I’m nearly at the end of talking about RahXephon. Well, maybe not. I’ll probably never stop talking about RahXephon, but I’ve spent three months on my blog largely focused on this show, and I would like to finish talking about it this month. That said, I have a lot of small things I really wanted […]
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