Shorts are things I don’t typically watch. There have been a few exceptions for some that were really good, like Wakako-zake. So when The OASG overlords gave me Tonari no Seki-kun to watch, I wasn’t sure what to think, and so I’d thought that I’d give it a go. I mean, what harm would a […]
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