Sal Jiang’s newest manga, Wicked Spot, Volume 1 (ウィキッドスポット) is a classic case of a story beginning in one place and ending way far away from there in many different ways. I love it. ^_^ This begins with a bunch of witch hunters up in the mountains, in a dark, terrifying cave, streaming about their […]
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