 Hey everybody, welcome back to another invisible edition of a week in Geekdom. That's right, today we're doing another haul video for the month of March. An interesting month, nonetheless. And I got a ton of books to show you, from anime, comics, manga, video games, and even toys. All that fun stuff. Let's get started, right? So we're gonna begin with manga, and I'm going to go by publisher this time around, I'm gonna show you the first one right here, and that is Gantz Omnibus Volume 3. Now you're probably wondering, where's Volume 2? Because last haul video, I showed you Volume 1. Well Volume 2 is out of stock pretty much everywhere, so I have it on backorder. I made an out of print, or an out of stock, I should say, order of books that should ship out eventually, and it will include other volumes of other series that aren't highlighted in this haul video, but nonetheless, here is Gantz Omnibus Volume 3, really excited about it. And yes, 4 and 5, I believe, are on the way with Volume 6, solicited for May, so I will be caught up, quote unquote. Next up, we've got this little gem right here that I cannot believe I slept on for so long. It is Satoshi Kon's Opus. Now here's the thing, Satoshi Kon, if you know me, he is one of my all time favorite directors, rest in peace, Satoshi Kon, I love his work so much, and I, for some reason, I slept on his manga work, I've never read that stuff, and I saw this recently at a good price, so I jumped on it, and I'm really excited to dive into this, and hopefully you will see a review discussion video on this title. Did I mention we're doing Dark Horse first? I might have forgotten to mention that. This doesn't fit, right? No, it does not. Here is Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Edition Volume 2. This thing's awesome, you've probably seen reviews on it, and how awesome it is, and how beautiful it looks, and all that stuff. That's all true, but yeah, these are great editions, and I cannot wait. I'm waiting to get Volume 3 to get started on this, so I have a huge chunk of Blade to read. Alright, next up we've got Viz Media, we always get some cool Viz titles, and I don't even know if I can fit all of this on my shelves, but I'm gonna give it a shot anyways. I want to beef up the Asano section of my library, so here is Dead Dead Demons, Destruction. Oh man, is it a lovely looking series. So here is Volume 1 of Dead Dead Demons. I cannot wait to collect the entire series, but I've got Volume 1 here to start with. You'll have to forgive me, I have no idea if I mentioned or highlighted this on the previous haul video. I might have shown Volume 1, but I do have Volume 2 Mermaid Saga, and I am working a really cool video on this series from Rumi Kotakahashi, so look forward to that. Very interesting series, I really enjoyed reading Mermaid Saga. Next up, one of my favorites, Beastars, Volume 11. And from the same author as Beastars, Paaro Itagaki, we've got Beast Complex Volume 1. Can't wait to dig into this, and hopefully make a video on it. It's supposed to be 3 volumes, so I don't know if I want to wait for a full series review or just give you my overall impressions on Beast Complex. Another wholesome series for you guys from Rumi Kotakahashi, we've got Maison Ikoku Volume 3. A couple hard covers when it comes to this, I only have Volume 1 and 3, do not worry, the rest are on their way, but this is all I've got right now, Tayu Matsumoto's Sunny, which I'm really looking forward to reading. So again, look forward to that review, pretty freaking soon, here's Volume 3 on it. I love the construction on these hard covers, and that textured feel is really awesome. Love these some colored pages, and the art of course, so Matsumoto goodness, can't wait to review Sunny for you guys. Next up is a book that, well first of all, is from Yen Press, and I can't show you the contents of it, because it is a very elude, not safe for work book, but it's one of my favorite comedies, so what the hell. This is Inner Species Reviewers' Comic Anthology Darkness. This is basically sort of like a tribute book set within that universe from different creators like the mangaka for Monster Musume, stuff like that, doing their contribution and tribute to this wholesome, not safe for work comedy series. Really guys, I cannot show you what's inside of this, it's very inappropriate, compared to the main series actually. I made a review on Volume 1 of Inner Species Reviewers, and I mentioned like, yeah you get your DNA, and you know, it's mostly like panel shots, there's no actual sexual stuff in the series, there's no way to go about it, so I'm just going to be straightforward you guys. But this, it's much more graphic than I was anticipating, and I got to be honest with you, even I was a little bit surprised by it. From Yenpress, we have my first ever physical manhwa or webtoon based comic on my collection. It is solo leveling, everybody was talking so many great things about it, I wanted to check it out. This is from Chu Gong, I hope I said that right, I do apologize if I mispronounced that, and what's funny about this, it's in full color which is great, it's a manhwa so you read it like a western comic, and it's all in color, which is really really awesome. I have, I have, do I have, I think I have the webtoon app on my phone and tablet, but I rarely use it, so I wanted to check that out, but I found it for a good price when I hadn't grabbed it. I'm going to do a video on it I guess, some first impressions on solo leveling real soon, because it's pretty interesting. And this, obviously it's because of the colored inks and pages, but this is a heavy book for the size of it, I mean it's like a vis signature size, this is really heavy, I was quite surprised. Next up from the folks at Kodansha Comics, we've got, to your eternity, volume 7, don't fall on me, volume 8, maybe I can do this, volume 8, volume 9, volume 10, you guessed it, volume 11, and yes, volume 12 essentially ending the first heavy story arc if you will, obviously I have not read any of these volumes, just the starting ones, so if memory serves me right, this ends a pretty major arc, so I stopped collecting there, I know volume 13 is out, but nonetheless I wanted to stop here at volume 12, so I have a good chunk of material to read and review for the channel. I reviewed volume 1, made a long time ago, made a first impressions video on it, and I want to continue the storyline to see what I think later on with the series, but I know I'm going to love it, I've read the first three volumes, so I'm looking forward to continuing to your eternity. Next up I want to give a massive shout out to a viewer of the channel that wanted to send a book my way, he was not reading it and thought I would dig it and make a video on it and all that fun stuff, so I really do appreciate that, honestly that means a whole lot, Chase, my buddy Chase sent me this book right here, Hotel Harbor View from Natsuo Sekikawa and of course the art from the masterful Jiro Taniguchi. This is awesome, I love this so much, thank you, I am deeply touched, this is really cool and cannot wait to dig into this, let me show you a quick preview here of the art looking pretty freaking phenomenal, this is really dark, grim and noir heavy, here's another scene right there, this is from the old Viz Spectrum editions, they don't even put these out anymore, if I remember correctly, but yeah man this is something else, I can't wait to talk about this book, oh he got shot, spoilers, okay let's move on to some anime, not a whole lot for this whole video but some good stuff nonetheless, here we have Hajime no Ippo The Fighting Collection 2 from Disco Tech Media, collecting episodes 25-48, all we're missing is one more Blu-ray volume to complete that first series and maybe they put the OVA's movies in there, I think it would fit, they're not that long, they're like an hour long so yeah, I think they could do it, another third collection would wrap up the first part of Hajime no Ippo so I'm really excited about that, let me take this slip off so you see the artwork inside looking really really nice, I'm really excited about this, followed by Inuyasha Volume 4 containing episodes 84 to 111, we need two more to wrap the original Inuyasha series and I also need to get Final Act, I never got that Blu-ray, but nonetheless really excited to collect all of Inuyasha, one of my favorite series growing up, speaking of favorite series, this is probably one of my all-time favorite comedies and Isekai and all that fun stuff, it is Konosuba Volume 2 or I should say the complete second season plus the OVA episode, all we would be missing is the movie, Un Blu-ray which will happen eventually, really excited about that and here's something really nice, the inside the slip is an image that I know too well, this has been my background on my tablet for two years now, it's insane, yeah love Konosuba and last but not least when it comes to anime, you know I had to do it, it is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind Part 2, this completes the series, this completes everything released for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the rebooted I guess adaptation from David Production, we don't have a Part 6 anywhere, so yeah I'm done collecting Jojo's, so that's exciting, now after I'm done watching Golden Wind I can read Part 6, Part 7, all that fun stuff, Part 8. Alright we're not done, we got some extra goodies that I know that you guys like to watch, here are two graphic novels that I grabbed, this is Aquaman Volume 4, Echoes of a Life Well-Lived, this is the final volume from Kelly Sudeconnick's run on the title of Aquaman and it promptly got cancelled shortly after, so there's no currently ongoing aside from the future state stuff, but there's no ongoing Aquaman book, nonetheless really excited to have this in my Aqua Shelf and last but not least Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the IDW Collection Volume 12 heart cover, really excited, I'm not up to date with the series unfortunately so I won't be reading this in quite some time but nonetheless I am super pumped for this, I love the IDW Collection Turtle books, they're fantastic and I really need to get on it because the material in here looks pretty freaking awesome, was this off camera? Probably, I'm sorry, but here it is, yeah really excited to read this. Next up some video game action, I follow a YouTube channel that started out as a vlog, now it's basically them running a video game store, it is Double Jump Video Games, I've been following them since 2019 and last year I believe when they set up their website I told myself, man I gotta show my appreciation because they got me through some tough times since 2019 up until now and I wanted to buy something from them and I ended up getting two items that I really wanted, one I really really wanted, this one was kind of a bonus but here is Crash Bandicoot, the insane trilogy for the Switch, originally I was gonna grab it for the PlayStation 4 because you know it's Crash Bandicoot but I told myself you know what I'm a I'm actively collecting for the Switch, might as well grab that for the library and yeah Crash insane trilogy I'm really excited to play through that, I've only ever played the first one back in the PS1 era and I played one of the racing games for the PlayStation 2, that's about it, so I'm really excited to go through the library of Crash games if you will. Alright, following that you might remember on the last haul video I started showing you my growing collection of Metroid video games, that is one of my goals as a video game collector quote on quote, not really, just a couple handful franchises but Metroid is my favorite Nintendo franchise so here is another one for the collection Metroid Prime Pinball, this dumb game and I say that with peace and love this dumb game I cannot believe is getting pricier by the day on frickin eBay of all places, a pinball game alright, I'm missing the Rumble Pack but nonetheless I got the game but yeah really excited about this, next up this is this was an adventure I got this last month but there was a funny little problem with it as can you see it, let me focus right there, that is Metroid Zero Mission for the Game Boy Advance, that was an ordeal, basically let's see if I can grab it here, I was sent a copy of Metroid Zero Mission, when I popped in the game to my Game Boy Advance I see a Nickelodeon logo, I'm like what is happening here and yeah the Wild Thornberry movie game shows up on the screen, my heart sunk I couldn't believe it, I immediately I got so mad I messaged the seller, I'm like I don't know what kind of sick twisted funny game this is to you but I was actually looking forward to owning and playing that Zero Mission game, seller responds calling me a liar starts insulting me I'm like dude I have the video evidence I can show you that you are selling me a the wrong game the wrong item you've switched the the labels or something I don't know what's happening, couple minutes later seller sends me an email like you know what yeah I think I messed up yeah my bad and then he sends me pictures of his Game Boy or his proof or whatever with this the Wild Thornberry movie game in his Game Boy with footage of Zero Mission so I think I caught a scammer or maybe he was scammed and didn't know it I want to believe that because I believe in the goodness of people but essentially yeah switched labels so I argued with him for a little bit and we settled things and he ended up giving me a refund and sending me that copy that you see there so I switched the labels myself before recording this video so that is Zero Mission now I have a stupid copy of the Wild Thornberry movie that I don't I don't even care I don't know I'll just throw it away somewhere in my collection but nonetheless Metroid Prime Pinball and Zero Mission now I'll I'm missing to complete the Metroid set is the NES game Metroid 2 on Game Boy and of course Super Metroid and I think I'll have everything not counting the Hunter's demo which I don't really care about I'm not that much of an OCD collector so yeah that's it um also Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission do not have boxes those boxes are super expensive so if you if you guys know where to get cheap boxes for Game Boy Advance games let let me know because yikes the price is on those and speaking of video games to finish off this haul video this is a vintage collector's item I guess sold exclusively in Japan Donkey Kong 64 era toys sold in Japan and the folks over at Double Jump Video Games had a massive lot of them and there were several different figures and you could form the whole mine cart thing and that is really out of focus so let me uh sorry about that folks let me show you the figure which I'm not gonna take out of the packaging because I love the packaging on this and yeah this is really awesome Donkey Kong is one of my all-time favorite games of course Donkey Kong Country and 64 and all the other variations as you can see it's all written in Japanese and it's like a play set you build the cart and everything and I don't can you can I zoom in cameraman can you zoom in thank you so much there we go there we go beautiful so as you can see those are all the figures and you build the long cart and all that stuff so I was going to grab them individually I'm still missing the other ones but they're a little expensive and this is just fine plus uh whenever I how do I even say this whenever I play video games that's essentially how I saw my father and I we were a team playing video games and all that stuff right so yeah I thought it was pretty quirky and a nice collection nice little trinket to have on the uh on the collection so yeah that's about it um that's the whole video guys a lot of cool stuff I hope you liked this video if you did be sure to uh subscribe and hit the notification bell I do content like this where I talk about anime comics manga of course at the end of every month I like to do a whole video with all the nerdy stuff I acquired if you want me to review a specific product that I mentioned here let me know in the comment section down below thank you everybody uh god bless stay safe out there I will catch all of you on our next video