.
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I think that these might actually be the first two series
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of his, that I've actually got a chance to read.
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And so, yeah. So bar:, we're going to take a
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little a journey because both of these stories are pretty heavy
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and their respective rights and I'll go and just say up front,
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this will be a full potential spoiler discussion involving
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both of these stories and just kind of how They just like, make
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me think and reflect and before I really get in before I get
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into the series, I'm not I'm Rita synopsis of about and all
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that stuff. But the reason why I am doing
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both of these today is today, the time of me recording this.
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It is my one year anniversary of doing this podcast, the damage
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to Talk podcast. And so of course, you know I
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have been doing And more than likely.
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No, because I'm planning on putting this up after I record
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my actual year, anniversary podcast episode.
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But of course, in the lady up to, you know, this anniversary
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this Milestone, I've done a lot of reflecting on how this first
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year has been for me as a podcaster content, creator
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YouTuber, all that stuff and also you know kind of like
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looking ahead. And so it's kind of interest in
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a way that downfall is a series that I picked up.
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It was like one of like the first series that I had picked
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up last year in our first started collecting manga but I
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just hadn't read it yet just because now granted I realized
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the first name like two or three pages, some months back but I
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just feel like it wasn't the time.
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And so With me, like I said doing some reflecting or
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whatever. I was like I know what this
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Throwdown follows about maybe now is the time for me to read
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it. And so Midway like I was like
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almost like tourist I'll maybe like majority, I was over
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halfway through Reading downfall and then I don't know like today
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has just been like a certain type of mood cuz cuz you know,
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headed there was some family stuff, which no led me to not
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going to work today. And also is spring break.
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So my kids are gone. My wife is also gone.
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So, you know, it's kind of just been like a certain atmosphere
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around me today around my home today.
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So I started the side of the reef to read downfall and even
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the weather seemed to know that, hey this is a certain type of
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mood today because it also started pouring down raining.
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But a new audit to say that I got to a certain point of me
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reading this and then I decided to double check.
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I was like, I was like I really want to talk about both of these
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tears at the same time. I know that they both were kind
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of like self-reflective in a way, but just on opposite ends
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of the spectrum. And so, I happened to check them
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out, local Barnes and Noble said that they had a copy in.
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So I put the book down drove there as just pouring raining.
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Picked it up, they only have one copy and came back home, finish
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reading downfall and then jumped into the into so learning.
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So enough of me rambling on for anybody might be like with
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proper. What are these two series about?
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So, For downfall. So it follows a manga author by
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the name of fuuka Sawa, who he has been a, he's had a
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successful civilization of a manga series and now he's kind
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of on the other end of that success to wear his manga
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recently ended, and he's kind of struggling to find Basically,
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like what to do next? What stories going to write
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about next and just kind of like reflecting on know basically the
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last decade of his life. So the actual synopsis is
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selling copies is the only thing that matters.
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So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea
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how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up.
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Your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel, reality
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of the industry. And nothing seems to be feeling
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to feel the Wait, the second void inside, you find the secret
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combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be.
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Okay, right? So that's that's the synopsis of
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downfall. Now, someone in like I said, is
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the opposite of the spectrum so that serious problems make out.
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Anyway, is a recent college grad, working as an office lady
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in a job. She hates her boyfriend, narrow
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is permanently crashing. At her place because it's job as
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a freelance illustrator, doesn't pay enough friends and her
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parents in the country, keep sending her boxes of vegetables.
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They just raw in her fridge, straddling, the line between her
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years as a student and the rest of her life, make her struggles
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with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be part of the
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real world. So one thing I want to read, cuz
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along, you know, with, with reading these to downfall,
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Downfall that Solomon. I also read the apologue for
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Solon and which came out a decade after that story
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finished. So like I said, I'm going to
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read Actually, you know what, I'ma read both.
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Because like I said, just to give some more context for what
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I'm about to discuss with with both of these Series.
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So At the classic guitar kind of like it, like some perspective
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for a saw no at different points of his life when he wrote this
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series. So the afterward at the end of
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Solomon, I drew someone in when I was about 24 years old, I had
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just graduated from college and was feeling a bit insecure about
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my ability to succeed as a manga artist.
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And whether I would be able to continue to draw manga that were
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true to myself and my exam anxiety, and Is I felt that all
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I could do in my manga was try to get a true depiction of the
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times as experienced by my generation lovers friends, money
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jobs a society but that unclear future ones on Pride writhing in
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these multiple and tangling factors perhaps.
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They are unable to draw any conclusions.
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Perhaps this instant now is just a small part out of their futile
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daily lives. The only thing that's that
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certain is that they can never return to the days gone by.
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There's nothing cool about these characters, they're just your
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average 20-somethings who blend into the backdrop of the city.
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But the most important messages in our lives, don't come from
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musicians on stage, or stars on television.
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They come from the average people all around you.
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The ones who are just feet from where you stand, that's what I
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believe. And that's a sign.
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Oh, and Thousand eight. And like I said, spoilers
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because it's this afterthought for this, dives into some
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spoilers for Solomon and, you know, the epilogue and stuff.
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So, So the afterward and the Sullen and epilogue that came
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out, 11 years after the original sterilized.
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They are the original release of Solomon.
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I'm not one to believe in curses as Superstition, but back in my
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20s and I'll say, as of today, he is, I think 41 back in my
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twenties. I was in the habit of
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subconsciously making little Bets with the Divine.
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For example, I would think things, like, if the vent is the
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vending vending machine gives me all my change.
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Continuing coins. I'll get a story serialized or
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if I cross the crosswalk before the signal starts blinking, I'll
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sell 100,000 copies but now I hardly ever do that anymore
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because none of my little Wagers ever panned out and I've had
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about seven fortunes work out for me, due to my own sweat and
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blood. It's not the most glamorous
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thing in the world, but I've gotten used to it and I think
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it's natural Solomon was released 11 years.
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Go at the time. I was super stressed out about
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is selling more copies, but looking back.
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I think it's sold pretty well. Margo was still selling back
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then but even beyond that I really lucked out with the
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timing. It got adapted into a film and I
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still appreciate the song. Asian Kung-Fu Generation wrote
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for it like any other person, and I still listen to it time.
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Sometimes, I decided to release the special edition now because
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volume wanted to have stolen it. Where were they stand in Omnibus
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collection in the US and it looks so good.
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That I figured why not release it like that here in Japan for
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its 10th anniversary, but then 11 years actually passed my bad.
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I like his humor in this afterthought reading it again
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for the first time in years. The drawings are even worse than
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I remembered and there is a lot of unnecessary stuff and a few
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too many scenes that feature carriages throwing up.
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It makes me wish I could ask my old self.
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If we really needed all that but I'm sure that's just how the
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story had to be with all its imperfections included.
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It's like when you know the right way to do things and so
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small corner of your brain and it makes you want to do it
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wrong, even more. I'm sure.
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It's because back then my readers in our still young.
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That's all after I finish. Writing chapter 29 of the
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special edition I realized that I had barely thought of Takeda
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which As the boyfriend in Solomon during the sketchings or
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riding stages. And it made me feel a little sad
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because that's what it's like, when people die to cater was
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proud and affected, so I never really liked him even when the
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story first aerialists, first started serializing.
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This was the first time I ever felt a little bad for him, even
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to this day, I still get asked a lot about whether to carry his
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death, was an accident or suicide.
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Aside. And every time I answer,
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noncommittally back when I was writing it, I try not to think
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too much about the reasons behind the kid is actions or
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more accurately. I didn't want to think about the
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reasons after all, I'm sure they were stupid.
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But if I had to explain his motives, now, I think that the
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kid is own cause of death, was his batting on the Divine.
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The type of bed that goes, if I can make it before the light
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changes, I'm sure everything will work out.
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He really wants pathetic for Everything to chance all the way
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to the end. It was incredibly stupid getting
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results through your own hard. Work means everything.
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And if you can't accept that, you're never progress.
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I don't think I'll ever like to cater after all.
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He's dead. Ever since I started drawing
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manga, one of my goals has been to write a story that would that
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would have staying power, even ten years.
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After the fact. Now, it's been 10 years and I'm
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releasing a special edition of the story.
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I am really I'm truly thankful to everyone who was involved in
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this project and who have picked up solid and over the years.
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From the beginning of the year to about the halfway point.
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I was working on a story about a millet middle-aged manga as
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called downfall as luck would have it.
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I think it's turned out to be the polar opposite of some
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learning. Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo is something
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in the main character slowly but surely die as all those dreams,
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whether whereas and downfall, the main character has already
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reached middle age, and his dreams have come true, but now
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he's at a deadlock. I think releasing two works at
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one time, like this has coincidentally resulted in more
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sales for both, but that's not the reason I wrote something in
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the first place. Regardless, I'm really happy.
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I was able to give one more layer of significance to this
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story. Ten years.
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There are no answers and nothing less.
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So there's really only one thing that matters and that's right
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now I've actually little but I still think the same things I
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did back then and continue to write nonsensical manga to this
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day and you how are you feeling these days?
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You know a sauna now I spend 40 minutes just kind of talking is
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on like select kind of just like going over those After those,
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but I like. So I feel like it's really
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important just for context for both of these series.
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And like I said, me reading them back to back and how probably
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opposite they are and even a sign on himself, saying that
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they are Polar Opposites of each other, makes me really happy in
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a way that I did read both of these together and that I'm
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talking about them together. So, like I said, I'm just kind
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of like parallels and self-reflection because like,
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Like fucking Sawa. And downfall, you know, he's
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older he's had some successes in his life but throughout the
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story you see himself reflecting and looking back on.
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Yeah, he had this successful series but he lost so much over
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the years. This far as like, you know, his
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relationship with his wife has fractured, you know, do to him.
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Just being so buried in his work not paying attention to her and
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then just seeing how You know, he is trying to find.
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Many and purpose and find the answers and everything, you
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know, toward to the point where like, you know, he's having
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affairs with all these young women and stuff like that to
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where he's even reflecting on. Because it's through a kind of
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opens up with him. Thinking back on basket, his
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girlfriend, he had back. When he first started being a
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manga Arthur, And basically she more or less kind of was I one
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of the first people that really told him like, Hey, you were so
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wrapped up in what you're doing with your manga day, you're not
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even realize it like, basically how brutal and how how much of a
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monster that you truly are in regards, like how he treats
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other people and stuff and to how little he pays attention to
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her. Feelings. and, like I said, me
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like sun reflecting on not just this last year of me doing this
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podcast but last several years of just my life as well because
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you know, it's something that I know I've realized over recent
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years and stuff and I say, just like, met really made me reflect
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as I was reading through downfall of how I've had a lot
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of time, a lot of people kind of come and go for my life because,
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you know, I was so wrapped up in work or just excuses as far as
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like, well, you know, I got this thing to do for work or, you
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know, my kids have a basketball game where they got a tournament
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or they got to practice, they got this and that and then it's
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I kind of like, you know, thank back and reflect and it's like,
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man. So many.
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Jest life lessons and memories of just kind of just passed me
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by because you know sometimes I like look at my kids and then
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it's like whoa you're taller. You know you're older and it's
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like they can back on like the last like several years or
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whatever it is like. Man like what all have already
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taught you. What are memories that you
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really have of me, you know, I like is this most of your
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memories suggest you know, me being straight down agile, a no
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clean up your room, do this chore practice, practice,
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practice, practice for sports stuff.
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And so just like, man, you know, time just like flew by and then,
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you know, like I said, just like looking at like his focus on
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relationship, he had with his wife.
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Find the cheetah. And like I said, just like, How
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wrapped up both of them you know have have or were with the
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working stuff over the years? You know kind of makes me think
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about because coincidentally this past weekend you know with
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with with the kids going away for spring break to their great
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grandparents house. You know me and my wife for the
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first time in a long time like them.
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Like we've had dinner and stuff here and there, but as far as
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like going out on an adventure, we went bowling.
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And and different stuff like that.
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Like we had it, like doesn't like that in years years years
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years. And so, you know, it just like
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seeing how focus on was life, just kind of like, How broken?
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Things are now. After you know he's had all the
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success he's looking back. You like man.
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Maybe if I were to didn't know or maybe not necessary like him
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saying this, but just like people around him kind of like
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talking to him and everybody just kind of reflecting a light
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man. If maybe you would have just not
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been so focused on work all the time.
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And just I had more of these moments you know because you
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know because it's because he even even myself I've You know,
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say mom has to wear, you know, stuff has been kind of Rocky and
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my life with, you know, marriage, friends family, all
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this stuff and it's like, man. Maybe if I just spent a little
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bit more time, not so wrapped up in whatever or just taken for
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granted that something or somebody would always be there.
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And, and, you know, that kind of ties in with, you know, on the
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on the opposite end of the spectrum with salminen to where,
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you know, there are some of them are fresh out of college, one of
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their friends or cartel, he still in college but you know,
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Mako kind of been unsure of the future that she wants for
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herself and her not being like for the committed to anything or
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I guess, like sticking with something for Longer than you
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know, short period of time. You know, I enjoyed but was very
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sad and, you know, just kind of like saying the timeline of her
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and to NATO's relationship. As far as like, you know, he was
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a young guy or they, they were both young, you know, when they
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first met and, you know, he can move in with her because his job
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was a steady. She was making a lot of money.
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She was saving up and stuff and then, In.
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You know, one day she basically just a sighs.
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I hate. I don't really like my job.
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I've been working here for some years, I hate my job and she
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just decided like, you know what?
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I'm just going to quit my job. She has money saved up.
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She can live off of it for maybe a year.
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Didn't she didn't last that long on the money that she said there
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because it's sort of going fast but she did that.
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And then, you know, she had a little bit of time to just kind
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of like be free until lounge around.
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No, but the thing about having free time because I've been in
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this situation before but to where, you know, I've been laid
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off for a job and then it's all right, well, I got all this free
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time and there there there were some benefits to those moments
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of the years to where you know as okay I can spend more time
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with my kids help out with stuff around the house.
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That's like that but then it's like sometimes it's like you
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have so much free time Dad and maybe works against you and it's
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like yeah I have all this free time but I really don't feel
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like doing nothing. And so yeah.
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And then like eventually, you know, when she finally pushed to
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Nato to like pursue his dream of really, really, really committed
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to starting up his band or getting his band going.
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But Just saying that whole moment in the scene, the manga
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of, you know, he finally got the band back together, they were
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practicing her stuff and they put a record out and they got an
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opportunity to do a deal. And then Mako told the recruiter
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guy like, no, you know, they're not going to do it and then, you
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know, them kind of starting to fracture and stuff and stimuli
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fall apart. But then they On the prices of
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coming back together and then tonight out, unfortunately
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freaking dies and passes away on his way home.
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And then, you know, we kind of just transition to, you know, we
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still see, you know, like more context to like like various
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points of their relationship and stuff but, you know, big part,
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big part of the back half of the manga was like How do we move
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on? And so like I said, like like
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Damn Band. Caught up in the moment.
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But then having their future snatched away from them.
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Taking tomorrow for granted, that's something that is
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definitely crossed my mind a lot, you know, in the last year
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because know for for for those who might not know or whatever,
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maybe you've no rain, they come across this video.
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I have no context for who I am or what I do, but back in
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episode 0 of my podcast, I had talked about that.
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The reason why I started doing or the reason why I started
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Daddy's to talk. was because, you know how his way down with a
24:35
lot of grief and sadness because a few months prior to me,
24:43
starting the podcast, I lost both my older sister and my mom
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back to back and you know, it just like really Made me think
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about how much I took for granted the potential of time,
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you know, it's like, you know, it's one of those things where
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it's like, you know, my mom wasn't her 60s.
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My sister was in her 40s, early 40s, and You know, age doesn't
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discriminate age doesn't care, or doesn't have a set order but
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I think sometimes we kind of become not a to the idea of like
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oh well, you know, we know some day we're all going to pass away
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but foolishly in my mind. You know, thinking that oh you
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know, just the order of things, my mom being older, she'll be
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the first one to go and you know, if know if, if things were
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to happen or whatever, my mom would be the first one to go.
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But, you know, I'm in my, I just turned my I'm in my early 30s.
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32 right now, just turned 32 couple months ago, like, said my
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sisters in her early 40s. Somehow we have, you know, our
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still have many decades, you know, Time to spend with my
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sister and to bond and stuff. And so I took for granted, how
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close my sister lives like an hour away?
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My mom was over eight hours away, but my sister was an hour
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away but and the like you're so, before she passed away whatever.
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Like, you know, I definitely was not taking full advantage of how
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close we were to each other like distance wise and stuff like
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that. and so it's like when she left it just like really hit and
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so like I said just like really made me really make me made me
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reflect all like man you cannot take for granted that oh just
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because you're young or this and that it doesn't mean nothing and
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like I said like these characters like really Really
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went through that. I did, I did enjoy the mama
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where Tomatoes dad came to visit Mako and he got to spend some
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time he cooked for her and stuff like that and she kind of no
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realized I like, you know, you are like your son and he talked
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about how, you know, his passing in a weird way, brought the
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family together because they had kind of been fractured Then
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distant for a long time, you know because you know, he know
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he told his dad but you know he wanted to be a musician and all
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this stuff they know that kind of but it has about that.
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But you know, just kind of like in reflection, you know, his dad
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is just no sad that he's gone. and yeah, but yeah, y'all like I
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said, just don't take for granted.
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Your future, don't take for granted the present.
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Don't get so cocky, don't get so consumed and whatever you were
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doing whether it is work. A hobby, you have maybe like me
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being doing this podcast and YouTube being a content creator
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and it's okay to slow down along the way.
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Like I said, that that is like something I have like I have
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struggled with over this last year of been a new content
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creator and stuff. And like, sometimes burning
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myself out sometimes accidentally sometimes, you
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know, knowing that like, hey, maybe I shouldn't be recording
29:02
late, but still pushing through it. and so, like I said, like,
29:09
having this year of all the stuff I have seen and learned
29:14
and experienced and then reading both of these series is like,
29:18
really just like made the point stick of like, hey, Tomorrow
29:23
isn't promised. you know, you will get to where you're going
29:28
eventually, but take time, spend time with your spouse, your
29:33
partner, your kids, your parents, your siblings, your
29:37
friends, whoever because that is something that I am doing at the
29:43
end of this week, when I'm recording, this is, I will be
29:46
going and spending time with some friends because I realized
29:54
over the years and once again, just like fuuka Sawa.
29:59
It's like all these years past and not and then like looking
30:02
back and it's like it's like wow.
30:09
I gave up so much and not because nobody asked me to but I
30:15
just just became so closed in a way.
30:22
And I itself isolated to where it's like I look back over the
30:28
last 10 years or whatever and it's like man I really don't
30:31
have any like for like many adult friends and stuff that I
30:38
hang out with regular whatever. You know how people online.
30:41
I'll talk to yourself, whatever. 911 appreciate y'all.
30:43
But I have not been the best at cake.
30:47
Keeping up these And person relationships and stuff.
30:52
And I have I have a bunch of family up here in the area.
30:55
I have so many free. I even have classmates and stuff
30:58
that I grew up with from back home that live up in the area
31:01
that we've been. In the same area were freaking
31:03
over a decade as like I haven't seen them once.
31:06
And so like I said, just just learning lessons from doing this
31:13
podcast for the last year from Reading, both downfall, and
31:17
Solomon. And it's like I truly need to.
31:23
Do better and be better. And I feel like we all kind of
31:27
some ways, you know, I know, you know, some of us do it better
31:31
than others but, you know, taking breaks and join the
31:36
journey because sometimes, you know, I kind of put so much into
31:41
this podcast and stuff that, you know, I love it.
31:45
I enjoy doing this but, you know, sometimes I kind of and
31:50
it's kind of weird to me saying this, but sometimes it's like I
31:52
kind of admire Are some of my friends in the community to
31:56
where they take a week off here there or they take a month or so
32:03
off and it's like it. It's okay, you know, because
32:09
first of all, it's like, first of all, I'm new to this.
32:11
I'm not I'm not making no money off of this.
32:14
This is not my actual livelihood but even if it was You know,
32:24
what would be the point of running yourself into the ground
32:28
burning yourself out, regardless of how much use you might love
32:32
what you're doing, whether it be your job or, you know, other
32:35
Hobbies or whatever content creation is like, what is the
32:40
point of running yourself into the ground and getting sick or,
32:45
you know, losing connections with people.
32:49
And then you look back and it's like, man.
32:52
People have come and gone toys. Like if I was just responding to
32:57
that message to that person, they wanted to reach out, but
33:00
it's like, oh they're no longer here, they're gone or or that
33:05
relationship is just broken and don't know if you'll ever be
33:09
able to repair to re fix it and so, so yeah.
33:15
So like so I will be taking some time.
33:18
A couple of days and going and seeing some friends that I
33:24
hadn't seen in a while. Some of which I haven't seen in
33:27
a decade and just try to start rebuilding those connections
33:35
because I don't want to be Looking back.
33:39
Another ten years from now like fucking Sawa and regards phased
33:44
this Danny's talk blows up becomes biggest thing on the
33:48
planet. I don't want to be looking back
33:51
and be like well, what all was sacrificed along the way for me
33:58
to get here and you know, and and same thing with on the flip
34:05
side with Mako down and salminen.
34:11
I also don't want to be Too, afraid of the future at too,
34:17
afraid to take chances, you know, which, you know, they're
34:24
bad things I have done in this last year, based off of pure gut
34:28
instinct that I'm glad I did, or things that I was scared or
34:33
unsure about that. I'm glad I took a chance and did
34:37
it because I prime example or like, you know, me going to my
34:40
first anime convention fall of last year.
34:44
You know, my mom. My wife has surprising you some
34:47
tickets and, you know, it's kind of and I ended up deciding to go
34:53
and same thing to another smaller event that I found out
34:57
about because I wanted anime convention and that other
35:02
smaller event. I was kind of like, I don't
35:04
know. This is like a like a it was
35:06
like, it was a DFW podcast festival.
35:12
And once again, very happy hour. Went met so many awesome people
35:19
and even guess even got some guy got a freaking ask me about my
35:22
podcast, t-shirt and a Best, Buy gift card, you know, like so on
35:27
top of all these awesome people I got to meet him in
35:29
connections. I got to make and Me doing this
35:34
podcast, me reach out to people. And just really connecting.
35:43
And So for anybody, that might still be here, you know, you
35:48
know, 30 plus minutes into the into me talking.
35:52
I just wanted to say, I encourage you to try if there's
36:01
anything that you have a interest or a passion in or
36:06
something that you just been wanted to do.
36:08
Like I said, whether it be starting a podcast or Some
36:15
bookie been ruined wanted to read or some hobby been wanted
36:18
to do or some place, you be wanting to go do it.
36:23
Do it, you know? Cuz we're just kind of
36:25
worst-case scenario. You do it, you try it, you go
36:29
there and it's not. Okay, that didn't work out.
36:31
I didn't really like it or it's not what I thought it would be
36:34
but there's always a chance that it could be the best thing that
36:37
ever happened to you in your life.
36:39
And I'll say me doing this podcast has been one of the best
36:46
life decisions I have ever made just because I have met so many
36:51
amazing people along the way. and gan, gan exposed to so many
36:58
new things, new ideas, new stories along the way that I
37:07
might not have never read or watched or seen or experienced.
37:13
If I hadn't taken that first step, you know, and hitting
37:17
record and hitting publish. On that.
37:19
First episode, I did a year ago today And so, like I said, we we
37:26
all do need to take time to reflect both on.
37:32
Where we have been the things we have been through but to also
37:36
not be afraid to look towards tomorrow and to look towards,
37:42
you know what lies ahead because you know, life is unexpected
37:50
unexpected things happen every day all the time but don't let
37:56
that scare you away from trying. Don't?
38:02
Wait until you know. It is it doesn't have to be
38:08
white and not waiting until your, you know, older person or
38:13
whatever. But it could even be as simple
38:15
as I hate. Don't wait until a year from now
38:18
or a month from now. And then be in the end up like
38:23
fukuzawa regret regretting. Some things that happened or or
38:33
end up hating the thing that you started doing because you loved
38:37
it. And one of the about what
38:40
downfall that was interesting was like, you know, the little
38:45
flame he was having with the with yui the little hostess
38:50
young lady, whatever the head the eyes reminded him of his
38:53
first girlfriend, his first Big Crush whatever when he first
38:56
started doing the manga stuff. and then the moment when When he
39:08
finally, you know, a couple years had passed and he finally
39:12
got passion to do another series and I was kind of interested to
39:16
see like how this will play out but like a throughout the story,
39:19
you know, he had a fan they would constantly with constantly
39:24
tweeted him and comment on his stuff to my hey I loved your
39:27
series. It helps me.
39:28
I love it. Keeps going.
39:29
I can't wait to see what you do next and they eventually started
39:32
replying back to this person. I hate, thank you for your
39:34
support. I'm glad you like it or
39:36
whatever. and then when she actually showed up in person,
39:43
you know, and then basically being like hey your series, what
39:47
you do your book saved my life because of what you were doing,
39:52
you know, I could, I could continue to go on for another
39:55
day and You know, she basically she called him a God, she's
40:04
like, I love what you do. You're a God and He just kind of
40:12
he teared up or whatever, but he also is like, you know, you you
40:17
just don't get it. Now that comment I, you know, I
40:20
feel like it can kind of go both ways to wear like, he's talking
40:24
both to the girl, but he's also talking to himself just because,
40:31
you know, I can see he kind of got so deep into what he was
40:37
doing with the manga stuff to where he started hating it.
40:41
And you know, that sniffing something that, you know, I try
40:45
to be. I'm trying to make sure I'm
40:47
being conscious about because I'm like, sometimes I just hit
40:50
the one-year Mark, you know, hopefully, there's many more
40:53
years to come of this but one thing I just want to make sure
40:57
that I don't ruin this for myself, you know, towards where
41:01
I end up, you know, hating it and Loathing it, but Anywho.
41:08
I've kind of Gone Gone along divergent engine or whatever,
41:12
but like I said, just kind of like reflective thoughts.
41:18
How both of these series made me feel?
41:22
Like I said, I am. It was a lot, you know, that
41:26
was, that was a lot, a lot of heaviness to read back to back
41:31
in more or less close to one sitting down fall and so
41:37
learning. But like I said, I am glad that
41:40
I did. And I'm glad that I did it
41:42
before I record my anniversary episode.
41:46
Because, like I said, I wanted to as I'm reflecting on stuff,
41:49
whatever I wanted to read both of these series because of their
41:54
synopsis and now that I've actually read them and seeing
42:00
Both ends of the spectrum that they cover with somebody.
42:03
Somebody that's had success. Reflect that back on.
42:08
How much? Or what are seeing how broken
42:13
things were along the way to his success to somebody and some
42:19
characters who were just starting out and are unsure of
42:23
their future. But also Having life, having
42:31
love snatched out from under them in the blink of an eye.
42:37
Like I said, just just really gave gives me Put a lot of stuff
42:43
into better perspective from a can.
42:44
Like I said, like I said, a lot of stuff from both of these both
42:46
of these series I've been thinking about for a while.
42:50
But like I said just like having a concrete story for both like
42:55
say just like I don't I don't want to end up like Focus Ottawa
42:59
you know to where I'm looking back in like man.
43:02
My marriage is broken. You know my kids don't like me
43:08
like what did I teach them growing up?
43:10
You know what? They learn from me, you know,
43:14
but also likes and not being afraid of tomorrow and what the
43:18
future holds and not being afraid to take chances like they
43:23
did in Solomon. Which Speaking of which, when
43:27
the point I realized that, okay, Solomon is the name of a song
43:30
that was really awesome. When that popped up because at
43:33
first I thought that the that the girl's name was Solomon, you
43:37
know, because I you just hear cover every of a girl with its
43:40
were sounding. But, you know.
43:43
Yeah but overall you know, and I know I really didn't talk too
43:46
much specifics about the series or whatever, but I feel like I
43:50
said at this point if you're watching this deep into it or
43:52
whatever, hopefully you've already read it and you're just
43:55
kind of like wanted to hear just my perspective of how both of
44:01
these series reflects on actual life and stuff.
44:07
But with that being said, I think I need to go ahead and
44:11
wrap this up but like I said I you know I I will at some point
44:18
in the future, it might be many months from now, but at some
44:21
point in the future I will have to read goodnight, pom pom as
44:26
well as What about the series are the dead dead demons do to
44:36
do to do? What's it called?
44:37
Yeah, dead demons did it, did it, did destruction.
44:41
I definitely want to read that as well as some point to, but
44:45
but that would be way down the road Collective reading both of
44:48
these back-to-back, some heavy stuff that like Society, kind of
44:52
going to some lighter hard stuff or, or just something not as
44:55
heavy for for a little while. But I appreciate everybody that
45:03
is watching or listening to this episode and have stuck with me
45:08
all the way to the end of this episode.
45:10
And those of you that have been along with me, then follow with
45:15
me, along for the Journey of this year, of doing the podcast.
45:20
Like I said, I am Do a lot of reflection but also, you know,
45:25
Taking Chances on some stuff, you know, 11 of which I feel
45:31
weird. You can plug in this, but just
45:33
to kind of just say to put it out there Because this is more
45:38
so just like a hey just put it out there whatever not really
45:41
expecting too much from it. But you know, I am well, first I
45:47
want to say If you're not already, you know, make sure to
45:50
subscribe to the channel. Make sure you're following the
45:53
podcast on our podcast services. So you can get the audio or the
45:55
video or Spa consumer services are on YouTube.
46:01
Follow me on all social medias at Danny's to talk and also
46:05
check out my newly launched, patreon patreon.com Daddy needs
46:09
to talk Where that is like said he's been suggested things where
46:14
I'm putting it out there. I will talk about it more and
46:19
and specifics on the actual podcast episode pocket Center
46:23
for your anniversary episode. But just know it is just
46:28
something out there to where if anybody enjoy what I'm doing and
46:32
just wants to show some extras extra love and support it's
46:35
there but I will continue to put out my reviews and stuff for
46:40
everybody but like I said just like hey you know, maybe you
46:43
might get some stuff earlier maybe I could.
46:47
Or have earlier than everybody else but eventually everything
46:51
will still continue to be how it has been but I don't want to get
46:57
too deep into plug-in and all that stuff.
46:58
Whatever. But anyway, y'all have an
47:01
awesome day and week like I said, make sure to take time for
47:10
yourself to just have to some nice recent manga, wash them,
47:15
anime and TV. Play some video games and just
47:18
remember to live your life. And with that, I am out.
47:26
Thank you. You know, I Sano for both
47:30
downfall and Solomon and I was I also appreciated, the forgot
47:35
betting touch. I appreciate the epilogue as
47:37
well. Like I said, just getting to see
47:40
these characters again a little bit older and you know, them
47:45
kind of have moved on. Mako, she is now married about
47:49
to be married. She's expecting a child seeing
47:53
the band. Still getting together and doing
47:55
stuff. Whatever it was just really Just
47:57
see those characters again. And I can't even imagine for
48:00
anybody that might have red Solomon back.
48:03
When it originally came out and then over a decade later,
48:07
getting another piece of the story.
48:10
Beautiful, very beautiful. But yeah.
48:15
And in the name or as the maiden on my shirt, from blood boy,
48:20
says, may you find your worth in the waking world?
48:26
World. And with that, I'm out I'll
48:29
catch on the next thing. Love y'all.
48:32
Thank y'all so much for everything.
48:35
Peace. And with that, I'm out I'll
48:29
catch on the next thing. Love y'all.
48:32
Thank y'all so much for everything.
48:35
Peace.