 Hey everybody, welcome back to your Wicked Geekdom Geo here and today we're doing a double header. We're doing two first impressions video on recently released manga. Let's do this! Welcome back to the channel everyone and yeah, I was only going to do a video on Phantom Seer and then before recording this, I found out about High School Family Kokosei Kazuko. I hope I said that right, but I probably didn't. It's both our new series that debuted on Show the Jump and I decided to read the first two chapters for each and bring you my thoughts on them on this video. Just some quick informations, obviously first impressions. We're just getting started with these but I am pretty excited about them. The first one that I wanted to talk about is Phantom Seer. This is from the creative team of Togo Goto and Kento Matsura and it stars the character of Ritsu Aibetsu, this high school girl that has sort of these premonitions and psychic-like abilities where she's able to warn others of incoming danger and react accordingly. She saved lives and she believes it's a gift in order to protect people. However, that may not be entirely true. You see there's another character, this loner eccentric character called Yori Katanagi who has information for Riku that turns her life upside down. It turns out that her abilities aren't necessarily a gift. They're more of a side effect of being sort of like this beacon of sorts to phantoms or otherworldly spirits or paranormal entities that want to I guess kill and consume humans and she just happens to be the target of a lot of them. So when accidents are happening, it's usually because they're targeting her, not that she's perceiving something else. So that sort of plays into one of the themes of the story so far in the first two chapters where when your expectations don't necessarily line up or meet with reality, however you shouldn't downgrade your dream. You should still go forward with it, but being aware of what really is happening, if that makes any sense to you guys. Overall, I really like the series so far. I'd love the character designs. The art at times can be simple to look at, but it becomes really nice and badass when you see all the supernatural action and the phantom designs which I thought were pretty freaking fantastic. The character of Riku and Iori are well designed that you are able to distinguish them from the rest of the high school students because that's usually a thing. You know, it's in a school a lot of kids are going to look alike, but for our two main characters you know right away who they are. There's also a couple characters introduced like Iori's sister who is renowned worldwide as this powerful shaman. I don't know if they mentioned worldwide, I'm probably making that up, but let's just say she's super famous and she is extremely creepy looking, but really interesting. I like the design with her bandaged eyes and all that stuff, so I'm really looking forward to knowing more about her. Also Riku's ability to grow is going to be really interesting. I don't want to necessarily spoil things because it's only two chapters, but the things that she goes through just early on are pretty intense and the monster ghost designs like I mentioned are pretty freaking spectacular and easily the highlight of this manga for new readers. If you want sort of paranormal action, but not necessarily the standard shonen or battle shonen route, it's different in its own right and obviously the interaction between the two characters is obviously going to pull a lot of people in and to see how it progresses because you have the character of Yori who is powerful in his own right and you know that he's gone through some really heavy stuff, but he's sort of walking away from all that stuff and helping others and is more interested in helping himself and just trying to live a normal life, but as you know when you're involved in things like this and fictional stories, I mean you can't really walk away from it. We've seen all these things before, tropes are being re-explored I guess here, but there's enough appeal that I do want to continue and I think it's a worthwhile series to continue reading, so let me know in the comment section what you thought of Phantom Seer. The other series that debuted is High School Family Kokosei Kazuko written and illustrated by Nakama Ryo and this is basically a slice of life comedic or gag comedy as they say. This story follows the character of Kotaro as he is finally entering high school, he's really excited about it, but finds out that his whole entire family is also somehow applying and entering high school on the same day the whole family is entering high school. That's bizarre and wacky and just the amount of deadpan humor that I like. At first I wasn't too fond of the art, but as I kept reading the story I started loving it for how goofy looking it is and how simple and effective. Obviously a lot of the comedic tones in this manga early on on these first two chapters relies more on the delivery of the characters and the reaction for Kotaro as he realizes okay so I am going to live a very bizarre unusual high school life, yay me. We've all gone through that right, but they have a wacky situation like this. They even have Gomez the cat which I immediately loved with his little outfit. Gomez and the mom dad and little sister they're all accompanying him. It's going to be cringy for him, but hilarious for us. So yeah really simplistic art, but I hope they're able to keep going with it and not just depend on the same jokes of oh it's embarrassing because it's my mom and dad and my sis at the school or whatever. I hope they're able to do more with that and introduce more elements or maybe get the full family involved with the different school activities or clubs. Who knows there's a there's a potential there. Also the art I know for some people they might look at it and discard it, but I don't know it gives it a very unique charm for such a wacky bizarre series, but what do you guys think? Have you read High School Family? Let me know in the comment section as well. So guys this was a quick two-in-one review of Phantom Seer and High School Family. First impressions manga. 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