Stop making Sherlock Holmes as a pretty boy shows. Impressions: And here we have, inexplicably, our second show of the season that reimagines Japanese authors as 20-something pretty boys who go around solving trouble in between lounging around and looking pretty. Instead of (not) fighting literary blob monsters though, this time they solve mysteries. […]
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