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Monday, October 15, 2018

Mai 50 Waifu Harem:

The art of storytelling is mainly about the art of presenting admirable characters.  Japan has worked hard to churn out a great many admirable heroines over the years, in a wildly disproportionate number to the number of heroes, probably because they realize beautiful women of varying interests, abilities and personalities are just all around more interesting than 'badass' or 'stoic' men, really the only possible role a heroic male can ever play.

So many great women exist in fiction its hard to love them all properly, but luckily my heart is as wide as the Pacific Ocean, so I feel a genuine connection to not just one or two of these girls, but easily love all fifty as fervently as any man has ever loved a fleshy wife.  In fact, I suspect I find the girls of these stories more admirable and lovely than any man finds any woman in the real world -- that's just how great the gap is between our ability to imagine wonderful women and women's ability to actually be wonderful women.

I've already covered 40 of the top 50 women, so this is about filling in the remaining holes with the best available remainders from all corners of the Japanese entertainment world.  Who are the remaining ten women who deserve the utmost honor of becoming my brides?:

Cure Dream (Nozomi Yumehara) and Cure Lemonade (Urara Kasugano) from Yes Pretty Cure 5, Silica (Keiko Ayano) from SAO, Haruka Saigusa and Kudryavka Noumi/Strugatskaya from Little Busters!, Azusa Nakano from K-On!, Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha, Aoba Suzukaze from New Game, Teletha Testarossa from Full Metal Panic!, and Mira Yurizaki from Dimension W.

All together that makes 50.  Now we just have to get all the names in one place in an easy to read fashion.  Together, they are the 2d Waifu Hall of Fame: (in no particular order, because I love them all as much as humanly possible)

Cure Dream (Nozomi Yumehara) from Yes Pretty Cure 5
Cure Lemonade (Urara Kasugano) from Yes Pretty Cure 5
Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online
Silica (Keiko Ayano) from Sword Art Online
Rin Natsume from Little Busters!
Haruka Saigusa from Little Busters!
Kudryavka Noumi/Strugatskaya from Little Busters!
Azusa Nakano from K-On!
Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha
Aoba Suzukaze from New Game
Teletha Testarossa from Full Metal Panic!
Mira Yurizaki from Dimension W
Rose from Tales of Zestiria
Rydia from Final Fantasy 4
Rosa Farrell from Final Fantasy 4
Celes Chere from Final Fantasy 6
Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7
Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy 7
Yuna from Final Fantasy 10
Elehayym Van Houten from Xenogears
Nekone from Utawarerumono
Kuon from Utawarerumono
Nayuki Minase from Kanon
Nagisa Furukawa from Clannad
Kotori Kanbe from Rewrite
Wendy Marvel from Fairy Tail
Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail
Makina Irisu from Grisaia
Nanoha Takamichi from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
Fate Testarossa from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
Sakura Haruno from Naruto
Rin Nohara from Naruto
Chtolly Nota Seniorious from Suka Suka
Sagiri Izumi from Eromanga Sensei
Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War
Kobato Hasegawa from Haganai
Sora Takanishi from PapaKiki
Sakura Kinomoto from Card Captor Sakura/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Lafiel Abriel from Crest of the Stars
Myucel Foaran from Outbreak Company
Sera Rukawa/Chrysalis from Da Capo
Nemu Asakura from Da Capo
Yume Asakura from Da Capo
Himeno Katsuragi from Da Capo
Sakura Yoshino from Da Capo
Yukino Ouhama from Osananajimi wa Daitouryou
Sayaka Mayuzumi from Majikoi
Isara Aomi from Koichoco
Yoru Kazato from Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete
Asa Kazato from Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete

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