I’m amused by the degree of satiric, hyperbolic offense that YouTube anime critic Kenny Lauderdale felt about the 1990 OVA Kentoushi. In an ironic way, I’m somewhat grateful that his review video reminded me that this anime exists. I watched it back in June 2016. This is what I thought of it at the time: […]
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