 Everybody, welcome back to another sweet and lovely haul here at a week in Gietem, Gio here. Let's do it. All right, everybody, let's get started with some cool manga action. Here we have volume 15 of Dr. Stone. I don't wanna show too much of the art because I haven't read this yet, but let me show you a quick panel right there. Love me some Boichi art and can't wait to continue reading Dr. Stone right here. Next up, we've got volume 20 of Demon Slayer and I really can't show anything from inside just in case you haven't read it because we're near the end. Just three more volumes and we're done with this series. Next up here is volume 26 of My Hero Academia. I have to catch up with this series. I'm like two volumes behind so I have no idea what's happening. But yeah, this series is continuing to fire on all cylinders and cannot wait. Really fun stuff. I had to do it. I'm trying, slowly but surely, I'm trying to collect that, build that Urusawa library. But here is Asadora volume one. Volume six I think is the latest one out in Japan. So it's really awesome that we're already collecting this series in English. That is awesome. I love it. But Asadora is a wonderful series and I will be uploading a first impressions on this volume pretty soon. So look forward to that. This has a really cool artwork inside. Here's some of that wonderful artwork right there. Really dynamic and expressive and just really quick paste and fluid. Just a wonderful read. Asadora's promising to say the least. So you're probably wondering, why the heck do I have just this lone volume here? Pokemon Adventures, Ruby and Sapphire volume 15. Well, that's very easy to explain. I have the first two boxes which goes up to volume 14 and I didn't wanna upgrade and get rid of those because those mean a whole lot to me. They're gifts from family members and I wanted to keep them obviously. So I tried, I was going to get the collector's edition. However, I'd be missing one volume which is this one volume 15. As you can see here, I have this chunky boy right here, Pokemon Adventures collector's edition volume six right there. And now I kinda wanna do an upgrade and double dip. But nonetheless, I have volume six here which contains a volume 16, 17 and 18 right in the middle of the Ruby and Sapphire adventure. Now it lines up great. I have the first two box sets, then volume 15 and then I can continue reading the series in this format. But seeing these books and how nice they look, I should say, I kinda wanna double dip. I'll keep the two box sets. Don't get me wrong, but I will probably at some point get the corresponding volumes for that box set, you know? The first five collector's edition. So we'll see. Moving onward, we've got Beastars volume 10, one of my favorite series and it's so frustrating to collect this because they're taking so long to get everything. We're not even at the halfway point. It's crazy. But nonetheless, I'm very excited that we have volume 10 right here and yeah, looking forward to reading more of this. I should wait a little bit and get volume 11 and then continue my read through because it's a quick read and a very fantastic story and just beautiful artwork. Well, this was unexpected. Here we have Gantz finally. I caved and got it. I made a review a couple months ago as of this video on Gigant and I am a big Oku fan. Hiroya Oku, his art is magnificent. I love it. So I wanted to get one of the OGs that everybody likes and talks about. I know what happens in this. I know the story. I've never read it, but I've been spoiled and thanks to some YouTube videos and I know everything that happens. But nonetheless, I'm really excited to begin to these omnibus editions. So hopefully Dark Horse keeps publishing these omnis. Hopefully, right? Next up, we've got something that I think everybody should. Let me adjust the camera right there. There we go. Tekkon Kinkuri, Black and White, all in one edition from Tayo Matsumoto. I think everybody should have that in their library. It is fascinating. I'm digging into this for the first time and really loving it. Cannot wait to talk more in depth about it because why the heck not? And Matsumoto is one of the legendary mangaka and I wanted to dig into his repertoire of collected editions. So here is one of the classics, modern classics, Tekkon Kinkuri. I'm really excited to talk about it. But yeah, this is a great book. It's the size of a trade paperback which is always welcomed. I'm a fan of collected editions and the bigger the better, oversized artwork all the way, right? Speaking of wonderful reads, I haven't talked about it on the channel but I am reading and I am up to date with Blood and the Tracks from Shuzo Oshimi. And I said, you know, I'm missing a really cool title that everybody always talks about and I wanted to start beefing up my physical library of manga and graphic novels and all that stuff. So I went ahead and picked up the Flowers of Evil Complete Edition or the Omnibus editions or whatever you wanna call it. But this is such a really cool looking series and I remember the crappy anime that everybody hates. Don't worry about it. I didn't, I never watched it. So this is gonna be my first read through of this series. I cannot wait. If I loved Blood and the Tracks, I know I am going to dig this as well. So I have all of it here. Here is volume two right there. And let's see if I can fit it all on camera. There's volume three right there. Can we fit volume four? Probably, yeah, there's volume four right there. The Complete Flowers of Evil. Or the Flowers of Evil Complete, I should say. Sorry about that from Shuzo or Shibi. Can't wait to dig into this. All right, moving on to some anime. Finally, I own this. It is one of my favorite series of 2019 and 2020. It is Ascendance of a Bookworm, probably one of the best isekai titles that you can read or watch or whatever, whether it's the light novel, the MAG adaptation or this anime adaptation. It is a splendid, wholesome series that I cannot recommend enough. I'm really excited about this. However, I do have one complaint and I know the company's not gonna care since I, but whatever. I mean, here's, that's it. It's for such an expensive title. That's all you get. Just a disc right there. No internal artwork for the slip cover. No internal art right here. Or a paper slip or something. Come on, guys. You can do better than that. Next up, a classic sports title that everybody loves and it's really impressive that Discotheque Media can get this license, put 24 episodes on Blu-ray with a great transfer quality and charge less than a Funimation release for half a 24-episode season series at like $48. This was 32, I think, at right stuff. It's insane to me, but hey, whatever. But nonetheless, I got Adjimeno Epo, the fighting collection number one. See, this is what I'm talking about. Look at the care that went into this. You got the slip cover and alternate artwork right there. You open it up. Let's do that here live or not live. You know what I mean. See, you got both Blu-ray discs and you have artwork right there at the back. This is what I'm talking about. Speaking of Discotheque Media, here is another classic brought back to life in 4K Ultra HD. Of course, it is Lupin III, the Castle of Cagliostro, the 40th anniversary edition. I have seen this movie, but I've never owned it, which is insane, but I was missing the Cagliostro Blu-ray. And I always forgot to pick it up. And when they announced this, I was like, all right, now's the perfect time to get this wonderful movie. And here you have alternate artwork. This is what I like to see, not what Sentai's doing with their expensive releases. Finally, here is Violet Evergarden from Funimation, the complete series. I'm missing the movie, but I'll get that eventually. I'll watch this first, and then I'll grab the movie on Blu-ray. But I was missing this to continue my Kyoto Animation collection, right? And as a special treat, I'm gonna show you guys as all I like to do on these videos. Here's the code for Violet Evergarden. If you grabbed it, let me know in the comment section. So that's it for the anime and manga. And typically I would close out the video. However, I do have more stuff. So this is the others section. So here are a couple of graphic novels, trade paper bags, heart covers, whatever you wanna call it for some Western comics that I enjoy. Here we have Monstra's Volume Five. I do have a video talking about the first volume, if you wanna find out what this series is about. If you love manga and anime with themes similar to like Wolf's Rain, Last Exile, that type of aesthetic, I think you're gonna be right at home with Monstra's, in my opinion. Marjorie Lu really did a good job. Sana Takeda's artwork is fantastic in this. So yeah, I do recommend Monstra's. Here's something really cool, really fun looking. This is the final edition of Paper Girls Book Three from Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chang, and a whole bunch of other wonderful people that worked on this title from Image Comics, a really awesome stuff. Again, I did a Volume One review, so if you wanna check that out, I highly recommend it as well. This is the final volume of the Heart Covers, completes everything, a wonderful stylistic-looking 80s-inspired series. So yeah, really cool stuff, I love Paper Girls. A little bit late, but here is Klaus from Grant Morrison, The Life and Times of Santa Claus. This is a really fun, action-packed, trippy reimagining of Santa Claus. I've reviewed the past two Heart Covers on the channel if you wanna check that out. And this third one looks really cool. I love Dan Morizant work. It's very animated manga-inspired, but nonetheless, here is the third Heart Cover looking really stansy as well. Last but not least, let's talk some video games because I love playing some games, and here is Immortals Phoenix Rising for PS4. It was originally supposed to be for the Switch and the receipt tag from Amazon said, Switch Edition, but I got the PS4 Edition. You know what, I don't really care. I'll play it regardless. I got it for the same price as the Switch Edition, so I don't mind. Plus, if I ever get the PlayStation 5, I can upgrade it, right? The upgrade patch. So here is Immortals Phoenix Rising. Next up, I've got from Luminant Run Games. Here we have Metal Slug Double X. This was really cool. When I got this in the mail, I had a flashback to a really cool memory of this. Typically, you know, limited run games, you pre-order, and you have to make sure to do it in time because everybody, you know, you're fighting bots, you're fighting scalpers, you're fighting a whole lot of other nerds that want the title as well, or the game in this case. And with Metal Slug, I've played them, I've played them all in the arcades and digitally I have a few on the Switch that I downloaded and all that stuff, but I've never owned a physical copy of a Metal Slug game, and I really enjoyed it. One of my favorite memories was playing with my dad, Metal Slug 3, which is my favorite, and we did the co-op thing and beat the game, which was really fun. So when this came out for pre-order, that day I was at work and the pre-orders went live at 10 in the morning, I think, or close to that, and I had my laptop ready. I jumped on it and I don't know if something happened or bots beat me to it, but that first wave sold out and I couldn't get it and I was pissed. The next round would be the same day at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So I left work and, you know, this is July 2020, full COVID swing, if you will. So when I left, I am very OCD about health and hygiene and all that stuff, and especially nowadays with what's going on, I'm extra, extra cautious with that stuff. So when I got home, I disregarded every protocol. I disregarded every protocol. I opened the car door and instead of going in and doing the whole cleaning procedure and setting everything apart to disinfect and all that stuff, I popped open the laptop. I said, no, I can't wait for all that stuff. I had logged in, limited run. It was 5.59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Logged in my info, got the frickin' order and I'm like, finally. My whole family is looking at me super weird. My dad was like, okay, you're done, cool. You just wasted five minutes of your life. But I said, you know what, it's worth it because I wanna own a frickin' Metal Slug XXX. This was actually the seventh game, if I remember correctly, which was released on the DS and I played that, but I wanted to own it because why not? I'm still waiting for them to announce a frickin' Switch collection. Like, I don't know if they'll ever do it, but like Metal Slug, like the Anthology, do another version of that, but include everything up to XXX. That would be so awesome. I want that. But regardless, here it is, limited run. And it does include the card, which I don't know if you guys enjoyed watching that, that stuff, but here's the inside right there. They're looking really cool. That's a fun game. It's a little bit weird to play it on PS4. This definitely plays a lot better handheld and on the Switch, but what are you gonna do? Next up, speaking of Switch games, I got two more that I wanna show you guys right here. Of course I have to get this. Everybody got it, right? In Super Mario World, or Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury. I never owned a Wii U, so this is the first time that I'm playing this. Really excited to get into that. And another limited run. This one, it doesn't have a particular story, because this is the title that not everybody's gonna be after, but it looks awesome. Gave me some really creepy Lovecraftian vibes with Junji Ito madness. So I went ahead and picked up the physical edition of Return of the Obra Dinn. This looks really cool. This mystery investigation style with that really cool PC era style artwork. I really, I'm looking forward to playing this and figuring out what the hell's happening. But yeah, really excited. Let me show you the card inside, right? Does come with a manual, which is always great. I miss those. There's a card right there. Even this freaking Switch game has internal artwork. Yet Sentai for 60 bucks on Ascendance can't give me that. Come on, that sucks. So yeah, I got those two games and I got two more for you. My favorite, whoa, that glare, look at that glare. All right, let me fix that, perfect. I am a huge fan of Metroid. That's my favorite franchise from Nintendo, but I don't own all the games and I want to fix that. I made a video on my second channel, Geo's Arcade, if you wanna check that out and subscribe, where I talked about my Nintendo collection. And one of my goals was completing the Metroid set. I've played the games, but I don't own all of them. So I went ahead and started getting the ones I'm missing. Here's the crappy one that everybody hates, but hey, it's part of the collection, right? Metroid Prime Federation Force for the 3DS. By the way, it had a huge label right there, like a rental copy or something. So I tried fixing it, unfortunately, got a little bit banged up when I ripped the label off, but it's not a great game, so it's okay. And I got Metroid Prime Hunters for the DS, which is really, really awesome. I got some more. You'll have to wait for the next haul video to see them because they haven't arrived as of this video. If Nintendo's not gonna celebrate the 35th anniversary, at least I will. So stay tuned on my second channel for some Metroid goodness. So that's about it, guys. Thank you so much for watching. If you want me to review any specific product that I mentioned here in this haul, leave those comments down below, and I'll gladly get to work on that. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in. Thank you for all the likes and supporting a week in Geekdom. It truly does mean a whole lot. And of course, if you wanna see more content like this, be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you know when new videos pop up. That's all there is. Thank you so much for watching. Once again, I will catch all of you on our next video.