Jackpot:

Today saw the release of the long-awaited Brave Witches ova, the Washio Sumi 3 ova (promise), lots of manga chapters, and best of all the beginning of the translation of SAO volume 18 over at defan's translations.

Admittedly, SAO's volume 18 has been really corny so far, hardly the level of writing I expect from Reki Kawahara, but maybe that was inevitable when you're trying to cleanly tie up all the loose ends all at once.  In any event I just want to see the ending of Alicization, I don't care how bad it is, it's better than forever standing at the edge of a cliffhanger.

A day so rich in releases still isn't enough, though.  So to add on top of it there's also a bunch of college football games, the first meaningful games of the new season.  Talk about being in luck!

Meanwhile, after finding a lot of remixes and bad songs, my hall of fame has downsized back to 4236 songs, 9.5 days in length.  I keep thinking surely all the remixes are done by now, but they never really are.  Just today I realized that FF 10's ending theme shared the same melody as FF 10's To Zanarkand.  I decided the Ending Theme was the better version and poof, there went another song.  Yesterday I realized that Tales of Legendia's Ancient Ship theme was the same as The Prayers Become Power.  Prayers got the nod so Ancient Ship disappeared.  At some point it has to stop, not all songs can be remixes, but lord knows when.

The first half of Washio Sumi 3 was really good, focused on mourning the dead.  But the second half, where our heroes used a cheat code to kill infinite enemies while being immortal and invincible, just doesn't sit right.  What's a battle outside of risk?  Outside of uncertain outcomes?  I think the series is forgetting something important when it resorts to such a silly mechanic.

Hopefully the mankai system is not used in the next season of Yuuki Yuuna.  I think we've all had enough of its nonsense.  The fact that all the girls who used it were cured of their disabilities implies that Shinjuu-sama has something else in mind for them now, and hopefully that system will be a fair fighting system again where it's possible to win (ie, to clear a boss without receiving any disabilities) and lose (ie, die).

With both One Piece and Hunter x Hunter going on hiatus, there are currently no weekly manga coming out.  My long predicted death of manga has come to fruition.  It's like watching an institution as old as football suddenly end, it's absolutely bizarre how the industry got to this point.