What is this, Orphan Abuse Week? Impressions: This has not been a good week for social services in anime. First yesterday's mass kidnapping and trafficking of orphan girls, and now today's society if run by King Ben Shapiro. It's such a comically evil stance that we as a society should be murdering orphans because […]
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