Not only is it a sports anime, it’s a driving anime and it is estrogen-heavy! What were they thinking? Well, you know me, I’ll look at almost anything, so I took in the oddness of “Two Car” (“Tsūkaa”). We find ourselves on Miyakejima, a small and sparsely populated island that lies south of Tokyo. On […]
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