Okay, here’s the scenario. I was young – far too young – in late 2010 and borrowed a volume of manga, after having been introduced around that time to the Wii game which brought me back to anime. (Well, there might still be records from 2009, but 2010 is the date of the earliest records... Continue Reading →
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