What’s it about? When the student council president announces that clubs will receive funding based on how much passion and success they have, it looks like that’ll be it for the notoriously terrible boys’ soft tennis club. Team captain Toma Shinjo is the only one of them with any sort of skill, and he isn’t […] The post [Review] Stars Align – Episode 1 appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.
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