Still? Impressions: I'm pretty sure that's both the longest and most coherent sentence Yuuki's uttered in this show's entire run. But it was another completely uneventful episode that wanted to have its melodramatic cake and eat it too. Melodrama is fine, but it needs to be predicated on something. How many episodes has it been now […]
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