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YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master
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This is all, in a word, great. It's the clear best episode of the series despite the first three being excellent.
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There's literally no studio I would trust more with any work of this genre that I cared about.
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Another five minute episode of Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai in the books. Or so it felt like, anyway.
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