I think we’ve lucked out in the seasonal anime department, y’all, because this is going to be another week where pretty much everything was rock-solid. While it would be fun as always to briefly hi…
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Majo no Tabitabi is a pretty work at face value, but its beauty is almost always underlined with a careful dusting of emotional text.
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