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I didn't like animal farm that much

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My biggest complaint was how thin the allegory was. Like, Orwell didn’t have to use animal farms at all, it read like a history lesson for most parts. I felt between chapter 3 to chapter 8 were mostly just boring and pigs Doing a power capture slowly. Did chapter 3 to 8 help create the impact of chapter 9 and 10? Absolutely. Could they have been done better? I think so, it didn’t have to be read like a history lesson.

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Out Law Now Available! [Dresden Files Novella]

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Recommend some series or authors please! There's a big massive book fair in my city tomorrow.

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I’m planning on grabbing some more Asimov books and grab most of Martha’s MurderBot series, as well as Hugo and Nebula collections.

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Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Any recommendations on what to read after this one? I also have Piranesi Susanna Clarke on my backlog, but would like something in a similar technological fashion as Snow Crash

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[DISC] FX Senshi Kurumi-chan / FX Fighter Kurumi-chan - Chapter 15.5

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One Punch-Man : The Koi Pond | Chapter 230

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[Disc] Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment · Ch.33 Chapter Discussion

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[Chapter] Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? - Vol. 12 Ch. 93 - Otaku & Gyaru & Open Campus - MangaDex

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[Chapter] Only I Know / Boku dake ga Shitterun daze - Ch. 18 - Oura-san is amazing - MangaDex

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[WP] You get trapped inside of a horror video game, except you're a speedrunner

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Any books that read like The Hobbit?

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I’m trying to get back into reading, and for a few weeks have been reading a chapter (or half) of the Hobbit before bed.

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Recommend me your favorite horror

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Without going into specifics so the creature/entity/plot is given, I’m looking for horror that is keep-you-up-at-night level. A good wendigo or poltergeist or even disease epidemic book would be greatly appreciated.

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Suggest me some history books.

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My knowledge in history is very poor. I want to know some basic history. Please recommend some books that don’t dwell on a single incident or period but rather gives an overview. Preferably, books on medieval history. It would be a plus if the book has beautiful prose.

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No Grand Blue chapter this month

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[Chapter] Yajin Tensei: Karate Survivor in Another World - Ch. 69

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Ice - Anna Kavan (spoilers)

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Okay I just read this book and I cannot stop thinking about it and just wanted to mind dump a bunch of random thoughts. This is probably more in a c/weirdlit community but I don’t have one of those and I have this one so here we are.

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We Are Hyperspace

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Nobody knows if we’re alone in the universe. Whether there’s alien life out there waiting to be found, or to find us.

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Anthony Horowitz Says He Uses ChatGPT in Writing - Kirkus

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Imagine being proud and ignorant enough to come out and admit to using AI to write for you. Incredible.

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[Chapter] Starting Today, We're Childhood Friends - Ch. 168 - Childhood Friend and Study Group - MangaDex

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[Chapter] Gals Can't be Kind to Otaku!? - Vol. 12 Ch. 92 - Otaku & Gyaru & Romance Anime - MangaDex

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[Chapter] Ane no Tomodachi - Ch. 30 - MangaDex

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@writingprompts You receive a mysterious message with a set of coordinates and the text “it begins here”

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@writingprompts You receive a mysterious message with a set of coordinates and the text “it begins here”.

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Eerie visual novel Schrödinger's Call explores the pain and joy of relationships via phone calls to purgatory

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I’d like to pick up Schrödinger’s Call, a contemplative and attractively hand-drawn visual novel about answering phones at the end of the world.

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Standard ebooks Fundraising Campaign

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Screenshot of the campaign page for Standard eBooks fundraiser in the Fractured Atlas Spring Match campaign. The page shows they only have 97 donations, and three days to get as many donations as possible.

Standard eBooks is running a campaign to raise money, and get a chance at an award of $1000.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? May 05

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Our Bingo for 2026 is Live! You can check Official Bingo Challenge Post and the accompanying Recommendations Post.

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[WP] A future where any and all forms of advertisement are completely outlawed.

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Inspired by The Girl Who Was Plugged In, by James Tiptree, Jr.

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What do you do when you've written something and don't quite like how it turned out?

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One piece of advice I’ve seen is to write constantly. Another piece of advice I’ve seen is to just get it all out on the page and not worry about how it turns out, to fix it in the editing stage.

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Was checking out the old marketplace when suddenly...

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I was looking at all the branded cups, Seeing things I didn’t need, but this made me pause. Would you guys buy them? I talked myself out of it but the Cas cup is still tempting me.

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The Epic of the Fear of Death | Los Angeles Review of Books

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[DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 162

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Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 19]

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Previous Thread

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[Chapter] Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku? - Vol. 12 Ch. 90 - Otaku & Gyaru & Battle for the Notebook - MangaDex

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[WP] It's the zombie apocalypse, except the zombies keep dancing.

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[WP] You're the only person that can't hear your cat talking

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[Chapter] The Ice Princess Wants to be Melted by a Small Patch of Sunlight - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 & Ch. 30.5 - MangaDex

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Friday Night Books? Cool!

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[DISC] Journey Home After School - Ch. 55

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[DISC] Unexciting Date - Ch. 34

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Questions About the Calendar in "Bible Black"

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Figured I’d take my extremely niche question here.

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Why didn’t Henry know Mr Gold is Rumple?

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Henry was always good at being able to tell which characters was which in storybrook but for some reason he didn’t realise Rumple is Mr Gold.

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I see why Regina trapped him in that mirror so she can always look at him when she wants 🤣

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One thing that muzzles me is, Holy Oil. Can't Angeles Fly?

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What was meant to be a 4 year age gap, looked more like an 8 year age gap... read more...

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Dean and Sam Winchester have a 4 year age gap. Dean was born on January 24, 1979, and Sam was born on May 2, 1983.

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[DISC] FX Senshi Kurumi-chan / FX Fighter Kurumi-chan - Chapter 15

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[WP] Pilots discussing nihilism

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Inspired by this post.

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What Are You Playing? General VN Discussion Thread (May 2026)

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Welcome to the General VN Discussion thread!

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2026 Bingo Recommendations List

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Have you read something that you really enjoyed and want to give others a reason to try it out because it fits a square? Want to solicit help finding things to read that fit squares? This is a great place to do that.

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### WELCOME TO THE 3rd ANNUAL !BOOKS@LEMMY.WORLD (and !BOOKS@PIEFED.WORLD) BINGO 2026!

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Want to read more, but need motivation or direction? Want to gamify or expand your reading? Try book bingo! Our hope with this challenge is to provide a fun way for you to keep up with your recreational reading goals throughout the next twelve months.

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[DISC] Archmage Curriculum Chapter 28

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[WP] You keep hallucinating a whole second world over top of our own

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Strange Interlude

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Winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize, Strange Interlude is a Freudian melodrama that seeks to explore the vast, unfathomable murk of the human unconscious. To accomplish this goal, playwright Eugene O’Neill employed an experimental use of soliloquies, where characters revealed their unvarnished inner thoughts directly to the audience, revealing the psychic turmoil lurking beneath the placid masks of polite society. Following its first exhibitions, Strange Interlude also became a lightning rod of controversy and censorship due to its frank portrayals of topics such as abortion, infidelity, sexual desire, and mental illness.

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[Chapters] After I Let The Small And Cute Intellectual Senior Of The Literature Club Sit On My Lap, She Started Sitting There Every Day - Ch. 1 - Ch. 2.2

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[Microblog] @writingprompts

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[Chapter] Wakaba-san Chi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 43 - Last Shot - MangaDex

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Any idea what manga or anime this panel is referencing?

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I swear I’ve seen a face very very similar to the one in the corner somewhere before but I can’t quite place it. Anybody know?

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Yuri Visual Novel 'Our Home, My Keeper' Releases On April 30 - Noisy Pixel

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Mada Koubou BL 'Love Love Sexy Salaryman' Announced With English Language Support - Noisy Pixel

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VNDB

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J. K. Rowling & The Endless Audiobook Scandals

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[DISC] FX Senshi Kurumi-chan / FX Fighter Kurumi-chan - Chapter 14

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[WP] A bitcoin treasure hunt

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[Chapter] Renge to Naruto - Ch. 55

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Opinions and thoughts on the Red Rising trilogy, by Pierce Brown

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Red Rising is a sci-fi trilogy. I dropped it towards the end of the third book, out of spite. Rest of this post is spoilers.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28

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Back to reading Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series). Only read couple of pages, but things are setting down so should be getting back to reading more.

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[DISC] Archmage Curriculum Chapter 27

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[Disc] Hitoner - chapter 3

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Mangagamer Golden Week Sale until May 11th

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This time it seems to be exclusively eroge that are discounted!

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[WP] A normal, average modern day human wakes up with Midas's curse.

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[DISC] Archmage Curriculum Chapter 26

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Recommendations for Visual Novels/Dating Sims?

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Hey all! It has been awhile since I’ve gotten into Visual novels and dating sims but after watching an anime where they were the main focus I want to get back into it.

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Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon

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After 20 years of declining numbers, indie booksellers in the U.S. have come ‘roaring back,’ says Andy Hunter.

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[DISC] Archmage Curriculum Chapter 25

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[Chapter] Chapter 11 - Days Off In The Dragon's Stomach

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Suddenly there’s plot in this slice of life

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[News] RuriDragon Manga Delays Next Chapter to June

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The official X/Twitter account for Masaoki Shindō’s RuriDragon manga revealed on Sunday that the manga’s current hiatus is extended, and the 46th chapter is being delayed until early June.

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Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 18]

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Previous Thread | Next Thread

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[DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 161

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[Chapter] Rentarou's Family's Families' Daily Lives - chapter 2

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Haruki Murakami has a new novel coming out—and for the first time, it features a female main character

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[Chapter] The New Gate - Ch 122

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Im looking for a book or an essay, I forget the title and author tho. It is about a failing economy and the only recourse is to eat the childeren. I want to say its Swift but can't remember can u help

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What author/work did the "varying character viewpoints" narrative first?

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I feel like it’s pretty common in fiction these days, Game of Thrones being probably the most popular example with character viewpoint changing chapter-by-chapter and gradually weaving the different threads of plot into one connected whole. It’s used in movies and television constantly, too.

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Former Shueisha editor behind Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family and Dandadan announces new, independent manga platform

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Heisei Remnant Soldier ☆ Sumire-chan - Volume 10 cover

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Hope You're Happy, Lemon - Volume 10 Cover

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"Hajimete no Gal" to enter long-term hiatus starting 04/26 due to author Meguru Ueno taking maternity leave.

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GANGSTA returns

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Seven Seas Licenses The Apothecary is Gonna Make This Ragged Elf Happy, 6 More Titles

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Kodama Tales Licenses New Grappler Baki Manga

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KILLER'S FAMILIA - Volume 2 Cover

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Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle Volume 32

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My Neighbor Ms. Kurokawa - Volume 4 Cover

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Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku (Akebi's Sailor Uniform) - Volume 16 Cover

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She's Likely Aiming for My Older Brother Volume 2 Cover

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Hima-Ten! - Volume 9 Cover

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Yowamushi Pedal - Volume 100 Cover

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[Chapter] Tengoku Daimakyou - Ch. 82 - Monsters Busters (2) - MangaDex

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[Chapter] Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta - Ch. 40.1 - A Bit of Favoritism - MangaDex

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[Chapter] Tonari no Neko to Koi Shirazu - Ch. 33 - MangaDex

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Blue Box - Volume 25 Cover

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Ichi the Witch - Volume 8 Cover

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Kagurabachi - Volume 11 cover

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