And other moving lines from Japan's finest writers. Impressions: I was trying to figure out why they decided these random dudes should be identical twins. One of them is a father figure, the other is the actual father, but killed off essentially immediately. Isn't this needlessly confusing? Then we get to the halfway point of […]
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