After hitting pause on DakaIchi last year, I made some better efforts to look into the genre and ended up consuming some surprisingly decent works. The fact I have enough works to write about in 2019 in a post like this is already enough of a miracle, considering how I didn’t even bother with romance stories... Continue Reading →
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