Before we get in deep: Ichiro Hajime, and Soichi Yamamoto are two pseudonyms for the actual criminal Kazuaki Kurita. I will be, for ease of understanding be referring to him as Kurita the majority of this post. He doesn’t get to hide behind a pen name anymore. I will also refer to the manga in […]
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