I don't like this drinking game. Impressions: Do they get paid every time they say mouryou? My god. It was like they realized that the setting was Chinese, so probably shouldn't use youkai, and then overcompensated massively to make absolutely sure everybody knew they were specifically not saying youkai. The script in general is […]
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