I hope you like status screens. Apparently this got an early premiere on FujiTV's streaming service, though the broadcast is supposedly still April 6th. No idea if that's a special thing, or first episode only, nor what vector it then came to on the internet at large that involved Chinese hardsubs. Definitely sure I don't […]
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