Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. We’ve all heard this story before, althoug…
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Oh boy, looks like someone wrote the application for the stage performance as a certain girl with social anxiety tries to put into the box.
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