 September, my favorite month of the year, and it's haul time. What could possibly be better? Hey everybody, welcome back to a We Can Geekdom Geo here, and yeah, we've reached the end of the month as tradition dictates on this channel. We must do a haul video. If you want me to review a specific product, let me know in the comment section down below. So let's get started with manga, because yeah, anime manga haul time, right? I picked these volumes up. This is BraveTuber. Here we have volume one right there, and volume two. I picked this up from Book Outlet. I normally don't buy from them, but I couldn't pass up the sweet deal for, I think it was four dollars and some cents each. I got the first two volumes. I don't know, I didn't do my research, so I do apologize. I don't think this is all of it. I think there's more coming, but, or this might be it. Regardless, I'm pretty interested in checking this series out. Obviously, as you can see, it's a really cool parody on the whole YouTube and social media stuff. You follow these two characters, these adventurers in a different alternate world, more fantasy-based with dragons and monsters and all that stuff, and they have technology enough to do vlogging and computers and all that stuff, so they want to be BraveTubers and be the best at it with the best views and all that stuff and super famous. I don't know, it appealed to me. Plus the fact that I do YouTube videos, it sort of rang a little bit close to home and I kind of wanted to check it out. I love the play on the whole YouTube comment section right there, and I can show you a little bit of the artwork. Nothing too fancy, but still, I like the character designs and the monsters and the world and everything. Plus the fact that you're mixing two things that shouldn't go together, so we'll see if the comedy holds up. Here we have volume two. Let me show you the back right here. There's that. I love me some good comedy and manga, so we'll see how this fairs up. So BraveTuber, one and two. Continuing my Shonen Jump hype train, I got Demon Slayer volume 16. This was fantastic. I love it. I love how things just escalated. I know the series already ended. I don't know, haven't read the finale yet, but reading that volume, I love how everything just went bonkers in the matter of minutes. As you're reading the volume, things just keep escalating to the full-out battle that's happening. That was awesome. Another one of my favorites here is Dr. Stone volume 13. This has been a delight. I still love this so much. Let me show you this cover right here. This is easily one of my favorite covers, very reminiscent of the one-piece image at the end of the alabaster arc, I should say. Really awesome. Now this is a little bit not safe for work, so I'm not going to show you the interiors. I'm just going to show you the cover. I don't want to get in trouble with anybody. This is Inner Species Reviewer's volume 4, so we finally do get another volume of this. I can't even show you the back cover because it's a little bit too risque, but let me see if I can find something. All right, this is kind of safe. There's some of the artwork right there. You can watch my video on volume 1 on this channel, which was mostly spoiler-free, but you can sort of get an idea of what this book is all about. A little underrated in my opinion. Everybody goes on and on because of the subject matter, but I think it's fine. You know, it's just a little not safe for work comedy. Next up, we've got Beastars volume 8. This is one of my favorite covers from the series, and this is just firing on all cylinders, man. I love this series so much, and it's a shame that it's ending. I'm happy for it because we can collect the whole thing. I think it's going to be 22 or 23 volumes total, but I just wish it would continue just a little bit more. Regardless, this is amazing stuff. I did a video on this book on my channel a few months ago. It was sent over for reviewing purposes from Seven Seas Entertainment. It is blank canvas my so-called artist's journey. I did a video on the first three volumes. I thought, alright, I'll get the series. I'll read it digitally on my tablet or whatever, but I ended up really wanting it, and it was for sale. At least I got this one volume 2 and volume 3. I got them for close to $5 each, which is insane, and I got them from Book Outlet. Rave Tuber and this were part of the Book Outlet purchase that I made. I got volume 2 already. Volume 3 did not arrive for this video, and I went ahead and ordered the rest, so you'll see it eventually. If you don't know, this is basically an autobiographical manga take on Akiko Higashimura, who, of course, is a famous female mangaka. She did stuff like Princess Jellyfish, and it's her live story drawn. She's doing her own take on her story, and the ups and downs and all the stuff she goes through with her sensei and all that stuff. Just a really fantastic, wonderful story that I think everybody will enjoy if you check it out. Go watch my video. I want the little in-depth with the first three volumes on that. I need to read everything again to make a proper series review and cover the remaining two volumes. Finally, the last manga on this haul is, of course, Junji Ito's Venus in the Blind Spot. It took me a while, but I finally got it, and eventually I'll do a video on this because I do reviews on almost all the Junji Ito stuff that is available, localized. This is no exception, a collection of horror stories, short stories, I should say, and there is some double dipping, which is, yeah, it is what it is. I don't mind that much, but it's fun because it has some really cool colored pages and all that fun stuff. That is the manga haul. Let's go into anime. I am missing two shows, and that would be Fire Force and Dr. Stone that came out on Blu-ray, but they literally shipped a day before filming this, so I can't possibly show you guys, but you'll see it eventually on the October haul. Here we have Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Golden Wind Part 1. I love this. It looks fantastic. However, it sucks that this does not match with the previous released sets. Those were big cases, black cases with selective coloring and all that stuff, some were like chromium, others were purple, bluish, yellowish tones, and this just breaks the mold, and that's fine, I guess, but this set is thinner. It's the same price. You don't get nearly enough content because you only get the Blu-ray here with the half the series, and the booklet is more like a pamphlet really, so they skimmed down on all of this. You no longer get the storyboard animations, which I really loved. You no longer get the lenticulars, although they kind of stopped that a while ago, but still. I think it's kind of crappy for the company to take all that stuff out, make it smaller, make it not match. It's only like a few centimeters smaller than the previous sets and still charge the same amount. At least give me a sizable or small discount. You know, maybe two or three bucks and I would have been okay with it, but still, I don't know. It's sort of left a bad taste at my mouth. Anyways, here is Jojo's Part 5 Golden Wind, so I'm really excited to finally watch this. I've been patiently waiting for this suit so I can binge Part 5. Next up, we've got one of the best anime films, in my honest opinion, from an artistic point of view. It is one of the best. This is Weathering with You. I wanted to grab the steel book, but then I thought, I don't really need the steel book, and then they announced the 4K Collectors Edition. It's a little bit too pricey for what you're getting, because you're getting the 4K Edition, which is great, but I don't really care for all the other extra stuff. I just wanted the movie on 4K, and the price tag was 80-something dollars. I think that's a little bit too much for what it is. I don't know if you guys know, but it was recently solicited. Funimation is coming out with the Akira 4K box set, which has nearly the same materials, and that's much lower in price. I don't know, I think it's a little bit too much, so I'm comfortable with just owning this, and I got this for, I want to say, 14 dollars, which beats the 80 dollar mark, in my opinion. I don't know, it would have been fun to own the 4K Edition, but with the money I'm saving, I could put it towards good use getting other manga and other shows and all that stuff. That's at least that's my way of thinking. And finally, the last blu-ray on this haul is something that I've been wanting for ages, ever since the original release. This is Sakura Quest, a complete series, but the essentials edition. I've always wanted this because I think like three years ago, I think it was three years ago when I first watched the series, I'd love the characters and the kooky premise. I'm all about weird odd plots and what characters do in those circumstances, and the fact that the character gets sent to you of far away town, and you know, all the crazy people that are living in this town, and how she's supposed to highlight tourism and all that stuff. Regardless, one of the strong points about this series, this is going to be very niche, one of the plot points is that the mascots when she gets there is an actual chupacabra. Legendary cryptids, I love me cryptozoology, I love reading about that stuff, I love all those creatures. It's super fascinating to me. And to have my own cryptid, because the chupacabra obviously debuted in Puerto Rico, so to it be featured on an anime, one of my favorite mediums, artistic mediums, I just had to have it for that reason alone. I wasn't going to get the full series because I didn't care that much but then they came out with the complete series, and I sort of forgot about it. Now they released this for much cheaper, it is the essentials edition, basically the greatest hits line from Funimation, so I finally have it and that is really cool. Moving on from anime and manga, I do collect comics, my channel focuses on all three. I do have a couple comics here, and I opted out from getting the Absolute Swamp Thing run from DC and Vertigo, and instead I'm just getting the series, the Alan Moore series, and trade paperback, so I got Volume 3 here with me. From the book outlet purchase, I got Godzilla Complete Rulers of Earth Volume 2. I don't have Volume 1 yet, so I had to order it recently. Basically this volume is out of print and not necessarily pricey but rare online, and if you find a copy, people, this was cover price $30, people are charging maybe twice the amount, and I don't do that for comics at all or graphic novels, so I said, you know what, if I can find Volume 2 at a good price, I'll get everything, I'll get the whole series, which is just two trades, but still. I was wandering through book outlet because I remembered, oh, they sell books for cheap, you know, that they're getting at a discount, and I typed in Godzilla and this showed up, I'm like, oh, yes, and I ordered it right away. So now that I have Volume 2, I went ahead and picked up Volume 1, so you'll see it eventually. Plus, this is a really chunky book, fantastic art. I mean, I love Godzilla, I love Kaiju movies and all that stuff, so to have a comic with all these characters is really, really awesome, in my opinion, look at that, I love it. So I got this for $10, which is a steal, in my opinion, and speaking of Godzilla, I have to give a massive shout out to Omnidog himself, Jess Bragg, for hooking me up and helping me get this book because this was out of print for a long time, and it came back into print, and it happened to coincide with a week that I couldn't get it, and I was worried that I was gonna miss out, so Jess was kind enough to pick this up for me, and I paid for it, and he shipped it out. So thank you so much for helping me acquire this, this is the reprint of Godzilla of the half-century war from James Stoco over at IDW. I've had this series on my tablet digitally through comicsology and all that stuff, but I wanted a physical copy, so now I do. This thing is beautiful and some of the best artwork when it comes to Godzilla comics, in my honest opinion. If you love Kaiju movies, if you love Godzilla and all these characters, I think this is a must-own for your library, just a really cool read. So yeah, Godzilla, half-century war. And finally, of course, my favorite DC superhero is Aquaman, so I had to do it. This came out a while ago, but I totally slept on it, and I was okay taking my time because I know that not everybody's gonna jump on board to grab late 70s, early 80s Aquaman material, so I got it. This is Aquaman Deadly Waters Oversize Hardcover, and this is the finale when it comes to the Silver Age stuff, and it goes into Bronze Age, which was somewhat collected. We're still missing a lot of volumes when it comes to Aquaman, but I'll take what I can get, right? Also, if you follow graphic novels, you know that they released The Search for Mira, Death of a Prince, and this, and somebody pointed out to me recently on the Omnibus Collectors Network, all these three books could have been bound together into an omnibus. I would have named it The Deadly Waters Omnibus, or something like that, and feature all three oversized hardcovers, but now we got three separate releases, because why the heck not? Regardless, I'm still super excited about this. Always great to have hardcovers for my favorite DC characters, since he doesn't really get a whole lot of love on the Collected Editions Department. So we're finishing off the haul here with a couple of video games, because I love me some video games, and this is something that I've been eyeing for a while, and it was on sale at the lowest price point yet, about, I think it was $30 from a retail price of $79.99. It is the Sega Genesis Mini. I grew up with Sega more so than Super Nintendo at the early 90s, so this is hitting the nostalgia geek spot real hard, and I have some really cool plans for it that I can't talk about in this video, but you probably know what I'm referring to. So yeah, I'm very much looking forward to you tolling with this. This is awesome. 42 games, which they're all pretty decent, a really nice library of essentials when it comes to Genesis, unlike the PlayStation Classic Mini. The Nintendo ones, they did good. I do want to get the TurboGrafx one, it just, I don't want to spend a hundred bucks on it, but I would like to own that at some point. So yeah, I'm really excited about this, plus the fact that the box is bigger than the actual mini console. It's the size of the palm of my hand. I got that, and for the Switch, I got two games here. I actually did get more Switch games. They just didn't arrive in time. As a birthday gift, I did acquire three or four games that I will talk about later. I don't want to ruin the surprise for anybody, but I got the Street Fighter 30th anniversary collection. If you watched my recent, the previous haul video, I showed you the Street Fighter books that I've been collecting. I have four out of the eight or nine of them. I can't remember right now. So I've been in a really cool mood to play Street Fighter. And I got this, which goes up to the many versions of Street Fighter 3, because it's a lot of versions of Street Fighter 30 years worth in one cartridge. And this is pretty funny, not really the first one, but it's the first to get here. This is Shantae Half Genie Hero, which is interesting because this was out of print. This was from Limited Run Games, and I missed my shot at it. And it was going for absurd prices online until recently. I don't know what happened, but it looks like they discovered maybe a crate full of games and several stores were selling them again for maybe twice the amount for like $65 to $70 out of $35 or something like that. And I saw it and I debated this since the beginning of August. Should I get it? Shouldn't I? It's a little bit too much, but then again, it's out of print. It's not coming back. It's a Ultimate Run game. I said, you know what, screw it. And I got it. I treated myself for the month of September as a birthday present. And it just so happens that Limited Run announced that they were doing the original Game Boy game and the sequel for the DSi or the Nintendo DS game. Those two were going to be ported over to the Switch along with Steel Box and a slip cover, all that stuff. So I grabbed those and surprise, due to popular demand, we're going to print this all over again and sell it. Like great. I could have waited for that announcement and would have ordered this for $35. But it is what it is. How was I supposed to know? So now I have one and two. I have this one, which is the fourth game back in May, I believe, or June. I pre-ordered the fifth game from Limited Run. So all I'm missing is the priciest one, Pirate's Curse, which I do have on the 3DS. But I'm praying that it does get a re-release eventually because they saw the sales number for the series and they know, if they put it out again, it's going to sell. So it's just a matter of time. I'm patient. I'll wait until we get Pirate's Curse on the Switch again. So yeah, that is the haul. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. That's a lot of stuff. I'm really excited. There's some stuff missing, obviously, which is going to be great for next month when you do see it. Some really cool stuff. But as a treat for all of you, I am going to give this code away for Sakura Quest. Here is the actual code for you guys. If you get this digital code, please let me know. I don't mind that you're swooping in and grabbing it. I really don't mind because I've done it. It's okay. I just want to know who got it so I can congratulate them and thank them for watching the video. That's it. So if you do get the code, thank you so much for watching the whole thing. Here is the code for Sakura Quest. Let's see if I can... There we go. You can pause that at any point and get the code for Sakura Quest, a complete series. So I hope you enjoy that and have fun with the series. It's a nice comedy. Really cool stuff. So yeah, that's a little token of appreciation for you guys. So thank you everybody for tuning in. Thank you so much for liking, commenting, subscribing, and being a part of A Week in Geekdom. And if you're new here, I do contents like this where I talk about anime, comics, manga on a weekly basis. So subscribe if you can. It'll help out a ton. And I'm hopeful that this channel can grow further and further, right? So thank you so much. I've got to go. I will catch all of you on our next episode.