Happy New Year, everyone! Hope your January is off to a good start. Mine is about to filled with writing, both for our Winter First Impressions and the AOTY mega-post, but before hurling myself into either of those projects I’d like to shine a light on four of the year’s best short series. I wrote … Continue reading In Praise of 2020’s Short Anime
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