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Land of the Lustrous Manga Wins Japanese Science-Fiction Writers' Grand Prize
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Anyone reading this? Any thoughts?
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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The anime's Season 2 that would wrap the story got cancelled because it turned out the studio used sweatshop labor
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Sorry, I misremembered that. The sweatshop studio was A1, not Orange.