 Hey everybody welcome back to the Manga Geekdom. Today we're doing another haul video for the month of May 2023. Lots of cool stuff coming your way so let's get started. We're going to begin the haul video with this box set right here for Pokemon Adventures Diamond and Pearl Platinum. I kind of got tired of waiting for the collector's editions. I don't know if they're going to put out more. I assume they slowed down because of sales probably. With these things you can never know. They might not put them out anytime soon or the announcement could be right around the corner. Either way I kind of got tired of the wait like I said and decided to pick this up. Fortunately it's still readily available but thankfully founded from an eBay seller. Brand new sealed when I got it and I believe I paid less than 50 bucks for it. I can't remember the exact number of the top of my head but it was something like that. Out of the I believe this was a $90 MSRP and this is one of the flimsiest, crappiest box sets that I've ever owned. It's falling apart on me as you're seeing here. The glue on this side is coming undone but fortunately I'm not going to move this around too much and it's going to stay in place and won't be too much of a hassle. I've never read Gen 4 material so I'm really excited to read the adaptation for those games. Speaking of Pokemon let's keep that train rolling and here we have Pokemon Adventures Black and White Volume 1. When I ordered this I made sure I got the right one and when it arrived I was shocked and for a minute completely forgot about my research on it and said wait did I did I screw up did I get the pocket editions but no it's the right cover it's the right ISBN number so I did get it right I was not aware that Volume 1 was so thin compared to the rest of the series and honestly I don't think we're gonna get Deluxe Collector's editions for the black and white stuff anytime soon obviously we would have to do Gen 4 first right. Regardless the art is fun and I love how different the stories can be compared to the video games and of course compared to the anime adaptation as well I really enjoy the twist that Adventures brings to the table. Let's keep the Viz hype train going for a little bit. I finally found in the wild a copy of Yuji Kaku's Hell's Paradise Volume 1. Really awesome I remember when this first came out I believe it was early 2020 it was the first printing of this and I really wanted it and for some reason I I don't know what happened that I couldn't get and then it went out of print for a good while you couldn't get these books and then they started printing everything back again and all that stuff and now it's a little bit easier however I will admit this is not a priority purchase for me I do want to own this series but I'm in no rush for like VOMO to get the best of me and I guess I'll wait whenever I see Volume 2 out in the wild I'll pick it up. From Kodansha I well I was gonna say finally got all of Battle Angel Alita Last Order that's not technically true but at least with these omnibus editions like the really thick ones this is the final one here Volume 5 from Last Order from here I need to get I believe it was four more single volumes one of them is hard to find but that's okay at least I have the majority of the series and the other single volumes you can get for cheap so I'm not too concerned about that I don't know what the heck is going on in this series I have not read anything from Last Order so I shouldn't be browsing too much into what's happening in this particular volume here Volume 5 but yeah really excited that I'm almost done or at least collecting Battle Angel Alita Last Order really cool here it is Gantz omnibus volume 12 this is a foreign one it's a thick boy right here collecting the final four volumes of Gantz one of the best manga sci-fi stories that I've ever read I genuinely love this series I've never read the conclusion of this obviously this will be my first time so I'm very much looking forward seeing how it all ends and all that stuff and a lot of people want this series to be reprinted in Deluxe Hard Covers I don't know if these sell as well as people might think and obviously this is a brand new product and it doesn't make sense for you to release this now and immediately announce a hardcover so I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon and I am honestly content with having these chunky omnibus editions now this is probably going to be a little controversial I made an order got some bookends I realized that there was an extra book that I did not get and they sent me an extra copy here of my youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected this is volume 19 this is published by Yenpress I've only watched a handful of episodes from the anime adaptation by the time I realized the box had already been crushed and I had thrown it out and uh I guess I got a free book and I think I'll keep it and because I do remember liking the show so what I think I'm going to do here is similar to Hell's Paradise I'm going to put this all for now and eventually if I need to round out an order for free shipping or something or I'm bored and see this out in the wild and find volume one maybe I'll pick it up who knows it wasn't until I started grouping everything together to record this video that I noticed I hauled a ton of seven seas books we got level one demon lord and one room hero volume three I recently talked about the first one in a video I am impressed by this series it really does have some charming characters that I'm kind of fond of already you know with two volumes in so I'm looking forward to reading more adventures obviously with comedy series like this the majority of the book is going to be episodic in nature but that's okay and more than makes up for it with the really cool art that I'm showing off here now this one is a little spicy I can't show you too much inside here is Succubus and Hitman volume four I genuinely like this series it's kick-ass action fun it has a lot of Nazi for work stuff that will get me demonetized and probably banned if I showed it off but I can show you the cover and the spicy back cover which was a little bit awkward I don't think I have any books with such risque art on on the cover if you don't mind macabre themes like it I think you'll be fine with Succubus and Hitman volume five of Yakuza reincarnation I have to admit I'm a little behind on this series but I'll catch up quick it's a fun read here you know it's a nice twist on the isekai genre with the biggest selling point that I can tell you about is the gorgeous art from Hiroki Miyashita love the art on this series Kemonojihen volume five I missed getting this last month and waited until now I believe this particular volume deals with Akira and his backstory with his older brother which was really cool and tragic at the same time and it's kind of based on the yuki onna just a little bit obviously they got ice powers and and yokai themed and whatnot but I really enjoyed their story and made for some compelling drama for the young kids here on the detective agency I talked about this in one of my previous videos here is sword of the demon hunter kijin gintoshou volume two really excited to check this out I was surprised at how much I liked volume one and this looks much more action packed and heavy I can't wait to see what happens love the art love the book with the textured feel can't wait looks awesome in my opinion over here we got die dark volume five this came out a while ago unfortunately I think it was volume four that I preordered from right stuff weeks before the release date and I never got the shipment right away and it went out of stock and I had to wait I think it was like three or four months until I can get a copy and this happened with volume five fortunately the wait was only a month and it's shipped by itself and I recently got it just in time for this video but yeah die dark volume five I need to reread this series because I stopped I think I stopped at like volume three or something but with so much going on in my life I kind of don't remember a lot of things about this so I need to go back and give this another shot because I do love the art I think it is Hayashita's best artistic work in my opinion maybe that's a hot take I do prefer the art here just a little bit more than with Dorohedoro but cool stuff and I do want to point out towards the end here that it does include the crossword puzzle which is one of the most unique extras for a manga release in my opinion and one yen press book it is of course kaolun generic romance volume three loved the first two talked about it on the channel can't wait to find out more about what's happening in this story art on this is just breathtakingly beautiful I love it that's one of my favorite reads right now this year really a great release by the folks at yen press can't wait to dive into this one this was one of my most anticipated books of February the valiant must fall from seven seas a samurai series with a sci-fi twist and I don't remember what exactly happened but I couldn't get the book at the time and eventually three months passed until recently where I was at walmart and they were selling it which surprised the heck out of me I'm like oh okay the valiant must fall I see a lot of people on the internet complaining that all they see out there is viz and kodansha books and I was very happy to spot a seven seas book so I picked it up right away I'm like yes okay I'll grab it I'm actually going to do a video on this because I think it's pretty cool and it will probably go under the radar for a lot of people there's so much stuff coming out not everything gets it's 15 minutes of fame in the spotlight right only one anime this time around and it is the second half of the first season for mushiko tensei really happy that I own this I decided that since I don't really read light novels sorry to those of you that do nothing against it I just got too much stuff going on I decided to collect the series via the anime blu rays the manga from what I've read online and some reddit posts and social media stuff people complain that the manga isn't the best adaptation and they seem to prefer the anime I'd rather at least own it in one format and I chose the blu ray so yeah there we go mushiko tensei jobless reincarnation season one part two and I believe the second season should be starting up soon as of this video so there you go that is the final spring haul if you will I made it a three-parter series because I knew there were going to be smaller hauls I wasn't grabbing as many books as other times and I am happy about the results lately I think it's about quality over quantity in my opinion but what do you guys think did you enjoy this haul did you hate it let me know in the comment section also let me know if you picked up anything that is interesting let me know as well thank you everybody for tuning in god bless stay safe out there I will catch all of you on our next video