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Gatopic tonight.

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Gundams.

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Gundams.

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And that is what my wife calls any sort of giant robot.

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Is that a Gundam?

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She'll look at a transformer and say, look, it's a Gundam.

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I have to explain to her every single time that, no,

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that's not a Gundam.

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But anyways, so yeah, growing up,

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I watched anime as like ghosts in the show,

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Outlaw Star, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha.

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I think my first anime ever was Dragon Ball Z,

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probably the first anime for the majority of anime lovers.

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For many of them, yeah.

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Yeah.

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But there was one anime that I think like really captivated me.

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And that was Gundam.

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I remember as a kid like watching Gundam

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and just being like so obsessed.

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And I would sit down and actually draw out like,

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how would someone go about making a real life Gundam?

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And even though like I didn't really kind of put it together

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at that moment, I think that's when kind of like the engineer

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in me was kind of born was through the want of having

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giant space battles with like giant robots, right?

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I mean, it's so, it's so epic.

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It's so awesome.

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And then obviously, of course, the Netflix show

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has recently come out.

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If you haven't checked that out, I will admit the trailer to me

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didn't seem that good.

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And I'm not a huge fan of like the kind of the.

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That's kind of par for the course for Netflix.

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Yeah.

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That is true.

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We do crappy trailers and we don't advertise anything.

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Yeah.

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Like, hey, that show came out.

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What is the show?

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Like, that's like Netflix's thing.

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And I don't understand that.

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Like, why half the things on Netflix,

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they don't even have a trailer.

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Is it just because like they know they suck at making trailers

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so they're like, we're not even to have a trailer.

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Just watch it.

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We could probably build an entire topic about the business

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plan of Netflix and what their stated goals are

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within the film and television industry

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and kind of the good and bad that they have done for film

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and television over the years.

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But that's probably a separate topic.

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Keep talking about what got this on your radar this week.

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Yeah.

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So I watched all of the show, the new Gundam show.

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I did like it.

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But then, you know, the algorithm in general,

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the algorithm that controls our lives, kicked in.

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And I got an ad.

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Yeah.

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It pushed something.

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And it's an announcement.

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Collab, Gundam, exciting, very excited.

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What is the collab?

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What's going on?

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And then it was it was an announcement for a collab with Hatsune Miku.

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Hatsune Miku.

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And I'm like, wait, what?

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Yeah, it is a epic Gundam crossover is what comic book

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dot com is calling it.

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The vocal order for those that don't know, Hatsune Miku is not really real.

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Oh, she's very real to some people.

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So some people she's a.

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You just offended a lot of people like a Vtuber like.

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It's it's interesting.

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You've got to go do that.

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But yeah, Hatsune Miku Mobile Suit Gundam is teaming up with Hatsune Miku

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Miku for a Gundam Metaverse project.

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We pulled this up for four people to look at because it's it's a thing.

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But why? Why is it a thing?

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Because Hatsune Miku is really popular.

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We used to sell a bunch of her figures in the store in addition to the fact

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that we sold gunplug, right?

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So we sold Gundams, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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She's really popular.

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I mean, that's that's really it.

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It's a Metaverse concert.

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The anime franchise turns 45 in 2024.

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And so Hatsune Miku agreed to help ring in the Big Birthday for Gundam

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with a special concert and merch.

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She has collided with a lot of people to including Magic the Gathering,

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who has done secret layers.

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No, no, no, she hasn't just done a secret layer drop.

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She's done three, three secret layer drops.

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Like.

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I. Yes, I did.

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I love secret layer.

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I just got my last secret layer in from this one because I have a blue

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green deck, love these cards.

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I did. I bought the the first drop.

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I bought the second drop.

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And then the third drop, I was like, no, it's like, I'm not going to support this.

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Why are there so many drops?

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Um, I can't.

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It's.

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She's really popular, right?

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Why shorts cards have done multiple Hatsune Miku sets.

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She's just she's that popular of a character in the anime community.

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And we're going to talk a little bit more about kind of anime in general later

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on in the show. So stick around for that or check out the other video when we

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release it on YouTube.

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I wish I could say I was surprised, but this is very par for the course for

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Japan, right?

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There has always been a deep tie between pop stars and anime, right?

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Which is how you end up with so many iconic like theme songs to anime

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television shows is it's, you know, which pop star is big that year.

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And I mean, Japan runs through pop stars faster than we do, right?

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Like they'll get mega famous and then be gone in a couple of years, you know,

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but that's it's I wish I could say this surprised me.

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But when you were like, they're doing this, I was like, yeah, that that tracks.

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It does. Yeah.

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So it's it's on December 5th at 11 o'clock.

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And then they're doing a second one on the ninth.

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Are you going to watch it, Jay?

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I don't know.

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I really don't want to.

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Here's what's going to happen.

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They're going to do one.

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It's going to go really, really well.

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And they're, you know, they already have the second one.

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You know, they already have a second one of a daily.

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That's going to go really, really well.

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And the next thing you know for like the next four weeks, all of December is

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just going to be a Gundam concert every single week because they're just printing

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money. That's what it is.

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I mean, if you have three secret layer drops, I want to say what, like three or

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four months in between, you're just printing money.

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And I get it from a business point of view.

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Like, yeah, print the money.

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But like, not now when it comes to, I don't know, like, you want to keep your

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Gundam pure.

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Yeah.

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It like, it's, I think it's cute.

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I think I do think it's cute that it's like a concert because at first, like,

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we didn't have any sort of like news.

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It was just like, Hey, coming soon, some sort of collab.

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And I was like, what?

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But so it's, it's kind of cute that it's a concert.

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Um, but I think there's like, when you start just doing the same thing over

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and over and over and over again, like I said, I bought the first two drops,

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secret layer.

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I thought it was cool.

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But then I saw the third drop and I was like, Oh my gosh, we're just going to

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keep doing this.

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If people keep buying it, it's just going to keep happening.

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And now it's now it's Gundam.

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Yeah.

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Congratulations, Mobile Suit Gundam.

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Now, I might, depending on what the merch looks like, I might buy the merch

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because I'm a sucker for merch.

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And it's very popular.

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Again, it's Hatsune Miku, man.

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It's super, super popular.

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We sold some of those figures.

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We sold Hatsune Miku stickers and Hatsune Miku, everything.

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It doesn't.

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Again, it doesn't surprise me.

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I should say it did, but it really, really doesn't.

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I'm sorry, man.

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It's just weird.

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Like she's she is like everywhere.

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I have a co-worker of mine.

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They went to where did they go?

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She she actually performed at a concert.

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It wasn't Burning Man, but it was something very similar to Burning Man.

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And I think like a hologram of her came out.

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Yep.

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So I mean, I yeah, people are diehard fans of her.

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I think I even read where one fan like married her in Japan or something.

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Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me.

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Which like, you know, honestly, that's that's good.

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Like we should all find the thing that we really, really enjoy and love in life.

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Mine's giant robots without holographic pop singers, I guess.

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But but to each their own, you know.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, I I hope people get joy out of it.

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I hope people get joy out of it.

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All right.

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Well, let us know, Chad.

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Let us know down in the comments what you all think about the Hatsune Miku Exugundum

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crossover event.

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It's coming. There's going to be a concert in December.

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I'm sure it will be very, very silly.

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So let us know what you think down in the comments below.

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Let us know what you think down in the comments below.