No anime is ever going to live that down apparently. Impressions: I guess we'll start with the throwbacks. The positive is that its animation isn't bad, pointlessly CGI knives notwithstanding, though that could also be how many shows this season are atrociously animated recalibrating my expectations. A gag here and there wasn't awful either, mostly […]
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