 Hey everybody, welcome back to another Manga Hall. I do want to apologize here at the beginning because I haven't done a video in ages. It's been a rough couple of months, but hopefully we can get back in the saddle again and produce more content for this channel. So thank you everybody for subbing and supporting A Week in Geek Tim. So the first book here is Die Dark Volume 4 from Kyu Hayashita. I'm a little behind. I only read the first two volumes of this. Lovely, wonderful series. I do have a First Impressions video if you guys want to check it out, but a really fun, chaotic space adventure from the creative mind behind Dorohedoro. Next up is Box of Light Volume 1 from Seiko Erisawa. This book is basically about a convenience store on the precipice beyond life and death where souls that are in the balance come here for one final purchase. It's sort of a Twilight Zone-esque adventure, kind of slice of life-ish. Art was alright, but the overall story was really fun. I really enjoyed this. Next up is Bomba from Osamu Tezuka. I don't have any Tezuka books, so this is my very first one. I'm excited about that. I'm not going to collect everything, but I do want to get a few books here and there, basically of my favorite characters, like Princess Knight, Dorohedoro, Astro Boy, stuff like that. But I can sprinkle throughout my collection short stories like this, this mystery thriller manga. I don't know too much about it, just the overall description of it. And it's this story of a young boy filled with rage and jealousy, and there's a phantom horse. I don't know what to tell you, but I'm interested. I'm going to check it out and talk about it on this channel. I am interested in discussing more of Tezuka's work on this YouTube channel. Here we have To Your Eternity, Volume 17 from Yoshitoki Oima. It's been a while since I've read a volume for this series. I stopped at Volume 12 or 13. I really do need to pick up the slack and read this story arc that's happening right now. At least the first 12 volumes, masterful in my opinion. I love them. One of my favorite ongoing manga at the moment. So I'm excited to eventually check this out because it looks fantastic. This was, I would say, 70% me wanting it and 30% either FOMOing myself or an impulse purchase because I saw it physically. Here we have the first Omnibus edition of Tokyo Revengers containing the first two volumes inside. I'd really like the show. I prefer the art in the manga. I don't really have space for it, but what the heck? I'm going to collect it anyways. I do like the story a whole lot. Like I said, I've only seen the show. This will be my first time reading it, but it's too cool not to pass up. And over here we have the tunnel to summer the exit of Goodbye's Ultramarine Volume 1. This is a supernatural mystery slash drama about a character that hears rumor where this tunnel defies the logics of time and space and if you find it and walk through it, your heart's desire will be on the other side in exchange for years of your own life. That's sort of a spoiler free summary on this manga and it just immediately captivated me and I wanted to check it out. It's always a fun haul when you pick up a brand new Junji Ito book. This time we're talking the liminal zone. This time we are encountering the weeping woman, professional mourner. She can't stop crying. You can probably put two and two together. It's gonna get creepy. It's gonna get disgusting, wild, and freaky. It also has other stories involving the famous Aokigahara Forest and other creepy stuff that happens in this book. Berserk Deluxe Edition Hardcover Volume 11. This one is great. I love the contents here. Each chapter of Berserk just opens up to newer things and more fantastical elements that really appealed to me. I love all that stuff and this one just, you know, it was peak Kintaro Miyuda. That art is just sizzling with how great it is. I'm not gonna go into details with this volume because it's spoilers. This of course is a three in one and I do have to point out that one of the posters arrived like this so that's a little disappointing. I mean I never take these out but still you don't want damaged goods. But yeah, more Berserk goodness. I love the series and I'm happy to continue upgrading. We're just two deluxe editions away from momentarily stopping the format because we'll be caught up. So that's weird and awesome at the same time. Decided to pick up a new series for the collection. This is Call of the Night. I have the first three volumes here with me and this is essentially a vampire's story if you don't know what Call of the Night is. It tells the story of a young lad who is sort of bored with the everyday normal adventures that one can have and desires something more. There's a wonderlust brewing inside of him and one particular night he meets this young girl who turns out to be a vampire and it's an unconventional tale. Yes, she has abilities and can fly and levitate and all the weird stuff that vampires do but it's more about a giant freaking metaphor for, you know, adolescence and wonderlust and growing up and puberty and all these things as he now understands that she's a vampire and wants to become one himself. There's a lot of romantic comedy aspects to it. There's also a bit of supernatural stuff but it mostly relies on the dynamic of these two characters and just the gorgeous settings of the night. I recently recommended on the channel the anime adaptation for it which is just stellar and really freaking beautiful to behold with the coloring and the backgrounds and all of that. I'm excited to keep reading. I love the character designs for this series. The story, yeah it goes through some tropes when it comes to vampires and stories about adolescence but I don't mind it. It's stylish enough where I want to discover more about this world and these characters. I got Kimonojihan. This was one of my most anticipated manga that hadn't been licensed yet but we finally got it thanks to the fine folks at Seven Seas Entertainment. This is a yokai and supernatural themed detective noir story. It follows this young kid who is based on the Dorotabo, a mud spirit that emerges from rice patties but in the case for this manga of Kimonojihan we follow the character of Inugami, a detective that specializes in the occult and he moves to this remote village in Japan on the countryside where he is tasked with investigating a series of animal livestock killings and that leads to the discovery of this young kid that I just mentioned. Some hijinks ensue. This is a really fun series and involves a lot of Japanese folklore. If you love the supernatural, if you love spooky characters and yokai you'll be right at home with this. I do recommend checking it out. It starts a little bit slow but it really does pick up as you start meeting more characters and you start learning more about our main protagonist. Finally got Succubus and Hitman. This is volume two of that series. I made a first impressions on the first book. This is super nonsay for work. This is edgy as hell and super macabre at times and the concept is essentially this young kid that was targeted along with his family by the mafia or Yakuza and he was murdered and now is reincarnated in the body of another young teenager and has teamed up with a Succubus to take down the people that killed his family so it's very nonsay for work. I also made a first impressions video on Yakuza reincarnation and here it is finally volume two of that series. Basically an ex Yakuza now an older gentleman. He is ambushed in our world and dies and is sent into this parallel world that's more like feudal Japan meets medieval Europe and he is reincarnated in the body of the princess. Turns out he's going to carry on his Yakuza tradition so he's an utter badass and the princess now just kicks a lot of ass and she has a really kickass sword in this as well so it's a lot of fun. I do recommend it and I really love the art on this manga. Rent the girlfriend. I know a lot of people hate it. I know it's not the smartest book. It has some of the most incompetent characters in manga history that said I do enjoy the girls in this series. The main character he's such a train wreck of a character but the girls really do make this series what it is. Chizuru and gang I really like reading about what's happening to them and they get into some really silly hijinks but you know you got to suspend your disbelief and just take it for what it is and have fun with it and not scrutinize everything you know this is a silly rom-com. Black Lagoon here is volume 11. You're probably wondering hey what about the other volumes. They're all freaking out of stock. I did get volume one but it didn't arrive for this haul and I picked up volume 11 and volume 12 which were in stock as well. As for the other volumes well some of them that are still available and in print a friend acquired them for me. I think I need to double check on that if it really happened and the other books I'm just gonna wait for them to be reprinted and eventually get it. I've watched the show I love Black Lagoon so I know the story so it's not like I'm missing anything. What's exciting is reading from volume 11 onwards which is stuff that was not animated. Like with Tokyo Revengers I have to admit this was an impulse buy. This is my Dress Up Darling volume one. It got re-stocked or reprinted. It sold out pretty quick once the anime started. Everybody was hooked on it I guess and I found this at my local Walmart wrapped in cellophane because it has a parental advisory in it. Not because it's super explicit or anything it's just super itchy and yeah you don't want the kids to see that. Nonetheless I did enjoy the show. I know some people don't like it. Some probably find it problematic. Some themes in it or whatever. I just thought it was funny. I enjoyed it and who would have thought that a show about cosplay would pique my interest but here we are. The art in the manga is breathtaking. I love it. I really enjoy the character designs. Actually I shouldn't say breathtaking that's a little bit too much. Some of you are gonna think you're gonna roll your eyes and say what the hell are you talking about. I don't know. What I'm trying to get at is that the character designs are pretty freaking cool. I dig it. So I'm excited for it. I guess I'll pick it up as I see the volumes. It's not a priority whatsoever but I do like that at least I have volume one here with me. So yeah there's that. Finally to wrap up this manga haul. Vagabond. I wasn't sure if I was even going to get these two volumes 11 and 12. These are the last two. I am missing volume 2, 4, 8, 9, and 10. I think that's it. Volume 11 and 12 and a bunch of books that I mentioned here they were stuck from back in May that I mentioned on my previous haul video with the whole summertime rendering fiasco. They were held up. I cancelled those summertime hard covers because they were not coming out anytime soon so they sent the other stuff. I haven't read all the books obviously but I am excited to someday have the complete set because yeah I'm so waiting for the other books to come back in print because I ain't going to be freaking eBay because people like to charge an arm and a leg for a freaking book. That's insane. So yeah that's going to be it. A weird and wacky manga haul for the summer. This was just a mess. I do apologize for the lack of content. I promised a couple reviews and I did not deliver in time but they're still being worked on so hang tight. Thank you so much everybody. I really do appreciate the time and effort that goes into watching a shmuck like me and talk about books. I you know you'd rather watch all the other famous folk but you're here and that means a lot. Thank you. Thank you. I truly do appreciate it. That's it for now. I've got to go. I will catch all of you on our next episode. Stay safe. God bless. See you then.