Frieren – 8/9 [Frieren the Slayer/Aura the Guillotine] Doubling up this week to try and get current with Frieren for these posts. Don’t want y’all waiting a week and not getting anything until the day the next episode comes out. Last weeks episode 8 was solid. The demons got outed and the conflict started in …
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