 Hey everybody, welcome back to another exciting episode of A Week in Geekdom. Invisible Geo here, you can just see my hand right there. We're doing another haul video for the month of April. This is actually pretty interesting because I kinda went a little crazy in some areas. Unfortunately a massive package of books did not arrive but there's still some good stuff here that I can geek out over you guys can enjoy and if you want me to review any of that stuff, leave those comments down below. As always, remember to like, comment, subscribe and help with the YouTube algorithm and all that nonsense. We're gonna start a little bit out of order. I'm not a huge amiibo collector but I got this bad boy, the Banjo-Kazooie amiibo. I don't really collect the line. I just have Joker, the hero, a couple Metroids, Toon Link and this bad boy. That's it. Let's get out of the way. Let's get into manga because I know that you guys like to see the manga haul, right? Not a whole lot. Like I mentioned earlier, big package, not arrived, containing a lot of cool stuff that came out in the month of April that a lot of people are excited to read. But I did get some stuff that I'm excited to check out, right? And that's what matters. Let's start with Viz, manga from Viz Media. Here we have Myer Academia Volume 27, looking really awesome. I love this cover. Here we see the back. Another one of my favorites here is Dr. Stone Volume 16, looking really awesome. I love this volume in particular and where the story is headed after this is so ridiculous. I absolutely love it. That's the stuff I want to read when I check out Dr. Stone. Here we have Demon Slayer Volume 21. There are two more volumes away from ending this whole thing. I actually have been waiting patiently to read this physically so I don't know how the series ends. I've avoided spoilers so far, so yay me. So yeah, this volume was really awesome, all the fights and stuff. Really enjoyed that. And a new series for me at least because this was released a while back. I saw Volume 2 at my nearest Walmart and thought, you know what? Why not? I'll get it. It's something I've been wanting to collect. I love manga based on video games so I went ahead and picked up Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess, Volume 2 and ordered this right away from the seller on eBay, I believe, for dirt cheap. Really excited to dig into this looking really awesome. Really going to enjoy reading Twilight Princess in manga format. Only one Viz Media Hardcover manga arrived. Next month you should see a lot more, unfortunately, just the one book. And it is Sunny from Taya Matsumoto, Volume 2, that awesome finish and construction of that book and that wonderful art. Really excited about this. Now I can probably read it because last time I showed you Volume 1 and Volume 3. So now I can go ahead and get started on this series and make a proper review video for the channel about Sunny. So let's take this out and load it up with more manga. This time, last haul, I showed you that I got into the famous world of Gants and this is no exception. I picked up the rest of the Omni-Editions, the Omnibus. So that's Volume 4 and Volume 5 right there. I am still missing Volume 2, which is still out of stock as of the recording of this video and I did pre-order Volume 6, which comes out late May 2021. But nonetheless, I'm really excited about it. Like I mentioned in the previous haul videos, I know what happens in all of Gants. That was spoiled to me, but this will be my first read through for the actual series. Hopefully I don't show something that's too nuts for work, but these monster dinos look really, really badass. I don't mind the big chunky additions. I prefer it that way, to be honest. I know a lot of people would prefer oversized hardcover treatment and all that stuff, but I'm good with that. Next up, a classic from Makoto Yugi Mura. This is something that I've been wanting to check out for a while. It's a shame that the anime is not available on Blu-ray because that's something that I also want to own for my collection. But here is the, I believe there are also omnibus additions of Planets. Here's Volume 1 and let's put it over here. And here is Volume 2. I said that right, Planets, right? Probably not, because it's me. I will probably review this at some point because I'm trying to beef out the review sections for Manga in this channel and cover sort of like the famous works, if you will. So yeah, look forward to this sometime soon. Let's wipe away this slate and bring you some more goodness. Well, yeah, that's not going to fit. Here's Berserk, Deluxe Edition Volume 7. This is a chunky boy, and as you can see, wonderful artwork, wonderful panels, wonderful story. I've already read all of this, but it's so cool to see it in oversized format in all its bloody, morbid glory from Kantarumi Yuda. So yeah, Berserk, Deluxe Edition Volume 7. So that's it for the manga. Let me show you a couple anime. There's two movies. A couple months ago, I picked up Violet Evergarden, the complete series. So I found for cheap the movie, Violet Evergarden, Eternity, and the Auto Memory Doll, right there. Unfortunately, I do not have the digital code on that one, so I do apologize. I usually like to give those away, but this was a pre-owned copy. And last but not least, I know, trust me, I know. It's not the greatest movie, but I already own all of the Studio Ghibli stuff on Blu-ray, so I had to do it as well and get Earwig and the Witch. So yeah, I know some people hate this movie, and they've made it abundantly clear on YouTube how much they hate it with video essays and all that fancy stuff and how much they hate it. And like, Goto Miyazaki should just stay away from making these movies or whatnot. But hey, I mean, they're doing something that I wish I could do. I wish I could create a movie and all that stuff. But nonetheless, I like the character designs. Not the animation per se, but it's all right. You know, it's not the best, but you know, I've seen worse. So that's it for anime. Let's see what else. All right. Let's take these off and show you guys real time because I do get graphic novels, comics, all that fun stuff. Here is a recommendation from my buddy OmniDogs, Sarah, and the Royal Stars from Vault Comics. I have no idea what this is about, but he said it was awesome and that I would like it. And yeah, it looks really cool. I have not read it yet. But here is, again, the cover for Volume 1. Does it fit here? It does not. Yay. And here is the cover for Volume 2. Originally, I wasn't going to get it, but then again, it completes the trilogy and I can finish off that series. It is Wonder Woman Earth 1 Volume 3 from Grant Morrison and Yannick Paquette and Nathan Faradbearn. This is, I think I have one video on this on the first volume on this channel. It's a reimagining set in Earth 1 of the DC continuity. It's a different Earth than the main one that you're used to. So Wonder Woman and everybody else acts totally different, but kind of similar. But yeah, here is the finale of that series with Volume 3. And finally, I'm a huge Hellboy fan, specifically BPRD, so I had to pick up the final hard cover, BPRD the Devil You Know, which it's not, I mean, they're still pumping out books, but this is, chronologically speaking, this is the last story and wraps everything up. I can't wait to read this to see how it ends. I stopped at the beginning of Hell on Earth, so now I can do a proper read-through and check out all of the main stories of BPRD. All right, guys. I went a little crazy, aside from all the fun stuff that you just saw. I went a little nuts when it comes to video games. I've made a realization. I don't really care about the Xbox Series X, S, Y, W, whatever you want to call it. I don't really care about the PlayStation 5. I'm content being a Nintendo Switch collector. So I went through some YouTube videos of different retro gamers, modern gamers, any gamer, I don't know, and they were listing their favorite Switch games in their collections, showing off the physical media. That's what I like, physical media. Even though I do get digital games, but for the most part, 95% of my collection is all physical. Yeah, I went a little bit crazy, added a bunch of titles there. The list is still there. There are a bunch of titles that I have not gotten yet, but this is the part one of filling out the Nintendo Switch library. That's a lot of games, for my budget at least. But here is all that fun stuff. Here we have the Shantae collection with the slip covers released by Limited Run Games. I don't have all the Shantae games, I'm missing one, but this is really cool. So yeah, love the artwork on this. Here on the spine, you see the five different games that have been released, the logo right there, and inside are four of the games, which I'll show you right now. I mean, I've already, a couple months back, I showed you that I already owned these two. But the new additions, along with the slip cover, is of course the original Shantae for the Game Boy Color, remastered or ported over to the Switch, I guess. Right here is Shantae, Risky's Revenge Director's Cut. I believe this was a DSi wear game, correct me if I'm wrong on that. The only game I'm missing is Pirate's Curse, which came out on the Vita, I think, 3DS and Switch. That is ridiculously expensive online, going from 80, and that's even lucky. If you're lucky enough, I should say, to find it for 80 bucks to like 130, 150, something like that for the entire, for the game, I should say. So yeah, $35 game when it came out, I guess, for the Switch, not going to spend $150 for that. Hopefully, because we did get a reprint for the fourth game, hopefully it happens and we get Pirate's Curse on, you know, a second printing, I guess, of that game. Alright, so let's go through this stack of Switch games from the oldest to the latest. Alright, let's see. First we have Hades from Supergiant. This game's amazing. I'm terrible at it, but it's amazing. I love it. I die pretty quickly and I'm pretty terrible playing it, but I have fun, regardless. I already had this digitally and I double dipped. I usually don't do that because it had the stupid little pamphlet thing, not this. The pamphlet with character artwork, they haven't released a heart cover of the art of Hades, but this is the next best thing. And probably when they release the art book. I'll be getting that as well. Let's move Shantae over there. This is a game in a series that I really like, but I've never owned. I played it on PS2. I played even the mobile games. It is Katamari Damacy Reroll, PS1 classic that I finally own again. I remember owning it and playing it on my original PlayStation. The Spyro Reignited Trilogy. I've only played the first one, never played the second and third games, so I'm really excited about that. Now this next game, I love arcade games, shooters, the fighting games, beat-em-ups. I love action platformers and all that fun stuff. That's usually where I spend most of my time when I'm playing video games and your Nintendo stuff and what not, the original IPs and what not. But one of the other things I really like is pinball. On my Switch, I have pinball FX3 with all the tables and all that stuff. And that's sufficient for what I want. However, I had to get the Stern Pinball arcade for the Switch because Stern Pinball, you know, they're the head honchos with a lot of mula and they're not going to appear at the pinball FX3. So I wanted to play their classic tables such as Star Trek, Mustang, Harley Davidson, Last Action Hero, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, stuff like that, which it's emblematic of Stern Pinball. Now the one thing, because you might be thinking, well, you should get it digitally to match with the FX3 and that's true. But I kind of wanted this because of the ACDC table. They lost the license for it digitally and the only way you can play that table on your console is by getting the physical edition, whether it's Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 or Xbox One or whatever it may be, you can only play that physically. So I had to get it. This is an indie game. It looked interesting, looked really cool, found it for a really cheap price. It is Owl Boy. I love the cover on that. So I'm looking forward to playing this. This is something that I've always wanted to play for years. I played, I'm gonna admit it, I played a rom of it in high school or, yeah, high school, yeah, it's been a while folks. And I always wanted to own the games and I was close to getting them for the DS, but I remembered that this was available on the Asian market. So I got this from Play Asia, imported it. It is the Ace Attorney 123 collection. So I'm really excited to own this and there's a new one coming out that I already have pre-ordered. So it'll go great with this. So my birthday last year, 2020. One of the things I wanted to get were the Mega Man Legacy Collections. I already had Mega Man 11. So I wanted to get every Mega Man game available for the Switch. So of course I got Mega Man 11, got the Legacy Collections. And I've had to get this. I was missing the Mega Man Zero ZX Legacy Collection. Really cool. I wasn't gonna fetch the GBA prices complete in box online. So I went ahead and picked this up instead. This is a recent limited run order. It's really cool that this already shipped because we're so used to the delays and waiting so long for pre-orders from limited run and all that stuff. So it was really nice to see the notification that it shipped. And this was made available back in January. It is the Scott Pilgrim versus the World of Video Game, the complete edition. Really cool. I only ordered the base set, you know, comes with the little card, the concert ticket and the manual, all that fun stuff. Oh, and of course, reversible cover right there. Look at that. I prefer this one. Classic homage to Sonic Adventure. And last but not least, another one of those classic arcade games that I've always wanted to own in some shape or form. This is a classic of the arcade era. It is the Dragon's Lair Trilogy on Switch. I wanted to get this on PS2, skipped on it. I wanted to get it on, I think that we had an edition of it, skipped it. And there were like two more editions I can't remember right now. So I settled on the Switch edition because yeah, like I said, I'm collecting for the Switch. I'm really happy about this. I'm probably never going to own an original arcade. Arcade One Up has the Dragon's Lair Trilogy cabinet that they're coming up with. I ain't got room for that. So I'm just happy with this. Also, if you go the ROM route is really difficult to emulate, depends on what you're doing. And yeah, not gonna go that route. So with that Nintendo background there, that's the end of the haul. Like I said, I was missing actually three shipments from Right Stuff with a ton of manga and anime. So you'll see that in the next haul video. But let me know what you thought if you want me to review any of the manga and anime and all that stuff that I featured on this haul video. Let me know in the comment section down below. And of course, it wouldn't be a haul video without some bloopers. And I actually remembered, I forgot to highlight, one of the biggest purchases I've made this year so far. There it is guys, the Oculus Quest 2. Yeah, I've been wanting to get this for a year and a half as of this video. I remember bothering my dad constantly about all the VR stuff. And I really wanted to get into this. I love the idea, I love virtual reality. And this has not disappointed. I've only had it for a week as of this video and it's been so much fun. I've had a blast with this, just playing the random games, all the freebies. I actually got some games and I actually do wanna make more videos on this thing. Not on this channel, maybe on my second gaming channel. The link is in the description below. So yeah, this has been a lot of fun. Thank you guys so much for being a part of a week in geekdom, subscribing, commenting, all that fun stuff. If you're new here, I do content like this where I talk about all the hauls and of course going over anime, comics and manga reviews. So if you wanna help a brother out and subscribe and help out with the algorithm and all that stuff, I would very much appreciate it. That's it for me, I've gotta go. God bless, stay safe out there. I will catch all of you on our next video.