Don't they know it's VTubers, not masks these days? Impressions: Wednesdays aren't looking great either. This episode was just dull. To its credit, it at least focused on a character and tried to sort of tell a story with her, but it was so goddamned superficial and slowly paced that it was an ordeal to […]
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