 Hey everybody, welcome back to the manga geekdom. Today we're doing another haul video for the month of June and the start of the summer manga haul season. This will be video one of three of all the cool stuff that I get in the summer. We got a lot of books to cover so let's get started. Let's begin the haul with some Kodansha books. We got two releases here that I was looking forward to. The first one being Sugumi Project from Ipatu. This is one of my most anticipated books of 2023 or at least the first half of the year. Really excited to finally have this in my hands. I love this cover. I love the art and the premise. Basically after a nuclear fallout, Japan has become something else in the future. Something mutated with chimera-like monster hybrid beasts and the human characters are venturing in to retrieve a special weapon item that they need. I mean check that out. Super amazing in my opinion. Really excited to have this. And the next one isn't as exciting for a lot of people. I know, I know. But it's one of my guilty pleasures. It is Rent a Girlfriend. Here is volume 19 of this series. Still trucking along. I'll say that much. Silly story, I guess. So yeah, got these two books. Let's take a look at the spine here. Looking pretty cool. I'd set that aside. Let's talk about some Yen Press books. First one that we're going to talk about here is Handyman Saito in another world from Kazutomo Ichitomo. This is also one of my most anticipated releases of the year and we follow Saito. He has been isekai-ed into another world and he was a former handyman in our world in Japan. So now that he's in this fantasy world, he belongs to this group here that go treasure hunting and doing basic fantasy stuff you see in like RPG games and other fantasy manga and anime. Now the cool thing about it is that these four have a really wholesome, nice relationship. They actually care about each other, watch each other's backs. There's no backstabbing or controversy and stuff like that. I love the art on this. It's a little bit rugged. If you've seen the anime, C2C did a beautiful job at it, but the original has its charm as you can see here with the sketchy artwork. At first it's a little episodic in nature, but as you keep reading, you're going to find out more about the characters' backstories, the beautiful friendship that forms, why that is. All the background characters, if you will, they all have a role to play in the story by the end of it. So yes, this is super exciting to have. Volume 1 can't wait for volume 2 to collect the series. And I got a book that has been on everybody's list as one of the best comedy slash fantasy books and all that stuff. And for some reason, I don't know, maybe it's because of space issues. I know it's ongoing at the moment, but I decided to finally pick up Delicious in Dungeon. So here's volume 1 of the series. I have never read this. I'm looking forward to it. I think I'll like it because of the fantasy setting. So yeah, I went ahead and started with the first two volumes right here. I do like the art on this, and I am excited for the anime adaptation. So I wanted to start reading the series before then, take a look at the spines real quick for these Yen Press titles once again. Let's do, let's move on to Viz Media. Last haul video I showed you Pokemon Adventures Black and White. Here is volume 3. I do have volume 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 on the way. Volume 8's missing, but I'll get that soon. But yeah, I went ahead and picked up all of Black and White, but the only one I got here to show you is volume 3. It's so nostalgic because I remember when I first played Black and White back in the day. So it's nice to go back to this and relive those memories of that game. And of course, with the new story, this is actually my first time reading the Black and White manga adaptation. Set that aside. Here we have Ayashimon, volume 2, from Yuji Kaku. One more volume to go. That is a little out of focus. There we go. One more book to go and we'll have the full series. Next up is Call of the Night, volume 12. I have been working on a video for this series. It should come out soon. It's just things have been happening that have delayed a lot of things on the channel, but I am working on a little bit more of a deep dive on Call of the Night and Kotoyama. So yeah, excited to talk about this vampire manga. I'm not typically a vampire fan, but this was the exception. I really took a liking to the series, the characters, the amazing artwork. I love this series so much. So yeah, more of this please. Can't wait for volume 13. This is getting an anime soon. It is Friere and Beyond Journey's End. Here we have volume 8. The anime should debut, I think it's later this year or early next year, one of the two. And it should cover the first six volumes. But yeah, excited to get volume 8. I'm going to read through this and go back. I made a first impressions video when volume 1 came out. It's been a long time, so I want to come back to this and do another deep dive on Fjeden and how good it is. But yeah, let me show you some of the art here. Looking pretty awesome, if you ask me. We got Insomniacs After School, volume 2. I talked about volume 1 in a reading vlog that I did. The anime I really enjoyed. So I will happily continue collecting the manga and enjoying the story that way. But yeah, here's some of that great art, lovely character designs. And here is Beast Complex, volume 3. I don't know if this is supposed to be the last of the Beast Complex series, but it's cool. You know, after finishing Beast Stars, it's awesome to have a little bit more of this world and the lovely characters. Let's take a look at the spines of all these books together. Love how different everything looks, but they all look super nice. Let's do Seven Seas. We got The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes, Ultramarine, Volume 4, The Finale. I haven't read it yet. I'm excited. Can't wait to read through it and make a full video on it. I've been waiting ever since I read volume 1 to talk about this wonderful little series. You can get a feel for the beautiful character designs for the series. Another one over here is Yakuza Reincarnation, Volume 6, a wonderful Isakai story with great artwork and action. Take a look at this. I love talking about this series because of the great character work here done by Hiroki Miyashita. Forget the name for a second. Sorry. Look at that. It's pretty awesome. And this next batch of books, I watched the show, immediately fell in love with it. And after I was, I think it was one or two episodes away from finishing the first season, I said, you know what? I'm going to collect this series. And that is the dangers in my heart. Here is volume 1. I got all of it. That's available from 7Cs. Volume 2. Here's volume 3. Volume 4. And the cover here for volume 5. Volume 6 is coming up in July, so I got that pre-ordered. I can't wait to add this to the collection. So if you don't know what the dangers in my heart is, we follow these two characters right here. Ichikawa and Yamada. And Ichikawa is an anti-social boy in class, and he unfortunately has some really disturbing thoughts about his friends. And that's all because of feeling that he hasn't been seen by his friends and peers or heard by others. So that frustration sort of developed into this macabre obsession of thinking the worst of people in this classroom. But he doesn't feel seen until he meets in the school library. This young lady, Yamada over here, she is the idol of the class, but she's also a model and actress outside of school. But she also has a couple issues of her own. She's not the cliched popular girl that you might think, even though she is pretty popular. She just wants to hang out with friends and enjoy an obscene amount of sweets which goes against her profession, obviously. So that leads to a lot of laughs within the story. That you have a chance encounter in the library and slowly become friends and Yamada influences Ichikawa to sort of change his ways and he starts to become a much better person as a result. The art is a little funky at first, but you quickly get used to the character models. Obviously later on in the story they're much more refined to what people expect as you can see here. It's progressed a little bit different here from Volume 1. You can sort of see Yamada's face has changed since Volume 1. So that's pretty cool. I like the quirky aspect of this pair and I love the art and the story is pretty wholesome and nice. So yeah, I was happy to pick up the dangers in my heart. But we're all the spines together. We've got a couple big releases here from Seven Seas. The first one we're going to take a look at is Don't Call It Mystery Volume 1 and 2, I guess, the first omnibus edition. Story and Art by Yumi Tamura, one of the more famous mangaka in the realm of Jose and Chojo manga. This mystery detective series is pretty renowned, has live action adaptations and just beautiful artwork. I've heard this is a dense read so I'm looking forward to it. And yeah, I will be covering this in a future video. Pretty exciting to finally get this book and talk about such a famous and beloved series. Another one over here, oversized edition is Marmalade Boy, collector's edition Volume 2. I need to make a video on this as well, but I want to read all of it because I've seen the anime for this. But don't remember much, I have to be honest. So I would like to read the story in its entirety and do a little deep dive on Marmalade Boy. But you can see some of the art here. It does have the colored pages, which is always great. Look at that. And the last one here is Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko Deluxe Edition Volume 2. Did not have a problem getting this compared to Volume 1 where I had to wait at least seven months, I think six months to get the first book. This I got right away and it shipped all that cool stuff. So yeah, here's some of that art looking really gorgeous. And this is fine. Let's take a look at everything here together. Love me some big releases for manga, oversized editions, yes please. I got two more releases and I totally forgot to highlight this when I was talking about the Vizbooks. This is a book that I have been wanting for years and I totally forgot to get it. I just kept forgetting about it and placing it on my to buy list and never getting to it. I wanted to get this manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda a link to the past by Shotaro Ishino Mori, a famous creator from things like Cyborg009. So yeah, super happy to have this. It's like a western comic which I don't care. I'm just happy to have this. I love the artwork on this and this is one of my favorite Zelda manga adaptations looking phenomenal. And I got it for cheap too. This is what is this? Cover price of 20 bucks. I think I got this for less than $10 on Amazon I think. Last but not least, we got something special here. You probably saw it in the thumbnail. It is the new reprint of Old Boy. This is from Distrito Manga. This is the Spanish release. I speak two languages so I have no problem in getting this. I saw this at Walmart of all places and the funny thing about it is that I was criticizing them because all I see are Viz books like Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and My Hair Academia stuff like that. Truckloads of those books and I was getting pretty bored and tired and then one day they just magically restocked and added things from other companies and this happened to be there and thought, oh did they get a reprint of Volume 1 in English? Let's go. I looked at it and I'm like, wait a minute, this is different. It's a hardcover, it's a 3 in 1 and it's in Spanish. Okay. But I got it either way. It's only going to be three releases to collect the whole thing, which is pretty awesome. Here's the bank of the book and just in time, right? Because the movie is getting a re-release, the remastered edition or something like that. Here is Old Boy, Volume 1 of this edition, which would be the first three volumes of the original release, but this is pretty cool. I've been wanting to have Old Boy in my collection for a long time, but I wasn't up for hunting the volumes online because they're out of print and sometimes they go for a bunch of money. It's roughly the size, just a little bit bigger than a Deluxe 7C's release. Just because of the hardcover binding makes it a little bit taller. And you can take a look here at the binding of the book. So if you can read Spanish and you don't mind forking over a little bit more money from your standard release, I do recommend getting this Spanish edition for Old Boy. Again, by Distrito Manga, which would translate to Manga District in English. So that's going to be it. That's the haul for now. I do have some anime releases that I do want to show, but I'm going to save them for a later video when we do the July haul because it's only, I think I got like three releases here, but I do have a bunch more that are coming in the mail and it's a bunch of discotech releases and some other stuff that's a little bit older on DVD that long went out of print, but I was able to acquire. So yeah, I'm excited to talk about that stuff. We'll save that for another time. So that's going to be it for now. Thank you everybody for tuning in. I truly do appreciate it. You guys are the best. Thank you for the likes, the comments, the subscriptions. Thank you. Thank you. Truly appreciated. 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