It was a nice year for anime series, or at least, it seems that way to me while looking at years past. Nearly every season had dazzling animation highlights of some kind, long-awaited sequels finally aired, and there was decent variety of genres for the most part. For me, 2017 was the year I finally … More Taking notes from my 2017 seasonal viewing – 9th Day
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