It is a Tuesday night in Los Angeles, and a teenager is crying over a fictional cyclops named Muzan Kibutsuji ( Demon Slayer ). In Paris, a banker is analyzing the real estate economics of Spirited Away . In Brazil, a grandmother is knitting a scarf of Pikachu .
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