Now that the drama from the winter 2020 first episodes is over, let’s talk about them. This is inspired by Karandi’s post on whether Bofuri would work if Maple wasn’t a cute high school girl. I mentiond in the comments of that post that sometimes the gender matters, such as CGDCT (because it’s in the... Continue Reading →
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