 Hi everyone, this is Chichou. As always, welcome to my channel. Now what I wanted to do is sort of do thank you video. As you've noticed in the last couple of videos, I've been sort of on a reading spree. I'm catching up on a fair bit of readings of articles that I wanted to read and both four five videos ago or something like this. I mentioned that I wanted to delve into science fiction read. I showed you my sci-fi fantasy collection, book collection and I sort of showed you some of the books that I've read. I recommended some of the books that I've read anyway from that collection. It was a whole bunch of books that I hadn't read and I asked for recommendations on what series I could read or what solo book that I could read and a lot of comments put on that video and thank you everyone for all your comments. I looked up some of those actually all of the recommendations that were given. I looked up every single book that was recommended and wow, wow, wow. There's so much reading to do. There was one series I decided to start reading because it had a few recommendations and it was from author that I had a few of the books on my shelf and I wanted to send out a special thank you to the people that recommended that and seconded third fourth motion that read as a recommendation and it's Raymond E. Feist the magician trilogy and I guess it's a four issues, four set now because from what I understand he took Raymond, Raymond Feist took the magician, the first book that he originally published and he broke it down into magician apprentice and magician master and I'm you know I'm not that deep into it. I started reading it last week or so or I guess a couple of weeks ago I read it a little bit and I held off let it sink in make me realize I'm about to start a you know trilogy basically and that's sort of the way I sort of read most of my books, most of my science fiction and most of my other books as well. I sort of reread it a little bit and put it close to me that I know that I'm going to be going back and reading this thing again because I have a few different reads going at the same time usually and then I keep on reading, I keep on reading and when I at a certain point where the book totally absorbs me I sort of go ballistic and I just read it every opportunity I get and that's the stage that I'm in with this book right now okay and just I'm like you know what got me what really grabbed me and I'm not going to give spoilers on this I didn't I don't even recommend anyone that reading wanted to pick up this book don't even read the description right I read to the part where it really grabbed me and then I went wow right and I read the description and it gave spoilers to what was coming up fairly you know soon after where I was but that spoiler I didn't like reading that spoiler so don't even read this read the description maybe if you look it up online but I highly recommend not reading any spoilers for this and that's and the chapter really the section where the little part of the chapter that really really grabbed me from this book was chapter four and if you read the series it's like right at the beginning it's chapter four and it's where Pog and the princess go for a horse ride go for the ride and what occurs during that event during that day during those few hours um it was brilliant just a just a description of what takes place at the river at the mound and during that outing and how I mean the sword and sorcery so there was magic involved and how the magic plays out it was magnificent really and it really grasped me and like grabbed me and I and I really wanted to make this video to come and come out and say thank you very much for making those recommendations and thank you for everyone else that made the other recommendations as well I just happened to decide on this because it was a I think four or five people recommended it and again I did you know I do have these books so I will be continuing reading this and definitely I will be reading this to the end and I believe there's a couple of other follow-ups to this trilogy as well okay and just on that note since I'm making sort of a thank you video for your recommendations over the last couple of years there's been or longer than that there's been a few recommendations coming my way since I've been recommending other things myself right one of the first recommendation videos that I ever made was making some book recommendations because people were asking me what textbooks what math books I have and if I could recommend some math books to them and I picked up a couple of math books math book physics books and I showed Jeff Smith Bone in that collection in that video as well recommendation video as well and during that time and this was back in I guess 2009 2008 maybe even 2007 possibly right during that time someone recommended that I start reading The Walking Dead it was a period where I wasn't reading a comic book so I was taking hiatus from comic books and and they recommended that I read The Walking Dead and I did I started reading it took me about a week to read about seven or eight issues and in the next week just like you know the magician I reached a certain point where it really grabbed me and so it took me a week to read The Walking Dead like about I don't know let's say less than 10 issues and in the following week I read up to number 68 right so I just went ballistic on it I couldn't stop reading right so thank you for the person that recommended The Walking Dead to me many many many years ago it got me back actually into reading comic books and one of the reasons I was talking with someone recently one of the reasons that I I believe I took hiatus on reading comic books and I really delved back into reading comic books a few years ago and collecting again a big way was because I didn't know this but basically because of my reading glasses I guess my eyesight was going weaker over the years and once I started getting the reading glasses and picked up comic books again and it just became vibrant so if you find yourself just a little note if you find yourself some of the things that you're reading they're a little blurry and stuff like this how do you recommend getting yourself reading glasses it may give you the incentive you need or the boost you need and or the motivation you need to start reading heavy again so that's sort of a side note I guess but a couple of some other recommendations that people have made recently that I just wanted to send out a thank you on I made a video of my favorite war movies someone recommended that I watch Johnny Got His Gun and I did and it's a 1971 movie it's based on a book by Dalton Trumbo I haven't read the book but the movie from 1971 fantastic right it's up there as my favorite war movies right so my favorite war movies it's very very very heavy right very heavy very important movie and I'm assuming the book is very important as well it was written the book was written in 1938 and it's it's it's I highly recommend it and thank you to the person that recommended this movie and just since we're talking about it I just recently watched Mr. Nobody it's a movie that came out and I guess it came out last year it's either I think it's 2016 that it came out or 2015 or last couple of years anyway and it's a science fiction movie Mr. Nobody and it it didn't get really high reviews but it was a brilliant movie and it's a movie that it's there's a lot of tribute in that movie to other movies right and the reason I'm mentioning Mr. Nobody is because there's a part in Mr. Nobody where there's segments of it that are a tribute to Johnny Godd is gun okay and if you've watched Johnny Godd is gun 100% 100% watch Mr. Nobody okay because you put a smile on your face that an intricate movie like this like Mr. Nobody's science fiction movie is making a tribute to this brilliant movie from 1971 Johnny Godd is gun and in Mr. Nobody there's tributes to other movies as well and one of the ones that really stood out as a theme throughout the whole movie is a tribute to a to a Hong Kong Chinese movie 2046 and it's a brilliant movie 2046 I think I've mentioned this movie before it's an amazing movie it's visually stunning visually stunning right like many Asian movies they're visually absolutely brilliant and the ones I've mainly been exposed to is Korean Chinese and Japanese movies and there's some other movies I've seen from some of the other countries from Asia as well but Mr. Nobody the whole not the theme but the presentation of that movie is really a tribute in my opinion to 2046 and 2046 is a second part of a or a third part I believe or second part anyways a follow-up to the movie in the mood for love which is from the same director I believe okay so there's I guess four movies there one of them being Johnny Godd is gun that was recommended to me to watch and thank you for that recommendation there was a couple other recommendations that I wanted to mention and I have some other recommendations that I'm going to give you after I just mentioned these and thank you guys for these recommendations for the animation stuff I as you know I'm heavy duty into animation I love my animation and when I start talking about animation animation there's some people that recommend it that I watch the series Darker than Black and I did and I watched it a few months ago as soon as the recommendation was made I sort of looked it up and it looked fantastic so I watched it it's 25 episodes and it's a fantastic series it was a lot of fun and it's basically a sci-fi series based on special people having powers and the way the society is laid out fantastic series fantastic series highly recommended if you like animation like Death Note or some of the other animations that I've mentioned another animation that was recommended to me to watch I'm not sure if it came through a video but I think it came through one of my students that I teach in real life and he's a huge animation fan and he knows that I'm a huge animation fan and he recommended that I watch One Punch Man and I did and I did a I did a marathon on it as you know I was able to download it online so as soon as I watched the first episode I did a marathon on it and watched the whole thing like two days right fantastic series One Punch Man from what I understand there's going to be more coming out there's only one season they did this in 2015 but I believe they're making more I haven't read the manga yet but it's fantastic and on that note there's another series if you like One Punch Man another series that I started watching due to a recommendation from my student which is My Hero Academy and I just finished season one of My Hero Academy and that's a fantastic series and from what I understand and he's deep into animation he's mentioning that this series most likely is going to continue on for a very long time and season twos started this year as well so My Hero Academy is well worth watching as well if you enjoyed One Punch Man I think One Punch Man is a step above My Hero Academy for right now it's brilliantly made but My Hero Academy is well worth watching as well there was another recommendation that came through the videos from you guys that I ended up watching and it was an animation movie and it's 2000 and it came out in 2009 and it's a red line and what a great movie what a great movie a fast pace and the animation is absolutely brilliant and I believe it's well I know it's it madhouse incorporated madhouse ink is a Japanese animation studio that has produced a lot of work like I've watched multiple movies and tv series from madhouse and I believe they also made they produced One Punch Man but it's a red line it was a fantastic recommendation I really enjoyed watching it that's sort of a science fiction or racing movie but a lot more as animations go right there's a lot to animations and that that that that that that that let me give you some other recommendations those are the ones that I that I remember there were other there have been other recommendations through the videos that you guys have made and I have watched read a few of those things and I didn't make notes of them so I forget what was recommended to me and which ones came through the videos so for all of you who are making recommendations that I watch certain shows or reads certain articles or certain books and stuff like this thank you for your recommendations basically because as far as I'm concerned this is sort of a two-way deal right I I produce work I share a lot of work but I also appreciate the feedback coming my way because that exposes me to a lot of other things that I may not have been exposed to if this didn't exist right so it's a two-way communication is P2P basically as far as I'm concerned and on that note let me give you some of the recommendations as far as animation go attack on Titan 100% black lagoon fantastic um flcl I've talked to fully cooly I've talked to some people regarding this but I thought I put it out there as well fantastic fantastic and death note I enjoyed a lot as far as anime go there's one other animation that I checked online and didn't get much love but I thought it was absolutely brilliant and it's animation based on comic books American comic books and the animation is Thor and Loki Blood Brothers I sort of stumbled on this a few years ago when I first came out I came out in 2011 and I sort of made my radar and I believe I watched in 2012 2013 maybe and it's a four four episodes and it's based on a miniseries that came out in 2004 I didn't notice the time I watched I should look this up for this video the miniseries came out in 2004 it was by Robert Rody and Asada Robe I guess and they ended up making this four issue four episode animation for Thor and Loki and it's by Marvel Knight's animation and I thought it was magnificent I'm not sure why this thing's not getting very much love I can guess because it's not it's motion animation I guess I'm not sure what the technical word for it is but it's dark it's it's it's epic it's brilliant and I highly recommend it if you like Thor and if you like Loki and if you like you like the realm of stories being told from that realm if you're a comic book fan for sure check out Thor and Loki Blood Brothers okay and there's one other recommendation I'll give there's a few more that I've lined up to make you know special series on like a theme but since this one's sort of a sort of a shotgun effect so scattered all over the place I'll make one other recommendation for science fiction fantasy fans or science fiction fans it's not fantasy but science fiction fans since the theme who's sort of following I guess is sort of a follow-up to the science fiction book recommendations is if you want to watch an amazing science fiction series TV series that is absolutely brilliant and as far as science fiction is concerned it's easy to tell sci-fi stories that are based in the distant future 100 years from now 200 even 100 years from now with 200 years from now 500 years from now right it's easy to tell those type of science fiction stories because anything goes right the most difficult science fiction stories to tell or science fiction stories that are based in the immediate future in you know 10 years from now 15 years from now 20 years from now 30 years from now those are the most difficult science fiction stories to tell because you have to take into play take into consideration technology that is available to us right now and where that's leading so one science fiction series tv series if you're okay with a little bit of the darker side of humanity of our society is black mirror and it's a british sci-fi series and there's three seasons there's only 13 episodes there was I think the first season was five episodes and the second season was four episodes or something like this but there's basically three seasons out and it is absolutely magnificent I highly recommend it it's dark it's for mature audiences for sure I wouldn't recommend this for in the tween age right high school age for sure as far as I'm concerned high school depends on maturity level but I know many people in high school even the grade eight or grade 12 whatever age range will look you know consider and I know some high school students that that I have that I've watched this in grade eight and grade nine extremely dark extremely brilliant very very important series and british sci-fi is in general tv series I find them magnificent in general most of them anyway and the people that created this they've created some other series as well that I've watched and they're brilliant as well they actually have one this is a zombie one which is fantastic if you're into zombie post-apocalyptic tv series okay so black mirror as far as sci-fi tv series watch goes it's brilliant and again thank you for everyone for your recommendations for one of the previous videos we made just recently regarding science fiction fantasy recommendations uh Raymond feist magician apprentice what a great great great very much looking forward to savoring this really because I do savour these books I take my own sweet time what's all right and read them at every chance I get so that's about it um one of the reasons there's um the sort of a that I hate is loading up videos for the last week a couple of weeks or so is because I'm going through these readings so my apologies for not loading more frequently in the last couple of weeks I've been on a reading bench um but there will be more videos coming up uh soonish uh I'm just laying out some some of the videos that I want to get done and I believe the next one is going to be a math video it was a recommendation that came my way that's come my way a fair bit regarding percentages so hopefully the next video coming up is going to be a some more math video on percentages okay but until then um happy reading okay I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now