Brian Stremick flips through the pages of the seminal Japanese pop-culture magazine and how it helped shape anime fandom in the U.S.
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One Shots / “One and Seventy”
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The World God Only Knows and the Dubious Divinity of 2D
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"The Only Truth You'll Find"
The Flame is its own reflection Thanks to KYDB for lending his 👌 voice for this atrocity Subscribe to KYDB: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFaIXgd8idAF99ke2hqjiVg And to me if you aren't ;) https://www.youtube.com/c/funebure?sub_confirmation=1 This was supposed to…
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