Pathetic. I'll get to the other two shows in a few hours. I have… so many work e-mails to catch up on, and they're both almost certainly awful anyway, being a trip-and-grope romcom and an unabashed cheat power harem show. Impressions: Well, this was atrocious in literally every single way, so that's kind of […]
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