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Durarara!!

12/27/2015 Act 25 Comments

I picked this light novel up because the central character, Celty Sturluson, has a really badass design that was completely unsexualized in all the pics I saw.

As usual, it was stupid to hope and I am a starry-eyed fool. The Celty character was a terrible disappointment, and the whole LN was far less than the sum of its parts.

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