I’m doing some spring cleaning, so we have 3 Lucky Boxes this round. All are premium boxes with media, manga, candy, toys and goods from Japan – that is, some Yuriten goods, and some other items from my last trip there and promo items I have picked up. They also include other flat fun things […]
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