Bladedance of the Elementalers is a 2014 Fantasy Ecchi-Comedy anime series from a studio that can be best described as Japanese’s one-hit-wonder animation studio, and that’s TNK. At the same time, any popular anime series is still popular at the end of the day. Can a studio-like them have a hidden gem within their backlog of creations? Potentially, but what’s more interesting is that this series had only one English-translated volume ever produced by Digital...
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