Well this is late but what the hey. My excuse is that a lot happened in this episode and I needed time to mull it over (it’s acutally just procrastination but shh). Being this late means I’ve already seen episode 11 at the time of writing but I think most of my takeaways from this […]
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The least relevant anime for me to blog about.
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Should be smooth sailing from here on out…right?
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