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Otaku assemblyman’s latest project stars a 1,300-year-old girl from a popular video game franchise.
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Japanese Twitter gets a good laugh out of these great examples of a common elementary school exercise. Happy Father’s Day!
If you wanna know, if he loves you so, it’s in his… political engagement, that’s where it is.
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Move would balance marriage age for men and women, make sex-change operations more easily available.
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