 Hey everybody, welcome back to the Manga Geekdom. Today we're doing another haul video, a short one but a good one in my opinion. All the cool stuff I got in the month of April that was missing from the previous Manga haul. The night blooms behind Castle Walls Volume 2 really enjoyed this series. When I read Volume 1, my first impressions is on the channel. If you want to check it out, I really like the whole concept of Slice of Life meets this epic adventure of a young girl wanting to be a knight but she has to be a squire first and all the trials and tribulations that come with it. Really wonderful art. Highly recommend checking this series out. It's only three volumes so it's not a huge commitment. I showed it off last haul, Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero. It's actually pretty funny. I like the idea that it's a comedy series, Slice of Life. You have this Demon Lord that was defeated. He comes back prematurely but now he's like a pipsqueak, the body of a 10 year old basically and he is seeking out the hero. The hero is not as he remembers him to be, more of a has been nowadays down on his luck. Certain things have happened to him, some bad stuff that tarnished his reputation and they just go off from there and they form this unlikely friendship, the two of them. If you're in the mood for some raunchy comedic fantasy series, check out Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero. Next up from one of my favorite magica, Satoshi Mizukami, I picked up World and Sote Volume 1. The art in this looks fantastic and I thought it was funny that Volume 1, the cover is embossed or the logo for it on the cover here and not with Volume 2. It's a take on real life issues with pollution and this is a world where magical pollution has affected the world. There are characters called salvagers that go into this pollution and try to retrieve stuff that's worth the value and you have a main character who's interested not necessarily in fixing everything that happened in this world but actually traveling to the far end of said pollution to see what else is out there. Everything looks pretty cool. Let's take a look at the spines here real quick on the Seven Seas books that I got. Pretty interesting. Next up from Tokyo Pop another Mizukami series, Sengoku Yoko. This action fantasy series splits humans with monsters called Katawara and the main characters are in fact Katawara. They discover a plot of humans being experimented on to transform them into monsters so now they are going to side with the humans and fight the person responsible for this. I love the art. This just looks phenomenal. It's only 100 chapters collected across 17 volumes so it's not a huge commitment. Can't wait for more volumes of this series. And here we have Dr. Stone Volume 25 from Viz Media and Sean and Jump. I can't show too much of what's happening inside because that would be a spoiler. We're near the end of the series. I don't actually know as of me making this video how the story ends. Thankfully I've avoided spoilers so I'm really excited to check out what happens in Dr. Stone. Here we have the final volume of the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess manga adaptation, a phenomenal take on the Twilight Princess game. One of the best stories in my personal opinion in the whole Zelda mythos. Twilight Princess is such a great game and even though that's not my favorite Zelda game, that would be Wind Waker. The artwork on this is just exquisite in my opinion. So here are the spines for those three books, two Viz Media books and one Tokyo Pop and some larger trim sized editions here. We have Renta Girlfriend Volume 18 really looking forward to reading this. Volume 17 ended on such a shocking cliffhanger. I can't wait. Yeah, it's my guilty pleasure. I don't care. I love this series and I want to find out what happened with certain characters in Volume 17 if they're gonna make it or not. Next up is Volume 18 of To Your Eternity. Now this I can wholeheartedly recommend phenomenal artwork, fantastic story, great characters. This is one of my favorite ongoing manga right now as of 2023. I love this series so much and I have to admit I need to catch up. I think the last one I read was either 13 or 14 so I don't know much of what's happening in this future arc, eager to find out more of To Your Eternity. Record of Ragnarok. I was waiting to get more volumes to read because it's such a fast read because most of it is fighting and you can easily read through all of that in a couple minutes. I stopped reading the series and waited to get a bunch of volumes but oh so good with the action and the character designs and the unique takes on these legendary heroes and godlike figures and all that stuff. A lot of fun. Next up my dress-up darling, Volume 8. Really cool to have this. I love this series, really enjoyed the show and I've been slowly reading the manga. I haven't gotten to the new stuff yet for me. Obviously the anime adapted the first six volumes so I haven't gotten to Volume 7 yet but the artwork continues to excel in my opinion. This one is by Square Enix manga and something that I've been putting off buying for a while. You're seeing it here. Misakowayashi's Dragon Maid in color. This is the Chromatic Edition Story and Art by Koukyousinja. I don't have the manga. I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of it, the art style. I don't know for some reason I just prefer to consume the story in animation form instead of the original but as a fan of the franchise I guess I wanted to own at least something of the manga and to have colored chapters in here. It's just a random assortment. There's no continuity with this but it's still fun. I was not aware of the nudity in this manga. I didn't know it went to such lengths. The anime, while risqué, I don't think it goes full frontal or anything but the manga, yeah that took me by surprise. I was not expecting to see the characters in that shape or form. I know there's a Volume 2 out in Japan so hopefully Seven Seas gets Volume 2 as well to add it to the collection. Misakowayashi's Dragon Maid, I'm a fan. I'm excited to have this so there you go. On the anime side of things unfortunately just one blu-ray. I do have more stuff coming in the mail. They didn't arrive in time for the making of this video but we'll see it next month. It's all right. Here we have Sonic X finally. I have this. I have been waiting ever since I saw the dubbed release by Disco Tech a couple years ago. I said man this sucks that it doesn't have the Japanese version because that is in my opinion, my personal opinion, the best adaptation of Sonic outside of the video games. I disliked the For Kids version, the dub but that's what I consumed back in the day but later on I was able to track down the Japanese version and watch it and noticed all the differences and all that stuff. So thank you to Disco Tech. I know I'm not the only one. A lot of people have been asking for this and we finally got it. The full series they reworked the translation. I think some of the music was redone or some of the visuals as well. Obviously it's cleaned up a lot. This is SD on blu-ray. I have been waiting for so long so to see this release just brings a smile to my face. I love Sonic X. That's my favorite like I mentioned just now. So yeah super super excited. Hell yeah. So there you go guys a small manga haul. Nothing too fancy. I want to think for me at least for my taste quality over quantity right? So thank you so much everybody for tuning in. If you like this video give it a thumbs up. If you want to share it that'd be fantastic. 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