Nice garnish. Impressions: Another kind of throwback light novel adaptation. This time to that era of things with titles like "My Teenage Youth Drama Is So Cliche" or "I Have No Friends and My Classmates Exacerbate My Melodrama." An insufferable, melodramatic prat that spends the entire thing self-narrating everything while veritable swarms of ostensibly quirky […]
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Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! – Ep. 3
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Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! – Ep. 5
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