 these two books, same type of energy. Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode, another edition of What We Can Get Them Here on YouTube. My name is Giovanna Menendez and today we're going to be talking about Reborn Book One from Mark Miller and Greg Capullo over at Image Comics. This is the first volume and as you can see it is a deliciously crafted oversized heart cover that is basically the size of an omnibus right there. So that is always good in my book. So yeah, at the beginning of the video I pulled out this manga, the time I got reincarnated as a slime volume one, and these two books aside from the blue font have something in common. Yes, you are looking at one of the rare modern isekai American made comics. If you don't know what isekai means, basically you know the genre itself can date back to way before manga was ever around. Basically the concept has been around with us for a very long time. Isekai means off-world and it sort of took Japan by storm as I'm going to say it was very prominent in the 90s, but now in the day and age that we're living in it's isekai fever at the time of this recording. So what the heck does off-world mean? Basically your protagonist is sent or reincarnated or transported or willingly goes to a different world that is different from ours in every sense of the word. It's usually depicted as more medieval, Dungeons and Dragons, sort of Lord of the Rings-esque fantasy world where there are dragons, mythical creatures, different races, and the character and the story itself is sort of like this wish fulfillment for the reader of wanting to escape the everyday norms and live out a fantastical life in a different setting. Now with this manga that time I got reincarnated as a slime the character dies and is reincarnated in a different world sort of like a parallel world into a slime creature and it's more action comedy based and all that stuff action adventure. Now with Reborn that I have here it's a little bit different, but at the same time you're going to find some similarities with what I just mentioned here. Basically the story centers around Bonnie Black, she's an old woman in a strobe ward and she's at the end of her life. She has some deep regrets years before being in that ward her husband died from this crazed gunman shooting or something and then later on her father died in a freak accident and you know just a series of events that led her to deteriorate in health and she's old and frail and could go at any minute and she's you know it comes at that point in life where you're worried you haven't made peace with yourself I guess and that's you know that's one of life's greatest mysteries we don't know what's out there. Those of us of faith we have our our teachings and our beliefs and all that stuff but you know there is still that looming uncertainty out there and the book like any good old isekai plays or taps into that when the character is transported into this other world that is very fantastical in nature characters that are unlike anything on earth creatures that defy explanation we don't really know what is happening but our character suddenly in this world she's young she is her younger self again like I think was 25 and is suddenly thrust into this world as the prophesied empress queen that will save the kingdom from the evil rulers that are trying to conquer everything with you know the the usual death and destruction and that old timely trope so what follows and I won't spoil the story for you is a series of events that if you dwell in the off-world genre or as we like to call it now the isekai genre that you know the story beats and you know where the characters are headed you know that there are things that can be a little bit cliche but part of the fun to me of the story is seeing her reaction and and in this new setting and of course the action and just examining the character in a different way because she suddenly has a new lease on life but at what cost the book does go into or I should say Mark Miller goes into faith regrets love and the bond that we share as family friends as humans and how our actions can transcend time and space if you will how our actions can create a better world for better or worse but in essence time is a very precious thing the character work is pretty black luster some of them like our protagonist when faced with this new world this new circumstance takes it surprisingly well and that was a little disappointing for me I thought she would have been a little bit more awestruck by all the rapid things happening all of a sudden but do keep in mind that the story is fairly simple in nature and her reactions sort of fit with what is happening Bonnie accepts her fate pretty quickly and that reminded me a lot of the isekai stories I have read her scene she's the chosen one from prophecy so I suppose her crazy learning curve is expected the characters are a little trophy and one-dimensional but it's more about the experience and the journey with this book and certainly the artwork does enrich that experience the art in this book is simply breathtaking I love brookable's artwork and here you know he is a veteran and he is doing just amazing work on this title and you kind of you gotta if you're doing a book like this you got to bring somebody that can have that fantastical sensibility that can tap into just very hardcore imagery but at the same time subtleties in the characters expressions and the way everybody looks the landscapes it's all very fantastical and it looks straight out of a fantasy book and capua just nailed it in my honest opinion everybody looks beautiful even the most disgusting of characters it still looked great having the story in this larger format really benefits the reading experience in my honest opinion the dust jacket is fantastic this is the dcbs variant in case you were wondering but inside the dust jacket you can see this cool foil image of Bonnie and at the back nothing much it's built very well the dust jacket and the book is very squeaky for some reason as you might have heard when I was moving it around but still it is a well-constructed book it's only six issues if I remember correctly there there was a point in the book and it does center around that character over there where I thought I get what they were going for but I found it a little bit hokey and it took me out of the story for a minute some of the dialogue just I was like okay like all this sense of wonder and everything just went down the drain for one split second so I if you can ignore that part you're gonna be treated with a wonderful quick to read story about people trying to do their best to survive and and how our actions affect others it does sort of end rather abruptly for me like I liked how it ended but man if the story could have been like a 12th issue thing and you would have spent a little bit more time world building it I think it would have been a hit some would say like six issues is enough I do there is an interview in the bonus section where Miller talks about the run being like a five volume thing if you can do that and and that can come out that would be great I do believe there is a live action Netflix adaptation coming out soon with Sandra Bullock I hope so otherwise this video is going to be terribly dated but for the most part I thought that it could have been fleshed out just a little bit longer because there are some really interesting concepts and I hate when you get something cool and it's thrown away in exposition dialogue like it's nothing like oh there's the caves of something and those caves are famous for whatever and then they move on to the next thing here is the precipice of despair where souls go to yari yari you catch my drift like these concepts you're introducing them but usually you're not giving the reader enough time to really feel what the characters are experiencing because if I go to that place I want to learn about that place I don't want it to be a footnote in the big map at the end of the story where the character started from this point and went on to X point to finish the story I personally think a 12th issue run could have fleshed out things a little bit more the main villain it's a cool concept I will say I think we've had villains like that before but it's a cool idea that they want their end goal to be about earth I thought that was pretty I thought that was pretty neat but yeah regardless if you like the sort of off-world tale and you want a quick read with fantastic artwork then yeah give it a shot Reborn is a pretty solid entry into the Miller world as you can see supposedly all his titles are interconnected I haven't done the math per se so I don't know how it connects to any other of his works but if it does let me know down below I'll be interested in finding out so yeah it's a fun book regardless pick it up if you can it's a cheap book you can find it at different websites Reborn up one really cool in my opinion so yeah guys thank you so much for watching another installment here at a wiki geekdom as always thank you for liking commenting subscribing and just being a wonderful part of this awesome community I'd love being here and I'd love that I get to share a few minutes of my time Hawking and geeking out about my favorite things with you guys as always follow me on your favorite social media platform that's very important follow me on Facebook Twitter Instagram for more stuff when I'm not posting videos I'm over there doing some other stuff I'm also on the omnibus collectors network with omnibros live so if you don't see videos on my channel I'm probably over there working with my 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