I’ve been under the weather for the last couple days, so I’ve been doing what any right-thinking anime fan should do — I’ve been watching anime. Specifically, I’ve been catching up on my insane backlog of stellar shows that I have not watched during the last decade and change. It’s not all during the last […]
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