Here we are at the end of another week, and I’m thinking about AMVs. Do people still make AMVs anymore? Not to sound like grandpa on his porch talking about that newfangled doohickey and the Tick Tocks, but I really miss discovering anime that I never heard of because of a good AMV. I mean […]
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