Alternate title: Maintaining Threadbare Connections; I Just Can’t Let This Blog Die I’ve had a sense for many years of being disconnected from current anime fandom, first as part of growing older and not being interested in much of the new stuff and then as someone who doesn’t interact with… Continue reading
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