Hoshiai no Sora / Stars Align was one of 2019’s best shows… then its team got backstabbed, and it became emblematic of the fundamentally unfair system for anime creators. It can’t be forgotten, but the show deserves to be remembered as more than that. Back when we published the Fall 2019 anime preview, I noted that an outrageous number of talented artists were going to gather (or rather, already had done so) in Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia, so grand pieces of... Read More Read More
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