Limbus Company Book Tour - Cantos IV and V

"Limbus Company", there you go you mathematical daemons, promote my video. We're going back to talking about some books while a motley crew of 12 bastard children bumble their way through a hypercapitalist dystopia. And happy holidays to you all, since the research and writing took way longer than anticipated.

Part 1 of the series:
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Limbus Captain Ahab voiced by @georgieegames
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Timestamps:
00:00 - 01:28 - Intro and preamble
01:28 - 06:29 - Intervallo - Hell's Chicken
06:29 - 47:47 - Canto IV: The Unchanging
47:47 - 48:39 - Interallo - S.E.A.
48:39 - 1:22:34 - Canto V: The Evil Defining
1:22:34 - 1:23:18 - Outro


Bibliography:
(Overarching)
"Divine Comedy - Inferno" by Dante Alighieri (1321), English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943), English translation by Katherine Woods (1943)

(Canto IV)
"The Stars (Tale of a Provençal Shepherd)" by Alphonse Daudet (1873), English translation by Truc Huy (year unknown)
"Camellia Flowers" by Kim Yujeong (1936), English translation by T:I.TIME (2017)
"Three Plays" by Yoo Chi-Jin, English translation by Wŏn-jae Chang (2005) : "The Cow" (1935), "The Mud Hut" (1932)
"The Wings" by Yi Sang (1936), English translation by Ahn Jung-hyo (2001)

(Canto IV honorable mentions)
Reddit thread "Real counter part of League of Nine (Guinhoe) we saw in Canto 4 Dungeon, and how the Limbus version followed their irl models" by OwlOfJune
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Reddit thread "The writings/plays that inspired Dongrang and Samjo are incredibly hard to find in English and the book is completely out of print.. buuuuut..." by canto4enjoyer
  / the_writingsplays_that_inspired_dongrang_and  
Encyclopaedia of Korean Culture's entry on Yi Jongmyeong
https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E...
Namu wiki entry on Yoo Chi-Jin
https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%9C%A0%EC%B9%9...
Namu wiki entry on Park Tae-won
https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B0%95%ED%83%9...)
"The Writing Community of Guinhoe: Time of the Eternal Recurrence" by Kim Yerhee (2019)
https://oak.go.kr/repository/journal/...

(Canto V)
"Moby Dick; or, The Whale" by Herman Melville (1851)
"Moby Dick" movie adaptation, directed by John Hutson (1956)
"Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie (1904)
"The Sea and The Butterfly" by Kim Kirim (1939), English translation by Suhyun J. Ahn (2015)
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche (1885), English translation by Thomas Common (1909)

Any biographical notes on authors mentioned (that are not covered by any of the sources are listed above) in this video are primarily sourced by skimming Wikipedia. I'm not dragging French through Google Translate to find out exactly how much Daudet hated the republic, this video was enough of a nightmare without it.

Music from Limbus Company used:
Aboard Mephistopheles
Hell's Chicken Story Theme
Reminiscence
Science Story Theme
Abnormal Science Story Theme
DongBaek
Canto IV Boss 2 Battle Theme
Canto IV Battle Theme B1
Fly, My Wings (Instrumental)
Tear Story Theme
Summer Splash
Canto V Battle Theme A
Deep Cold Sea
Overwhelming
Bad Time
Middle Finger Toujou
Nobody Came Back
Pequod
Compass (Instrumental)

Additional footage was borrowed from the following channels:
Kylotl
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Hell's Kitchen
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Hakita
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Foreman Plays Stuff
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naploom
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baka_channel!!
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Lunartique07
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Unholy Bun
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HerbMessiah
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