We broke some walls in this episode, one of them may have been the fourth. I’ll leave it in, to Chris’s chagrin. Speaking of Chris (@gokuffy), we’re still on the Kurosawa train with The Lower Depths. Then we talk about the not-so-recently ended Tsurune. This should have been the May episode, and now I am […]
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