Please stop sparkling at me. There's four or five shows today (not actually certain what the deal with Ranma and Netflix is, but I already know from the leak that the new version is a 1:1 re-adaptation of the manga and practically indistinguishable from the previous except for updated art/animation), but they're all being […]
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