Alright so, I'm actually very frustrated with Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2, let me tell you about it. First issue. I'll be honest, this war has been pretty terrible. You don't really know what's going on because there are so many different backstories so many different subplots that they're trying
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