Here we are again at the end of the latest week of coronavirus craziness. We should coin the term coronavirus cabin fever because alliteration is awesome. Or cool at least. Kind of like fezes. Talking about references from the early days of the last decade, I’ve found a whole bunch of anime adjacent things that […]
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