Looking Up At The Half-Moon is a 2006 Romance Drama anime series from now-defunct Japanese animation studio Group TAC. At the same time, some of the studio’s previous works will be familiar with their catalog with series such as One Stormy Night, Black Blood Brothers, and even Gilgamesh. However, with so many anime series created yearly, some of them slip through the cracks of time, and sometimes their real unknown gems. Others wonder if an...
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