Content warning: Fanservice, harassment, sexualization of minors Golden Boy is an ecchi comedy anime where all women are queens and the main character, Oe Kintaro, considers himself lucky to be able to lick their boots—figuratively and literally. I found it sometime in middle school, most likely through an AMV Hell compilation. A friend and I […]
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