So this is New Years Week. Yes it is. It’s something that I’m using to my blog’s advantage. I’m using a very loose sort of thematic element to tie together two stories that really don’t belong with each other. The end of an era and the emergence of a new one. Char’s Counterattack is about … More Hikaru no Go – Learning Go For The Future
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