Weird ASOIAF Covers 🌏Around The World🌍 (w/

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  • if you ask me they should come without covers at all
    go throw rocks at @AltSchwiftX
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    Schwift Twitter: / altschwiftx
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    0:00 - Chapters
    3:30 - Japanese (Yasushi Suzuki)
    28:25 - Japanese (Ken Sugawara)
    38:00 - Superchats
    42:59 - English (Bantam Paperbacks)
    49:49 - English (Folio)
    1:02:30 - English (Hardcover Steven Youll)
    1:06:25 - Chinese (Taiwan Sitak)
    1:24:57 - Croatia (Algoritam)
    1:30:35 - Czech (Talpress)
    1:36:53 - Dutch
    1:38:05 - English Voyager (Jim Burns)
    1:42:43 - French (J‘ai Lu)
    1:53:20 - German (Blanvalet)
    2:00:00 - Dutch (again)
    2:01:02 - English (2005 Paperbacks)
    2:01:59 - English (HarperCollins-Voyager)
    2:04:52 - English (Hbo Tie-in)
    2:08:10 - English (Illustrated)
    2:08:46 - Estonian (Varrak)
    2:10:45 - Finnish (Kirjvara)
    2:13:22 - French (again)
    2:16:05 - Superchats
    2:29:10 - Bulgarian (Bard)
    2:30:49 - Chinese (Chongqing)
    2:31:36 - Fancover (Bogna Gawronska)
    2:32:03 - English (Behance)
    2:33:13 - German (German Goldmann)
    2:36:30 - German (Penhaligon)
    2:37:26 - German (Phoenix)
    2:40:13 - Greek (Anubis)
    2:41:10 - Hebrew (Opus)
    2:41:27 - Romanian (Nemira)
    2:43:07 - Italian (Monadori)
    2:44:40 - Italian (Monadori Original)
    2:45:14 - Italian (Monadori Reprint)
    2:46:21 - Korean (Eunhaengnamu + Shinwon)
    2:47:34 - Norwegian
    2:50:50 - Polish
    2:54:56 - Portuguese (Brazil)
    2:58:56 - more Portuguese
    3:02:21 - Romanian
    3:04:46 - Russian
    3:11:05 - Serbian
    3:11:41 - Slovenian
    3:12:36 - Spanish (Argentina)
    3:13:10 - more Spanish
    3:17:45 - Swedish
    3:20:00 - Graphic Novel Speedround
    3:22:42 - Favourites
    3:25:00 - Superchats
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  • @lewsTT1887
    @lewsTT1887 Рік тому +553

    I dont know who needs these but here are time stamps for every edition (language)
    3:30 Japanese (Yasushi Suzuki)
    28:25 Japanese (Ken Sugawara)
    38:00 Superchats
    42:59 English (Bantam Paperbacks)
    49:49 English (Folio)
    1:02:30 English (Hardcover Steven Youll)
    1:06:25 Chinese (Taiwan Sitak)
    1:24:57 Croatia (Algoritam)
    1:30:35 Czech (Talpress)
    1:36:53 Dutch
    1:38:05 English Voyager (Jim Burns)
    1:42:43 French (J‘ai Lu)
    1:53:20 German (Blanvalet)
    2:00:00 Dutch (again)
    2:01:02 English (2005 Paperbacks)
    2:01:59 English (HarperCollins-Voyager)
    2:04:52 English (Hbo Tie-in)
    2:08:10 English (Illustrated)
    2:08:46 Estonian (Varrak)
    2:10:45 Finnish (Kirjvara)
    2:13:22 French (again)
    2:16:05 Superchats
    2:29:10 Bulgarian (Bard)
    2:30:49 Chinese (Chongqing)
    2:31:36 Fancover (Bogna Gawronska)
    2:32:03 English (Behance)
    2:33:13 German (German Goldmann)
    2:36:30 German (Penhaligon)
    2:37:26 German (Phoenix)
    2:40:13 Greek (Anubis)
    2:41:10 Hebrew (Opus)
    2:41:27 Romanian (Nemira)
    2:43:07 Italian (Monadori)
    2:44:40 Italian (Monadori Original)
    2:45:14 Italian (Monadori Reprint)
    2:46:21 Korean (Eunhaengnamu + Shinwon)
    2:47:34 Norwegian
    2:50:50 Polish
    2:54:56 Portuguese (Brazil)
    2:58:56 more Portuguese
    3:02:21 Romanian
    3:04:46 Russian
    3:11:05 Serbian
    3:11:41 Slowenian
    3:12:36 Spanish (Argentina)
    3:13:10 more Spanish
    3:17:45 Swedish
    3:20:00 Graphic Novel Speedround
    3:22:42 Favourites
    3:25:00 Superchats

    • @witchboy44
      @witchboy44 Рік тому +12

      Seven blessings for this friend!

    • @HyTricksyy
      @HyTricksyy Рік тому +4

      the GOAT, ty

    • @KlikiDemon
      @KlikiDemon Рік тому +13

      2:41:27 they say it is hungarian but it is not. It is romanian

    • @baelorbreakstuff
      @baelorbreakstuff Рік тому +1

      I needed this thank you

    • @malicewonder8345
      @malicewonder8345 Рік тому +6

      @@KlikiDemon exactly. They show the same covers later at 3:04:38

  • @Little-Dude
    @Little-Dude Рік тому +350

    I think the next person to interview GRRM should print some of these out and get his opinion on them. It would be more interesting than the same 5,000 questions he always gets.

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 9 місяців тому +35

      So what do you think the Winds of Winter cover will look like George!?

  • @Skwadley
    @Skwadley Рік тому +436

    I like how it sounds like ASX is just standing behind Glidus. Like to imagine they’re in the same room and ASX is just chilling in the back

    • @CoRLex-jh5vx
      @CoRLex-jh5vx Рік тому +51

      You mean that's not what this is??

  • @megamovieman101
    @megamovieman101 Рік тому +327

    I think the things we learned most from this stream are that:
    1. That image of Stannis on the throne is VERY popular
    2. Schwift has a LOT of bastards running around

    • @maxwellkazemba2299
      @maxwellkazemba2299 11 місяців тому +19

      I thought a sorcerer gelded schwift as a child tho?

    • @menschman1464
      @menschman1464 8 місяців тому

      ⁠@@maxwellkazemba2299the current glimbus regenerated from the originals severed peen

  • @KaritKtana
    @KaritKtana Рік тому +197

    The Japanese Tyrion cover is mesmerizing, but I think people's problem with it is that he looks like a baby!!
    The artist got the individual attributes in the hair, eyes, etc. But Tyrion is well into his 20's, not a toddler

    • @JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL
      @JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL Рік тому +37

      I do agree… especially his tiny, soft right baby hand

    • @phnargg
      @phnargg Рік тому +32

      Yeah, I think it’s a really cool artwork, but what throws me is the grey skin tone. It makes Tyrion look more like a fantasy creature/alien baby, when he’s supposed to be just a weird looking human man. Having a babyish look doesn’t really fit Tyrion’s personality, either.
      Also, this is one of the few depictions I’ve seen that have his right eye as the black one, which is interesting!

    • @ccorvid
      @ccorvid 11 місяців тому +12

      the hair kinda blends w his skin tone too so he looks bald at first

  • @amerikatt
    @amerikatt Рік тому +177

    The dice in the norweigan ones are review scores, the letters under them mark which newspaper reviewed them. Its common in Sweden and norway for newspapers to review not out of five stars but out of six points on a dice 😊

  • @TheLandauMinimum
    @TheLandauMinimum Рік тому +611

    This video really feels like the human heart in conflict with itself

  • @henrikfitch4017
    @henrikfitch4017 9 місяців тому +8

    Favourite: Mini Stannis
    Least Favourite: Mini Stannis
    Middling Favourite: Mini Stannis

  • @silentbutnedly
    @silentbutnedly Рік тому +39

    Ngl with Schwift’s sound problems in the beginning I was picturing them streaming with Glidus in front of the computer and Schwift just shouting from the bathroom as he ate yogurt on the toilet

  • @peculiarpangolin4638
    @peculiarpangolin4638 Рік тому +310

    6:24 Fun fact, Schwift accidentally named the three countries that speak languages from the Uralic family. Hope everyone who reads this has a great day! :)

    • @jordonby
      @jordonby Рік тому +9

      Hm.. big vibes thx for knowledge :)

    • @hecticscone
      @hecticscone Рік тому +48

      finno-ugric moment

    • @Sipu97
      @Sipu97 Рік тому +20

      @@hecticscone Finno-Ugrian gang

    • @miketrujillo3677
      @miketrujillo3677 Рік тому

      @@hecticscone what the hell is a minnow urea

    • @justinkroboth360
      @justinkroboth360 Рік тому +2

      This was so pleasant.

  • @efjay3183
    @efjay3183 Рік тому +146

    2:37:48. Fun fact: Eisenthron is german for: Iron Throne. The word ”Eisen” was closely related to the old English ”isen” (iron), used by Tolkien in words such as Isengard and Isenmouthe.

    • @twiss9341
      @twiss9341 Рік тому +4

      Thank you

    • @Aeraleach
      @Aeraleach 7 місяців тому +4

      you also find it in german-derived last names such as General Eisenhower which comes from Eisenhauer-Iron"puncher"(worker)

  • @Sipu97
    @Sipu97 Рік тому +134

    The Finnish ones are so atmospheric. The blackness makes them feel so mysterious and as if danger surrounds the pictures. Especially the first one, it's so striking. They also depict nature more than many others which just emphasises the Finnishness of them.

    • @Thereisanalienpresenceonearth
      @Thereisanalienpresenceonearth Рік тому +6

      Finnish him

    • @Max-lf3tx
      @Max-lf3tx 10 місяців тому +4

      They're my favourites.

    • @noahmay7708
      @noahmay7708 Місяць тому +1

      It leaves it up to the imaginaition, which I prefer to the realism angle some others take. An older, more fantastical presentation fits very well with how I like to imagine the books.

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 Рік тому +772

    We should get Glidus to eat the $200 versions on stream.

    • @baelorbreakstuff
      @baelorbreakstuff Рік тому +17

      I’d pay him 200 just to stream with ser hunts reviews

    • @incoherentrambling3139
      @incoherentrambling3139 Рік тому +48

      If glimbus eats the winds of winter when it comes out I'll donate for the first time in my life

    • @Cbutton
      @Cbutton Рік тому +29

      @@incoherentrambling3139 I just want George to send him an alternate copy called the dragon book

    • @jessISaRicePrincess
      @jessISaRicePrincess Рік тому

      I would pay him 10 dollars per page eaten

    • @Domefossil
      @Domefossil Рік тому +2

      @@baelorbreakstuff that stream would have so much ADHD it'd need Adderall

  • @yulibeta
    @yulibeta Рік тому +73

    In Japan, ASOIAF switched translators at A Feast for Crows, which is kinda where the different cover art comes from. Initially, the hardcover releases (usually divided into 2~3 books, since you can fit less text on a page than English in Japanese) and the soft cover pocket book (bunko) releasees (usually divided into about 5 books, due to even less text fitting on 1 page) had different cover art, which is the sprawling covers (hardcover)and the framed covers (softcover). Presumably the softcover versions didn't sell too well, and they were discontinued after A Clash of Kings (or, A Storm of Swords didn't sell enough to merit a softcover version). When A Feast for Crows comes along, the translator switches to a different guy, and he made a lot of changes to the names and lingo (basically made them a lot more edgy). Then, during the time while the new guy is translating A Dance with Dragons, the show happens, blows up, and suddenly there's a much bigger demand for the source material (of which most had gone out of print). So, they re-release all the books in softcover pocket books style with the updated edgy lingo, but this time they ,make them big fat chunky books for people with humongous pockets, and released them with the hardcover version cover art. So, no more covers with the frames. They aren't even in circulation.
    So, that picture of Ned definitely predates the show. Actually, the only covers that came after the show started would be the two A Dance with Dragons covers.

  • @HeartsinNYC
    @HeartsinNYC Рік тому +35

    In the art where Ghost is pooping/has a tree hand, Jon's back foot looks all twisted around because of how they draped the cloak around it. can't stop picturing him tripping over it and careening down the cliff.

    • @PinkyJustice
      @PinkyJustice Рік тому +6

      I couldn't not see it. It looks like it's coming out of his tailbone

    • @iainhansen1047
      @iainhansen1047 Рік тому

      Time stamp?

  • @zenebean
    @zenebean Рік тому +54

    1:56:58 I think "A griffin, A griffin!" is just stated by Jon Connington to be the battle cry as he has the Golden company shout it. Probably like how "A Lannister always pays their debts" is used way more than their generic words that some ancient lord just thought was rad.
    Also I agree the German does hit different

  • @lindsayshelton6311
    @lindsayshelton6311 Рік тому +143

    Next livestream should be Glidus and Schwift drawing asoiaf fanart together

    • @elinaw6175
      @elinaw6175 Рік тому +3

      Omg yes

    • @elinaw6175
      @elinaw6175 Рік тому +10

      They should have a AI make prompts for them to draw

    • @roronoalaw7772
      @roronoalaw7772 Рік тому +13

      Nah next one needs to be them finishing the GoT character alignments

    • @lindsayshelton6311
      @lindsayshelton6311 Рік тому +1

      @@roronoalaw7772 The alignment of Flement Brax is all we need to know

    • @Cobalt360Degrees
      @Cobalt360Degrees Рік тому +6

      @@elinaw6175 I mean, Schwift already has a random ASoIaF theory generator, so that might still work.

  • @Arkios64
    @Arkios64 Рік тому +82

    Elden Ring actually has "seamless" COOP now, thanks to the modding community.
    As in, join once, and as long as the mod doesn't bug or glitch, you can go through the entire game together from that point.

  • @jimmothybiz
    @jimmothybiz Рік тому +50

    Hi guys, spaniard here!
    The 3:16:52 cover it's just the "deluxe" hardcover version of the previous Corominas one and the sleeve it's actually just a translucent onionskin paper with all the lettering so that you can pull it away and then it has the full artwork without any titles or anything. It's actually pretty great and it's super sad that those editors lost the rights to the future novels 'cause we won't ever get the full set (even thou we probably won't get the novels anyway, but you know what I mean).

    • @mirayoquese8608
      @mirayoquese8608 Рік тому +1

      Soy el único que tiene las otras portadas de JDT y CDR de Corominas? Me parecen mil veces mejor que las del vídeo.

    • @jimmothybiz
      @jimmothybiz Рік тому +1

      @@mirayoquese8608 Si, es verdad, yo tengo las ediciones de bolsillo con las del vídeo pero las de tapa dura son diferentes y bastante mejores, es cierto.

  • @Cbutton
    @Cbutton Рік тому +119

    Glidus ain’t fucking around this week

  • @carraegrea9900
    @carraegrea9900 Рік тому +231

    Pretty sure the red haired character in the third Japanese cover is Bran right? It looks like Winterfell, the tree looks weir wood-y and it looks almost like he is floating because of the clouds around his legs, connected to Bran and the crows

    • @amiam8998
      @amiam8998 Рік тому +12

      Could be Jojen Reed too? But with the clothes I would think it's Bran as well

    • @qixec
      @qixec Рік тому +24

      I definitely thought bran too. I would guess that he's standing because it's during a vision or something

    • @AmbrosiusIII
      @AmbrosiusIII Рік тому +53

      The show made us forget he has red hair and blue eyes like other Tullys

    • @Chaucerettescs
      @Chaucerettescs Рік тому +17

      Right, this definitely feels like Bran, Tully red hair and all. I think you're right that he's standing/floating because he's dreaming. The dagger on his belt also feels like an allusion to the catspaw dagger.

    • @a.a677
      @a.a677 Рік тому +2

      @@AmbrosiusIII who's us? lol I easily remember the book looks

  • @adipsous
    @adipsous 8 місяців тому +10

    I like the Hodor representation in that Japanese cover. By the cave time in the story, after being mind-invadedly warged by Bran over and over, Hodor is probably just a shell of a human. He wasn't quite much of a person to begin with. By now he's just a tragic soul-ravaged transport slave. If he ever was a sweet boy, that innocence was chewed up and ground into oblivion long ago. He's a mindless automaton vessel, now. That's all.

  • @sharkape
    @sharkape Рік тому +119

    Can't believe you streamed for 4 hours at the precise time I had a 4 hour lecture

    • @SpirusOfH
      @SpirusOfH Рік тому +5

      Lmao same. 3 hour lecture, 30 min commute = missed exactly the entirely of this stream.

    • @bonbonvegabon
      @bonbonvegabon Рік тому +1

      This streamed 7 hours ago, it was only 4:30am here in eastern Canada when it started lol. I got up 30 mins later at 5 am and still missed it lol

    • @sharkape
      @sharkape Рік тому +3

      @ChesterTester The pain I felt walking out of my lecture, checking youtube, and seeing "streamed 1 minute ago" was agonising

  • @jonttopia
    @jonttopia Рік тому +14

    The estonia covers look like old computer game covers from like the 90s, I love it.

  • @violetsapphire952
    @violetsapphire952 Рік тому +9

    "Anyone watching a Glidus video does not have a healthy sleep schedule"
    I have been called out. How dare you say something so accusatory and accurate.

  • @Holyhunoli
    @Holyhunoli Рік тому +39

    Maybe the purple Jon wears on that Japanese cover is subtly inferring he's royalty, since purple was/is an official royal color

    • @kitcat7457
      @kitcat7457 2 місяці тому

      certainly a possibility. But I think it is more likely that the artist uses purple to liven up the black cloth. It is fairly common in art to not use pure black and seeing as purple is a dark color it is often used.

  • @angelferreira753
    @angelferreira753 Рік тому +116

    Our Brazilian version of The books is absolutely stunning, all 5 have representation of moments of The books with differents color pallets

    • @theguywithpants
      @theguywithpants Рік тому +4

      Just googled them. Time to learn Portuguese!

    • @thyagosaints
      @thyagosaints Рік тому +4

      Yess, I love our version too, é realmente muito bonita

    • @angelferreira753
      @angelferreira753 Рік тому +4

      @@thyagosaints inclusive as duas versões são bonitas a da leya e da SUMA

    • @ninacaracol
      @ninacaracol Рік тому +5

      yesss my favorite is dance, absolutely gorgeous

    • @isaacmendes1926
      @isaacmendes1926 Рік тому +3

      Yup, Dance with the child's bones reveal and feast with the silence... it's so beautiful

  • @zoltankoppel7818
    @zoltankoppel7818 Рік тому +133

    Just to let you guys know, the book covers at around 2:41:34 are in fact NOT hungarian, because I could not understand any of the words on them as a hungarian :D
    Edit: google translate says it is Romanian

    • @clayisprobablyneat2916
      @clayisprobablyneat2916 Рік тому +18

      They have the shortcuts labeled as Romanian, seems like somebody realized the mistake

  • @sibirianway560
    @sibirianway560 Рік тому +53

    Honestly considering that he's somewhat of a minor character (and not a POV one), i'm surprised how often we see Stannis on these covers! Melisandre, too ... this was very interesting, thanks for putting so much work into it!!

    • @noahmay7708
      @noahmay7708 8 місяців тому +1

      The people love Stannis

    • @ralcogaming7674
      @ralcogaming7674 2 місяці тому

      ​@@noahmay7708 he's the one true king.

  • @nasiknosik
    @nasiknosik Рік тому +32

    of course twow have been out in taiwan for a while now, where did you think preston jacobs got the material for his fanfiction

  • @zrake_7027
    @zrake_7027 Рік тому +100

    A new glidus x altschwift stream is a blessing frfr

  • @thyagosaints
    @thyagosaints Рік тому +42

    Yess My favorite Duo is back again, I will download to ear you in the hospital later today, thanks 🇧🇷

  • @JackDespero
    @JackDespero Рік тому +18

    The "clip art" in the Spanish version is just an onion paper cover. It can be removed and then you have the original cover. I keep them in mine to protect the covers.

  • @lupine.spirit161
    @lupine.spirit161 Рік тому +5

    Ghost in the first japanese one is like “didn’t I do it for you?”

  • @laurenbastin8849
    @laurenbastin8849 Рік тому +16

    I believe the painting Glidus is thinking of at 2:07:02 is Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the sea of fog”

  • @btarczy5067
    @btarczy5067 Рік тому +4

    The Japanese Cersei/Jaime cover wins it for me. It might scream corny fantasy art but I‘d still hang it up as a poster.

  • @psevdhome
    @psevdhome Рік тому +16

    As a Finn I must comment. I loved the covers on the Finnish editions for their style. I read the first novel in Finnish first but then read the rest in English, as the English edition was more easily available. I loved the covers though...
    That having been said, the Finnish edition is quite amateurishly translated, misunderstanding and mangling many frases so that the parallels between things like certain characters become obtuse or undecipherable. There's also some weird translations that persist in translations of other works set in the same Universe (like the HBO show). Like "Hand of the King" isn't translated with the normal word for hand, which would be appropriate, but rather with another word that means "grasper, groper", when referring to the hand. The strange part is Finnish has the same idiom from which the position on the council is derived, i.e. my right hand as in someone who is very helpful to me and in a close position to me. So why use this very uncouth language to translate which takes the reader away from the quite plain and simple meaning of the phrase is anybody's guess.
    Tyrion's sobriquet of "imp" is also translated into a word that means troll or goblin. Although roughly correct, it refers only to his ugliness in the Finnish, and perhaps his mischieviousness, but does not quite grasp at the most obvious insult of Tyrion being considered quite the unnatural and evil creature, that the word imp obviously carries. Although perhaps on accident the translation becomes more appropriate in Clash of Kings when Tyrion abducts Tommen, as Finnish trolls are known for capturing children from their mothers. A bit of unintended irony there.

  • @sophie9419
    @sophie9419 Рік тому +49

    I like how they swiftly move from trying to guess the characters and symbolism to immediately claiming it's mostly generic fantasy art. 😂

  • @jasperfleming9318
    @jasperfleming9318 Рік тому +8

    Is anyone else SO SICK OF THE BANTAM COVERS? For a story as vibrant and crazy as Asoiaf I feel like they do not even come close to doing it justice. There’s this cripplingly American instinct (present in the hbo series as well) to market these in like a Serious Adult Way that totally stifles the colorfulness and zaniness present in the books. Time to make the Japanese covers the official ones lol eff the bantam ones

  • @francescapatti2934
    @francescapatti2934 8 місяців тому +11

    Ok but props to the german covers for looking really cool, unique and also uniform at the same time.
    And also for coming up with some good House Words for the Conningtons!
    "Ein grimmiger feind, ein treuer freund" (aka a fierce enemy a loyal friend) makes sense for JonCon himself.
    Also its just way better than "A GRIFFIN! A GRIFFIN!" 😂
    Edit: The German cover of WoW about to reveal the Dayne house words 😂

  • @dallayg5524
    @dallayg5524 Рік тому +12

    It really sounds like they were in the same room and I love that energy

  • @xnina92x
    @xnina92x Рік тому +47

    As a german I found both your pronounciation incredibly cute 😍😂 Even though I will never understand how anyone would voluntarily study the german language 😆

    • @StockpileThomas1
      @StockpileThomas1 Рік тому +1

      Guten Tag 😸

    • @AmbrosiusIII
      @AmbrosiusIII Рік тому

      There's something about the clunky practicality of Deutsch that i love so much. Although I will always hate numbers!

  • @yusufdurmus1557
    @yusufdurmus1557 Рік тому +17

    As niche as it was, that was the fastest 3 hours and 37 minutes in my entire life. As obscure as it might have been, it was still really interesting and amazing to see all these beautiful (and weird) covers. As an artist, some of these have inspired me so much, especially the Jaime and Cersei one (and I'm talking about the Japanese hardcover for Feast). That one just straight-up looks like something from Final Fantasy.
    BTW, you guys forgot to talk about the Turkish (Epsilon) ones. Not necessarily creative or artistic, but I do still find them eye-catching.

  • @albertdrevdal4233
    @albertdrevdal4233 Рік тому +10

    The dice on the Norwegian ones are indeed ratings. honestly didn't know it was a norwegian thing, but here media is usually rated from 1 to 6, and the dice became the popular way of conveying that (which is a little wierd now that I think of it)

  • @MyImaginaryTiger
    @MyImaginaryTiger Рік тому +19

    I would love to see videos for all the things you mentioned. (Avatar, Hollow knight, Isaac, etc..) Granted I'd probably listen to you talk about grated cheese for 2 hours.

    • @Glidus
      @Glidus  Рік тому +31

      we have discussed a potential “reading the phone book” steam

    • @albertdrevdal4233
      @albertdrevdal4233 Рік тому +2

      @@Glidusschwifty glimbus steam😤🤤

    • @Fe22234
      @Fe22234 Рік тому +1

      @@Glidus you should do that on April 1st.

    • @Fe22234
      @Fe22234 Рік тому

      @@Glidus you should do that on April 1st.

  • @spencerblake5713
    @spencerblake5713 Рік тому +8

    3 glimbus videos in under a week, the seven save us

    • @jordonby
      @jordonby Рік тому

      This is a sign of the end of times

    • @spencerblake5713
      @spencerblake5713 Рік тому

      @@jordonby we're in the darkest timeline now eurons apocalypse has begun

  • @BananLord
    @BananLord Рік тому +12

    The Hungarian ones at 2:41:27 are actually Romanian. I'm happy my country has something better than Germany and France, even if it's just Asoiaf book covers.

  • @Xsomono
    @Xsomono Рік тому +12

    This was a great idea for a video. It was extremely interesting to these different visions of game of thrones. Especially the Japanese covers are just incredible. The one with Jamie and Cersei *chef's kiss*

  • @katalinszabo4145
    @katalinszabo4145 Рік тому +10

    As a Hungarian i feel called to point out that the books at 2:41:27 are actually Romanian. Love this video tho!

  • @andymonserud9029
    @andymonserud9029 Рік тому +5

    "Roman" is "novel" in French, but I'm not sure why they felt the need to tell you that right in the middle of the pictures

    • @andymonserud9029
      @andymonserud9029 Рік тому

      Actually they have some pretty wild titles there, too. My fave is probably "the law of regicide."

    • @andymonserud9029
      @andymonserud9029 Рік тому +1

      Oh and "le trone de fer" means "the iron throne."

  • @erlkoenig505
    @erlkoenig505 Рік тому +24

    Regarding the German version: "Pflicht" means duty, "Ehre" means honour. You read the words from top down, so the Greyjoy words in German are "Wir säen nicht" and not "Wir nicht säen"! ;)

  • @edwardlaham
    @edwardlaham Рік тому +4

    I listen to these as I fall asleep and I love them. I probably get through 12 minutes at a time each time, so I can slowly make my way through a 3 hour video over the course of a month watching the videos in their entirety each time plus each auto play video that comes next.
    What I’m getting at is please send me your UA-cam play buttons I have earned them

  • @BramVanhooydonck
    @BramVanhooydonck Рік тому +5

    "Dont judge a book by its cover"
    Glidus and schwifty: literally book judge covers, I mean cover judge books, I mean judge book covers.
    PS: The Folio collection is absolutely perfect though but not sure if book covers are worth that much.

  • @SKRRTCOBAIN00
    @SKRRTCOBAIN00 4 місяці тому +2

    Just here to remind everybody that Glimbus is eating Winds on release 👌🏼💪🏼
    I would like a proof video in which Schwift is cheering him on from the back 💯

  • @Cali_Marie
    @Cali_Marie Рік тому +36

    The boarders along the side of the books around 30:00 are very reminiscent of The Book of Kells illustrations. I always thought an animated ASOIAF show with stylizations like that would be neat.

    • @Cali_Marie
      @Cali_Marie Рік тому +1

      And how dare you! Shireen would work at a local thrift book store in this fanfic we’re all writing together!

  • @Sumsar333
    @Sumsar333 Рік тому +5

    And just as I was listening to the theory tier list. Good thing I've got a cup of coffee ready

  • @Rubbabandman
    @Rubbabandman Рік тому +5

    The Taiwanese ASoS cover was sick not gonna lie. The foreshadowing is actually awesome

  • @TraphouseTCG
    @TraphouseTCG Рік тому +2

    So many laugh out loud moment this was great. “He’s standing up tho isn’t he? Hmm” 😂😂

  • @lisaweinmann9245
    @lisaweinmann9245 Рік тому +3

    Woke up a few hours ago, you guys were live! My first time as I’m in New York. Listened, then fell back to sleep. Love you❤

  • @elisthebirb2357
    @elisthebirb2357 Рік тому +9

    2:28:30 as a huge Witcher fan, allow me to present a nifty little alternative. if you don't have the time to go through an entire book series and/or hundreds of hours of just the last game, let alone entire game trilogy, consider checking out Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales.
    it's a unique game, essentially a spinoff to the trilogy, that expands on minor events from the books. it has a charming art style and combat entirely replaced by card matches and puzzles, but its strongest aspect is definitely the story and the way it is written. lots of ole 'choices have consequences', wartime as a backdrop, and different viewpoints on parent-child relationships. which, i think, you guys would enjoy!
    these streams are always a treat

  • @cowsharkdefin6376
    @cowsharkdefin6376 Рік тому +6

    Some of the generic art the 2:30 mark actually was used for for a series of novels about Irish mythology. The one with the dude on a horse holding a sword is from a book called RIders of the Sidhe by Kenneth C Flint. It's a very good series and I think I still have it somewhere. I'm not sure about the one with the shirtless blond dude but I think it's a cover for a book about Cuchulainn, another legendary Irish hero. In both cases the male protagonists are blond dudes so the covers were appropriate. These books were published in the 80s so the artwork was prolly forgotten by most people but not my nerdy self. The other pictures I don't recognize.

  • @MarshallCake
    @MarshallCake 5 місяців тому +2

    When I am feeling sad I always come back to watch the teeny tiny little Stanis part

  • @dotsdot5608
    @dotsdot5608 Рік тому +5

    The first manga cover has some final fantasy vibe to it.
    Love it!

  • @tunguskalumberjack9987
    @tunguskalumberjack9987 Рік тому +13

    This is such a great surprise! Just last night I got the urge to listen to a bit of Glidustopheles and popped on the “Every GOT episode ranked” video, only intending to do so for a short time while doing some housework. I ended up listening to the whole thing (for probably the 3rd or 4th time) and it had me laughing as much as it always has. I found myself wishing for a new long form Khal Glimbo video, and well, looky here! Thanks, you two- you just made my day👍🏻

  • @notribadsvault
    @notribadsvault Рік тому +7

    The biggest problem with some of the Tyrions on these covers is that they make him look like a child or child-like.

  • @katiegrace9036
    @katiegrace9036 Рік тому +12

    i love these livestreams

  • @brdywatson1282
    @brdywatson1282 Рік тому +2

    *growls while drooling* HODDOOOOOOORRR!!

  • @Bioguy5
    @Bioguy5 Рік тому +7

    Okay, wild theory here...
    I'd hazard a guess that for some of these covers, they were painted in larger landscape resolution and the publishers zoomed in and cropped them to fit the portrait view of a book cover.
    You can see that's exactly what they did for the Book #1 cover with Jon at 1:03:09 . It's the same cover as the previous one, but it was zoomed in and cropped to fit the entire height of the book (to what end, I don't know). And probably the later book covers were done the same. Though with..... middling results.
    I have no evidence for this other than #1 I am an artist and #2 I can't fathom some of these compositions.

  • @dinos119
    @dinos119 Рік тому +5

    2:46:37 Hello. I am korean. Text on the bottom said 'suggestion'. It has been rated 5 stars from readers around the world(black color words), suggested as a must read fantasy novel book from korean fantasy novel writer(white color worlds), chosen as a fantasy novel of the year by new York times(red circle). So it's like 'Hey, it's a great book. You should read this.'

    • @iancasleton6356
      @iancasleton6356 7 місяців тому

      Thank you random korean- you guys have been killing it with your TV and movies. Gotta say keep it up.

  • @lewsTT1887
    @lewsTT1887 Рік тому +29

    Im from Germany and in possession of the Blanvalet versions and the heraldry drives me crazy everytime I read the books. Your german sounds quite amazing except for the „ch“ but i guess thats on the german language because even I hate it. Luckily as a set in the shelf they look amazing and they are numbered on the side that is facing away from the shelf. Sorry for my bad english but you are my two favourite streamers and the perfect duo. I hope you will have even more success in the future.
    Your new album is amazing Glidus!!

    • @waffelmeister9477
      @waffelmeister9477 Рік тому

      Another self hating German. Many such cases

    • @craigsmith3741
      @craigsmith3741 Рік тому +3

      Your English looks great to me. I have college students in my classes that can't write English that well....and they are from England!

    • @nicklagoni7306
      @nicklagoni7306 Рік тому +12

      Only problem i see with your English is you misspelled Glimbus as glidus

    • @lewsTT1887
      @lewsTT1887 Рік тому +10

      @@nicklagoni7306 silly me

    • @LPVince94
      @LPVince94 Рік тому +3

      @@lewsTT1887
      So gut fand ich die Aussprache jetzt aber nicht.
      Das R in Ehre z.B. haben sie komplett vermurkst. Ist aber auch nicht ihre Schuld, weil das R im Englischen ein ganz anderer Laut ist. Wird icht gerollt wie bei uns.
      Und natürlich das EI als I und wahrscheinlich noch mehr.

  • @MrConspired
    @MrConspired Рік тому +1

    Yay been waiting on more collab content from you guys

  • @darkjannn
    @darkjannn Рік тому +5

    This was unexpectedly entertaining. Thanks guys!

  • @MeeraReads
    @MeeraReads Рік тому +9

    Just woke up to see that I had missed you by an hour! Still, can’t wait to hear what Glimbus and Schwifto have to say

  • @andromidius
    @andromidius Рік тому +5

    The Cersei/Jaime cover is great. Also notice which hand Jaime is holding his sword with.

  • @odinlinga
    @odinlinga Рік тому +9

    For the norwegian ones: In norway dice are used to represent review scores

    • @odinlinga
      @odinlinga Рік тому

      BT and BA are newspapers. Bergens Tidende and Bergensavisen

  • @minecraftholmes972
    @minecraftholmes972 Рік тому +23

    The finnish covers are beautiful

    • @Sipu97
      @Sipu97 Рік тому +1

      They are!

  • @JayTea345
    @JayTea345 Рік тому +10

    I'd love an Alt Shift X series about Robin Hobb or Joe Abercrombie books.

  • @Forti15
    @Forti15 Рік тому +2

    Amazing stream! Thanks guys

  • @biggismalls8660
    @biggismalls8660 Рік тому +4

    Glidus and ASX joint videos are the best videos 😊

  • @officerkaiser9100
    @officerkaiser9100 Рік тому +3

    I love listening to you guys when I am playing something like Battlefield One or Skyrim. Its nice.

  • @lillianasanchez5984
    @lillianasanchez5984 Рік тому +2

    Fantastic stream! Thank you so much, you made my day ...

  • @otterlover3399
    @otterlover3399 Рік тому +18

    In the Russian books Jon Snow (lovingly known as Dzhon Snou) is dark haired just like English. I read it in English but asked a friend and also you can read online. When you asked what the title in the bottom right says, it said A Storm of Swords.

  • @basang32
    @basang32 Рік тому +7

    I read the Russian translation of asoiaf and no, Jon is not blond, that's just the publisher being lazy as usual, they always use those generic images for everything, it even stopped me from buying books from them

  • @DJLueder
    @DJLueder Рік тому +3

    UA-cam auto play takes me to interesting places when I sleep lol

  • @clamagi04_ofc
    @clamagi04_ofc 9 місяців тому +5

    After watching these, I'm actually really proud of having the pretty ilustrated spanish versions. Shame that they are discontinued and that this year the series has been re-published with new covers.
    PD: The new covers are actually really pretty, so I'm a little bit jealous.

  • @annalisegulyas3059
    @annalisegulyas3059 Рік тому +4

    shoutout to glimbo and schwifty's german skills. their pronunciation was actually kind of decent?? i am pleasantly surprised

  • @melledevries4685
    @melledevries4685 Рік тому +3

    2:44:33 I love the British coat of arms behind the title

  • @TunezCottage
    @TunezCottage Рік тому +6

    there are behance covers for feast and ADWD too, the feast one is a kraken and dance is a dragon. They're really dope.

  • @vergil8833
    @vergil8833 Рік тому +3

    People still think knot designs are celtic? The celts never used knot designs, the knot designs that people keep calling celtic are 100% scandinavian. The anglos and vikings brought that to England. The only reason why people ever called it celtic is because irish monks used to draw it in some scriptures, and it was eventually carved on some crosses too. But that sort of artwork has no history on the british isles or on the continent in general. But we can follow it's development from the Vendel period to the different levels of development like the Oseberg style, the Ringerike style, and the latest Urnes style. Those are viking styles, not celtic. The next time you see northern european knot artwork you'll know that it's not celtic, it's viking.
    Celtic artstyles are more about symmetry. Lots of symmetrical circles and stuff like that. It's what you see on the barrows in Ireland and stuff. But if you're to see knot work then you must look at stuff like the norwegian stave churches or viking age ornamentation.

  • @efjay3183
    @efjay3183 Рік тому +3

    1:56:00 Dunkle die Lunkle: thick as a castle wall.

  • @sarahschweighofer4458
    @sarahschweighofer4458 Рік тому +3

    OMG!!!! I so so so love your german pronunciations - truly magnificent and cute as well, thx very much ;)

  • @OneEyedWilliam
    @OneEyedWilliam Рік тому +3

    More glischty content is what I always want

  • @blepblops
    @blepblops Рік тому +7

    the fish with antlers is actually the heraldry of Inari municipality in Finland

    • @iancasleton6356
      @iancasleton6356 7 місяців тому

      What does that have to do with Portugal? Not being an ass just really curious.

  • @tazter
    @tazter Рік тому +3

    can't wait for the food description ranking stream

  • @Gandalfthefluff
    @Gandalfthefluff Рік тому +6

    I can’t remember if it’s in AGoT or ACoK, but Tyrion grows a beard that is described as having both blond and black hairs, which may be where that comes from

  • @TehDia
    @TehDia Рік тому +6

    If you guys do decide to co-op Elden Ring, make sure to grab the seamless co-op mod. The multiplayer can be extremely janky without it, and the mod improves it a lot.

  • @egggge4752
    @egggge4752 Рік тому +3

    The pf in german is because around 800 ad continental germans started pronouncing *p
    sounds like ff or f sounds:
    Ship -> Schiff
    But in some cases the p would stay but get and affrucative f sound:
    Pepper -> Pfeffer

  • @brucethecovidpoo1510
    @brucethecovidpoo1510 Рік тому +4

    The hound is one of the few characters to keep their drip armour for the show, Ramsay was supposed to look like a flayed man in his

  • @twobreadtom
    @twobreadtom Рік тому +5

    Honglou Meng (Story of the Stone) by Cao Xueqin, one of the classics of Chinese literature and also a story a fan had to step in to finish

  • @brentilda9535
    @brentilda9535 Рік тому +8

    OOOOOOH MY TWO FAVOURITE MEN