I guess at least it wasn't a flashback machine. Impressions: Not as awful as the second episode, but I get the sense that this is the best that the show's got, and it is barely mediocre at its best moments. It goes full Ar Tonelico with a psychic dive that… doesn't actually reveal or do anything […]
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