Did she even have a name? Impressions: …Why exactly did the credits run thirteen minutes into the episode? Did the storyboarding get screwed up? Anyway, that aside, not actually all that interesting of an episode. The entire first half was consumed by a flashback of Kumi's origin story which is… that she's a clone […]
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