 To the monthly hangout, hopefully everything is working just right. I wasn't sure if I was going to Stream tonight It was a little bit too busy. I know I had scheduled it for today But some things came up last minute and I started this extremely late It was supposed to be 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time But here we are 10 30 so it's more like a late night hangout I'm not gonna be on for too long unless of course you wonderful people in the chat are here to Support the stream and hang out and ask some questions I just wanted to briefly cover a couple topics and of course meet the quota You know because I said I'm gonna do the monthly hangout. So here we are Thank you everybody. I already see Brenda the show Scott staff Thank you once again. Hello my friends. We meet again. Thank you so much Comic art channel. Thank you so much. What's up a better time for me. That's great I don't again. I do apologize. It's not it's not gonna be a super long stream because it is a little bit late and I was supposed to finish the stream an hour ago and record some voiceover stuff for Some YouTube videos that I'm currently making and that's sort of the whole idea of the monthly hangout I get to chat with you wonderful people and I get to update you on the stuff. That's happening on this channel manga geek them So, yeah, we're gonna do that. I also have some first impressions on some Anime that I watched that were not part of the schedule Super exciting for that as well. Now, let's see if oh, I don't okay. So we're on this screen. Okay, perfect. Perfect perfect Let's not screw it up. I Notice that I do not have the cool background music that I promised playing. I don't know what happened there There is something here in OBS for that, but I don't know if I can do it and I did this live See So Well, I'm doing this and gathering some sounds for you guys Let me remind you that if you're new here, it's a channel all about manga and anime and I do the seasonal anime reviews So let's let's start with that while I multi-task and search for the freaking background music that's missing so Every season I review as many shows as I can but lately I noticed that I didn't need to go so Frickin hard on all the shows last season kind of wore me out a little bit I felt the little burned out by it. I Think what it was 36 shows something like that almost 40 different anime series and That I know it's something really weird to complain about but that can kind of wear you out Fortunately some were easier to watch than others So for this season, I didn't want to repeat that Unfortunately as soon as I started adding shows I Was quickly going up into the Into the 30 plus shows so I scaled back some I still have a lot of shows and on the last hangout I sort of gave a quick first impressions view on on what I'm watching and Some of the shows did not survive the cut which is I think that's the first time I've ever done that on on my on my channel here Hold on. Let's see. Oh I don't have the track a wonderful stuff geo you are the absolute best Well, we'll get him next time. Let's just go a cabela tonight So, yeah, I had a couple shows. Hold on. Let's see if I still have the It should be working if I switched to my screen here There we go. Perfect. So this is my Anilist that I use and these are the current shows that I'm watching I talked about that on the previous stream, but for all the new people that might be interested in checking out the channel I use any list. It's honestly, it's the best way to keep track of shows and all that stuff And I love the UI on this website. So Where was I okay so here as you can see You got all this that that is currently airing these are anime that I I need to finish watching that already aired etc, etc And I had with me On this list Three shows that got the boot So we're gonna browse here for anime Popular this season, okay Let's do airing and let's do TV show Okay Beautiful, okay Let's see Where are okay. Here's the first one. All right next to each other. Perfect. Beautiful. Beautiful. All right. Let's let's do this I Had on my list the cafe terrace and its goddesses. I gave it the three episode rule and Actually two episodes and I was not digging the show whatsoever and I'm I Don't care at all About a show having fan service that doesn't bother me unless it's like something super Inappropriate or offensive, etc. Etc. But if it's stuff like this, I don't I don't mind it, but this show Was or at least the first two episodes. I thought were just really bad and the fan service was very sleazy and dumb and It I didn't do anything for me with the plot or whatever. I decided to You drop the show now Policy a policy on this Channel is that Even if it's bad, I'll watch all of it And and I can talk about it when I do the review But I man, I didn't want to go through all that so I dropped it This is if you if you're interested the cafe terrace. It's about this young man is grandmother Unfortunately passes away Inheritance inherits. Sorry. Well, it's untied tonight His her grandmother's his grandmother's cafe. Sorry And discovers that there are these five young girls living there and They don't want to move out And of course on the first episode some etchy raunchy stuff happens and you basically see everybody naked right before the episode ends and Right then and there. I'm like, ah, this is one of those shows. All right. I Don't I don't care for this a hallmark type plot and the Brief nudity aspect to it I was just Ready to drop it and I did so we did that and We also got rid of Who's we right? It's just me We also got rid of my one hit kill sister now I don't mind Isakai. I know they get a bad rep rightfully. So there are a bunch of Bad Isakai out there, but when you can reinvent the wheel and have fun with it There's some really fun cool Isakai series that I do recommend watching My one hit kill sister Ride doing something different The main character is I can't remember if he got hit by a truck Trying to save somebody or a disease and he was in the hospital some crazy hijinks and he is transported to another world and the book here the twist is that his sister who is extremely overprotective and has a I guess a sibling complex and She Her will was too strong. So she Travels to that other dimension to be with her brother. He was Facing an enemy or something and was scared and was summoning talking about her sister and Wanting Maya to be with him and whatever and she just showed up. So now the sisters in the other world with him and She is extremely overpowered She's super OP and can one hit kill a bunch of monsters and bad guys and all that stuff. I Guess that's fine but I was a little bit annoyed by the shows the humor and how Obsessed the sister is with the younger brother almost to or not almost pretty much there to a sexual nature and I Nah, I'm good if I'm gonna spend time watching a lot of shows. I guess I need to curate and and watch better stuff than just Tara scottises and I wanted to kill sister. So that was another show that I was happy to to drop It didn't look horrible. This was done by Gekko Studios The they're a brand new studio. They worked on just my one hit kill sister and they have 10 photo coming up Which I am somewhat interested and we'll see if it works another etchie show etchie show So we'll see But I was not feeling it. So What do I do? Do I drop that and reduce the? the quantity of spring shows or Or do I look for substitutes alternatives? and such and that's what I did I Went ahead and started watching what the heck is it and it's in the friggin thumbnail of this live stream. I started watching The reincarnated princess sacrificial princess if I can you know what I can just do this Lot easier if I do This Where is the there we go? So I started watching sacrificial princess and the king of beast this I am Lessently surprised with so far the two episodes that I've seen I've really enjoyed and I do recommend checking it out It's something Somewhat different it plays with things that you might know Previous tropes and all that stuff. It has a lot of anthropomorphic animals, which I don't mind I like stories like that similar to like Beastars for example, however, this one's a little bit different. You got the king of the beast Lee and heart and This is a kingdom where I'll just read the description real quick here The king of the beast and demons regularly receive a female human sacrifices to eat in order to assert the dominance of his people over the human race They were at a conflict with each other However, for the 99th sacrifice the human girl brought to the capital Sadi sadi fee. Hope I pronounced that right intrigues the beast king he The main girl is not afraid of him or any of the other beast and she's accepting of this fate that has Fallen her And That curiosity leads into a friendship and Lee and hard spares her Unfortunately, everybody else in the kingdom is super upset and shocked and they're really racist Towards the human girl and it sort of becomes like One of these shows What do you call it? Hold on Yeah, I wasn't gonna say political but let's go with that because you have the inner politics of the kingdom inside and and how they view humans as lesser and how they're gonna judge They're king on this reckless decision, but Sadi fee and Lee and hard have a really wholesome friendship brewing and There's a small twist that I'm gonna reveal in a shocking fashion Lee and hard is or Leon hard is a half breed so he's Human and a beast and depending on the Was it the time or season or depending on the moon cycles or whatever He has to hide his true Nature and then human form or whatever so they form a pact of friendship and I assume potentially a Romance will brew but so far I dig it. I like that. It's sort of a very Macabre version of a twist on Beauty and the Beast So I don't mind that stuff. I think with anthropomorphic animals and that type of story you can really Get mileage out of it by having these creatures exemplify human traits and behaviors and you can Better understand the human psyche if you will through the notions of these animals behaving like Humans, but it's well. It's well done. It's well animated. This one's by JC staff And I know a lot of people aren't fans of JC staff because of previous mistakes But I think this is a good effort on their part. Nothing too fancy or revolutionary about it. Just nice Average looking show with great voice acting in my opinion. Okay, so Did that and the other show that I wanted to talk about is Dead mounds and death play. I think I mentioned Did I talk about this on the previous stream, I don't I don't know it may have been an omnibros live or something one of the manga shows I Started watching dead mount dead mount death play because it's by the same author as Yogo narita created durarara, that's one of my favorites and if it's the same creator I wanted to check this out as well Unfortunately the first episode. I mean, I like the idea that it's sort of a reverse Isakai and you have the character going into our world. That's always fun I For some reason the first episode like I was saying it didn't really hook me a Lot of people dug it and kept going, but I was very close to dropping the show because I'm like, I Don't know. I mean, yeah, it's it's a little bit different. It's an Isakai You know wasn't feeling it. I know people love the the manga which is currently ongoing but I watched some of the episode 2 and I Thought it was just okay So I gave it another shot before dropping it just in case I gotta say It's a quick turnaround for me because the later half of episode 2 and episode 3. I really enjoy it I am looking forward to more episodes on this series Essentially the necromancer of this alternate earth or whatever this parallel world. It's more like dark fantasy based He has been treated very poorly and is of course the bad guy in that world and In his final bout with the hero and all that stuff He unleashes a reincarnation magic So now he's in our world and he takes possession of the body of a young kid that was targeted for assassination Now I don't remember if they explained why in the first three episodes, but it's interesting nonetheless and in our world Obviously, there are no magical elements and kingdoms and all that stuff, but however the main character has all of his abilities he's sort of this It says here a corpse god, whatever you want to call that and He views humans as playthings and is very interested and fascinated by everything He just wants some peace and quiet He never got that in his original realm Everybody was always after him because of his necromancy powers and he's bad guy this Giant skeleton demon looking creature now he can Work towards that and he learns about money and all that and he gets involved with The same people that assassinated the young boy before he entered our world They're gonna work together to solve cases, I guess and he's gonna earn money. I don't know it sounds Odd, but it's a lot of fun. I like the characters and I like that it doesn't take itself too seriously So I am super excited for that Spirit circle. Thank you for joining now. There is a delay on my Dream and when it goes out to YouTube, so I do apologize if you type that out ages ago So yeah debt mount death play is pretty cool. I dig it I'm I'm on board with this. So I'm really happy that I give it another shot again first episode also They do something really cool and that's they play around with the timeline You see the events of episode one you go into episode two and it starts Sort of a prequel story to the main character then it switches to the present time But it shows you things from different perspectives from all the different characters and how we got to where we are so I'd like I like that style of directing and Storytelling so I do Recommend the show this one is done by geek toys and They've done a bunch of stuff. I am surprised because they did a mean Genfusheen Which I was not a fan of this this season however, so far That mount death play has been pretty cool. I I don't mind the art so much It worked on date a bullet a Bunch of stuff that I've not seen plunderer. It was one that I was really disappointed by that was a 2020 show I dropped No There's that Also, I started watching the ranking of King's treasure chest of courage and It's fine. I mean if you're new and you want to watch ranking of Kings watch the Watch the original show or read the manga. You don't need the treasure chest of courage. It's just a small OVA collection I don't know how many episodes. I think it's gonna be Like eight I Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know if it's gonna be the full 12 Weekly schedule, I think it's gonna be less Let's just side story said before the show during the show and maybe After the show ended the season So if you'll watch this if you love the characters and really enjoyed the series. Otherwise, you can skip it Warren, thank you so much. I doing all right, you know, it's late. I don't look it But I'm actually really tired. So after this I'm going to Play some switch games and fall asleep But I do have an intensive day of recording tomorrow. So I'm gonna talk about that in a minute Okay, let's see. What else did I need to talk about? Oh Yeah, okay. All right, I don't want to I don't want to be controversial I don't want to Get some people riled up. I'm just gonna talk about it briefly Because I thought, you know, it's my freaking dream. I can talk about whatever the heck I want, right? this show right here the dangers in my heart I I will be completely honest with you guys. I was not expecting the the chatter that formed about it on Monga anime tiktok not tiktok. Oh my gosh, Monga or anime Twitter. I Saw a couple posts or tweets That they were Angry disgusted with this show and insulting everything about it and then I Saw somebody replying like you got to give it a shot because it's actually pretty good Like give it the two or three episode rule and they were like no because if it's bad from the get-go It can't be it can't be good, you know something like that and Insulting everybody that was trying to defend it which brought me the wrong way. I don't mind you hating a show It's within your lane. You can do that. That's okay. I don't like other shows out there I don't want to use that word of hate That's not something I use in my vocabulary, but for the purposes of this stream. I'll use it I don't I do hate some shows. Let's say that But the small insignificant controversy that I saw Were people upset with this series which is based on the Monga of the same name the dangers in my art Essentially you follow this young kid here that you're seeing on screen. He is called a Kyoto Ichikawa and He suffers Which is not an excuse either He suffers from a bunch of Bunch of things There's a lot of like it says in the description. There's a lot of darkness in his heart he's very antisocial and depressed and has very macabre thoughts and As someone that has a very Overactive or grew up with a very overactive Imagination and I was thinking so many things at all times. I Need to get where this character is Going, you know, like sometimes No, I don't know this is I think a lot of you that have known me throughout the years will be shocked With what I'm going to say now So brace yourselves that I'm sorry in advance Growing up for some reason I've Like I want to say I'm a very positive person but in my mind I tend to overthink things and Some really messed up things pop up in my head and I think the worst of Scenarios and people and stuff like that Obviously they stay in my head. I don't act upon it and it's just like Macabre curiosity that forms. I really don't know how to control it I mean, I do control it, but I don't know. I don't I have no Explanation as to why that happens. So when you have a character like this that He's a bit of a loner and he sees his classmates and he's sickened by them and wishes Horrible things to them. He's not He's not wanting that in real life. It's just his worst-case scenario in his head if that makes sense so at least this this is how I view this theories and like wishing death on on people and stuff like that because he's edgy and Finding himself and anti-social and all that stuff is not out of the realm of Possibility, right a lot of people have done that in the past I haven't but I do think of some pretty messed up things. Unfortunately but this all changes for the main character when He meets the character of Anna Yamada he is a very wholesome a pretty and Clutzy young girl classmate, I think she's a Model out of out of school and some and and whatnot and He is very quirky and like she'll she loves to eat snacks and she'll hide away in the library to do that So Ichikawa is Falling in love with her Unwillingly unknowingly if you will and it's sort of this really nice meet-up of this bubbly popular young girl and this awkward shy The troubled a young kid and how they meet up and That changes him for the better and we see that evolution with like four episodes already out You starting to see that progress compared to the first episode. So I'm I'm a fan of stories like that. I want I Want flawed heroes also, William Lee. Thank you for joining. I Like flawed characters. I don't want to see cookie cutter Romantic leads I want to see the faults in them, you know sort of like Karnak. It's an inhumans joke Yes, I like the inhumans a lot I don't know. I guess I was a little taken aback because I tweeted out sort of my like here the Live shows. I'm really liking at the moment. These are my top five So far with like two weeks in or three weeks in and people were just Shitting on dangers in my heart and like oh this character is like supposed to be in love with this girl supposedly and He's wishing all these horrible things on her like Yeah, but the point is that he's going to be a better person and not do that because in life Not everybody's a hundred percent do gooders and Through experiences in life and all that stuff we grow and we become better individuals So that's kind of what I wanted to see. I don't agree with what the character is thinking and saying But if he changes for the better than hell, yeah If it doesn't work out and it's just and if it would have stayed like that I wouldn't be talking about the show. I would have quit. I wouldn't have talked about it Promoted it or tweet it or whatever the hell and then somebody said like oh this and that about each Iqawa he's gonna he's doing this because of Something something and then the tweeters were like the people tweeting I should say we're like Okay, if you guys want to if you guys want to be freaks about it and defend character like that I guess you're all like freaks. I'm like Okay, so that was a lesson learned I don't want to interact with Twitter people anymore, but I just stayed on my own lane and tweeted about my crazy Danigans with my reading and viewing experiences as well as video games So I guess that sort of led into an exhausting day Because that stuff Gets to you at least for me when I read stuff like that about things that I really like It kind of Bumps me out and puts me in a in a sad vibe all throughout the day and I just needed to walk away from Twitter because I didn't know I Mean I knew it was toxic it is it's a hellish social media app, but I was naive and thought everything was Peaches and cream and it Are from it. It wasn't Instead you got people fighting about fictional characters adapted from a fictional book which I thought was insane and somebody told me and a Very wise advice just don't engage and ignore and you'll be a lot happier for it and I agree So that is my mini rant I guess on the dangers in my heart. Do I recommend it? Absolutely, it's awesome. I really enjoy it. It's fun wholesome weird and awkward at times Because these two kids are getting to know each other and awkwardly maybe building a romance and I really like the arts and character designs. It uses CG in clever ways It's mostly 2d, but the way it integrates both into one solid animation. I don't know. I dig it I think it's pretty unique compared to Everything else that's airing Don't engage is good advice. Yeah, unfortunately, you know, it sucks because I'm a small content creator and I know some people say oh don't don't Say that about yourself. You're a content creator and that's true But in the grand scheme of things, you know, my numbers are pretty insignificant for now. Hopefully fingers crossed and you kind of want to Build something and get people you interact with you and visit your channel and stuff like that So I go out of my way sometimes to interact with the anime manga Twitter world Because that's where all the hip kids are even though I've seen some stats and that's not really the case I've got everybody's sort of like moving to different platforms or whatever, but you know That's part of the plan. I guess to grow the channel Which reminds me We are almost like a hundred The people away from three thousand subs, which is insane It has been a very frustrating journey. Let me switch back to See everything it has been a very frustrating journey arriving at 3k Honestly, I can't even begin to tell you Why It has taken so long in my head and this goes back to what I just said about weird thoughts that Pop up in my brain. I Thought I'm not good enough. I suck at this people don't like me They might think I just I'm a crappy reviewer. They're not interested in what I have to say They don't find me as entertaining or engaging as other people they don't like who I am or Place of origin or maybe it's something racist I don't know. I thought of all the possibilities all the negative ones and I am a very positive person. I told myself. No, none of that is What's happening? There are millions of people putting out content. Unfortunately, you get dealt with bad hands and Not everybody's gonna rise to the top like other channels. Some people have that luck others don't It boggled my mind that The sub rate has been so slow and dragged out. I'm like I'm doing everything possible. I've played with the algorithm Many times in the past. I've talked about it in many live streams on my channel. I Played with the upload dates with the thumbnails. I've been on thumbnails. I've done the artsy-fartsy stuff I stopped doing live streams. None of it works at the end of the day. I think it's just all BS and You just you just do you and and you do the basic things that youtubers say to do and Good luck and pray for success But I kind of see it more these days as Quality over quantity and I'd rather have 3000 amazing viewers watching Then like 10,000 people and like 7,000 of them are like Rando's and bots and stuff like that. You know what I mean not to offend anybody with that. It's just broad statements here so and Also, I am very OCD about numbers statistics and Seeing the numbers go up and down and all that stuff. I obsessed too much Over it where I Build up an anxiety within me because of that stuff and I just have to quit the other day. I even tweeted about it. I Guess we're talking about channel updates now to Bring this full circle. I guess for the monthly hangout The other day I tweeted that for once in I don't know how long I I was caught up with all the shows. I was brought up with work and games and all that stuff and for a long while I had Hours of free time and I'm talking like a full weekend and With no commitments and The possibilities of okay, what do I do now? How do let's do something. Let's create content. Let's read some books. Let's Whatever I got so anxious over the possibilities and what to do that I kind of psyched myself out of being productive that weekend and ended up not doing anything and I was it kept creeping up and Affecting me in a very weird way. So I said, I think it was on a Sunday Screw it. I'm not doing anything and I dropped everything and I Left the house and I just took a walk. I just needed a breath of fresh air and I've been doing that a lot lately. I was forced fortunately to go back and do some Exercise for Exercising for my health and it's been a Very frustrating but rewarding experience so far this past couple of weeks or past couple months So, yeah Now I'm just picking stuff from my head to mention on the show on this live stream So, yeah, I'm super excited. We're like a hundred people away something like that Also, it's hilarious that whenever I upload a video people unsubscribe and Like on purpose I will not Upload anything in a whole week and then people subscribe back up. I'm like guys make up your mind. I mean you hate me Do you love me? What's happening? So, yeah, and a lot of people have None No, and how do I say this? I'm not talking about people online, but like Friends and family members they've always said like Don't compare yourself to others because your life experiences are different. I don't do this as a full-time gig I'm busy with other stuff. So my I'm working on YouTube is different and but I See you like a channel that just started the other day and they quickly grow and surpass my levels of thing crap or whatever and It does affect you somewhat, you know, I think you can't Be on this platform and do content creation and not you So just a little bit of jealousy sometimes and I think that's a good thing because it can motivate you to Work better and it has for me. This year has been great I think this year these past four months that have on by in 2023 are some of the most productive months that I've worked on on on YouTube If that makes sense, I don't I I don't feel Jealousy I Don't care for it and I see it more as like friendly competition when I see other people uploading stuff I'm like I can do that. Let's work towards that. That's sort of been my mentality for the past couple years on this platform Let's say I can't read this Again the same problem from life from the preview show. Let me switch my camera around. There we go. Now I can read it Don't engage is a good advice. Okay, and man. Thank you for joining your good person. Geo appreciate that appreciate your content Thank you so much. I've been dealing with terrible work situations since March and Feel it might extend quite a while longer by watching you is great I am happy that if I can entertain you for at least a couple like 30 minutes an hour I've done my job. I'm happy with that and I can take off. I can take your mind off of what's bothering you with Work and real life. So I'm so sorry to hear that You're at circle. Don't worry. Geo. You're doing the best you can you can and hopefully you can do More of the things you want to do and ignore the haters as it were. Yes. Thank you. Thank you my non Specific my non Scientific observation is that there is a certain number of subs you hit and then it just builds more easily after maybe like 7k Yes, I want to talk about that. That is one of my goals And one of the things that annoy the crap out of me is when you hear somebody on YouTube say Subs don't matter Yeah, they do because you need to get out of that funk of Starting out and I think it's at 10k where the algorithm just Starts pushing out the content to more people. So a lot more Individuals start subbing but you need to break that threshold and you need the subscribers I mean, eventually. Yes, it's about the views and not the subs But let's face it. If I also want to get some sponsors, which I really want not for the money Honestly, I just want YouTube to fund my hobby and if like somebody like will say, hey, you want to review a book I'm like, yeah, sure. Of course, I'd be happy to that's kind of what I want and and I don't want to sound pretentious. I don't want to sound Needy or greedy when I say that it's just out of a genuine love for the platform and the idea of me reviewing stuff because my channel has been About reviewing stuff since its inception. I like doing that spoiler free so that anybody can enjoy it so I can't reach out to people for Sponsorships and stuff like that because the numbers aren't there. Nobody's gonna be like, oh this channel. It's not It doesn't have a lot of views or subscribers less than 3k Why will why will I invest? Why would I invest? Sorry on On it and send stuff out and what not and I totally get it I do got to give a shout out though, and I've said it before on previous videos you Seven season attainment. They haven't been sending out reviews review copies any These couple years but back in 2020 they were going nuts sending me stuff And I put out a lot of content that you're reviewing like advanced copies of bongo volumes Light novels stuff like that So I am forever thankful and I love seven seas because of that that they don't care like you want to review it Yeah, sure go ahead and they I reply back to them and they send me a PDF format thing And that's what I would use for the videos. So a shout out to them, you know Taking care of the little guys on the platform We can all have like 100k, you know, oh my gosh, I need to switch back. I can't see Swear I know I said that last time that I would fix it. I forgot. Sorry. I can't see the chat I'm old now. I felt that your positivity and kind of show through in spades. I I appreciate that Thank you so much. I I don't I don't brag about that stuff, but That's something that I've always wanted to push on whatever platform on I'm on because too much negativity and Obviously that gets a lot more clicks you want to make a lot of money on the internet be as negative as possible and You will get some cash and that goes for like politics that goes for even manga that in comic books video games if you are like negative sarcastic Sort of a smart ass That gets more views. Unfortunately, and I hate that because that I've never been about that game I've always been I always try to keep things positive wholesome and welcoming for everybody Even if we share different views on things, you know So Yeah, yeah, I need I need more subs. I need more subs man I need people to subscribe and watch the manga geeked him and I'm working on some manga essay videos They just take a lot out of me because sitting down to write like 300 were 300 words. I Don't know how many words whatever. I don't count. I don't count the words. I Sit down and write an essay review on a topic or Book or whatever I'm not the best writer in the world So it's been a it's been a struggle. I kind of stopped doing it and just relied more on the quick reviews and I Haven't seen too much of a difference. So that's why I haven't brought it back, but I am working on Some essay videos one of them would be on call of the night. I want to talk about the whole Vampire puberty aspect and like adolescence and wanting to explore the night and then then that sort of Makes of topics there Also wanted you an essay on yokai manga and the influence and all that stuff. This just ideas that are in my head right now So hopefully I can get that out at some point soon probably in the summer So Speaking of video ideas. I Didn't put out a video this week and it bummed me out that and I have nobody to blame but I kind of knew it was gonna happen when I posted the Mermaid scales video I had a very sneaking suspicion that that video was not gonna do well but Why not to talk about it is why not hmm is I feel like at the end of the day Eventually somebody will be like hey Is there a review from mermaid scales and the town of sand because that's a very obscure book and you type it on on YouTube and the video will show up. So I wanted that like that for The backlog of the channel eventually to have all those Reviews there for people So I made the video. I switched it up tried to do a different style of review for it and actually had some fun going through the spoilers the beach footage. I Didn't really go to the beach. So that was an old recording from 2018 when I was reviewing the Mira bombshell statue Not reviewing it for like a showcase video So I I got that footage and used some alternate takes to make the new one So it was a lot of fun to put together and It it did not do well I think on on manga tubing shonen series insane and books you pretty damn well for the Demographics and algorithms and all that stuff unfortunately to get it if you put out a video on On show joe manga or jose and stuff like that. It's an uphill climb Especially with the people that are that watch me But I want to cover that stuff because I'm not reading any shonen stuff currently and most of the things that I'm into are sane and books and Some shoujo and jose stuff. So I knew going in that it was not going to do well. I I am fortunate that people did watch and left some really nice Uh comments on the video. So I do appreciate it if you haven't seen the video I'd appreciate if you gave it a watch even if you don't pay attention to it You could just leave it on the background playing. It's only like eight minutes There's not too much of a commitment A friend of mine told me back in 2012 that in order to be successful on youtube Be fake Just no longer on the format and that is not me. I don't want to watch fake people be genuine. Yes Yes, that is a hundred percent true. I don't want Uh, I don't want that either Let's do uh oshinoko there Why not? China So I had some titles just don't really generate interest even if some people are talking about it within the community Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, I knew going in sometimes and this goes back. Uh when I was reviewing like graphic novels and comics Sometimes I had the habit of skipping on the really popular books Because I kind of psyched myself thinking This is like super popular And maybe I'm not as knowledgeable and if I do a video on it, I'm not gonna do the best Work reviewing it and people are gonna come in and say like oh this video sucks You don't know what you're talking about so I psyched myself out of reviewing like the really popular stuff And with manga, I guess I kind of fell into that hole too mermaid skills is a wonderful book And I'm very happy to put the review there But I I kept thinking man if I had talked about something else, uh I'm pretty sure I would have gotten more views so Yeah, that's what's happening in my brain Let's see. Oh, okay. So before I forget or I forget, uh, we're almost at an hour I can't on I can't be on too much because it's late and I want to uh, maybe record some voiceover and Play some switch games because I got advanced wars and that has been a lot of fun And I haven't played all week since I got the game last week. So I want to do that uh two things first next week I should have the top 12 anticipated manga releases for may I'm gonna I the video is almost done. I just need to do the voiceover recording And it should be ready by monday. So, uh First of may you're gonna see that video. So I'm excited for that a lot of people watch those. Uh, I'm grateful for that Uh, I'm going to try for wednesday Or thursday, who knows? Uh, I'm gonna have instead of what I've been reading which I do like two books I'm going to add more to that and make it like the reading blog that uh people do on on On youtube Because I I have like five different books that I want to talk about instead of doing like Three videos for them. I could just bundled everything together and talk about the five And then maybe on friday or next saturday I'll post a haul video So i'm excited I don't want to jinx it, but i'm gonna try my hardest to put out Uh, three videos in a week's time, which I haven't done in a while Gio guarantee you more Gio guarantee you more of your subs watch you for you rather than what you're reviewing That's awesome. Yes. Yes, please Uh, also the other thing I wanted to mention since I talked about advanced wars I think it's time I brought back the gaming stuff I'm kind of scared to to do it uh, I Set up a twitch channel Because I wanted because uh, aside from reading and watching movies and all that stuff video games was uh, like my first really nerdy passion growing up and and that has uh, that's been something that's been with me all throughout my life so La I think uh December 2021 I tried streaming for the first time on twitch by myself. I was playing metroid dred horrible connection issues fortunately the internet has gotten a lot better since then uh the uh surface I should say I Had some technical issues with the microphone. It wasn't picking picking up my voice I think you couldn't even hear the the sound card Or not the sound card the elgato card whatever And I was able to fix it later, but I was so pissed off that night I only streamed like 30 minutes or like 15 minutes. I should say and quit and uh Never went back to it And I want to try it again just for fun Because I really love the idea of playing a game and having people chatting or having fun maybe you guys are Making fun of my terrible Skills and and and whatnot so I want that I get a really Good vibes and euphoria when I stream video game stuff so I'm not going to do it on this channel because that would be a no no because the channel is about manga And then all of a sudden we're doing video game stuff. That's kind of weird So I have the second channel you guys might remember I used to promote it. It's called uh, wait, what was it called? Uh geeked him gaming. That's the name of it. Uh, that's not going to change. It's still going to remain geeked him gaming I'm going to upload a video on that channel soon because it's been gosh like Five months since I've uploaded a video I just got like super overwhelmed. Uh, I thought I could manage two channels at the same time Plus the third one of you include omnibros Uh, I couldn't so I took a break from that And I want to go back to that and post As uh As a minimal effort is what I'm getting at the less I can rap for videos and just like Uh, do a gaming stream and just have fun there and not have to worry about anything That's great But if I have to sit and write Because I was doing some switch game reviews and I was actually writing stuff and and preparing the visuals and capturing footage That takes too much time out of my busy schedule When my main focus is, uh, manga geeked him and talking about the books So I can't be doing that and uh, so the idea is to Assume I'm going to try to do it next month at the end of next month um I'm going to try and stream I'm going to practice first on that channel for the geeked him gaming and eventually move back into which If you guys are interested You want to subscribe geeked him gaming There's channels in the page here on youtube or whatever you can find it And if you want to check out, uh, the channel on on twitch you can subscribe as well so I Am committed to that Hold on. No, not this Where am I? There we go Uh, boy, do you playing all those games here? I am not having played a game since early september 2018 The last game I was playing was dragon quest 11. You probably remember that. Yes And I actually I don't know if you remember I did a stream playing it for the first time and I forgot to keep going But I have a lot of switch games. I need to get back to that I remember watching you play the mario maker levels Was that late summer 2021? Yes I love Dreaming uh Games like that and the mario maker stuff because I'm terrible at it, but I have such a fun time Either cursing at the screen and and watching you guys Make fun of my gaming skills. I love that stuff um Also update Uh, my monitor is my second monitor still busted. I don't know what happened to it So I am getting a new one soonish in a couple weeks. I'm excited To do that It's going to help me out a ton when I do live streams So I'm really excited because right now as you're seeing I'm minimizing and I'm opening stuff on the same monitor So that's uh, that's sort of what's been happening in my head sort of an abridged version of everything And I kept the page here on oshinoko Sorry So, yeah Hold on I talked about everything here. Yeah Yuri is my job. It has been great Uh, genuinely love this series. Uh, it's like, uh, like a good drama soap opera I dig it Uh, the pokemon series I did not talk about I I'm up to date with that and it's been great so far Really enjoyed this. Uh, it was a great move to get rid of ash and bring in new character Excuse me new characters. Sorry So there you go I think that should cover everything Am I remembering am I forgetting something? probably So the goals for next month I'm gonna do the live stream and I am toying with the idea of doing Uh, by two weeks per two streams per month on this channel My goal is to Fix the audio issue with the music I want that to happen and not just me acapella here with dead air And if I have the monitor, we'll do some crazy stuff Hopefully you guys are interested in the videos that I talked about This should be coming out soon And uh, I think that's about it I hope this was somewhat entertaining even though I ranted, uh, non-stop about things that, um I shouldn't worry too much about but I kind of do because I obsess about these things But thank you anyways for hearing me out And if you're watching later, uh, thank you. I appreciate it Subscribe to the channel if you're new here Consider subscribing. I talk about manga anime all that stuff Thank you to the chat You guys are lovely. Thank you so much. Truly. Do you appreciate it? You have no idea how much the Your support, uh means to me and uh, that's it I'm gonna I'm gonna bounce Like I said, I'm gonna record some stuff for next week And I'm gonna play some games and watch, uh some show Anime extra anime So thank you everybody spirit circle and man comic art channel Warren, William, thank you everybody for tuning in. Love you guys appreciate it I need to actually I need to fix the opening animation thing on obs And I need to do another closing thing because I just have a Dark screen and that's just really, uh, uh depressing. So I need something lively to end the stream on Take care. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Uh, how do we close out? Close out That geo is the man. Thank you and man. Appreciate it, buddy Uh You know how we do things Thank you guys, I hope this was entertaining and to your liking have a good night Have a great weekend. I'll be back, uh on monday with new videos Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye