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

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.

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

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

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

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 😊

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

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

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! :)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Next livestream should be Glidus and Schwift drawing asoiaf fanart together

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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

Glidus ain’t fucking around this week

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

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

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

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!!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 😂

A new glidus x altschwift stream is a blessing frfr

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)

"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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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 💯

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"! ;)

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bro Japanese artists were COOKING

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.

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

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*

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

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

"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

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

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!!

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

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

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

Because most hair colours are basically a spectrum from very light orange to very dark orange, it's one of those things that's notoriously susceptible to changing with any colour manipulation and the artwork where the hair is the wrong colour was probably just messed with in its passage from an original artwork to a printed book cover

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

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

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

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

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

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❤

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

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 KZfaq play buttons I have earned them

Japanese cover artist just wanted to draw Jujutsu Kaisen fanart when they drew that Jon cover artwork. That's just generic fantasy AU Fushiguro (but Ghost gives me let-me-fo-it-for-you vibes).

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👍🏻

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

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

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.

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

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

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

”His beard was a trial to him; a tangle of yellow, white and black hairs” asos 1, about Tyrion’s beard, in regards to the discussion about if he’s partially black-haired or not

1:54:16 In the german covers for acok the houswords are a bit "don't dead open inside" style, the order it's supposed to be read is left, down, right The Greyjoy words are "wir sähen nicht" instead of "wir nicht sähen" And for Tully it's "Familie, Pflicht, Ehre", so honor means Ehre, duty means Pflicht But later Affc the Martell words are left, right, down

Im pretty sure the Iconic “Sword” Cover for A Game Of Thrones is actually the Valerian Steel Knife that belongs to Littlefinger

The three people behind the rocks must be Osha and the other wildlings, and Bran is that dorky princeling on the horse with the wolf. Definitely ASOIAF-specific!

Even though I don't really like reading the series in Finnish anymore, I keep them on my shelves because they are so cool. The first one is one of the best covers ever in my opinion, even the detail of the hand that Ghost brings is there.

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.'

i love these livestreams

Yay been waiting on more collab content from you guys

The Portcullis above The Wolf and The Trout represents the Freys. Funny that they mentioned the gate but not the Freys.

Not sure if someone already suggested this but what if the cover at 12:40 is supposed to be the wilding girl theon captured in season 1 and she stayed in winterfell with bran and hodor and rickon until they all left. I only seen the show btw idk if she was even in the books but that was my immediate thought. The castle in the back looks a lot like winterfell tbh

I LOVE GARTH NIX The Old Kingdom series is phenomenal. Would absolutely enjoy a video from Shift on that.

2:42:18 - These are Romanian editions. Hungarian is a way way weirder language (says the person who considered studying it, but chickened out).

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

I would love Avatar tlab content from you, Glidus! Also, it was very satisfying when you figured out pflicht means duty and not honor.

The finnish covers are beautiful

I could’ve sworn there’s a point in agot where Tyrion is described having some black hair