 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel, Gio here. It's been a minute since I've done a haul video back in May and it's been quite a crazy ride when it comes to that. I have a bunch of books, but not a whole lot. It was supposed to be considerably larger than what I'm going to show you. Unfortunately, summertime rendering got in the way and screwed everything up. So I was really excited to get summertime rendering. I'd love the anime and I really wanted to check out the manga. Pre-ordered that back in May. It got pushed back to, I think, Wright Stuff had a date of mid-June and I told myself, okay well I'll group everything together so it ships with those hard covers. Of course they had some printing issues and the hard covers were not suitable to be out in the market so we have to wait. We didn't have a date and I believe by San Diego Comic Con they talked about a fall release. Unfortunately the order I placed, it's all bundled up together so I don't know if they're gonna separate it or not. I guess I could email them or give them a call to see if they would separate the order but end of the day it's not too big of an issue. However, I guess for the purpose of this whole video it kind of is, so what are you gonna do? First world problems. I am missing two boxes of manga that I wanted to show you guys. I just have the one thing. It's actually kind of funny. At the start of June I got one book and I've been waiting ever since and now at the end of July here in August now I finally got one of the other boxes. I got volumes 7, 8, and 9 of Inspector. I really liked the series. I'd loved the show and I wanted to collect it at some point. Now the starting volumes some are out of stock others are not and I didn't want to go through that hassle. Instead I picked up the stuff that I've not read obviously. I only checked out the starting portion with first arc but here gets into the second one which is the basis for the second season of the anime. Really excited about that. They go into detail with one of my favorite yokai the Yuki-Ona. I'm super excited about that so I went ahead and picked up the starting portion of what is the second season of the anime which was supposed to come out this year but it got delayed for early 2023. So I'm going to be reading this and hopefully give you guys my impressions on the Inspector manga. I really like the art. Really cool. If you like sort of a noirish take supernatural detective style with obviously the supernatural and yokai and monsters and all that I do give Inspector a shot. I think it's really cool. I really like it and the art on the manga is pretty solid. Now this is something that I've been wanting to get for a long time. I have here the first three volumes that I found at Walmart of all places of Bakke Monogatari. Here's volume one over here. Volume two and volume three. Really excited about this series. The thing is I do think if you're not going to read the novels I do think the preferred format is the anime and yeah most of it is streaming on sites like Crunchyroll. I don't think everything is. If you wanted to collect the anime if you wanted to get all the blue rays you're looking at a thousand dollar plus investment to own all that stuff. Some of it is super out of print. That's why I added the plus and if you're not going to do light novels I'm not a super light novel reader. I guess the manga is the route to go because I really like the anime and I wanted to own it in some shape or form and I picked the manga. Now it took me some time. I kind of held off on it because it's still ongoing. I know it entered its final arc as of this year but you never know what's the final number going to be. Is it going to be 20 plus volumes? Is it going to be 30? Who knows? But I am excited. I saw these at Walmart like I said on a whim. I thought you know what let's grab it. Why the hell not? Let's treat myself. So I got these and what's interesting is that these are slightly larger trim size than a standard manga as you can see here. Not by much actually just a little bit over here. I thought that was pretty interesting. Obviously it gives it a more wide screen or a wider cinematic scope to the drawings themselves. But this is a wacky story. If you love urban stories and like creepypasta, yokai, supernatural stuff, urban legends, myths and stuff like that I think you'll be right at home with Bakken One on Atari. I really do recommend checking out the show and if you can check out the manga as well. Another one from Kodansha is that time I got reincarnated as a slime volume 19. It's insane that we already have 19 of these. Volume 20 comes out in like two months I think. So that's really awesome. I don't know how long the series is supposed to go. I think the live novels are close to ending. Correct me if I'm wrong on that. So I'm interested to see how long the manga will continue for. Another one from Kodansha we got the Seven Deadly Sins omnibus volume 5 containing volumes 13, 14 and 15. This is the first time that I'm reading Seven Deadly Sins. Pretty interesting. Pretty cool so far. I dig it. Really nice Omni Edition. We'll go great with my other ones right over here. Blade of the Immortal deluxe edition volume 6. This is a four in one compared to the other ones which are three in one. That is of course so we can have ten solid hard covers total. That's why this one is a little bit thicker than the others. Really cool stuff. Legendary artwork of course. Just a wonderful series. If you like action and samurai and supernatural stuff and really bloody action you can't go wrong with Blade of the Immortal. From Viz we got one of my favorite series Dr. Stone volume 22. Now I know it has a bunch of haters out there. It's all right. More power to you but I really enjoy Dr. Stone and I don't know the ending of it. I purposely have not read that stuff because I'm reading it as I get the volume so I'm eager to learn how the series ends. A little bittersweet because I kind of wanted it to continue just because it's been with me for a couple years in very important situations. The manga has been there for me. That's why I'm a little bit bittersweet about it but still really cool to get another volume of Dr. Stone. Here is Fiedin volume 5. I have a first impressions video if you want to check it out on the channel. My thoughts on the first volume and a half I think it was because I recorded the video while I still didn't have volume two with me so I kind of took a sneak peek online if you will. But Fiedin is great. I love it and I'm really looking forward to checking out more of the story to see where the characters go and of course our main girl. She's quite awesome and one of my favorite characters of recent memory. Here we have a record of Ragnarok volume 3. Super excited to own this. I love this series. It's so high octane and bonkers crazy. It reminds me of reading the awesome extreme era of 90s comics in that the story isn't necessarily the most revolutionary thing but it's so high octane. It's so badass with a great fun concept. You know the gods versus a select group of outstanding humans fighting for the fate of the earth. You can't get more bombastic than that and I absolutely love it especially the art is really good. I can't wait to dive in to this volume and see what's happening on record of Ragnarok. Next up one of my all-time favorite Shonen manga. It is of course Dragon Quest The Adventure of Die. I absolutely love this manga. I love the anime. The recent anime is fantastic. The 2020 reboot and this is just a fantastic series. Great artwork. Seriously if you have not checked Adventure of Die Dragon Quest you need to pick this up. I know the price tag it's a little bit higher than your standard manga. This one is a $20 release that you can get it online for around 15 bucks. Well worth it in my opinion. The luxe oversized a little bit just a great looking addition overall. I cannot recommend it enough. Beastars volume 19. I am like two volumes behind reading this so I need to catch up. I'm looking forward to seeing how the story concludes. I love this one. It's really fun. I like anthropomorphic animal stories. What you can do with them is really cool how you can sort of you know examine humans through the lens of the animal kingdom with their traits and all that. And of course just presenting a compelling story with noir elements and mystery and romance and all that stuff. So I highly recommend Beastars if you've never checked it out. Do watch the show and if you like what you see just know that the manga is a million times better because Itagaki's artwork is just stellar all throughout. I cannot once again recommend this enough. Go check out Beastars. Please read Finally on this mini haul it was supposed to be larger. Unfortunately here is Maisonikoku from Grimigo Takahashi. I can't show this because Takahashi's peeps get upset at certain YouTubers when they show stuff inside. So I can't do that. Just look at the pretty cover. Maisonikoku is great. I'm not up to date with these releases. I've actually never read it. This is the first time that I'm going through a famous series like that. So I'm looking forward to making a video on this channel talking about such a wonderful rom-com. And that overall is the haul. A pretty small one. Again I'm missing two big boxes of bright stuff. Manga has some deluxe editions some omni editions and my omni I mean omnibus. And of course the stupid summertime rendering hardcovers that are now pushed to fall 2022. So that's going to be fun. But nonetheless thank you so much for checking out the channel. If this is your first time I do content like this going over hauls. But of course I'd like to talk about anime and manga especially seasonal anime and all the manga that I have on my shelves. I try and make review videos on them. So I want to check that out. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you know when new videos bump up. And that's about it. Thank you so much. God bless. Stay safe out there. I will catch all of you on our next video.