Please don't eat body parts. Impressions: May as well finish the double bill thing for the day with Sorcery Fight and King's Raid, but honestly, I'm not all that eager to watch another episode of any of the Friday shows so far. This is easily the most slickly produced, but it's the kind of […]
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