Aliens in flying saucers descend in tonight’s show and tell, a survivalist adventure starring 10 young people and a telepathic alien girl who push back against wizard-like deities and possessed vampiric humans as they carve out their territory in this post-apocalyptic scenario. Our next series is Shounen no Machi ZF (少年の町ZF; Boys’ Town ZF), a 1976 supernatural […]
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