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Two beloved flavors from the Showa and Heisei periods make their triumphant return to the shelves!
Cassettes are back in style in Japan in a big way, with new releases and people paying premiums for discontinued tapes.
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Seriously, it’s been a long, long time since these series aired, and now we feel really old.
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