Aren't we already past the bit where he can't skate? I see Funimation quite randomly put up Cells at Work Black's third and fourth episode today and then I guess no new episodes for three weeks? Or maybe they'll just keep randomly putting up episodes with no sane schedule? I guess that's as good a […]
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