 Let's check it out. Let's check it out. There we are. There we are. Awesome. Hi gang. This is Chico. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream where we are live streaming on Twitch and we're live streaming on Rumble. And Rumble live stream should be kicking in soon. And there we are. Very nice. Very nice. Excellent. So we're live streaming on two different platforms. Hopefully we'll be adding more in the future. And for this stream, we are doing comic book readings. We're back in the comic book reading area. And we're gonna do some sweet readings. Some fun readings. Couple of fun readings. Very cute readings. Okay. We're gonna be reading an independent comic by Michael Foran. I couldn't find too much about this artist or this company. They haven't been around for, from 1999 to 2005. They published like a handful comic books. Okay. And this is a silent comic. Silent issue. No words in it. And I found it very cute. And this is one of the comic books, one of the few hundred comic books I ended up buying a couple of years ago from this comic book store, a local comic book store that was dumping a whole bunch of his comics. And he was selling them for 25 cents a pop. So I bought all of these comic books for 25 cents a pop. And I've been going through them for the last year and a half or so, year and a half. And one of the other comics I picked up, 25 cents comics I picked up, was manga. People have asked me to read some manga. I figured we'd read this one, Lum by, I gotta look up the name, Rukiyo Takahashi. Rukiyo Takahashi. And she's, for wonders then, one of the most popular manga artists and the wealthiest manga artist in Japan. So pretty cool. And I found this, I've read other stuff from her. I have some of the other titles as well. I got Ramana, Half, and Mermaid's Tales, and a couple other ones that I just buried. I tried finding them, but I couldn't find them. So what do you call it? Decided to go with this one. One of the reasons I decided to go with this one is because I read this one recently, and I found it really cute. I had a couple places where I was laughing a little bit. So I thought, take away from the heaviness of a lot of the recent live streams, I haven't done too much heavy roof done, cooking stream, and just chilling in the patio and stuff. Lark Bark, how are you doing? Hey, hey, you all? And Chichou, what's up my man? I love me some comic books. Indeed, indeed. Two comic book readings today. I have other, I brought other ones here too. You know, if you're interested to see what manga I've been reading recently anyway. Because of it, you know, people keep on asking me on Sensor2, on other platforms, different places, if I read manga. And my reply is usually, I've read some. I haven't, you know, full series of read Akira, I've read Tekin, Tekirin, I've read... What other full series have I read? I've read another full series, I can't remember which one it is. And I've read some runs of some of the other ones, and some random comics and whatnot. So I thought it was time for us to do a manga reading, but we'll do more in the coming reading sessions as well. But fun stuff. Good Sunday reading session. I don't know if notifications have gone out. And I just figured out, by the way, on Rumble, I've been, I'm enjoying the rainy weather today, are you? Nice, nice. Here it's been smoky in the West Coast because of the fires and stuff, but it's been very hot, very dry. If you're growing plants, it's fantastic. You... What do you call it? As long as you can water the plants, they're loving the sunshine. I know our cannabis plant, tomato plant, basil has been loving it. We've been getting cucumbers and what not, but I know a lot of places are not enjoying the heat because poor forest management and other factors in play are burning people out. Larkbark, yeah, it's been too hot and dry, too hot and dry. I actually wouldn't mind a little bit of rain. That being said, I'm enjoying the hot weather a lot, a lot, but I think people need a little bit of the rain. But just a little note regarding live streaming on Rumble. What I was doing before was when I was setting up the live stream, I kept on saying that it was live streaming as myself and I assumed that was going on my main channel, live stream on my Rumble channel, but it wasn't. It was creating a new, it was live streaming, I'm not sure, under my counter something. So it wasn't going under Chicho and I just did the setting right now and it is now live streaming on my Chicho channel. So apologies for people who were trying to track me down on Chicho for live stream. If you weren't able to catch it, it was just a setting that I was missing. And I'm not sure if notifications have gone out. I doubt it because we've got three people here. One of them is me, one of them is you, Larkbark, another one is a lurker most likely. Jay Powell's in town. That's the third one. Happy Sunday, Chicho and all. Indeed, indeed, indeed. Oh, fun, fun. Twitch went out. Okay, okay. So Twitch just went out. Oh, okay. I've seen slowly probably numbers going to go up, but we're going to wait until, if they go up, if not, we're going to wait around 10 minutes and then we're going to do the read. Okay. While we're waiting, intro, intro wise, I'm on Patreon, substack, subscribe, star. I thought Twitch is having technical issues. I think a lot of people, places are having technical issues. And according to some of the fun sort of theories and rabbit holes you can go down, uh, Mountain Dew's predicting pitch black. It's a bit twitchy. It's a bit twitchy. It's a bit twitchy. Again, we're on Patreon, substack, subscribe, star. You can follow the work there. We are live streaming on rumble and on twitch, on twitch and on rumble over here, right? So you can watch the live streams there. We're going to live stream everything on rumble the way we do on twitch and hopefully add more. This full live stream, because it's a comic book reading, we're not going to go down to any rabbit holes. We're going to do fun, chill readings, right? Happy readings, cute readings. Today, definitely we're going to load up the live stream, the live stream is censored too and definitely it'll go, everything goes on bitchute and odyssey as well. Okay, we do have a guild server. You're definitely welcome to join us there. And if you've been around, you know, I go through this little intro and if you want to enjoy the comic book reads, maybe go get yourself a drink, go get yourself a snack, kick back and enjoy the reading. You got about five more minutes before we get into it, right? Or get yourself a nice cold one, right? Again, we do have a SoundCloud page for podcasts. I've been lazy on it. We will load it on, get on that hopefully in the fall. We do announce on Twitter, Mines, VK, Gap, SoundCloud Notes and Getter. I'll bring up the other logos on there as well when I get the chance. Okay. And as always, for those of you supporting this work on all these platforms and more, Salute Gang. Water is good. Water is good. Let me take these guys down. Let's see. Let's see where we are. Oh, we're off to five. Hilarious. Let's see what we got. Oh, we got three on Rumble. Oh, wow. Hello, people watching on Rumble. I hope you're doing well. This is going to be, even though I live streamed, I think like four times now, Rumble, I forgot to set the setting that it was going to my Chicho channel. So I was live streaming. I guess I don't know what I was live streaming on there, but the live streams are there. They will be uploaded. But this is officially our first live stream on our actual Twitch channel, which is sort of cool. Which is sort of cool. Lark Park. I'm having myself key lime flavored water. Nice. The best and which is delicious. Key lime flavored. Oh, my God. How are you doing? I hope you're doing well. Key lime. Key lime. I know key lime. Where do I know key lime from? Ice cream or something. Sounds delicious. Sounds delicious. So here, while we're waiting for notifications to go out and people to roll in slowly, for those of you that are here, the two comic books we're going to read today. One of them is this one. Rover by Michael Foram from Monkey Supress. So independent publisher. This came out in 2002 or 2003. I couldn't find anything about Michael Foram. Not even on Comic Vi and some of the other main comic book websites I go to. But the only thing I found, I'm assuming this Monkey Supress is his company and they put out like about five, six different comics under this name. Okay. Under this publisher brand. From 1999 to 2005. And most, a lot of those were reprints as well. Lark Park. Key lime flavored water is delicious. It's like having a clean spread. Ah, okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. So bubbly sweet. No. Is it pop? Is it sweet? So we're going to read this. This is a silent issue. No words. Super cute. I liked it. Good storytelling with just visuals. And we're going to read LUM number one by Romiko Takahashi. Okay. From Wunderstand, the best known and wealthiest manga artist in Japan. And this character was introduced in the 1970s under Yurusi Yattosura. That's the manga that it was released under. Let me see if I've got that right. Where are we? Yeah. Yurusi Yattosura. Yurusi Yattosura is the main antagonist, protagonist, the way you want to think about it. So I'm thinking maybe we do the silent reading first. It's a quicker read and this one's super cute as well. There's a couple of places where there's a little bit of skin showing. So I have to go through and put on a little bit of stickies on there so we don't get zapped for a cute anime nudity. All right. Aside from that gang, what are we in? We're in. We're 15 minutes in. Let's do the reading. Let's do the reading. We want to get into the readings gang. We want to get into the readings. So I say we read the silent one first. Should we do the silent one? Let's do the silent one. I'm going to set us up. Okay. We got the angle set and it should be a fun read. I was hoping crack would be here because crack is one of the people that follows us for the comic book stuff to tell us if he knows anything more about Michael Foran. And there was only two issues of this comic and this is number two. Okay. So gang, I'm going to turn off chat. I'll keep my eyes on chat. So you're definitely welcome to comment and stuff like this. And hopefully I won't get confused reading people's comments and stuff. For the first one, it's just going to be imagery. So I don't have to barely have to do any reading. I will try to message him. Okay, I'll do God. Yeah. No worries, I'll do God. Later on when we upload the video, maybe he'll comment if he knows anything. If he doesn't, I'll contact them after the video is loaded up. Say, hey, crack, do you know what this dude? Okay. I'm going to take out notifications. I'm going to take down the chat and I'm going to change our angle. So we're going to read love in the next reading. We're going to read this guy. Okay. And again, I'm just going to do a little intro on this. Hi everyone. This is Chicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book live stream. We're doing a live stream right now. It's August 20th, I believe, Sunday. And we're going to be doing a couple of readings. And I picked out these readings because we're cute. They're fun reads. And the first one we're going to do is a silent issue. And this is one of the comic books I picked up a year and a half ago, a couple of years ago, from a comic book retailer in town that was dumping like a ton of comics for 25 cents a pot. So I picked up this comic for 25 cents and it was in the boxes. I picked up a few hundred boxes of comics that I picked up. And I ended up reading this like a few days ago. And I thought it was a super cute read, very well done artistically because it's a silent issue. The imagery really has to tell you the story. And it does a fantastic job telling the story. Now, this is it put out by an independent publisher called, here, let me take this out of the box so we don't get the glow out of it or on it. This is an independent publisher called, let's see if we can get this thing to focus, their logo is pretty cute, a monkey suit press. And they put out a graphic novel of this character of this or of this comic book. I think it's the first one they put out. And this is issue number two. And it's called Rover by Michael Forab, Foren. And I really couldn't find anything on him personally. Monkey suit press. The first comic they put out was in 1999. And it was literally monkey suit trade paperback. I don't know. There's five issues in it. I don't know what's there. Aside from that, they put out a handful of comics from 1999 with monkey press, monkey suit, trade paperback. And then they had the big problem with Marshall in 2002, adventures of Maya in 2003, 2004. And then they had Rex Steele, Nazi smasher, graphic novel in 2004. And then Rover from 2002 to 2003 with issue number one and two. And then survival machine trade paperback came out in 2003. Those are the only issues, comics that I know that they put out. So that's what we know of this. And one thing I liked is that the back cover, there was a bunch of reviews that were put out by different people saying, you know, the artwork is really good. It's a silent comedy telling story without words is really interesting. So that really intrigued me. I was looking forward to reading this and it was very pleasantly surprised. Okay. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to read this little bit to give you a little intro to this. I believe, yeah, I'm going to read this little bit. And these are the three main characters that we're going to come across in this title. Rover is the main character. And then we got Zep is his best friend. And supposedly, I'm assuming an issue number one, we figured out that FUB was sort of adversary of Rover, but that doesn't really come across. We don't know what the story is of that part. Okay. Now, as far as the intro to this issue goes, follow Rover down into the dark caverns to help him save his new friend, Zep, who has been kidnapped by the devil moles to save him. Rover is forced into an uneasy truth with FUB, his one time rival. Can FUB be trusted to help get Zep back, discover the peculiar and dangerous things waiting in the deep in this charming and addictive series? Right. And I found it sort of sad that there was only two issues of this comic to put out. Right. Because it had huge potential. It had huge potential. Okay. So this is volume number one, issue number two of Rover that came out in 2003 by Michael Foran, published by Monkey Suit Press. Monkey Suit Press is Pat Giles, Michael Foran, Chris McLaugh, Miguel Martinez, Joffrin, Prentice Rollins. Special thanks go out to my beautiful wife, Sarah, Sarah, Michael and Shannon Cobb, Enrico Casarosa, Bill Pressing, Nick Demayo, Mom and Dad, Ellen Wood and the fine crew at Noodle Soup Productions. Copyright 2003, Michael Foran. No part of this book may be reproduced without the expressed and written permission of Michael Foran except for small excerpts for purposes of review. Any similarity between characters, persons or institutions in Rover and those of any person living or dead is purely coincidental and unintentional. First printing November 2003, send inquiries and correspondence to Monkey Suit Press, 170 West End Avenue, Suite 30D, New York, New York, 10023. Letters to Michael Foran or Rover become the property of Michael Foran are assumed intended for publication in whole or in part and may therefore be used for those purposes. As far as the copyright thing here, I think these guys would be super cool with us doing this reading, giving them a little bit of exposure and appreciating their efforts for putting out a fantastic comic book that as a comic book collector goes for me, I was very, very pleasantly surprised with. So we're going to go quiet. This is a silent comic book and we're just going to appreciate the artwork and the storytelling. Okay, okay. I hope you like. I thought that was a fun read. I thought that was, it's cute. It was very cute. These characters had huge potential like the way the storytelling was going. It's unfortunate that the series only had two issues and I don't think they've appeared again. But nice artwork. Here's Rover number one and you can pick these up on the cheap premiere issue. So I might try to track this down. Just get one and two together and you can buy it on eBay fairly easily and inexpensive in search of monkey suit. And this is the graphic novel they put out. I think the first story that they put out. Very cool. Very cool. Just to read these guys, just the reviews, the pages are triumphs of comic format. The complex structure makes reading worthwhile, the more so because it's more complicated to describe than it is to read and understand. In practice, it works beautifully to flesh out the world. Jonathan Draper Carson, comics worth reading. Not many cartoonists can tell a compelling story without words, but Foran does it cleverly and with great deal of personality. Chris Ekman, nine art. Rover is so far in a class with only a few other comics accessible to and enjoyable from for beginning readers and not English speakers. This is a comic field, too little explored, the mind tale accessible to readers of all ages, a promising adventure, comic buyer's guide. I agree. It was a promising adventure and this thing really reminded me of Bone. Jeff Smith, Bone. I really don't like doing the comparison in that sense, but the monsters especially. Okay, so I thought that was super cool. Super cool. Glad to have this. Wouldn't have had it if it wasn't for the comic book store dumping, getting rid of thousands of comic for like 25 cents a pop. Now, the next comic book we're going to read is Lum, number one. And this is Lum number two. And again, I picked up these comic books for 25 cents a pop. But what I need to do right now is I need to do a little pit stop. So I'm going to leave these guys up here and I'll be back in two minutes gang. Okay, I'll be back in two minutes. I'm going to turn on the chat. So if anybody is wanted to have a conversation, but I'll be right back. I'm also going to check on Via to see what he wants. We don't want a little bit of cuddles, but I just gave him liver instead. Let me turn off the chat. Let's do a reading. And I'm going to do a little intro again, because we're going to cut this up straight up. X, how are you doing? Long time. Long time. Hi, everyone. This is Chicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading. We're doing a live stream right now and we ended up reading a silent comic book from 2003. Silent issue, no words. Rover number two. And for our second reading today, we're going to read Lum, number one manga. People have been asking me about, you know, if I read any manga and stuff like this. And I do, I have read some and I do read some when I can get my hands on them. And these are two comic books that I picked up. This is issue number one, issue number two. I picked up from a local comic book shop that was selling a few thousand comic books, a few tens of thousands of comic books for 25 cents a pop. I believe he mentioned that he sold like 30,000 comic books or something like this, 30,000 or 20,000 comic books. Something ridiculous. And I ended up buying a few hundred of them. And these are comic books that I picked up for 25 cents Canadian each, which is like 17 cents U.S. Some of them bagged and boarded. These are, I bagged and boarded these myself. So I've been making my way through those few hundred comic books. And this one, I thought was a very cute read, very cute read. And the work is by Rumiko Takahashi, okay. And this came out in 1989. And as of right now, anyway, Rumika is the most popular manga artist in Japan and the wealthiest manga artist in Japan. She made her fame by ramana, half, mermaids, tails, the sort of chronicles, I guess. And this series here, Rusiyatsura, from what I believe, that's the series that really put her on the map. And I think the series came out in the late 70s, 1978 or something like this. And the character here, Lum, I'm not sure how you pronounce this, Lum or Lum. I believe it's Lum. Lum is the main character from this title. And from just a little bit I read just before we got on, according to Rumiko, the main character is supposed to be this guy. And based on issue number one, the main character is this guy. Okay, but I haven't read any Yusuru Yatusura manga, so I don't know too much about this series. I've just read these two issues with this character in it. Okay, so it's cute. It's cute. And Allerga just posted chapter one, young love on the run, September 24, 1978. So 1978. And this was a very cute read. Very cute read. And I've read issue number two as well. And it's also very cute. So I thought we'd stick to the cute theme for today and go light and have a read through this. And we'll probably end up doing more manga readings in the future. I pulled out a few. I do have more manga from her as well, but I couldn't dig them up. I couldn't find them in my boxes. I found some other manga that I've read that are really good. And I have one series that I'm going to start reading, like I got 10 issues of it or so. So I'm looking forward to that as well. Allerga said I have that issue purchased in Hong Kong 1983. Oh, what? Awesome. Awesome. So let's crack this open. It was a really cute read this thing. And I read this just a few days ago. And as soon as I read it, I was like, okay, yeah, we've got to do a reading of this. Okay, we've got to do a reading of this. And there's a little biography of the artist at the back of this. So we're going to read the biography first. And again, I picked this up for 25 cents. And it's like very fine plus, near minus condition, right? Originally, when it came out in 1989, it's like four bucks. You can't, you put inflation in this. I basically picked this up for two cents in 1989 prices. And it's from Wiz Comics. Wiz was amazing in reprinting a lot of the manga from Japan in English format. Okay. And as far as the artist for this goes, that's beautiful artwork, very clean, very sharp, very pretty artwork, right? And here's the write up. And there's two stories. There's two stories in this. I think we're just going to read the one story. The main one. But here's the write up for the artist. And that's incredible seeing her image like when she looks so young. And if you look it up now, she's like, oh, I forget how old she is. She's like 60, 70s, 60, 70 years old. And this is her at that time, right? So super cute, super cute, right? Rumiko Tagahashi. Okay. Rumiko Tagahashi was born in 1957 in Niigata, Japan. She attended a woman's college in Tokyo where she began studying comics with Kazuo Koki, the writer of Lone Wolf and Cobb. In 1978, she won a prize in Shagahakan's annual New Comic Artist Contest. And in that same year, her LUM and LUM Astrid, Yurusi Yatu-sara began appearing in the weekly manga magazine Shonen Sunday. This phenomenally successful series ran for nine years. Taguchi is currently the most popular comic writer, artist in Japan. Her other titles include Mason, Iku, Ikuku, Iku, Ikuku, Ranma Half and One Pound Gospel. I read some of Ranma Half, right? I like, they were enjoyable reads, but I like this character a lot more. I thought this had a lot more fun feel to it, okay? And she does have darker stuff. For example, I have, I found one copy of Mermaid's Mask and I read through this, and it's very dark, this one. It's the same, it's her doing it as well, right? So keep this in mind, even though this is a very cute series and stuff like this, she has done darker work as well. I'm not sure what year this came out at. This would have been, it was, so it must have been the late 80s. Mid-1995, right? Mid-1995. And this one is dark, like, like pretty dark, like how dark? There's a lady here cutting off her own face. Okay, like pretty dark, pretty dark, but fantastic. This was a great read, by the way. I actually don't have, I don't think I've read any other Mermaid's Mask. So I wouldn't mind getting my hands on some of these, okay? Japanese horror is phenomenal, phenomenal, right? But since we're staying with cute, let's read Lum number one. Okay, reprinting by Viz, select comics, original series, manga, and I don't know if this story came out in the late 70s or early 80s, so I'm not sure when Lum came out, okay? And again, it's by Romiko Takahashi, right? Monthly comic book. 295 US, $4 Canadian, picked up by Chicho last year or a year and a half ago for 25 cents Canadian. Very nice, very nice. Beautiful, clean artwork. Beautiful, clean. Lum. Yurisii Yatsura. A cute series, very cute series, right? Issue number one by Romiko Takahashi. Let's read the fine print again. And we're gonna read just part one, because part two is not really connected to Lum, the main character, right? So part one, a good catch. Part two, poor little devil, and poor little devil's a cute story too. Okay, let me put that, I don't need this because it's a hard story and art by Romiko Takahashi, original Japanese version, editor-in-chief, Yono Tsuku Konishi, Shogun Kakan Inc., executive editor, Katsuya Shirai. Again, Shogun Kakan Inc., a positive, brutal translation. English version, translation, Gerald Jones and Saturu Fuji, touch-up art and lettering, Lee Hernandez, cover design, with graphics, editors, Stephanie M Flower and John Takashi, executive editor, Seji Horibachi, publisher, Masario Ogo, Romiko Takahashi, Shogun Shogun Kakan Inc., 1989, first published in Shogun Kakan Inc., in Japan. Lum is a trademark of Viz Communications Incorporated, all rights reserved, no unauthorized reproduction allowed. The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this publication are entirely fictional, printed in the USA, published by Viz Comics, P.O. Box 77010, San Francisco, California, 9407. Part one, whoop, I hate you, I've had it with you. Shinobu, Shinobu, she's running away. He's like, oh no. No. Now, why'd she have to do that? I only looked at that other girl for a second, he's thinking. Wait, wait, don't do it. Huh? Don't do anything foolish. Runs towards him. Wow. Yeah. I was too late. What the hell did you do that? Forey screams. Splish. Oh, come now. Don't try to tell me you weren't about to jump, the old man says. You think I'm gonna kill myself? Just because my chick dumped me? But I saw the shadow of death on your back. That's why I ran to save you and knocked me off the bridge. Well, thanks. You've made my day complete, he tells the old man. No, please, you mustn't go that way, the old man says. Something evil will happen to you. I have to go this way to get home, he says. He's pissed off. Your face, it's horrible. I only meant that I can see an ominous shadow on your face. Well, why didn't you say so in the first place, he says? You look as though you're haunted by an evil spirit. Evil spirit. Come on, man. Evil spirits are about as real as demons or aliens, he says. That is a ruckus. Oh, what's going on? All those people around my house? Look, Mr. Moro Boshi's son, he's back. Who? That kid? They say. Are you aturo? Moro Bashi? What are your feelings about this? They're asking. What? What are you talking about? You mean you haven't heard? You happen to be the focus of world attention right now. Aturo. His mom runs through the crowd. Mom, what's the matter? What happened? He asks. Come with me and you'll find out, she says. Aturo, you're back. Oh, Aturo. Shinobi, what are you doing here? That's the girl that dumped him. What? I heard about it on the news. I was so worried about you, I couldn't stay away, she says. Hurry, kid. You've got to go meet him. Somebody's here to see me? Oh, please. Aturo, be calm. The mother yells. What are you screaming about? What's going on here? Who the hell is? Yo, welcome home. Welcome home, this gigantic person says. Look at the girl on the back. The expressions in this, the artwork is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Wait. I get it. Trick or treat. Trick or treat? Okay, here. Candy, candy. No, no, young man. I am truly an alien. An alien? What's an alien doing here? Now, now. Do calm down, he says. Rumble thunder. Alien spaceship appears. It's the alien mothership the people yell. People say. What's this? What's this? What? What do you mean I have to compete with an alien? He's getting the low down right now. They're planning an invasion of earth, but they've offered us one way out. We choose one human at random by computer. Should he defeat us in competition, we shall quietly withdraw. You don't mean, you don't mean you picked me. Alas, we did the alien says. See? What did I tell you? Haunted by an evil spirit, the old man says. Swear me that I told you so, he says. Aturo, you can't fight this alien. You'll be killed. His girlfriend that just dumped him says. You heard her monster, so beat it. We would, we would prefer to beat you. The alien says. You wouldn't beat me at anything fat stuff. You couldn't beat me at anything fat stuff. He says. Maybe not, but he isn't the one you will be playing tag against. The person that was zapped out. The girl shows up. What? Tag? People are asking. So you are my competition, she says. My name is Lumma. Gonna play tag with her? She asks. You are the alien says. You shall play for 10 days. If during that time you tag one of, one of my daughter's horns, you will be the winner. But to tag her horn, I've got to grab whole of her body. The girlfriend's like, aturo, I may not be so easy to catch. Lumma says. Forget it, baby. Nothing's gonna keep me from getting hold of you. He says excitedly. Look at the girlfriend's face. What? She is pissed. Animal. Just walks out on him. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. I'm assuming he got smacked again. Oh, look at that. He's got scratches on his face. He got slapped on both sides. Mr. Moraboshi, you've been chosen for a task of utmost importance. Do you have any comment? The whole earth depends on this. I've got no choice, but to do it, he says. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Sherry, a wandering monk. Sherry, isn't that an unusual name for a monk? The father asks. I choose it in honor of the monastic life. It looks soft and sweet from the outside, but once you get into it, it's the pits. Did you come here just to tell that stupid joke? He asks. Aturo, please. Sherry, you were saying something about Aturo's face. Are the signs really that ominous? Yes, the monk says. At first glance, he's an ordinary young man, but he's haunted by a tragic fate. You're his parents. Can you think why this would be? Well, I… the father's thinking. Wasn't Aturo born on Friday the 13th, dear, the mother says? That's right, under a full moon, too, the father says. And a black cat startled me on the way to the hospital, into the hospital, the mother says. So you ducked under that step ladder, the father replies, where I bumped into the food cart and spilled the salt, the mother says, and the cart rolled right into a mirror and enough already Aturo yells. And now, at last, the game of tag upon which the future of the earth depends is about to begin. Let's check in with our color commentator, Mr. Yamada, and observation. Any observations? This is serious. The whole world is watching TV. The entire world is watching this event, live, via satellite. There's Lama, and there's Aturo, and there's a black cat. Hmm, if I win, I'll be a big hero. Maybe my luck will finally change, she says. And he's wearing number 13. I'm wearing number 13 with a black cat crossing him. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? On your mark, get set. And he's behind just a little bit, right? Lama's just standing there. Bang, yay, and the race starts. Oh, let's get a focus on his blurry because he's running so fast. Bang, yay, he's going for it. He's going for it. What? Lama isn't running. Ha, I've got you, Tooro says. Lama's just big smiles and woo, there she goes. Left in the dust, right? She's flying. She knows how to fly. Our heroes in big trouble. Troubles. Look at all the people. Zush, come and get me, she says. Hey, wait a minute. He yells. You cheated. You didn't tell me you could fly. He's pissed. Invaders go home to sign in the back. You just didn't do your homework, Lama says. Keep going, Morobashi. The fate of the earth is on your shoulders. International broadcasters. That's fragile, yes. I don't think that would go over well in present day. A near-miss that time. Again, just a second late. Silvupre. Yo-cho-gam-to. All useless, useless. It's written all over his face. He's doomed to fail, the monk says. Sunset has come. The first day's competition is over, and Aturu Morobashi fell short. Let's all hope for better luck tomorrow. Stay tuned for our post-game show. The second day. Bang. The race is on. Vroom. He's chasing her. They're following him in the truck. Aturu, remember. You're a hero if you win the mother yells. It's impossible. Look at his face, the monk says. Would you please shut up? He yells at them. The third day. Aw, you call that running people are trash talking about. What's that bum doing out there? She's flying, he's chasing. So Morobashi, you came up short again. Today, right? Right? How are you going to live with yourself if you lose? Do you think you have any chance that all the reporters are all asking? The competition is now half completed. Earth is as good as ours. The alien says, look at the size of the microphone. Love is grinning, making papa proud. If they take over, you'll be hated and reviled for the rest of your life, the father says. Oh, why did I ever give birth to you? The mother says, shut up. Shut up. He screams. I was too reckless. He says, nah, I feel like the whole world is getting heavier and heavier. He's all sad. Aturu, you have a visitor. If it's a reporter, I don't want to see him. He says, Hello, Aturu. This is Gerofe. Shinobi. I, Cherry, have come to. The monk says, you get the hell out of here. He yells, Aturu, can you win? Oh, I don't want to ask. He says, I was a fool. I didn't expect her to be able to fly. It's your own fault. She says, you didn't think you took one look at that, that girl and played right into their hands. She says, you're right. And enemies and enemies and enemy, even if she's a babe, he replies. Yes, it's your own fault. The monk says, How come, how come she, how come she can say it and I can't? Now, as the eighth day of competition draws to a close, both contestants are showing signs of fatigue. Look at him go. He's still chasing her. She's like, whoo. The guy's relentless, grabs her, glump. Everyone's cheering. He caught her. He caught her. Look at this. Everyone's all happy. He did it. He did it. He grabbed her. But I think he grabbed her in the wrong place. He was supposed to grab the horn. Yeah. Let go. You pervert smack, pop, rip. What? Max, I'm so hard, but take a look at what's going on. Uh-oh. Fump, falls backwards and has her top in his hand. Oh, there's the mothership. Oh, that was close, painfully close, but Lum is returning to her ship, still untied. No. He's sitting on the ground. He's got her top. Oh no, no, no. He almost had it. Look at his got tears in his eyes. Moroboshi is crying, weeping into the garment Lum left left in his hands. Appointment scene, a heartbreaking scene, but hang in there, Aturu Morobashi. Don't let it break you. You still have tomorrow. This concludes another live broadcast and there he is crying into the sunset. It's back at home, 21, 22. He lost his concentration. How long have you been there? He asks. That's Lum sitting there on his windowsill. Give it back to me, she says. Why? What do you mean? Why? What do you mean? He asks. What you stripped off me. Give it back. He pulls it out of his shirt. Oh, do you mean this? You were wearing it? Pulls it out. You want it? Come and get it. We only play tag from morning to sunset. She reminds him. He's got his tongue out. Cute. You came to get it back, didn't you? He says. All right then. She's going for it. She's going for it. He certainly is training hard. The father says. He's even training his voice. Yai! By the way, gang, that's me putting a little sticky on there because there's a little bit of anime or manga, a little bit of flesh showing, so I didn't want any problems for the live stream that we're doing on Twitch. There's like three or four places that I had to put this on. It's unfortunate because it's cute. Give it back. He's got it in his tongue. She's pulling on him. Give it back. Give it back. Never, he says. Safe sticker. Never, he says. He's not going to do it. People are laughing. She's covering up again, right? It's the little bit of skin showing. It's part of the story, right? Part of the story. So she has to let go of him and cover herself up, right? Ah, look at that. All the watchers, all the watchers. Big smiles on their faces. You'll pay for this, clunk. Smacks him again. Poor kid is getting hit left and right. She flies away. So she must not have a spare. Looks like the luck is turning in my favor, he thinks. You have to do it. Everyone's yelling at him. Look at the smile on his face. He's so confident, right? So confident. Let's focus on his smile. There he is. Look at him. He's all like, yes. Morobashi seems to be in high spirits. No doubt the fact that he tore off Lum's ear, that is, the fact that he was about to catch her for a moment, has given him new confidence. Well, shall we try my luck? He asks. Huh, she says, bang, and the gun goes off and the chase is on. There she goes, running off, and he's chasing her. Almost, she jumps at it away, just like I thought. She's afraid to move her arms, and that cuts her jumping ability in half. So, bonk, I mean jumps at her, victory is mine. Glump zaps her, macking him atop of it. She says, stop, hold it, he says. He's like, look at that, he's like entangled in her. Wang kicks him in the face, never underestimate a woman. Yeah, unconscious, and he only felt three feet, she says. Stretcher bring a stretcher, everyone's yelling, shoo, shoo. What do you think you're doing? You clown, boo, hiss, hiss, boo, boo. Hiss, you've only got one day left. What's going to happen to the earth, everyone's asking. Those selfish jerks, all they have to do is watch, he thinks. Aturo, your friends have come to cheer you up. He's back at home. Get a grip on yourself. You only have one more day, they say. One more day, he says. In one more day, earth will be invaded, and I'll spend the rest of my life as an outcast, he says. How can you say a thing like that? His friends reply. How can I beat somebody like Lum, he yells. This is all because of politics, just lousy rotten politics. He spazs it out. As Prime Minister, I promise that a victory will make Mr. Moroboshi a national hero. I shall personally present him with the Imperial Medal of Honor, he says. My God, he's losing it fast. It's the government's fault, he's freaking out. Crush, scratch, scratch, scratch. He's crawling on the walls, scraping the walls. If we don't snap him out of this, the earth is finished. But what can we do, they ask. The girlfriends there, aye, aye. Aturo, if you win, I'll marry you. Ah, thump. Scratch, he's still spazzing out. Look at that. Marry me? You're lying. You're lying just so you can survive, he says. Scratch. No, you fool. I'm not lying, she says. I can't stand the thought of you being an outcast for the rest of your life. Is that the truth? Is it, he says? Then I'll win tomorrow, no matter what. He's got his motivation, his friends. Women are so inspiring, and Aturo is so stupid. It's the final day, and Moroboshi is coming on stronger than ever. He has a lump on the defensive, lumps flying away, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. For marriage, he says, yells it out. That's his battle cry. Yeah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. Look at all those people cheering him on. He's happy. For Shinobu. For marriage. For Shinobu, sees her. I'll do anything to marry her, even dirty tricks. Vip, vip, vip, whips out her top, lump's top. Look at that, look at that. Hey, lump. Look what I've got. Oh, she's angry now. She's angry now. Look at that. Give it back to me, she says. Come on a little closer, a little closer, glum. Lump's got a hold of it. He's got a hold of it. She fell for it, whips her around. Wham. I will marry her, he says, and gotcha touches the horse. He wins on the 10th day. Last minute. He's done it, he's done it. Atoru Moraboshi has saved earth. Yay, Atoru. Everyone's cheering. Happy, happy. Atoru, Atoru. There's his girlfriend running through the crowd. Everyone's running there. Congratulations, Mr. Moraboshi. The whole world congratulates you. Now I can finally marry her. Look at that. Why, Atoru, I never. But if you want me that much, then yes, I'll marry you, lump says. What? What? Mr. Moraboshi, you mean you'll marry lump? Wow, everyone's excited. So that's why you yelled for marriage during the competition. No, he replies. No. She's all happy. Shinobu, huh? She's like, what's going on here? I don't remember the rules saying you had to hold her that long, she says. Well, don't let me stand in the way of a happy marriage. She's pissed when he's like, what? No, you can't walk out on me after all this. He's trying to go after her. Save it for your fiancée, she says. Or everybody else says. Or she's, you know the girlfriend says, right? Save it for your fiancée. Let us go home, daughter. We have lost. The alien father comes down. Shinobu, wait. He proposed to me, the daughter says. If you wish to marry her, you will have to come to our planet. The alien father says, what? I'll get you your own set of horns, darling. Oh no, what a mess. What a mess. Atoru, you be sure to come home for the holidays, the mom says. He will be a marvelous son-in-law, the alien father says. You see? It's fate, fate, fate, the monk says. Don't leave me. Oh, look at her. She's going away. What a perfect happy ending, the crowd says. Listen to him. He's only known her for 10 days and already he can't live without her. Poor guy. Confused. That's the end of part one, right? And there's love. Super cool, super cool. And this story is really good too. Poor little devil. But we won't read this one, right? And the story continues in issue number two, right? I haven't gone through this to see if there's any places I would have to put a little sticky censorship thing. But it continues from there, right? And he's walking with love, right? And there's two parts in this as well, part one and part two. Rain drops keep falling on my head, right? Lone number two. Is there any problems here? No, there's no problems here. Right? Is there any problems here? Let me make sure there's none. No, there isn't. So it just continues from there, the story. Super fun read, super fun read. And again, amazing creator, amazing creator, right? Fantastic read, fantastic read. Super fun, super fun. So that's Lone number one, Orusi Yattusura, right? Reprinting of 1978 comic from Japanese to English and this came out in 1989. Right. But Rumiko Takahashi, fantastic read. I'm going to turn on the chat again, notifications and turn on my video. Fun read, yeah? I noticed Andromeda, you came in, I couldn't read your comments really because it would have thrown me off. Andromeda says, Yurusi Yattusura, I own all that manga. You own the whole thing, the whole series. This manga is so good. What are my favorites? I've read a fair bit of, not a fair bit, I've read some manga. This was fun. It was just enjoyable to read. It was innocent, it was cute. It had punch lines, it had little details in there, right? Viya agrees. Alligator Andromeda, I used to watch the 1980s TV series back when I was kid, I've never seen it. Andromeda, they actually retranslated most of this part when they re-released the manga in 2019. That's the part with the commentators, different languages, yeah? I got into this manga, Andromeda. I got into this manga back in 2019 when they re-dead it. I own all 34 volumes. There's 34 volumes of this. Awesome. It's one of the few manga I generally find hilarious. Yeah, really, I found this super funny. Super funny. Alligator, I need to return to a manga. Love reading, watching between 1989 to 1999. 1983 to 1999. Andromeda, I collect a lot of manga, even a lot of modern stuff, but I do really love old manga from 1990s and 80s. Cool, cool, cool. And gang, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange, Julian Assange's published journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we desperately need in our societies. Safe stickers, he he stickers. So the strange thing about the redone version is unflipped. Unflipped, what's that mean? And it's about 380 pages or so, because it's two volumes of manga compiled into one. So did they print all of it? Crazy Braughtons, how are you doing? Hi everybody, hope you're all doing fine, indeed, indeed. Is that not Lamu cartoon? It is, yeah, yeah, yeah, same. I believe they called her Lamu in English, French, Greek and a few other languages and kept it as Lum in Italian and Japanese and a couple other languages. Ateru clutched up, so horny. Ateru, Ateru, Ateru chanting barface. Andromeda, I love all of his understanding of this series. He's fucking like so bad, so bad. Oh my god, bring back memories, bring back memories. Crazy Braughtons, there are cartoon movies of it. Saw it on a fresh channel about more than 20 years ago. Cool, I've never seen, I've never seen. Oh my god, can we have some unredacted, unguilded, please? The pages? Oh, unguilded, we can do whatever we want. Oh my god, this is unguilded, right? If you guys have, print them up, print them up. Andromeda, yeah, they reprinted the entire series, unflipped. Oh, this way, this way. Ah, okay, okay. So it reads like a typical manga, very cool. I can post a picture of all of the volumes in the general chat in the gilded server. Yeah, yeah, Andromeda, I'm going to post it in our comics or anime folder instead of the general one. Post it in the comic books, in light topics on the comics or comic books. I'll post it in there. I'd like to see it. So, unflipped is really good. I've read some manga as well, unflipped, going from this way, and it's pretty cool. And I just only know Farsi in Iran, that's the way it's done as well. So when I first came to Canada, I had to learn to go this way, because I was used to going this way. It was, it took a little bit of doing. I only got Julien Saus supporters, Protas Asad, Angie, Merrick, Gardland's home in Maryland. Very cool, very live news, very cool, very cool. Maybe I'm going to go check it out. Again, let's call the stream. We did, we did a couple of hours. We didn't go too over time. So that's cool. We did it in a lot of time we had. So thanks for being here, gang. If you don't know what this work is about, we're our Patreon, substack, subscribe star. We have a gilded server. We're live streaming on Rumble and Twitch. Rumble and Twitch. And this live stream, the readings anyway. No, you know what? We'll load up the full live stream and I'll cut out each individual live stream. We'll be loaded on Entiretion, SensorTube, Bitchu, Rumble, and Odyssey. Okay, we do have a SoundCloud page for some podcasts that we upload. We were on Twitter, Mines, VK, Gap, substack notes, and Getter. You can definitely follow the work there as well. And gang, tomorrow, I forget what time we're doing our liqueur stream, but tomorrow we're doing another live stream from, from, let me find it, let me find it. We are, we are. Tomorrow we're doing liqueur from 2pm to 4pm to around 4pm. I'll see what I can do to set it up. I still haven't figured out where we're going to do it. I gotta move all the, they're over here, all the liqueur jars on. We need to do a cleaning. I might get rid of some consolidate some and stuff like this. So basically we're going to do a liqueur cleaning stream. Okay, aside from that gang, thank you for being here. I hope you enjoyed the readings. I did. Fantastic. I'll have to go and take out the stickers on this because I don't want them to be in there. Right? Gang, I hope you have a fantastic night. All the God, thank you for being here with drinking. Yeah, I'm going to be sampling. I'm going to be sampling. It is what it is. All the God. Salute, brother. Salute. Thanks for sharing. Have a good one. You too. And Andromeda, thank you very much for the feedback and the info regarding the manga. And if you do decide to post the pictures, I killed it. I needed that. I needed to act it. Gang, I hope you have a fantastic night. We'll talk tomorrow. Bye, everyone.