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In the last 25 years, comedy anime series have taken the most fantastical and outlandish situations and left us in stitches.

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Tsurushima learned from acquaintances that his friend’s father was killed. The two old friends later ran into each other at a baseball game and a local event. Tsurushima recalled that they never ...