This was weird. Impressions: This is a show that apparently seeks to answer the question "What if maids were mafia?" Not the silly mafia like usual though. Serious, brutal, street killing, covered in splattered blood kind. Which I feel is actually far more unusual for anime than assassins in frilly dresses. But at the same […]
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