What even is a popcorn wizard? I have no idea what's with Lazarus's release schedule. It was being 'simulcast' 12 hours ahead on various Indonesian websites as well as Abema, but all of Abema's streams are now pushed back to Wednesdays, and when the Indonesia subbed rips were MIA, I assumed it was all streams, but […]
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