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Hey there and welcome back to rival reviews

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. Hope you guys had

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a good week . Sorry that this one's getting

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out a little late , but you know , life

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gets in the way sometimes . This

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week is gonna be kind of interesting . I'm gonna

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kind of try and see if I can . Maybe you

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know more . So we're getting to the habit of going

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through the same kind of stuff , the same kind of

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format , week by week . First

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and foremost , I kind of wanted to just give a weekly wrap

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up of what I've been doing , at least anime wise , because

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that's why you're here and that's why you care . First

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and foremost , my

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buddy and I actually did together

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, watched and pretty much

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almost caught up with free run

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from journey's end . A

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little angry at myself that I did not start watching

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this last season at all

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, because it's a great story

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for those who haven't

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started watching it yet and maybe kind of want to get an

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idea of what it's all about . What

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I found kind of interesting about is that it actually takes

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place . It's a fantasy

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, a Anime

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that actually takes place after the

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hero and the hero's party has

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defeated the demon king , and

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what I find interesting about this

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is that it follows the path

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of free run who is an elf

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and , as we all know , in

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fantasy Worlds

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and everything else like that , elves can elves

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tend to live longer than everybody else by

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you know , thousands and thousands of years . And

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essentially what this does is that it actually starts

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in the first episode . The

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journey ends and

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the hero from said heroes party

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actually passes away and

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Basically what this

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Anime tends

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to do is that it's now following that

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. You know what

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happens to a journey that we have

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already seen , the end of which I know kind

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of sounds weird to put it , but it's

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interesting in the sense that you

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know most an amaze or stories that

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we read and watch and stuff

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like that have this

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ending . You know , the whole point

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of the story is to watch the adventure of the

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hero and his and his band of friends

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and everything else , defeat the forces

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of evil and that's where

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the story ends . But

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this is actually what

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happens to the members that may

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, you know , live on longer . So

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you know , hero being

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a normal human

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and everything else like that , passed away at a very

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old age . And now

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we're almost kind of seeing the secondary

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adventure of this elf that

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was in this party , who was the mage

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, not even , you know , the main

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Hero , or the

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one that everybody talks about , is the hero just

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part of the hero's party and everything else . And she's

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now on this other

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new adventure of basically retracing

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her steps and going

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through all of her past memories

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with and finding some new friends along

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the way and kind of how her feelings

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between the new party members and her

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old party members and it's just

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it's it's it's refreshing

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is the best way that I can put it is that it's

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very different . Again

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, I'm assuming probably for a lot of you , this is not new information

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. If it is , whether

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you're a sub watch or dub watch or it looks

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to be a simulcast , I'm obviously watching it in the

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subbed , but I

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would honestly especially if you are

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a fan of fantasy and are Sick

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of watching maybe the same thing over and

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over again I Would

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honestly give it a watch , because this that I think

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that's what makes this the most interesting is that

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it , you know it takes all the

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Norms of a genre

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that we all know and love and has

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been basically beaten to death at this point and

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Actually makes it feel refreshing . So

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that's why I I

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very much recommend it and I Would

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love to hear your thoughts if you

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have anything else to say that I haven't already

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said . Kind

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of going back to that , obviously , the other thing

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that everybody probably is following who

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hasn't already is so

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a leveling episode two that came out this week Again

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, fantastic , obviously , a scene that we've

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probably all been waiting for has finally

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been animated and we got to watch it live

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and it was awesome

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and everything else like that . But I Be

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seeing a lot of talk online and I'm going to

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say that I'm going to Actually have

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to agree with a lot of the people's issues with it

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is that it seems

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more and more from these first two episodes

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that pacing is going to be very

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odd . It's

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looking like it's , it's it's

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taking and , again

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, this could just be for the fact that we are at the very beginning

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of the series and everything else like

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that . So they're trying to make sure that we have a very good

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foundation Before

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we get truly into the story

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. That could very well be the case . I

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do , like

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I said , I think a lot of people just because so

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many people were Looking

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forward to and and waiting for this

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to finally get animated that you

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know , maybe it's just us being impatient

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and Maybe we just need

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to hit the brakes a little bit because you know , just

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because we read it Super fast

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as me , is gonna be animated just as fast . Look at one

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piece , for example . Only imagine

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the people that had to suffer through weekly a

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Whole kick island

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and Everything else . Like that

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I can , I can only imagine . Thankfully

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, it was all done and ready for me

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when I , when I finally got to that point but

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yeah , I Would

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say that that's a lot of stuff that I'm that I've

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read is that a lot of people are having issues with

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the pacing . Maybe we just have to be

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patient , um you Kind

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of . What I wanted to touch on more so was not really

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anything Else . That I talked

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about last week was kind of the stuff that I actually

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ended up Missing talking

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about because I wasn't actually fully

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aware of all the

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things that were actually getting released this

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season . What I found interesting

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about this is

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Two things is that

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I noticed that there were a lot of ones , that there

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were a lot of sequels of ones that I had already

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Watched , that I was not aware that was getting a

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sequel , as

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well as ones that I've

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actually read To

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completion or I'm pretty much caught up on

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and and very much

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ahead to what the first season

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is going to be covering , so I probably will

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not be watching it . First

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I want to give the shout outs to the , the sequels

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that I missed last week . So a Siku

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Michi , a moonlit fantasy . For

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those who don't know what this one is , essentially

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kind of off the vibe

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of person gets

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isekai , and if

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I find that this one very much

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leans in towards the comedic

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aspect of the isekai genre

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, so if you are a fan of

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, you know such ones like black company

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or maybe

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even like kind of the silliness

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of so

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I'm a spider , so what Then

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maybe these might be for you . But essentially , just

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to give you a nice introduction , in the first

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season , basically the , the main

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hero , suku Michi , get

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summoned . Apparently the goddess

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seems that he's not the traditional

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, popular , handsome looking

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Isekai hero . So

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she essentially sends him off to

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the deep demon forest basically

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to just get straight up murdered and

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he ends up actually being able to converse

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with two of like

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the strongest , I guess

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, guardians of said forest and

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then he starts a harem with them

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and Pretty much

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I I'm assuming you guys can fill in the blanks from there . Fun

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watch , you know , especially if you

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have watched the first season . If you haven't watched the first season

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, maybe give the first season A watch before

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you add this to your watch list . Personally

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, for me didn't really do it for me in the first season

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and plus I feel as if I already have a pre Healthy

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amount to watch already this

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season , so I'm probably not gonna add

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it , but it is a very good story

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. So At least

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in my opinion , it's one of those isekai's . If you like

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the comedy aspect of it , it will definitely

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fit that bill for you . Second

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one which was , I found kind of interesting because we talked

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about the , the

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, the resistant shield

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Hero kicked

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out of the party . One from last

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week . We actually are getting a season

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two this season of I decide

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to live a quiet life in the countryside . Oh

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sorry , banished from heroes party , I decide

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to live a quiet life in the countryside . And

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again , this one , like I said

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, very One

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of those titles that you know doesn't leave

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it being very mysterious in the way . In

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a way , you know exactly what

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you're getting when you read the title . So

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no mysteries here . Um

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you Again

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this one . I Think

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the first season was okay . I like the

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idea of , like you know Bansher

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, the party party realizes , oh , maybe they

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need him . This one takes a different turn

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in a sense that the hero , that

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the hero's party that he was banished

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from , he wasn't banished by the hero , he was

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banished by a different member . I don't

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want to spoil too much , but this

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does take a weird turn in the sense that

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the , the hero , though they are involved , they're

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not really actually involved in a negative way which

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I find in this kind

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of topsy-turvy . Strong member

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gets banished from heroes party archetype

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. Usually the hero ends

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up being kind of the bad guy in a

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sense . We're in this one , that's

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not the case . So that is definitely

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one interesting thing you can take from

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this one . So if you were looking forward to the sequel

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, or if you haven't watched the first season , like

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I say about all sequels that come out , if you haven't watched the

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first season , give it a try and if

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it fits the bill for you , then

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you can go ahead and add this sequel that you might

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not have known was coming

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out . Last sequel that I kind

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of wanted to bring up but Again

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I probably won't be watching is called a

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bottom tier character , tomazaki . Essentially

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this is kind of more of a slice of life

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than a fantasy one and watch

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the first season . Essentially the main

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character is Kind

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of loner guy , number one player

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in Basically what this world's

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Smash Brothers is . I can't

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remember what it's called in the anime , but it's literally

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, it's what it is . It's , it's , it's Smash Brothers and I guess

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he's the number one player in Japan . And

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then he learns that the number two player in Japan is

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like a really popular girl from his school and

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then the popular girl basically challenges

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him to essentially

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play the game of life and become

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a top player in real

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life instead of being a loner

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and Basically

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, shenanigans ensue from there . You know , learns

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to Traditionally how

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to just be a person Is

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the best way that I can put it Kind

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of a weird Like you know , change

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everything about yourself , but the

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changes you already had , I Guess

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, inside yourself all along

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. Kind of like the whole gimmick

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of huckerel Wearing

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glasses , takes off glasses oh my god

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, she's pretty . It's Very

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, very reminiscent to that . I think he literally gets

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a haircut and everybody's like whoa . So

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yeah , like I said , it

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wasn't really my cup of tea . Not to not

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to mess on it , because apparently it is

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really popular and obviously it was popular enough to get a sequel

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. So , once again , if you want

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to watch it before you there's a season one

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before the season two . Um

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, I , the big ones that I was actually kind

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of interested in more talking about were the

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ones that I've read and I

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know will be good . So , like

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I said in a past episode , I

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find a lot of Slifesa , life

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or romance

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, fluffy pieces , stuff like that . I

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don't really need them animated because

12:52

I've read up to the story , either a two

12:54

completion or way further than the

12:56

anime is even going to get . There

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isn't a really need for me to kind of

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watch what a story that I've already read . I

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find that Slifesa life and romance and stuff like that that's

13:06

not really necessary in

13:08

turn to like a showman , like an action . You

13:12

want to see those animated fights . You

13:14

can't wait to see those animated fights where these

13:16

ones aren't really going to have anything like that . First

13:19

one that I definitely want to give it a shout out to is a Sign

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of Affection , really

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cool premise . You know , nice

13:26

little fluffy romance piece of a girl

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who is deaf and a guy

13:30

that wants to get to know

13:33

her as a person . He's kind of

13:35

more seasoned in the

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sense of life

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. He's a big world traveler , he's

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had relationships before where she hasn't

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and she , kind of like , opens

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up her world and it's a . You know

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, he was kind of bored

13:51

because he had felt that he had done everything

13:54

but then learns that there is something , a whole

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new world that he didn't

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know anything about . And

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again , it's in a good way . I know maybe

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my explanation isn't coming off as a

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positive thing , but it's very cute and

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it's very what I find very

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cool . It was the first one that I had ever read where

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, like you know , the

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two characters weren't just straight

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up , like you know , just

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a traditional romance boy

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meets girl , every girl

14:23

meets boy , whatever . Like it was , like

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you know , dealing with the real life

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. You know hardships

14:30

that can come with somebody who is

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deaf and stuff like that , and you know it actually

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uses real sign language

14:37

and you know the way that you

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know they communicate with other people and the relationships

14:43

that they have and the way that they have to have the relationships

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and everything else like that . It's

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the first one that I ever read that it was

14:50

. It had a very different sense

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of like

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things that could go wrong because

14:58

of something that you know the main

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character has no control over . So

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again , I am

15:07

very much ahead of as

15:09

of I'm sure how far the enemy

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is going to get . But if you aren't

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a reader and you're more of a watcher , absolutely

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watch it . It's a phenomenal story and

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if you're a romance fan , it's one of my favorites

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personally . Another

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one I'm really excited for is Dr Elise

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, the Royal Lady with a lamp . This

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, actually , if you're a big Redditor

15:31

or anything else like that , I think this was

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voted actually Manwa of the Year . It

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is complete . So if you do want to read , and

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you want to read from start to finish , or maybe you

15:40

want to watch it first and then you're like , ooh

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, I need more , the whole

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story is out so you can get more . Essentially

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, this is an Atomi Isakai

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of somebody who

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was like the

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world's best surgeon . In Japan . Um

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gets reincarnated as a

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princess in like more of like

16:03

a Like

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you know , way back when 16th

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century world and everything else like that were

16:09

like you know , the simple idea

16:12

of washing your hands can help germs

16:14

go away and stuff like that . And she has

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all this knowledge from the Japan world . Um

16:19

, and she has to face not only the

16:21

fact of you know how can

16:23

she take her 21st century

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knowledge and turn it into something

16:28

valuable in the 16th

16:30

century kind of world that she lives in ? And

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not only that . She then has to also

16:34

deal with the fact that she's part of the

16:37

royal family . So , you

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know , she is supposed to , you know

16:41

, get married off and

16:43

you know , women

16:45

weren't supposed to work , blah , blah , blah . It's like

16:47

kind of like that nonsense that she also has to

16:49

deal with . So she has to , like prove herself

16:52

as just as a person

16:54

, and a person that has these valuable assets

16:56

. And , like I said , it's a very good

16:59

read . But , like I said , if you're

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not a reader , absolutely watch it

17:03

. And then , like I said , if you get hooked which

17:05

I'm sure this anime probably will do

17:07

for a lot of people the story

17:10

is complete , so you can read

17:12

it to

17:15

completion . And , like I said , it

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got voted Manwa of the Year on the Manwa

17:19

Reddit and everything else like that . For a reason

17:22

it is a very good read . Um

17:25

, and then kind

17:27

of two other ones that I kind of wanted to bring up that are

17:30

more so just kind of fluff more

17:33

than anything else , other nice fluffy romances

17:35

. One is Hokkaido Gals are super adorable

17:38

. The nice

17:40

part about that one is that

17:43

, you know , it's

17:46

nice in the sense that it's

17:48

just like I said , it's just a fluffy piece . You know , girl

17:51

is kind of more outspoken , boy is very shy

17:53

. They get together Cute , cute

17:55

, cute , cute , cute . Tales of

17:58

the Wedding Rings is the final one that I kind of want to talk

18:00

about . This one is going to be cool in the idea

18:02

that it is kind

18:04

of like I

18:07

guess it starts as a reverse isekai and then

18:10

an isekai and then goes

18:12

back to being a reverse isekai . Like

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I said , it kind of jumps back and forth

18:17

between like basically the main character meets

18:19

the main female lead when

18:23

she comes to the real world from this fantasy world

18:25

, but then she has to go back to

18:27

this fantasy world and he follows

18:29

her and then that's where the bulk

18:31

of the story happens . So

18:34

that's kind of cool in that sense . And , like

18:37

I said , it's not like crazy

18:40

. It's not probably not going

18:42

to be crazy popular and it's not going to be like

18:44

a crazy . Like it's not

18:46

as strong as the other ones that I've brought it up

18:48

. But again , if you're looking to fill your

18:50

list and you have time , I

18:52

read it . It's a good read . But

18:56

I would definitely put the other ones above

18:58

, reading this one first

19:00

. That's essentially

19:02

all that I've found . I

19:05

think this is probably going to be the final one that

19:07

, at least in terms of anything that comes out

19:09

this season Like , obviously

19:11

I'll if anything crazy happens in

19:13

episodes to come , I'll obviously talk about that

19:15

. But I think I've

19:18

made sure to look through

19:20

all of the stuff that is supposed to come out this winter season

19:22

and I think I've now finally caught up to

19:24

my thoughts on all of that

19:26

. What

19:29

I kind of wanted to bring up , obviously , like I do every time

19:31

, is what I'm currently reading . The

19:34

reason I want to make a big deal out of it this year , this

19:37

time , is I'm really

19:39

enjoying what I'm reading right now . I am almost

19:41

done and again , the next part about it is that this

19:43

one is also complete . So if you

19:46

do want to take the time to read this one and

19:48

you're into Atomi Isakai or

19:51

actually I guess this one is an Atomi Isakai because it all

19:53

takes place this is more of a

19:55

regression story , I guess , more than anything

19:57

. And again , the thing that makes it

19:59

really cool is , you

20:02

know , there's kind of , basically , when

20:05

they say villainous , they truly mean that

20:07

she is a villainous which

20:10

I found really strong with this one and

20:14

again , if you want like a really good , like

20:17

petty , but also

20:19

really , really good revenge story

20:21

, instead

20:24

of like just being straight up murdery

20:27

, she has to be like kind

20:29

of calculative and she has to be smart

20:31

and

20:33

everything else like that , and she also gets to , like you know , use

20:36

the knowledge that she got from before she

20:38

regressed and everything else like that , and it kind of ties

20:40

it all well together into this . Really

20:43

, really , I found really well done

20:45

revenge story . So if you kind of like

20:47

you know , if

20:50

you're sick of your kind of fluffy stuff

20:52

or anything else like that , I would give

20:54

it a shot . So

21:02

the sorry I was pulling up . So the

21:04

question that I got I only

21:06

got one question , but I will say that

21:09

it was a really cool question , so

21:11

thank you for whoever sent it . In

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what anime are you

21:15

waiting ? Are you still waiting

21:17

on a sequel ? For I

21:19

think this one probably is on a lot

21:21

of people's lists , so I'm just going to say it right

21:24

now no game , no life . You

21:26

know , they teased us with this really

21:28

cool world and really cool concept

21:30

and then never came back . That

21:34

should be one that I actually maybe hunt down to see if I can

21:36

read , because , like , it's

21:38

really good and I would

21:40

really like to know more about it . But

21:45

the one that I kind of wanted to bring up that I think a lot of people

21:47

maybe wouldn't either agree with

21:49

or maybe , you know , it's

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probably a lot less important on people's lists

21:54

than no game , no life . But I

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really enjoyed Deadman Wonderland . You

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know , it came out with a fire

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opening theme and

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then also I thought , had really cool

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fights and a really cool idea and

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everything else like that , and then it kind of just disappeared

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off the face of the earth and was

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never spoken about again . I

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do think that it would be really cool , like I said

22:21

, especially where it left off . It was a very

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cliffhanger ending and then it like literally

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never came back . So I

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think that would be a really cool one for it to come back . Yeah

22:31

, so I think that would be my answer question . So , like , first , obviously

22:34

, no game , no life . I feel like that really deserves

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it , and then Deadman Wonderland would

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also be cool . So

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that's all I had for this week . Next

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week I think it'll be kind of interesting

22:45

. Basically , I'm not sure , obviously , if

22:48

you're really big in anime and stuff like that , you'll notice

22:50

that the Crunchyroll anime

22:53

awards the nominees are getting released

22:55

later this week

22:57

actually . So by next

22:59

week's podcast it'll be out and I'll be able to give my opinions

23:02

on that , and I thought it'd be

23:04

really cool to either give

23:07

my say on all the categories and I think what

23:09

I'd like to do is just talk with the

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nominees and if I agree or disagree

23:13

in who I think deserves the award out of the nominees

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. So

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, like I said , that's pretty much all I

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have for this week . Again

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, let me hear from you guys . That's my favorite

23:25

part about doing all this . Honestly , my favorite part of any

23:28

episode , further from giving my opinion , is

23:30

being able to answer any of your

23:32

questions or comments . I

23:34

love it , I love reading it , and so

23:36

keep them coming . So

23:38

, twitter , instagram

23:40

, facebook , rivalxreviews

23:42

, gmail , rivalxreviews at Gmailcom

23:45

. And , yeah , and I'm

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honestly open to answering anything

23:49

on this topic or even

23:52

past topics that I've brought up or , you

23:54

know , are you guys excited for the

23:57

country roll awards ? Do you guys watch it every year

23:59

? Who do you think are the strong

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contenders for this year ? Let

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me know . So , yeah , I'll

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see you guys next week . Bye-bye

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.