This episode was one long drawn out battle and it was spectacular. The show’s always looked good but they definitely went all out this episode. Beamspam happened, big fancy magic sigils were cast, it was generally a good week for cool robots. The setting for this round was another fairly obvious visual reflection, Nene’s own […]
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