In their time, Nanoha and Chidori have spent 3 years together. In real time it has been a very slow, very gentle, even tentative 5 years. Hana ni Arashi ran from 2018-2023. I’ve had this final volume on my to-read pile for literal years and only just managed to finish it up, motivated by Viz […]
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