Japan, we really need to talk about this maid thing. I don't know why I even put dates on the season preview anymore. All the disparate webcasts make it completely haphazard and impossible to track. Hell, a show posted an announcement YESTERDAY that it was starting broadcast in a week. Doesn't look like a […]
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