Text appearing dynamically on screen! Impressions: Uhhhh, describing this is going to be an adventure. Essentially, it's five four minute introductions to idol groups. It starts with the literal feminist Nazis giving an info dump about the setting, and gets progressively weirder. All four of the boy band groups does about three minutes of […]
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