 It's that time again, the sweet, bitter, sweet smell of a new haul video. Hey everybody, welcome back to another exciting edition of A Week in Geekdom. Gio here and yeah, the first haul of the new year but at the same time all the books that you're gonna see here are from 2020. So I am labeling this the last haul of 2020. I didn't do one last year because of things that happened, but here we are with a pretty cool, for my budget at least, a pretty massive anime and manga haul video. There are no figures or games or comics or none of that, movies, none of that stuff, just purely anime and manga. If you've watched my channel before, I'd like to include a little bit of everything, all the geeky stuff I acquired at the end of every month. But October, November, and December 2020 were terrible months, specifically November, and I didn't get anything. Sure, I highlighted some things, but the majority of what I wanted to geek out over and talk about, it simply did not arrive. And here we are now almost at the end of January 2021 and I'm doing a video on what was to be the final haul of 2020. A little bittersweet. I do have a couple stories that I want to share with you guys and a couple of announcements, but let's get to the haul because that's what you came here for. If you're new to the channel, I do this at the end of every month highlighting all the stuff I acquired. If you want me to review a specific product from the haul, leave those comments down below and I'll add it to my infinite queue list of things I need to review. So let's start with manga because manga is cool. All right, from Vizmedia we've got Demon Slayer volume 19 and I hope this isn't a spoiler or anything. I just want to highlight some of the cool art inside. Yeah, I can't show anything more because I'll spoil things, but here is volume 19 followed by Junji Ito's Remina, which is pretty interesting. I appreciate the textured spine, the feel of the textured spine, but this is sort of a matted glossy cover, which I kind of don't dig. I wanted this finish on the whole thing. If you own this book, you probably know what I mean. And this is another Ito book that kind of stinks. I don't know what paper quality they're using, but it's kind of... it's not good. I don't like the smell of it, but here's some of that artwork right there, this sci-fi spooky tale. Hopefully I'll be reviewing this soon on the channel. I still need to talk about Venus in the Blind Spot, which I have not reviewed on the channel. So look forward to that first, and then we'll go over Remina. Here we have Maisonny Coco Volume 2. Love the textured feel on this. Completely different from Remina. This is really cool. The art is fantastic and it's probably going to be a while for me to review this thing because this is my first time reading this title, so eventually I'll make it happen on the channel. But speaking of Remiko Takahashi, I had to do it. Here is Mermaid Saga number one of two. There are a lot of Nazi for work images. I'm not going to tempt fate with the YouTube algorithm and their censorship and all that fun stuff, but you can probably see some of the artwork right there looking pretty awesome. I love me some good folklore slash horror, so I can't wait to dive into this volume. I said dive, it's a mermaid. I get it. But volume 2 comes out in February, so you should expect a review pretty soon after I get that book. But yeah, I do have a quick story about this, and I do apologize for sort of breaking the haul video in half. Mermaid Saga. How do I even say this without tearing up? Last, I ordered that book in October and you might remember if you ordered that book, it had some issues with shipping and a lot of people were left hanging and I was one of those where I had a massive order of stuff and I just do like one order a month and throw everything in there and just let the shipping deities decide what happens to it. But I made that order and it included mermaid saga. It didn't ship and I kept waiting and waiting and one of the last conversations I had with my dad before he's passed away, we were talking about shipping because one of the things that he would gladly do was go to the post office and grab stuff for me because I wasn't able to because of work hours and all that stuff. So he would constantly go like maybe three times a week or something and everybody in the post office was, they were so loving with my old man and they cared about him and they were friends and he would go there and chitchat with all of them and they formed a really nice relationship and one of the things he always told me was you gotta learn how to treat people and that'll open doors for you. He didn't mean it in a malicious way or none of that but like since he knew these guys whenever he'd show up if there was a long line they'd be like come on over I got your stuff there you go and it was usually just packages for me because I buy a lot of stuff online clothing and books anime games all that stuff I don't really like going to stores I don't like socializing with people is what I'm trying to get at so dad would always do that for me and it was always fun to get it's always fun to get packages so when he was in bed because of what happened other family members did the favor and got some packages for me and all that stuff and it was a little bit of a hassle because the mailing system would say it arrived but they had the crew over there hadn't scanned it it was it was a mess that happens from time to time and we would get frustrated about it and I would joke like oh my gosh these guys but at the end of the day you know they're human people make mistakes stuff happens I don't hold a grudge or anything so one of the last conversations like I was saying when I got I believe was when I got the bebop vinyl on the last haul message video that I did he was like he told me so that's the last box right or are you expecting what else are you expecting I'm like well there's this big freaking package from right stuff and it got freaking delayed because of mermaid saga and they haven't even picked or scanned because it hasn't arrived so it won't shift for a while and since it ships in media mail it's going to take even longer so don't worry about it whatever it'll arrive I don't know probably next year prophetic words I say but dad I know that you're watching and here is a mermaid saga it finally arrived it's it's a little bittersweet for me to hold this and think of that but and thus this book now has a lot of meaning for me in a very different way and I can't wait to dig in and read it continuing from this media we've got Beastars volume nine Beastars is so awesome and just I mean I love the art on this and just seeing the author's evolution throughout the story you compare the art from volume one and you see that progression it's so nice and beautiful to look at I love me some Beastars the only thing I got from the Christmas sale from everybody whether it's senta film works or right stuff all their Christmas deals and all that stuff I didn't grab anything I wasn't in the mood for any of that stuff however I couldn't pass this up because I believe I told you a couple videos ago that I totally forgot I was collecting to your attorney I only have the first three volumes and that was ages ago so they had a bundle sales and I got at least I grabbed one which included to your eternity volume four volume five and volume six so I cannot wait to uh dig into more to your eternity because I really loved those first three volumes and I just totally forgot to continue getting the series so now uh I'm looking forward to it next a double doozy of slime goodness we have that time I got reincarnated as a slime volume 14 and slime volume 15 so that's all the month no actually no that's not all the manga I forgot about something really awesome here's another quick story relating to that mermaid saga thing when I was asked is that the last shipment I forgot to tell you guys yeah sure a mermaid saga hasn't shipped yet I was bad a silly little rant you know the other package was I got an order from book outlets discounted manga and that was supposed to arrive early November but I made the order on Halloween 2020 and I got it almost at the end of December and it was a dragon quest monsters plus here is volume one two and three I got this for like three or four bucks each which is awesome and you can probably tell I was really motivated and pumped up because of the adventures of die anime series the reboot I love that series so much I'm loving it and I wanted more dragon quest in my life back in September I got dragon quest 11 as a birthday gift so I'm going in on the dragon quest franchise and I'm really excited and I wanted to grab this I know it's related to the 3ds game if I remember correctly but I heard that you get a pretty quick summary here at the beginning of volume one and you can just go in because you know it doesn't look like it's too complicated it's it's dragon quest you know you're going to have some fun so the story behind that is I ordered that on Halloween and it's instead of sending it to my address it got delivered to it got sent by mistake to San Francisco so that was another four weeks or so before it arrived and it coincided with my mermaid saga story so I told my old man the mermaid saga stuff and then there's this which got sent to San Francisco so it's going to take maybe four more weeks so don't worry about it but again here it is here it is bop's dragon quest plus or dragon quest monsters plus finally got here time for some oversized deluxe manga goodness I had to do it I was going to get the anime the 2019 anime of this bluray which just came out but I couldn't say no to deluxe manga heart covers and I went ahead and picked up blade of the immortal the deluxe edition volume one I've only seen the show I've never read the manga and I'm really excited to finally read this story in amazing bloody deluxe edition let's see if I can get a cool splash page randomly and come on guys whatever you get this page instead look at that beautiful art from Hidoaki Samura can't wait to dig into this and something that everybody got and I totally forgot to grab this is berserk deluxe edition volume six I already own all of berserk and I've read all of berserk so I'm upgrading to the deluxe editions and I got volume six um yeah that's a good page to show you guys no bloody carnage or nudity or anything weird and I kind of lied the dragon quest plus does include a comic book it is Godzilla kingdom of the monsters kingdom of monsters so sorry it's not all anime manga okay last but not least anime continuing my sailor moon journey this is sailor moon uh super s or season four part two which you can see my sets over there I can finally complete season four I'm still working on my review for sailor moon but it's coming don't worry about it guys I'll it'll happen don't worry uh that also came with these cool little art cards that I wish could be stored inside the uh blu-ray box I hate that when the art cards are oversized I love oversized art don't get me wrong but I have no storage for it but nonetheless it's uh pretty cool to have and um I picked up for cheap on amazon this is sailor moon sailor stars which is basically season five part one so all I need is part two of this and maybe the movies I don't know if I want to collect the movies or not uh because of space reasons but if I do get them fine if not I'm just happy to own the series so here's uh season five part one the limited edition box set which was on sale uh over the holidays for cheap I think it was like uh 30 dollars 32 dollars or something like that out of 60 which is great um more anime that I got cautious hero the hero is overpowered but overly cautious I was going to grab the deluxe edition but I didn't need it and I'm trying to save space I really love the series and the only thing I wanted from that deluxe edition was actually the uh reels bookmark like like the actual reels from a camera um but I don't know uh I'd rather get this instead and save myself some money and grab some manga or something else instead with that savings so there is cautious hero uh finishing iron blooded orphans I got season two part two for 12 dollars because they're uh dumping this out because they got the season two complete collection and everybody wants that instead of this so in comes me and uh I grabbed this as fast as I could one of my all-time favorite series finally finally on blu-ray paranoia agent I had to grab it as well and of course one of my favorite shows from 2019 here we have dr stone uh season one part two the limited edition box it which has a lot of stuff uh art cards and uh keychains you've seen the unboxings here on youtube I'm not gonna bore you with that however I do want to talk about something real quick and it's the fact that holy crap guys look at this chunky art book pamphlet whatever you want to call it other companies and even Funimation itself they cheap out and do like a little pamphlet maybe 20 30 pages and uh that always ticks me off because I want an art book without um overspending you know because uh nobody sells these art books you have to import them I don't want to pay those prices for it but to have this 100 page art book is awesome I mean you get detailed art from the character designs information on the series interviews uh roundtable discussions you get uh episode descriptions arts backgrounds I mean interviews with the cast and all that stuff from the Japanese side with the say use this is what I'm talking about right I mean look at all the info that you're getting I love this so much and it actually smells fantastic I don't know what paper they used for this but it smells really good uh as weird as that sounds but yeah just really awesome stuff I love this set and it has a really cool uh textured feel for the parts that are made of stone that is really really awesome before we end this uh haul I want to give something back to you guys and whenever I get some blu rays and anime and they come with any digital codes I like to give them away so that's it everybody that's all the stuff I got hopefully uh next year or this year rather 2021 is a lot better for everybody and myself included um thank you so much for watching as for a quick channel update I made a video that I took down because of uh internet technical hijinks um I didn't want to keep it up because it actually recorded like half of what I was doing I made an announcement on that video back in November that was changing the channel a little bit every year I like to make changes to my youtube channel I review what I've done and change up a few things uh the scheduling will remain the same videos whenever I upload it will be on a Monday Wednesday or Friday basis I'm not going to do anything on Tuesdays or Thursdays nor the weekends unless it's a impromptu livestream but all the videos will be uploaded Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays Mondays will probably always be bonga related and Wednesdays will probably always be anime related Fridays if I don't upload a comic book related thing it'll be a livestream or a an anime themed or manga themed livestream or something livestreams will usually be Friday nights um because I like that you know chill vibe it's Friday so yeah going forward the channel is going to be heavily focused on anime and manga but I'm not going to leave out the folks that like when I talk about comics don't worry about it even though I'm not reviewing any marvel or DC stuff I will be covering a lot of digital stuff that is uh that companies are sending me because I do have a couple that I've not talked about yet I started getting those back in November but obviously with things that happened I kind of put a halt on everything but I do have some really cool things coming on the indie scene so I will be talking indie comics on Fridays and all that fun stuff so that's sort of it for announcements uh thank you so much uh look forward to more videos more fun on the channel that we can geek them where you know anime comics manga all that fun stuff as always uh hit the subscribe button if you want to see content like this uh be sure to be uh subscribe and all that stuff uh remember to hit the like button it helps out with the youtube algorithm because I don't really care about the money I just want more people to watch the channel and I want to entertain more people uh and you can do that by hitting the like button and youtube takes notice and starts sharing the video to more and more people that's the goal for 2021 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