Macross Frontier and the Hilarity of Giving Your Protagonist a Recap Movie-Only Gender Dysphoria Arc
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 5 Thanks to the defusal of a 20-year legal nightmare that prevented the distribution of the franchise outside of Japan until last year, this year I got to watch the...
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