Football season has started, the NFL is still a terrible organization, and the Chicago Bears couldn’t pull it off against the greatest quarterback to play, Aaron Rodgers. Sigh. This episode, we’re talking about Shigeru Mizuki’s Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths published by Drawn and Quarterly and Akiko Higashimura’s Tokyo Tarareba Girls published by Kodansha. That […]
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