 Hey everybody! Welcome back to another exciting episode, another edition of A Week in Geekdom here on YouTube and today I want to give a massive shout out to the folks at Seven Seas Entertainment for making this review possible. They sent a copy of BL Metamorphosis My Way, the first volume of this manga. So what exactly is BL Metamorphosis? Now the story involves Ichinoi, a 75 year old grandma who teaches calligraphy. She is with and it's just living this wholesome wonderful life and one day out of the blue she goes into her local library and sees that I believe she was looking for something else and instead found the manga section of that library and she unwittingly buys a boys love manga. Now she's shocked initially of the material but as she reads it she finds that it's good she's enjoying it and wants to check out the series even further. Now the other part that's really fun about this story is the high school girl that's working there called Udara. She is a huge fan of it as well and the two get acquainted for this fact. You know she's working in the library and when Ichinoi is asking for the next volume it's not there so she tells her oh I can pre-order the book and when it arrives you can come pick it up and all that stuff. So she does and what soon follows is a heartwarming beautiful quaint little story about unlikely friendships and the power that this medium can have and by that I'm referring to books and the power to unite people over a common interest. I had no idea what the book was about so it caught me by surprise and I ended up just reading it with a big old smile. It's such an easygoing book to read. This manga is just a relaxing experience the way these characters go about their business. I love that Ichinoi at a later stage in life is finding her passion again for reading because she does mention at the start of the book that she used to read a lot of manga back in the day and when she first got married and stuff so I thought that was really wholesome, cute and heartwarming. Her relationship that she forms with this high school girl is sweet and endearing and Urara is very shy in school and mostly around everybody so that the fact that she can open up with an older person and you know sort of geek out about their favorite books and stuff is really cool and I could definitely see myself in that position because growing up I eventually I started becoming more shy and and not necessarily being an extrovert with everybody and when you find people that have the love that you do for a hobby it can be quite liberating and it can be quite fun so I definitely saw myself in that position with my friends but yeah BL Metamorphosis is a sweet endearing manga don't if you're not if you're worried about the boys love thing because I know it's not for everybody it's not a central thing for the manga you're not reading a boys love manga you're reading characters reading that stuff so while you do get scenes that illustrate the manga that they're reading that's not the whole point the point of this story is you know finding friendship in the least likely of places so for that alone I wholeheartedly recommended and if it weren't for Seven Seas hitting me up and saying hey here is this copy of this book do you want to review it I'm like okay yeah I'll give it a shot because I'm open to reading anything I don't really mind at all so if it weren't for that I would have not discovered this great series by I believe her name is Kaori Surutani I think I said that right there's only one book out there's two more volumes that are supposed to drop eventually but if you can do give it a read it's very wholesome very endearing like I've said the art is relaxing and like light brushstrokes if you will and it's it's a very clean palette what you're reading it's very breezy and easy to follow you'll read it really quickly it's a very light fast read but you have a fun time with it the characters are really cool I love the relationship that forms between Ichinoy and Ura and the story is sort of slice of life ish with hints of comedy and and the you know interpersonal relationships start getting explored as you go further into the book because while the characters are away because you know it's the first volume they're just starting to meet you do know that these characters are going through different stages of their lives obviously but they're going through different things and I am very excited to check out volume two to see where the story continues and to see if maybe life experiences helps Uradara you know shed some of that shyness away and how her relationship with this person that she knows from high school if that evolves or progresses forward one of my favorite things about this book is there's a scene in the first volume where Ichinoy is looking at the second book and she is wondering okay so volume three or the next one isn't out yet it's good it looks like the writers doing one per year so if we were to finish this I would have to be like something something age like 80 something which I thought was hilarious because we've all been there waiting for a series to put out all the material in collected edition so I got a kick out of that also the fact that Uradara gave her some maybe not safe for workbooks as recommendations and she was super shy about it and wondering like oh did I did I screw up because you know I'm just meeting this person and oh boy so that whole interaction I've been in situations like that not necessarily with the not safe for work stuff just the recommendations and you don't know what the other person likes so you don't know how they're gonna react so I thought that was pretty funny pretty relatable that for all you book readers out there for all you manga lovers and comic lovers and all types of literature lovers I guess you're gonna find something to like in BL metamorphosis the art is breezy fun and wholesome same with the story so I highly recommend it once again I want to give a massive shout out and big thank you to Seven Seas Entertainment for making this review possible and sending me a copy for me to review on this channel if you want to check it out I will put a link in the description below where you can get the first volume if you've read it let me know in the comment section as well what you thought of it and if not let me know what is your favorite slice of live comic or manga very interested in finding out guys as always thank you for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of a week and geek them here on YouTube it really does mean a whole ton I wholeheartedly appreciated you can also follow me on social media Facebook Twitter Instagram all that fun stuff also I gotta remember to keep doing this because I always forget I've had a merch store for a while and I always forget to mention it at the end of the videos so if you want to support the channel if you want to take a gamble and get a shirt similar to this with the logo the channel banner if you 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