To this day, my cellphone wallpaper is Gatchaman Crowds‘ Hajime Ichinose. She’s pulling a confused look as fellow gatchaman team member Sugune Tachibana admits that he only uses his phone for calls. Calls are the feature of my phone that I use the least, for the record. Before delving into the series a bit and […]
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