The new total is 4229 songs (9.5 days of continuous playtime). The eminent composers/performers largely responsible for this total are listed in the order of how many ranking songs they composed/performed:
Motoi Sakuraba: 682
Nobuo Uematsu: 649
Hitoshi Sakimoto: 195
Yasunori Mitsuda: 168
Paul Romero: 113
Naoshi Mizuta: 105
Junichi Nakatsuru: 103
Sarah Brightman: 88
Masaharu Iwata: 86
Yoko Shimomura: 83
Yuki Kajiura: 60
John Williams: 55
Loreena McKennitt: 50
Russel Brower: 47
Kumi Tanioka: 44
Beethoven: 42
Garbage: 42
Mitsuo Hagita: 41
The Cranberries: 39
Noriko Mitsueda: 34
Hayato Matsuo: 33
Tori Amos: 32
Kazuhiro Nakamura: 31
Toshiro Masuda: 30
Enya: 29
Takashi Tateishi: 26
Takashi Tateishi: 26
Shinji Hosoe: 25
Go Shiina: 23
Erasure: 23
Ippo Yamada: 23
Ippo Yamada: 23
Takeharu Ishimoto: 22
Takuya Yasuda: 21
Yuko Takehara: 21
Yuko Takehara: 21
Randy Edelman: 20
Tchaikovsky: 19
Masashi Hamauzu: 19
Glenn Stafford: 19
Isao Mizoguchi: 18
Isao Mizoguchi: 18
Noriyuki Iwadare: 17
AKB48: 17
Jun Maeda: 16
Rob King: 16
Neal Acree: 16
Steve Fawkner: 15
Steve Fawkner: 15
Jason Hayes: 15
Manami Matsumae: 15
Vanessa Carlton: 14
μ's: 13
Derek Duke: 13
Minae Fujii: 13
Yasuaki Bunbun Fujita: 13
yozuca*: 12
Minae Fujii: 13
Yasuaki Bunbun Fujita: 13
yozuca*: 12
Enigma: 12
Vivaldi: 12
Howard Shore: 12
Keiki Kobayashi: 12
Houkago Tea Time: 12
Maaya Sakamoto: 11
Yukari Tamura: 10
Shiro Sagisu: 10
Nana Mizuki: 10
Bjork: 10
Ryuichi Takada: 10
Mari Yamaguchi: 10
Ryuichi Takada: 10
Mari Yamaguchi: 10
fripSide: 9
Mami Kawada: 9
Shinji Orito: 9
Kana Hanazawa: 9
Dvorak: 8
Mozart: 8
Yui Horie: 8
Yoko Kanno: 8
Matt Uelmen: 8
Matt Uelmen: 8
I've added a lot of songs (like from The Last Story) and subtracted a lot of songs, like three remixes I discovered just today from Final Fantasy 7 and 9, since my last Good Music 4.0 revision, so my good music permapost was looking disorganized and unsightly. With my latest cleanup, everything is back in alphabetical order, properly aligned columns, etc.
Every day my music hall of fame closer approaches perfection.
In order to qualify for membership in my private club, Vinland, people are required to 'Every month, starting at the age of six, completely consume at least one artistic work on my hall of fame of great art lists and genuinely enjoy it, for the rest of your life.'
So how do you completely consume an artistic work on my good music permapost? Do you just listen to one song out of my 4229 and call it a day? I think not. The hurdle has to be a little higher than that.
So for music, you will be considered to have fulfilled your month's quota if you listen to any of the above 66 eminent composers' full contributions to my good music hall of fame 100 times. So you can make it easy on yourself and listen to Yoko Kanno's 8 songs 100 times, and boom, your monthly quota is done. Or you can tackle the impossible, like I did, and listen to all of Motoi Sakuraba's music 100 times. Obviously the only way to conquer the higher level musicians is over years, not months, but if you mix it up with easier to achieve monthly quotas you can still conquer the entire music list in time. (For composers who didn't make the 8 song cut, if you listen to all of their songs 100 times, that could also qualify as your month's good deed fulfilled. So ultimately 67 months of quota completion could be fulfilled solely through listening to music.)
Overall, it will take 950 days to listen to all this music 100 times in a row. Less than three years, and you can do it while reading books that also need to be read anyway, so it really poses no burden at all.
In any event, the music pathway is just one option out of the many offered to fulfill your monthly duty.
My next target for anime rewatching is Vivid Strike, which recently came out in blu-ray. But to watch it, I decided to restart from the beginning and enjoy the entire Nanoha storyline, including the recently released in blu-ray A's and Vivid which I've never seen in blu-ray format before.
As an experiment, I'm comparing the quality of each episode of Nanoha to Higurashi, so I always watch one ep of Higurashi and then one ep of Nanoha, and then mark which of the two episodes was superior. If Nanoha has more winning episodes than Higurashi by the end, it will be clear that my rankings are off the mark. It may be that unfinished series really can surpass finished series, so long as they're good enough each and every episode.
But it also may mean that Nanoha is just unique in terms of unfinished works. Because Nanoha through Strikers can be considered its own, completed, series, with Vivid+ being its own thing. If so, Nanoha should really be treated as a complete series just like Higurashi, instead of an incomplete series like SAO.
Well, in any case, it will make for an interesting experiment, whatever the result. (By the way, Nanoha does feature a character getting highlighted by a passing car's headlamps and then falling back into shadow again -- though it doesn't look remotely as good as when Hibike! did it, technically it has been done before in anime, so I was mistaken about that.)
In Dal Segno, I finished Io's route. Even while playing her, I just wished the whole time I were with Noeri instead. Every time I interacted with Noeri even within Io's route she far outshone the 'heroine.' It's frustrating in dating games how once you've conquered the best girl, the rest of the experience always feels so shallow. Like in Koi Choco. Once you conquer Isara the rest of the game is so empty in comparison. Why would you want to be with anyone else? You may as well just play Isara's route again instead.
Io is beautiful, to be sure, but Noeri is even more beautiful. Also, her voice acting is much better, and her speech patterns are more endearing, her feelings are more devoted and passionate, we have more in common and she's just a much better person.
Oh well. Just three more routes to go. I'll manage somehow even without Noeri.
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