By Jeannette Ng. I flat-out don’t know what to do with Marginal Operation. The premise is one that I’ve grown familiar with in light novels and manga: a nerdy young man, who has a talent for video games, loses his unfulfilling job and is ominously beckoned towards a whole new world, where his seemingly useless […]
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