 The final video of 2019. Let's go! Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode, another edition of A Week in Geekdom. I am your host DeJuan Medendes and today we're going to be talking about what I picked up on the Holiday Hall Part 2 at the end of every month. I like to do a hall and it just so happens that, well, this is the last video of 2019. It's been a very interesting year. It started very promising and midway I sort of made a realization that I technically didn't need to get so much stuff so I've been trying to be more considerate of my purchases and of course everything in moderation but holiday season, you know, every single website has good awesome deals so I had to take a jump on some of these deals. Manga, anime, crap ton of video games, it's insane folks. So let's start with Manga because I have been reading a few manga and I got some surprise packages as well. First I got B-stars Volume 3, firing in all cylinders. I love this series so much. Here we have My Hero Academia Volume 22 and finally I don't know why I was so late in picking this up but I had to jump on the four or five bucks train on this, The Solving Classroom from Junji Ito. This is the only book I'm missing from my collected editions Ito library. I do have No Longer Human if I remember correctly, yes, No Longer Human but I made the error of adding that order with stuff that comes out next month in January so it is delayed because they're going to group everything and ship it so that was on me and I unfortunately cannot read it or add it to the library but I do have The Solving Classroom right here to finish off quote unquote the Junji Ito collection. I have to give a massive shout out to a good friend of mine, Jonel. Thank you so much for gifting me this as a Christmas gift, I guess. Yeah, Christmas gift. He gave me a couple manga from his collection. This is the first volume of No Game, No Life in poly bags and everything. God bless him. And this extremely, how should I put this? Not safe for work, violent yet amazingly radical manga series, Magical Girl Apocalypse from Kintaro Sato. I will be doing a video on this pretty dang soon after this haul so look forward to that because I really want to talk about this Magical Girl Apocalypse volume one. Here we have volume two, volume three of the series, volume four, just radical designs. Here is volume five and volume six and I'm sorry for the plastic noise. I know a lot of people get really upset about that stuff. Volume seven which unfortunately is out of print so you might want to look in stores and stuff to hide this one down but the cover is a little bit risque. I don't know if I should have shown it in the video but whatever. Thank you so much for those wonderful gifts and I will be doing videos on those books No Game, No Life and Magical Girl Apocalypse really, really soon because I want to talk about them on the channel. Next up let's do anime because I went a little overboard as well with anime. I was able to pick this up at Best Buy which surprisingly was cheaper than most websites online. This is Melanium Actress, the Blu-ray edition. This just came out a couple weeks ago. One of my all-time favorite animated movies right here. This is a work of art in my opinion such as Yukon being one of my all-time favorite directors. I believe this was restored from a 4k transfer or something like that. I really don't know why we couldn't have gotten it in 4k but regardless here it is the Blu-ray and all its glory. Hopefully I'm able to find perfect blue because that's out of stock everywhere and Tokyo Godfather's got announced. So all we are missing is a re-release of Paranoia Agent. I'm hopeful that it will happen. Maybe in one delicious box set because we already had Paprika in Blu-ray. So yeah just one more to go and we'll have the Kon Library if you will in high definition. Next up is Golden Kamui Season 2 looking fantastic. I love the gold foil. It's a shame that it doesn't fit with Season 1 which I have here to show you guys. Here is the Season 1 box set which I got earlier in 2019 and I thought hey it's gonna it's gonna fit in here Volume 2. No it doesn't because there is the Blu-ray set and the massive art book so I wish they could have made it just a little bit wider so Volume 2 could fit in there but nope. Here we have Season 1 and Season 2. I found for I think it was 2022-23 bucks on eBay Gundam Ironblooded Orphans Season 1 part 1 and Season 1 part 2 so that was you know I didn't get the complete set because Season 2 is still split up into two sets so I didn't really mind having four in total but yeah both sets for a total of 23-24 dollars I wasn't gonna pass that up. My adventure into Jojo's Wizard venture continues. This is set 4 Diamond is Unbreakable part 1 and I got a rant. I was able to get it just a slightly discounted which is always great if you can get anime for a little bit less. Really they're charging you full price and you took out art cards. I don't mind not having the art cards but you're still charging me for the same amount as the other sets. I don't know I'm not too much of a fan of that but you get the Blu-ray set and the uh what do they call this the art book uh guide book to the season so yeah here's set 4 and this was part of the uh I think this was back in early December right when I got this this is Sailor Moon R basically Season 2 of the original anime uh I'm missing the second part which hopefully I'll get soon Sailor Moon R Season 2 and it's not focusing there you go it comes with Blu-ray set oh man this is all white and pinkish there it is it's all in there with the art book with a lot of cool info and characters sketches and art prints and stuff artwork on the series I should say this was part of the Sentai blowout Christmas sale I got to the deluxe edition of Princess Principal which has a ton of stuff three uh art books guide books if you will the series uh all 12 episodes on two discs and in here you have a fabric poster and copper or metal uh coasters which is awesome I love this and I think was it was only like 20 24 bucks out of 100 and something retail price I wasn't gonna pass that up so yeah Princess Principal the uh limited edition box set fate stay night the movie heavens feel lost butterfly the second movie out of the trilogy we'll probably see movie three this time next year here we have a hosuke's coolheadedness season two and three in one set here we have land of the lustrous on blu-ray and a classic those who hunt elves on blu-ray all 24 episodes fun fact the original dvd version of this was probably one of the first anime dvds I ever bought I think it was the first one comedy-based and pretty hilarious and the animation's gorgeous for the time uh yeah it's it's a trip to finally own this on a better format man I'm old non-anime related I did get Wonder Woman Bloodlines this is set in the DC animated movie universe which has a continuing story with titles such as uh Justice League War uh Son of Batman uh the Justice League Dark uh all those movies with uh the same you know the same voice actors and stuff so yeah if you look at this part right here it says continue your journey into the DC universe that usually refers to it being part of that movie universe so this is Wonder Woman's origin in that movie animated movie universe if that makes sense so yeah no figures this month although I did order two specific statues that uh came straight from Japan so they're they're still on the way as of this video I don't know what they'll arrive I guess next month we'll see it I'm gonna show you video games because I went crazy with the video games and this is has to do with an announcement that I'm gonna make at the end of the haul which is coming up in a couple more minutes uh for Xbox one you know I've never been an Xbox fan ever so I got the Xbox one s strictly for uh the 4k player and I it was just sitting there in the living room and I'm like I'm not really getting the full enjoyment out of this because it's a video game console it's not supposed to be uh your default blu-ray player so I upgraded and got a 4k blu-ray player one of those uh those Sony ones I can't remember the model it uh it's a pretty good one and I and I'm using the Xbox one s as intended as a gaming machine so I picked up some games that I really wanted to play because it's an Xbox and you got to go with the stuff that people rave about so I got this two pack it is gears of war ultimate edition which is the first game remastered I think that was released for the uh 360 this is the remastered version and the rare replay which has 30 games from rares library minus the uh nintendo exclusives like donkey kong 007 etc really fun stuff and you can get this for dirt cheap again I am not an xbox fan so this is the first time I'm playing gears of war and it's a it's a blast I love it and the rare games are surprisingly uh fantastic on a modern console especially getting to play banjo and kazooie and the battle toad conquers bad fur day all that stuff uh it's slightly polished for the new age if you will it looks pretty interesting I like it plus the design of the menus and stuff is really uh cool to me uh this was a holiday gift I got resident evil 2 for xbox one and again because I have way too many ps4 games and way too many switch stuff so I wanted to build up the xbox library I got resident evil 2 and then I realized oh crap I've never played the resident evil games I've only played just a little bit of the original and one of the sequels I can't remember so this is the first time I'm playing this and I went ahead and picked up the resident evil origins collection which is zero and the first game so I do plan on on playing and owning the complete series and we're just in luck because resident evil 3 remake got announced for I think April 2020 so I will be playing that and making my way towards owning resident evil 3 really excited about that speaking of more games I mentioned switch I got a lot of switch titles stuff that was coming out this year and other classics if you will I got pokemon shield do not care whatsoever about the controversy I still love this game it's a ton of fun uh splatoon 2 fantastic I've never played a splatoon game because when the original came out I never owned a Wii U because I thought oh the Wii U you know the same as everybody else I didn't care for it so now I picked up splatoon 2 I've been playing it and it is honestly one of the funnest experience I've had in a while playing a multiplayer game game or whatever I'd love this game so much it's fantastic everything about it the aesthetic the colors the characters it's a ton of fun and speaking of fun I got super mario maker 2 and uh I didn't know I was going to love it as much as I am I love playing all the courses and even the the story mode I love and playing all the online stuff it's a blast I I love playing classic Mario games and this just brings me back because you get super mario bros super mario bros 3 super mario world super mario's you and 3d world if you can actually read that because the camera is behaving terribly today so really excited about that this was a christmas gift I got nino kuni for the switch I've never played nino kuni again the reason I haven't played a lot of these titles is because I sort of just walked away from video games uh for a long time it wasn't uh until a couple years ago when I came back and even then I didn't pick up every single thing so now I'm trying to play as much as possible to you know get all these classics in so here we have uh nino kuni for the switch this was another gift river city girls I love the original uh uh river the ransom and river city games and all that stuff really enjoying uh river city girls I wish instead of a game I wish this was either a manga or an anime because obviously they modeled it after that aesthetic but man when you play it I want to see this in animated form because this is river city meets kill a kill it's got that vibe going for it and I got the twin pack of final fantasy seven and final fantasy eight remastered my journey with final fantasy is a different one the only final fantasy games I've ever played are a little bit of x and x2 nine and 12 that's it I was I never got into the final fantasy franchise but now that they're remaking uh seventh the seventh game I went ahead and pick this up you can't I if I remember correctly you can't get this at regular stores you have to look for it online the uh twin pack with both uh games in one cartridge because you can't download them on the e shop but I don't like downloading digital games that's not for me I'd rather have them physical so here it is the twin pack that my friends would was quite a haul of multimedia holy crap so uh I wanted to mention something briefly this is the final video of 2019 it's been a very interesting year I am forever grateful for the opportunity that I get to use this platform to entertain and inform and just uh have fun with you guys I'd love the feedback on response from the crowd I'd love it so much but I want this channel to grow exponentially I'm not interested in in being famous I'm not interested in the money aspect none of that those are secondary things the reason I want to keep this channel alive and keep being a youtuber or whatever is that I get to spread a little joy and happiness and entertain people and that can't happen if we don't get more subscribers so I'm really going to work at it in 2020 to double the amount I don't I'm not saying I want a hundred thousand subscribers that's not my goal but if we can spread the message of positiveness and just geek culture as a whole in a fun interesting way I'll consider that a win and if I can entertain you for a couple minutes of your day double win in my book so next year there are going to be some pretty drastic changes to the channel fortunately because of real life circumstances I I've stepped away from many like this epic omnibus or absolutes or collected editions I'm only getting what I really need at that moment because books you know you can always get them digitally I'm not too worried about that but I don't feel the necessity to play the game of being hyped about this release and then next week is that other release and you fall into this FOMO mentality that you have to keep buying stuff and you end up basically doing a weekly or monthly subscription to books that you're not going to read at least with the manga I'm only getting the titles that I am reading stuff like Dr. Stone Demon Slayer My Hero Academia The Berserk Stuff B-Stars and with comics I think for the most part I'm just going to be interested in getting completed runs of stuff I know I will like for example the swamp thing the absolute swamp thing I do want that I'm just not that in a hurry to get it you know and same with the Omnis plus I don't really have the space I'm kind of limited right now so I'm not going to I mean if people out there can do it bless them and that's awesome and I envy you guys but I don't want to fall into that trap of setting myself up for that trap of being like I need this book now and I need it next month and I need the other one two weeks from now because I want to do other things and I want to create a multi-layered channel here on YouTube where we talk about anime which is a burning passion of mine where I talk about manga where I talk about video games I've always wanted to do video game content I just don't have the internet for that but I do want to review stuff even though it's retro or not up to date I do want to geek out and talk about older stuff I have been this year I've been dipping my toes into retro gaming emulations and arcades and all that stuff so I have a lot to say about older titles and just geek out about that stuff of course new movies and TV shows and all that stuff so for that reason the channel is going to change it's no longer going to be just about collected editions and reviewing a book and all that stuff unfortunately I cannot I can't fully dedicate 24-7 to the channel so I can't be pumping out videos every single day it's not I mean I could do it but I would be insane trying so instead I am going to be keeping the format of at least one video per week sometimes I might do two or three if the schedule allows it but just know that I do want to keep building that channel this channel you don't have to do anything I'm not asking for any single thing from anybody this is just me telling you so if you don't no longer see halls like they used to because this was pretty massive but this was accumulated from early November so there's a lot of stuff so you know if you don't see many books in the future or blu-rays or figures all that stuff you have some sort of idea as to why so with that said I wish you all the very best in the upcoming year 2020 I hope all of your aspirations and dreams you work towards them and you make them happen I'm going to be doing the same I wish you nothing but the very best and God's blessings to everyone out there I wish you all the love in the upcoming year and all your goals go work for them because you know you got to do it right nobody's gonna do it for you so I'm gonna do the same I'm gonna leave with that positive attitude and note hopefully you can follow me on your favorite social media platform Facebook Twitter Instagram all that fun stuff I have got to go I will catch all of you on the first video of 2020 so long everybody