 everything is working properly. We got a bunch of stuff to talk about, including the main topic, of course, which is why you're here, and you're watching this later. Yeah, goofs and gaffs inbound just a heads up because I ain't an expert when it comes to OBS. I'm still learning. Let's see if I can get this music working. For the people in the chat that are already here, let me know if the volume's all right for the music. If it's too loud, if it's too quiet. Also, I noticed, thank you to my good friend Travis. He pointed this out on the previous monthly hangout that I had some issues with the microphone. I thought I had resolved that, and when I was streaming, I noticed the issues and he pointed that out later. Like, yeah, still happening. I don't, I know how to fix it, but the fix involves buying some equipment, which I have to admit, there are a little bit out of my price range at the moment. But there are some ways to go around it and I'm learning, you know, let me pull up the chat here so that I can see it. There we go. We got a bunch of people in the chat. That's all, that is great. Travis, thank you so much for joining, buddy. Life's been busy, but hope you're doing good. I am doing well. A couple hiccups here and there, but you know, it's life, it happens. James, thank you so much, brother, for joining. Warren, thank you. William Lee, good evening, sweet world. Bob Fisher, hello. This music has some vocal tracks, and I apologize for that. It's going to sound pretty weird, but I scrambled at the last minute to get it, because I think the music can hide the glitch that I'm talking about with the microphone, because the microphone works just fine anywhere else, except OBS, and it only comes through one of the sides, I think, like the left speaker or something like that. So right now I have the track, the full mic in mono, and I'm complimenting the audio with some lo-fi tracks that I found on YouTube. So hopefully it works. Ready to hear some manga stuff. I titled the episode, wait a minute, what the hell did I title the episode? Let me look at my thumbnail. Manga Collector Fighting Foam. Okay, there we go, there we go. Okay, okay, okay. Let's reel it back. Okay, welcome everybody. Geo here, the manga geekdom. Happy to have you here. It's 9.40 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on this good awesome little Friday, May 26, 2023. I've made some progress since I started doing these live streams. I am extremely proud of myself for what I've been able to accomplish when it comes to this side of YouTube, doing it all by myself with what I consider even though it's kind of easy compared to like more professional broadcasting equipment, it's still a little complicated when you switch back to StreamYard, which is like Fisher Prize with the limited things you can do there. I wish I could highlight the comments like I do over there. I can. I just don't remember how to get the overlay function that allows me to do that where I click it. You guys can see it right at the bottom of my screen here. I think I did it once and honestly I kind of forgot. So I need to read up on that so I can do it again because it's a lot of fun. It keeps the chat engaged more in attainment, that stuff. Let's see. Before I dive into the main topic, if you're new here, if you're curious, maybe you watched one of the shorts that debuted on a channel. Super happy about that. We're going to get to that in a second as well. Welcome. I've had a bunch of new subscribers and that fills me with a lot of joy. I'm so happy about that. I think we are 70-ish subscribers away for reaching the goal of 3000 subs, which is awesome. Hopefully we can keep that growing. My immediate goal right now is 5k. I'll talk about that as well. Still learning? No sweat. Thank you, Bob. Appreciate that. Yes, it's a work in progress. I do want to mention at the top of the stream here that this whole setup, hopefully, this will be the last time you see it. I plan on revamping finally for the late June stream and it'll have more customization, different backgrounds and all that stuff. It'll be a little bit different. The lighting source will change. Obviously, I have a little ring light here. It's not really the best, but we're working on that. Slowly but surely the budget is extremely limited and that relates to the FOMO topic at hand. Yes, thank you. Thank you, everybody, for the support. I truly do appreciate it. I titled the episode Manga Collector Fighting FOMO and it's not directed at you guys. It's sort of using my examples so that maybe somebody out there watching the stream or if you're watching here now live, you can relate to some of the observations that I'm going to point out about my manga buying habits and all that stuff and some changes that have been slowly happening in my life as a content creator, as a manga collector, reader and just a regular old human being as well. The month of May was absolutely atrocious for me. I got hit with some financial stuff that I was not expecting. I got hit with some medical stuff that I was not expecting and not just me but my mom as well and all as well. So don't worry about it. Fortunately, don't worry about it. Unfortunately, it's all good but it did happen and I don't want to get you into it because it's really relevant to the channel but just for some context. I had to work magic with my budget when it comes to everything plus some gifts and some other stuff and like car issues and all that stuff. All that just rose to the top and made it really a really stressful month when it came to financial stuff and budgeting. Comic art channel, thank you so much. Thank you for joining. Also, I am on a like a 20-second delay. Just wanted to point that out there so I do apologize if I don't get to everything on time. So I got hit with that stuff and typically my budget when it comes to stuff like books and whatnot isn't too big nor is it too small either. Just around, I don't know, let's put it at 100 plus dollars a month and you might have noticed that as the months have gone by this year the manga halls for example have gotten considerably smaller every month. That's not on purpose but well 50-50. Some of it is on purpose other the other part not so much. With some financial hits I had to unfortunately start culling on what I decided to collect, what's worth keeping. I'm not going to sell anything because I have a horrible track record of that. I'm a horrible seller and I don't have people nearby that can be like, yeah I'll buy it from you, not at all. Only like really super close friends that I've sold a couple things to that I we have like a mutual trust where we don't have to do like goods and services or however you call it the family thing, PayPal, whatever and I can just like, hey I'll send you that, yeah sure give me the money whenever you can that type of relationship but more of a business type thing where I'm like, yeah I'll sell this but add the percentage fee blah blah blah. I'm horrible at that. I want to sell stuff but maybe not now. Okay so I had to scale back and I realized as a collector that I kind of have the mentality the right mentality of quality over quantity. You see a lot of people out there hauling massive manga or manga halls whatever you call it that's redundant I know it's like oh I got 200 plus volumes this month and then the other one's like 150 and then the third month I got like 250 like Jesus Christ settle down. I wish I had the budget I wish I had the money to buy absolutely everything out there in the sun unfortunately that's not a reality so we have to like I just said keep it realistic we have to go back scale it back and realize what's within our budget what's within our limit and sometimes I have the issue where I forget about that stuff whether it be like anxiety for example or or something some other mental issue that I fall into the whole FOMO thing and I want to grab everything but I can't and these past two months getting hit by different things in life I realized that I was trying to preach that stuff out there and not really applying it to myself so I started scaling back and I started deleting some things and forgetting about books that I previously wanted to get. Now that also gives me a different sort of anxiety because I do the like anticipated books of the month which I really like doing and it's sort of a guide for people out there obviously there are like 200 some long volumes that come out every month and not everybody has the money for that so if I can streamline that for everybody and give out my recommendations like 12 books that's better and sometimes I felt like a little bit of an imposter syndrome if that's the right term that I'm supposed to use here where I would recommend these books and I don't necessarily get all of them I get some but that's also because of the whole budget and and typically I'll get like I don't know 12, 13 books a month or something like that and I was feeling the pressure and I kept wanting to compensate for that and buy stuff every month and that came to a crash this month where I realized like it's a lot and I finally had the hash that I could do it and make an order and then realized oh this is just a small part of it there's still that other stuff that comes out like X or Y date at the end of the month and that's also a similar priced order like I don't know if I can do that I don't know if I can keep that rhythm I don't have the income for that I don't unfortunately I don't have the lifestyle for that this is not my main source of income this is not my work I wanted to I've talked about in the past with revealing a little bit more about myself I want content creation and YouTube to be a full-time thing in the future I'm working towards that because this is genuinely my favorite hobby this is what I love to do I love streaming and talking with everybody and talking about all the stuff that I read and watch but I unfortunately the reality is that I can't do that right now I have a job and I do other stuff outside of YouTube and that should always be the priority while keeping focused in my head that I need to like better the channel and work on it and keep it growing which I am so excited that this year has been one of the best ones in forever for the channel there is growth we're near that we're near the freaking mark of 3k subs I don't know I have no explanation I'm not going to bog this chat down like I did last time talking about my frustrations with that but I still don't understand why it has been so difficult write everything I write every gimmick and I came to the realization that it just doesn't work for everybody like you have this guide and it's not going to work for everybody like for example somebody will say you're not supposed to do this on on a YouTube video some people don't do it and they get good results other people do or follow the guides if you if you're keeping track with my train of thought here if they follow the guide they'll have success other people follow the those guides and they don't have success that's kind of what I want to say here and I followed every advice and some people just grow faster unfortunately and I remember a good friend of mine not Travis but another Travis that I know from back in the day he told me one day I think it's cool you shouldn't worry too much because you're getting more authentic people or fans following you and at the time I'm like yeah yeah sure I I know I get it I understand I agree but like come on you want to see those numbers keep climbing faster and faster but with my age and and I came to the realization that I kind of I kind of dig it I don't have troublemakers I don't have trolls or any of that fortunately I do get random people leaving bizarre comments and disliking videos for the most random reasons and you guys don't see that I take care of that behind the scenes but that's that's rare uh so I'm still happy we're nearly there reaching out the 3k mark and why what I said earlier let me deviate a little bit from the main topic what I said earlier about the 5k mark I recently I think it was uh gosh who was it yen press yen press put out a thing where they wanted to get in contact with more content creators and I filed an application for it of course why not what's the worst that they're going to do they're going to say no they're going to delete it and and that's it I continue living um one of the things that I was upset about is that towards the when you file the application towards the end after you click submit it gives you like another thing where you have to agree to something else and it says oh you should have a at least 5k subs and I'm like at least let people know as soon as you open the the application form so you weed out all the random people that are uh that have no experience and want to get into that stuff and are just doing it because like oh I want free books that's not what I want I want that exposure so the channel can grow you can continue funding the hobbit it can continue funding the the hobby the I don't know why I said hobbit Jesus Christ my mind's all over the place tonight sorry I think it's because of that freaky uh golem game um that you keep funding the the hobby uh but just put that stuff out there right at the front of the requirement so I don't understand why they did that I was discouraged as soon as I saw that it was like um somebody threw a bucket of cold water on my shoulders but I looked at it I'm like I don't care I'm gonna submit it anyways at least somebody will hopefully read it and be entertained by what I typed in that application form so that's what's been happening I figure man if that's what they're aiming for 5k let's go all out let's let's push it let's let's keep the hustle going uh two more k to go right you know hopefully reaching that 3k milestone means the influx of new people will be faster not like this slow grind that's been happening on the channel that honestly I can't explain the collector thank you so much for joining I appreciate the emoji as always well for sure I'm getting better about trying out titles that are new to me via the library helping me to buy stuff I really love and still check out books without having to commit now here's the thing I don't have a library and the manga scene over here is is to me at least no exist not exist I usually go to Facebook marketplace because I like to look for retro video games that's a other topic for another day and sometimes I'll type like manga for sale and it's pretty funny to see people selling manga over here and they're only selling lots of biz and codon show books that you will find at walmart and sam's club and stores like that and maybe walgreens so everybody's literally selling the same things so you don't have unfortunately the the comic book stores that carry old bonga or barns and nobles what's the other one second and charles books and everything and stuff like that I don't have that over here so I don't see it I just see that and the on the rare occasion somebody will sell old manga for a relatively good price and that's the diamond it doesn't but yes you do have a good point on libraries excellent and going back to the main topic about fomo and being a manga collector and choosing quality over quantity for for you're not going to see it now but for the most recent haul that I'm actually I'm going to record that tomorrow as of this video you'll see it next week I I what I had to drop a couple titles like for example I didn't I didn't hate this title don't get me wrong don't get upset honey lemon soda for example I was going to grab volume 2 but I had to do that introspective look I looked at the freaking book on my computer screen and I told myself am I reading this because I want to am I reading this because it's for the channel am I reading this because I genuinely want to own it what's my reason for getting this book and I fell into the trap of wanting to mold my buying and collecting experience because of youtube and that shouldn't be it should be me collecting because I want to me collecting because I love graphic novels sequential art and comics manga etc etc that's the mentality going forward and that's why a lot of my halls have been like super small not like people care I don't see any comments like oh why are there so small it's not it's not that it's just a me thing and I just I like putting this out there on these streams so hopefully some of you can sympathize some of you can maybe it can help you with your own spending and collecting and all that stuff because we see a lot of people good and bad posting posting like massive haul videos and you'll think oh then I need to get this series that series blah blah blah blah when the reality is a lot of collectors out there they'll buy the manga put it on the shelf and maybe in like eight months you'll get to read it and and pick it up and what not I don't want to be that I don't want to do that and with my limited space I fortunately I made some really cool arrangements I don't know how to I can't take the camera off right now but I decided to rearrange my detail shelves essentially and that freed up some space on top of the Kalex or Klax however you pronounce it and I usually say Klax I don't know why I went that route but whatever and what I did was from my manga cubes on the Klax I took out the dark horse deluxe edition hardcovers the berserk and blade of the immortal and put them on top I need to get some bookends preferably some cheap ones because I'm not going to spend like 200 bucks on freaking bookends that nobody else is going to see but me but whatever and I have some very minimal decorations next to those books and that's surprisingly freed up a bunch of space on the cubes themselves and now I'm I could breathe a little bit more and not be so stressed out that I was running out of room so with that minimal space thing here's the other issue I in the future there are plans in my head on how I can make more space and they work they're solid but it involves a lot of money and investing time in creating something that I'll talk about it eventually it's not in this room or whatever it'd be something outside of the house and whatnot um that's a whole drama and a whole video series onto its own maybe I could film it I don't know we'll see what happens but if that plan happens I would like to get like a dedicated billy shelf just for Marvel and DC and the image comics whatever indie comics sorry and free up the two calak shelves just for month and now here's the other thing I decided um oh I got some comments yay uh I decided to drop I already know this I dropped the shonen jump stuff I don't collect shonen jump series except for Dr. shon which only has one volume left as of this video one piece which I get the three and one omnibus editions uh and I think that's it the other one I was heavily collecting was my hero academia but I stopped at volume 30 that's not gonna that's not going to go out of print that's not gonna be rare or anything there are so many copies out there it's only a matter of like catching up and then be like oh let me just grab the stuff I'm missing and finish that series um so that's something that I'm working on uh no shonen jump series I I don't want long running series and if I can get classic manga that have maybe like large trim editions which is like uh two in ones and it's only like five volumes of that I can manage that like for example one of the most recent ones would be marmalade boy I think that's going to be like five oversized books that's it I can deal with that it's not a bother or uh what's it called uh don't call it mystery or something that's coming out soon or uh this week or next week whatever uh that's not gonna be a huge commitment even though it's ongoing I can work with that too so yeah that goes into the whole FOMO thing not falling into it a lot of people tend to buy manga volumes because it's the next best thing they think I gotta have it right now because it's going to sell out it's gonna be difficult uh no sales are at an all-time high popularity is at an all-time high and depending on the series you are good you don't need to you don't need to get this stuff right away especially if you can't afford it right away and I think a lot of people fall into that trap and sometimes I fall into it too we all fall in together so one loophole of falling into messes over here but the most important thing is and I gotta remind myself of a uh an old co-worker that uh retired uh he used to tell me if you get yourself in a hole and uh by mistake and you don't know what to do the first thing you should prioritize is getting out of that hole and keep going forward worry about everything else afterwards just the first thing you gotta do is get yourself out of that hole as quick as possible and keep going so that's my that's one of my mentalities when it comes to this whole collecting nonsense um let's see let's see over here don't uh don't let the tail whack the dog and it's very difficult because I gotta be how do I phrase this I I don't not like a jealousy thing or anything but I do see other uh creators and sometimes as a fellow creator you fall into habits of wanting to do what other people are doing and it's and I I keep reminding myself that this is my experience and that's what makes it authentic and I shouldn't be worrying about other people so I don't I decided to watch um and not watch any manga content at all whatsoever on youtube no anime stuff the only thing I watch on youtube it's like like the big drama podcast channels and all that stuff or like gaming stuff retro gaming some streams about that some technology like history channels other stuff other hobbies but you are exactly right uh comic art channel don't let the tail whack the dog uh warren says whether it's two or five books a hole uh two or five books a hole is a hole enjoy watching vids like them despite the length I appreciate that I I sometimes worry like and it's just like 10 books but I can cover that in like five minutes but I also don't want to talk for like 30 minutes on them you know uh Decollector anyone still reading Asadora Sakamoto days or Kaiju number eight I still I am keeping up with Asadora I love it Sakamoto days I gotta be honest with you I dropped it very early on uh just for personal personal things that I was going through back in 2020 and Kaiju I associate that manga with things that upset me and it's sort of like a trigger for that stuff and I decided to uh did not read it uh same with Kaiju number eight it's both are fun as hell and I'm looking forward to the anime for Kaiju number eight but I don't know just a personal thing uh Bob keeping it real just so much coming out all the time that's another thing thank you thank you you're helping me out with the with the docket here for the show uh every month 200 plus volumes of manga plus I'm not just a manga nerd I love anime and I'm watching a lot of series and the series that I stream uh I have high dive and and I watch stuff on Hulu and Crunchyroll the only one I don't use is Netflix um I watch a lot of these shows and I and if I really really love the series I will support in uh the physical release and I will get it because I uh I'm a physical collector I I have a whole freaking billy shelf right there of anime blu-rays I don't have everything I don't have the world's largest collection or none of that stuff it's just a humble collection however however many volumes there are I don't I haven't counted um oh the music what happened oh hold on oh don't play an ad I don't I don't want people to hear an ad hold on hold on hold on hold there we go beautiful okay that's so random I apologize uh going back okay so um I buy a lot of anime and uh one of my side hobbies uh aside from YouTube is gaming and I am a switch collector I'm actively hunting and collecting for the switch that's another passion hobby thing that's going on over there and it's just a lot of games every month man it can get overwhelming I I pre-order some things uh thank goodness for like uh stuff like the Bezos website I pre-order there even though you don't really need to pre-order because games aren't going to go out of print right away but I forget about the games and pre-ordering through there uh it reminds me and they ship I'm like oh yes of course I'm gonna play it but uh sometimes I pre-order like I think for like June I had a bunch of stuff like uh at least eight different games and I ended up canceling like all type of them uh plus I'm a movie guy I like uh physical movies on 4k blu-ray and all that stuff that's expensive I gotta pick and choose my own my battles right sometimes I don't have the budget for that sometimes I don't have that budget for that other thing and I gotta make you and keep moving forward I assume these folks hauling 50 books a month I just aren't able to do much else because they spend all their cash on books I see some of those halls and more power to everybody that can afford that stuff and and keep it going month after month but you know there are a lot of people out there that get that serotonin head get that rush or like 300 plus volumes added to the collection sustaining the industry remember when everybody used to type that and uh they'll show it I don't know maybe it's me being old uh an old millennial and then hipster dude I don't know I don't I'm not I'm not gonna follow that trend right here for me FOMO is like I can't find copies of vagabond I still need to finish collecting vagabond I I'm missing volume 2 4 2 4 9 8 I think that's what I'm missing I have everything else or oh and um volume 37 obviously that's super expensive and rare um but I'm not worried about that you couldn't always around that uh you think one of the volumes is available so I should be ordering that eventually probably next month or uh June or July I don't know um manga anime I am totally opposite when it comes to stuff I uh to buy I tend to buy short or unpopular series you know one piece or Dragon Ball or anything else popular there's also the fact that we now have the digital stuff readily available and to me this is probably going to be a controversial opinion a lot of the shonen jump stuff reminds me of reading modern dc and marvel where yes the stories are super unique but also you have a lot of cliches and a lot of tropes and fan services stuff that keeps going and going and going regardless of whatever new series pops up I I'm mostly I'm mostly a sanan reader I'll be honest uh and a lot of the series that I really enjoy fall into that of course I do read uh random shojos and jose and shonen and stuff like that I mean freaking uh call of the night that's one of my favorites and that's a shonen book but my manga collection I think it's mostly sanan books from my perspective I'm not gonna buy uh boat loads of manga so prefer not to necessarily see something on every something on everything someone that curates with great taste fills a need trust your taste I appreciate that thank you Bob Fisher started to your eternity yes let me know uh let me know what you think of the series because I that's one of my favorite ongoings I'd love love love love uh to your eternity such a great series super emotional too uh I there are some scenes that really gods of me man I I had tears going uh so yeah FOMO is a thing I if there's anything that you can take away from this wacky stream don't fall for it and know that the market is huge and you don't have to follow every trend spend your money wisely especially if you're not into if you're not a content creator uh there's no need for you to grab everything and you have options on the digital route and even if you don't have money to you pay for the subscriptions they still offer free reads and uh I used to be subscribed to shonen jump I canceled because I wasn't really using it that much I plan on subscribing back later than later this year maybe uh towards the end of the year but any of the new series I do uh keep up with the new chapters through through the app and then you got the viz media app which is great a lot of cool titles there a manga with whatever the hell they're doing I'm sure that's gonna get better at some point to hopefully fingers crossed and uh those are alternatives and you can call your collection do your taste and really have stuff that you're not gonna resell not gonna get rid of and dump on somebody because it's something you genuinely love and want to uh own and uh the people that do that I have a massive respect for them um Bob Colleen's channel opened me up to shoujo and slice of life awesome absolutely we need more channels like that they have a great thing going and uh even though I I only met Colleen last year uh I'm rooting I'm rooting for them you know though I'm super excited um actually I'll be completely honest with all of you the only two manga channels that I follow are uh Colleen's channel and of course Riley brother from another mother uh everything else I can't I can't do it just for my mental health I can't keep track of everybody and what they're hauling and reading and all that stuff I do follow a lot of uh cool ladies that uh buy a lot of figures and notice that more ladies more women buy uh anime figures than and then the guys I thought that was pretty interesting you could make a whole social thing out of that I don't I don't know probably somebody will twist it into something controversial that's just how it is these days but I thought that was fun also uh usually the ones that are collecting the blu rays you see more of that on youtube with the guys not the not the ladies so yeah let's see talked about that I think I covered most most of it uh I think so I don't know what else is there that I wanted to talk about uh one hobby revealed a bunch of figures but if I streamed that right now we would be doing like a two hour live stream and this was only supposed to be 30 minutes because I have other stuff to do after doing this stream but one hobby uh what the heck can I uh if I go to screen sharing oh it's not gonna work didn't set it up properly hold on okay let's do something wild give me a minute gonna switch over here you're not gonna see anything on top uh let's see uh my source no not the background image if I do this properties oh look at that I think I got it oh okay okay I think I got it give me a second it's pretty awkward awkward dead air dead air there we go oh wow okay hold on I need to stretch this out forgot about that the one hobby you know they go crazy revealing products and all that stuff um let's just look real quick because why not also I need my chat feel free to ask about anything you guys want to know uh anything about the channel any videos you'd like to see from me this is also a Q&A if you guys are interested and if you want to ask me the most bizarre questions uh go right ahead I don't care just no controversial stuff please I don't I don't talk about uh about what happened there I don't talk about politics and stuff like that so please I know that there are other venues for that these are oshinoko figures and nendoroids I like then I like looking at nendoroids the same way like looking at funko pops they are japan's version of uh funko pops like really expensive and not always I'm not always a fan of every character having that chibi form these are looking pretty cool I'm really enjoying the show I read the first volume talked about it on on the channel uh reviewing uh essentially the prologue of oshinoko and uh volume two I was gonna I want to get it but I think I'm gonna wait until the anime ends and then I'll start picking up books and and continue reading the series because I really enjoy the anime adaptation voice acting's fantastic the freaking coloring and the the color palettes that they're using on the characters especially with their shiny irises love it love it love it question here do you have like a desert island read manga wise desert island read it would have to be uh I'll do a top three not just one I'll give you three first one obviously would be one piece because even even if I don't read the conclusion it's a lot of volumes and you can revisit it and have fun with it I would like to read on a desert island um on desert island spirit circle it's one of my all-time favorite sci-fi manga and uh let's go with uh freaking uh shoot Dr. Stone because I would learn a lot I learned a lot through that manga about surviving and creating stuff using science and nature and all that and that could be pretty useful uh on a deserted island I think wise try getting a deluxe where is lone wolf and cub uh I honestly I'm not dissing on lone wolf and cub trygon is more popular especially with the younger crowd uh there's a desire and a hunger for that because lone wolf and cub goes in and out of printing but it is somewhat accessible compared to the volumes of trygon that have been out of print for so long and we have we've had nothing and now with this new boom of collectors coming in uh now in the 2020s era they just want to get that book and they they and watch the show the the original anime or the new one and they want to get into the manga and I think it was a safe choice for a dark horse hopefully lone wolf and cub uh happens at some point because that's also a series that a lot of people are wanting to get into uh that are want that want to get into in that format sorry showing my age lmao don't worry about it we're all uh veterans here I want that deluxe of lone wolf too I have to admit I'm not a super huge fan of it I don't dislike it it's just not my favorite and maybe maybe I will follow myself if it's released in that format and I'll check it out because I do like the movies a lot so yeah hopefully it happens also friggin uh oh my goddess that'd be a uh a good one in the hardcover format I know the older volumes finally got reprinted take a look over here we got some bochi the rock figures heck yeah I uh my favorite character aside from bochi because she's uh super relatable to me uh is of course Hitoi ace player uh yes she's awesome over here these are uh what's it called uh is it wrong to pick up girls at a dungeon at hell's paradise pretty sweet over there too uh anime's been uh been pretty interesting I do have a story about that but i'll leave that for my uh regular videos because I will talk about hell's paradise soon mashel getting some figures for the first time I am a little underwhelmed with mashel I gotta be honest I read the manga when it when it was first coming out I dropped it and thankfully the anime the first season is only 12 episodes if it was longer I'd be dropping it soon because I I wanted to see if it could retain my attention because I stopped reading the manga because I genuinely was not laughing at it it has a really fun premise and fun characters but maybe it's just it's a me thing I didn't find it as funny as other people and eventually I just lost interest and with the show it's doing the exact same thing unfortunately I would still recommend watching it because it's different from everything else but yeah you're interested I don't know what to tell you I'm very picky when it comes to comedy and what actually makes me laugh uh this character is from overwatch I think overwatch too right got some video game stuff uh I feel like I know this girl who is uh Danganronpa there we go you know I have this game and I've yet to play it I have it for uh on the switch uh more video games other anime girls that I don't know had some attack on titan oh they got some uh Demon Slayer that's cute and Jujutsu Kaisen Seven Deadly Sins these are pretty badass not gonna lie uh I kind of want this I hmm I really want this pop-up parade of Alucard super sick and uh what was the other one uh Alexander right what that was his name Alexander Anderson there you go yeah I might get these two in the release and it's pop-up parade so it's not gonna be expensive you're looking at like 35 to 45 bucks or something like that depending on the website let's just say 40 bucks see if anything else catches my eye here the figma looks really cool with the um with the glasses but again I'm not collecting not figma uh what is this Nendoroid uh I'm not gonna collect that homie is getting a figure that's cool oh Yuri is my job you know I gotta be honest this is one of my favorite shows of the year so far Yuri is my job I was pleasantly surprised I really enjoy it it's dramatic and it's not uh it doesn't go into fanservice stuff aside from being a like a Yuri themed cafe or whatever but they're not doing anything lewd or anything it's just like uh they're acting and pretending to whatever I'll talk about it on my anime reviews uh what's this character's name oh my gosh uh so much on as a girl there we go yeah that's cute why does it scroll back off don't do that come on man I don't know these characters no cool she's pretty funny the series is something else I I man this series is wild send this over from heck yeah awesome here it was I didn't get to go with the uh risque uh um outfit right there with the swimsuit honestly no I'm not gonna say it never mind never mind the leader uh this is sword art pass uh is this Nina from good and lag on Slyker hold on you guys are typing and I can't see uh um Alex and Anderson one of my favorites from Helsing he's awesome I think I'm out tonight good talk so long as you enjoyed and have a time to keep up the channel I enjoyed love for sure brother thank you so much I do appreciate it uh thank you so much for tuning in taking time out of your schedule to hang out with me on a random Friday night you don't know how much that means to me so thank you have a great weekend buddy appreciate it uh hanky pamp thank you for joining lone wolf deserves the deluxe edition definitely it's a classic right it should uh yamada koon from yamada koon from uh my love story that's the name of it also a fun series really enjoy that one let's see let's see this keep scrolling um good to see iruma koon I love this series welcome to demon school iruma koon that's awesome to see merch for that shin common writer that's cute in chibi form freaking minions I hate him if I ever see one in real life I'm gonna punch it in the face sorry not sorry okay that's it uh interesting cyberpunk cool cool this is from the uh shinkai movie right um a new one I forgot the name of it sorry okay the course recoil yeah it's an ancient magus ride oni mine oh but out of all this if I were to get anything obviously the housing purple parades I do want I kind of want to get the manga even though I prefer the anime for housing more than the manga I'm interesting getting those three hard covers I don't know maybe it's the completionist in me because I've been getting the other dark horse hard covers you know something I will get a try gun though that's a that's someone that's something I do you want to own let's take a look at that nezuko yeah that's pretty sick I don't know about the whole even guts background thing that's kind of weird but kind of the effect here for like a blown out body piece here with the blood and all blood squirt that's pretty dope and it's in a frame too right this is a new product uh scale figure nezuko mugan train it looks like it's it's inside a frame anyways happy we could do that heck yeah we're trying over to the other screen uh I think I'm going to start wrapping up it was supposed to be 30 minutes but I went a whole freaking hour because I love talking about concepts I hope this video was of use to you if not sorry uh I'll do better next time as for the channel what's coming up next is pretty exciting uh next week you're gonna see some haulage I gotta I got some cool books I get some surprise finds out in the wild that I haven't mentioned on the channel yet or on Omni Rose uh so that should be out either Monday or Tuesday I don't know and then on the first of June which will be Thursday I will have ready the top 12 anticipated manga releases of June 2023 expect some shorts to be made out of that I've been having a lot of fun with the shorts the fact that people watch that stuff amazes me I know it's not for everybody I get it but kind of a youtuber man I gotta do it you know if it pulls people in and it kind of works I put I uh posted the final Gantz Omnibus short just highlighting the books and people liked it left some comments and people that watched that short subscribed uh to the channel and started watching videos so it does uh improve the channel so yeah gonna be doing more of that uh soon and uh the week after I should finally have ready my video on Call of the Night I'm finishing up what I have physically so then I can write a little essay slash review and all that fancy stuff looking forward to that I think that's all that I have at the moment there are some other video ideas that are that are brewing in my head but I haven't uh worked on them yet I do promise I'll work my hardest uh to uh oh wait a minute there's a video I gotta do I'll tell you in a minute in a minute um I promise for the next stream I'm gonna look a little bit different with the whole lighting and all that stuff uh I'm gonna work on that and the intro I forgot to add the old intro for the uh old channel so I'm gonna make a new one it's gonna be in the same style that's sort of my uh taste when it comes to uh internet stuff with the whole synth wave vibe I dig that a lot in the neon lights but I promise I'm gonna work on that for the next monthly hangout and uh that is in preparation for July where I'm going to finally get back to game streaming on either my twitch accounts or the geekdom gaming channel left for death last year so what this means is that I'm working on revamping that lowly but surely because I just got overwhelmed with that so look forward to next month a video on that channel sort of explaining everything while also showing some switch pickups or whatever if you're interested in video games uh subscribe to my alt channel that's geekdom gaming on youtube and on twitch geekdom gaming pretty cool matches manga geekdom happy about that I think that's it that's all I got um thank you everybody in the chat you guys are lovely as always thank you thank you I can't say this enough uh you guys make my day and you guys watching that support uh fills me with with joy and confidence that um I'm doing the right thing like this is not in vain right so that's gonna be it for now thank you everybody if you're watching this for the first time and you're thinking man this guy talks a lot and some heavy drama shit um please do consider subscribing and watching the channel I do uh content on manga anime all that stuff subscribe hit the like button maybe share the video I appreciate it oh I'm on uh social media you can follow me on instagram uh facebook and mostly twitter I talked a lot of nonsense on twitter if you want to chat with me talk over there I had a great time Geo thank you so much comic art channel thank you hanky pimp peace out take care James travis everybody um um go back Warren who else was in here bob thank you everybody you guys are awesome the collector thank you uh if I missed anybody uh sorry so uh yeah peace out everybody stay safe out there let's uh close it out with a non-existing closing video that I haven't made but let's just go to a dark screen and let it fill that void in your heart as I say goodbye we'll be back next week with more videos stay tuned love all of you god bless have a great weekend