Japan really needs more and better editors. Impressions: I expected the ending here to be awful, and boy, was it awful. We have naught to stand up to this randomly generated army but fortification, preparation, and a half dozen super powered dudes who can each single-handedly obliterate a small army on their own. Oh, but they […]
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