I am *still* cleaning out stuff that I picked up in Japan last year! As a result, I have 3 Lucky Boxes this round. All are premium boxes with media, manga, candy, toys and goods from Japan. They also include other flat fun things like artbooks, stickers, bookmarks or postcards which are equally random and […]
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