 Hey everybody, welcome back to We Can Geek Them Geo here and today we're going to talk about the Brave Tuber from Takahito Ozaki. So the Brave Tuber, I have to admit the only reason I know about this series and own it is because back in 2020 I was browsing through book outlet and I noticed that they had manga in a clearance section. Now I hadn't bought from them ever so I gave it a go and I noticed that one of the series that was on sale was the Brave Tuber for I think $2 per volume. So it took me a little bit because of life but I finally gave it a go and I know I'm super late on this and it's not necessarily the most popular manga to be honest. I totally understand that but I still wanted to talk about it. My goal for this year 2022 is I want to make review videos of every single manga that I own and by that I mean series not individual volumes because that would be pretty insane. But yeah, I'm starting not in a particular order just randomly off the shelf and I looked at it the other day and I thought, you know what, let's talk about the Brave Tuber. Why the hell not? As you can see I have the first two volumes right here. I'm going to pick this one up which is pretty interesting because for some reason these books always confuse me because the front cover goes like this and it looks like a screen from your YouTube browser which is immediately eye-catching if not a little bit distracting and silly at the same time. So like I mentioned at the beginning of the video this is a series created by Takahito Ozaki and I forgot to mention that it is illustrated by Ikuro. So the story follows the character of Zane who's this holy sword wielder and the character of Kuku who is the spirit of the holy sword. Resides outside of the actual sword and she interacts with everybody in the world and for fun the two of them decided to create videos for WizTube which is this world's version of YouTube. Now there's also Witter which is their version of Twitter and stuff like that and that is the main hook of this series. Yes it's a fantasy action comedy but it also has technology and social media and that is really fun because you have two characters that aren't necessarily the best at what they do but gosh darn it are they going to try and succeed at making videos and becoming hit uh WizTubers if you will and it's all too relatable if you make content online whether it's Twitter whether you're on Instagram or YouTube or whatever platform you decide to create content for I found it really relatable and enjoyed their trials and tribulations in the story as they're trying to become the next big hit and gain subscribers and go with the trend and use what's popular and they cover a lot of stuff from review type videos to animal videos to footage like vlogs all the different sub-genres of YouTube videos I think the most important ones get covered in in here even the whole VTuber craze is covered here with shape-shifting abilities from mages and witches and stuff like that which I thought was pretty cool and the fact that yeah it is sort of this epic fantasy world and they somehow have technology and electricity to run computers camp quarters and and just have a working internet is really hilarious now aside from that unfortunately the series doesn't really offer much when it comes to character development and plot it's more of a slice of life of these two characters as they're trying to become the big uh you know social media influencer and yes there is a bit of backstory just a tiny little bit sprinkled throughout but nothing major and you just you can just go in blind and enjoy these characters adventures as they're trying to do the crazy thing and what's interesting is that in other series that might have been detrimental to the story here even though we only have I think it was 13 chapters total it works for what it is it's it's their one trick pony and it doesn't need anything else because it's a really strong friggin pony having this clash of internet culture and memes and jokes and references to social media and the online world with like streaming and video reviews and stuff like that and of course clashing it with tropes of fantasy series and anime and manga really making it a memorable quirky little slice of life comedy now i don't consider myself a big time social media creator or none of that i just do this as my main hobby i love creating content and that's it but i think even with my uh miniscule subscriber account i kind of do consider myself a youtuber and so it kind of hit close to home and i found it really funny on that aspect there are a lot of characters that have different types of channels so it's always interesting at the end of each chapter to read over their stats and their subscriber accounts and all that stuff and i don't know just overall a really fun innovative take on both genres that i mentioned and how the author mashed it all together unfortunately the character development is zero to none and there is some subplot about the demon lord and how zane wants to defeat him because he is the chosen warrior and all that stuff but nobody really knows who he is nobody really likes him and his common section is just stragglers and haters and it's when he occasionally has success by introducing other elements and other characters that pop up later in the in the manga uh that you want to root for them but then realize that they're kind of inept and silly and you're just in it for the ride and enjoy uh the crazy antics and all that stuff zane is this one note character he has this dead stare that everybody makes fun of and just um he just wants to defeat the demon lord and earn some views and cash and be a hero but there's not a whole lot there kuku on the other hand she is much more energetic and she's the brains of the operation she's a lot more likable i guess and there are other characters presented as well which i thought were pretty funny but for the main duo they're kind of one note and that's sort of the joke because uh that's that's it their one note character is trying to make it big on the uh online whiz tube space which is pretty funny because we've all been there right now at only two volumes uh the story is pretty brief and by the final chapter i was wondering how the heck are they going to wrap it up and i thought it was pretty a pretty nice send off to these characters i had no idea that this received an anime adaptation i completely uh skipped over that one so i'm interested to see how that looks in animation uh the art i should mention from ikuro that's something that i was really enjoying for the most part a lot of the scenes are kind of generic but the character designs and the crazy you know movements and the whole platform that they're shooting on and just having characters holding a laptop and commenting on on social media and you have the dark lord just sitting there and watching this witch who's essentially a vtuber i thought that was pretty hilarious and really made my day so yeah it's not going to be the most memorable thing you read but it's still fun if you like uh fantasy series if you like anime and manga of course with a dose of uh social media and content creation and all that fun stuff i think you'll remember it for a little bit before you move on to something else hey i'm just being honest so that's about it gang thank you so much for tuning in if you've read the brave tuba let me know in the comment section down below what you thought of it and if you haven't what are some of your favorite uh comedic slice of life manga that you think i should check out thank you everybody once again for tuning in thank you for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of a week in geekdom i truly do appreciate it i've got to go stay safe god bless everybody thank you so much i will catch all of you on our next video