By Kambole Campbell. In the eyes of contemporary viewers, anime as an industry and as a medium has had an increasingly intertwined relationship with the online space. While there’s no taking away the after-school broadcast slots and treasured home releases that defined my own interactions with anime throughout my childhood, many people today see anime […]
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