Oh, look, it’s another chibized series. What are the odds? (Well, since the House sets the odds, they were always in my favor.) “Girls’ Last Tour” was a very strange series. I felt that they were already dead, but they didn’t know it, as they traversed a winter wonderland. The actual ending of the show […]
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