Hot damn!! I just found out today on Twitter that RetroCrush is streaming one of my favorite anime from the seventies, Nobodys Boy Remi!!! God, I remember first watching this in 2010 back when Anime News Network was streaming it! I really ought to rewatch it at some point. Maybe I will once I…
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