Life is but a dream. Or is it? How do you know if you are awake, or just dreaming that you are awake? This may sound like a silly question — unless you are a student at Tomobiki High School.
Something strange, stranger than usual, is happening at Tomobiki High School, but with wacky classmates like Lum (a beautiful alien princess with a "shocking" personality), Ataru (the…
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