Saturday, May 29, 2021

Torigoth (Day):

Virtually every zone in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was already in my music hall of fame aside from this one, even though it's one of the better tunes.  Now this mysteriously missing piece is filled in and ranked alongside the rest.  Credit goes to ACE again, who now has 12 songs in all.

I revamped my Anime Info permapost to include a new category, Isekai, with 12 entries, instead of the pitiful Zombie Apocalypse category which only 2 series applied under.  Now the categories are more balanced.  For those who don't want to bother to click through all the links to see the relative rankings of shows within the same genre, I'll post it here as well:

Isekai:


1.  Hai to Gensou no Grimgar
2.  Honzuki no Gekokujou
3. Outbreak Company
4.  Youjo Senki
5.  Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
6.  Gate
7.  Zero no Tsukaima
8.  Death March
9.  Choyoyu
10.  Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko
11.  Spirited Away
12.  Hataraku Maou-sama

The very best isekai series, Grimgar, is only 75th in my overall rankings, so it's not a very distinguished anime genre.  The genre as a whole suffers from shortness and a lack of endings.  Zero no Tsukaima has an ending but it doesn't follow the books (the author died before the books reached an ending, hmm, where have I seen this problem before?).  Spirited Away has an ending but it's only one movie in length.  The rest are open-ended.

To qualify as isekai you have to go through a portal from Earth to another world, or in Hataraku's case from another world to Earth, or die and be reincarnated elsewhere with your memories intact (Honzuki, Kami-tachi and Youjo Senki).  SAO is firmly grounded in the real world which people never really leave so it still falls under sci-fi.

Outbreak Company technically isn't another world, but a far future Earth, but the fact that you can hop back and forth through a portal between normal Earth and future Earth makes it a distinction without a difference.

I am reading '100 Waifus' for a 27th time, editing along the way.  I'm not in any rush so it might take a while before I'm done, but I've already made several important edits.  In Chapter 4 I rephrased a paragraph to convey what I really wanted to say more clearly.  Now it reads as:

  There was no such thing as a conspiracy theory or an establishment narrative on Eden.  With the Record card, combined with Louise's portals that could take her to the appropriate spot on Earth, Sakura Kinomoto could check with her very own eyes exactly what happened across all of history.  Here the truth was freely and indisputably available to all.

In Chapter 7 I attributed a line to an actual speaker as opposed to it somehow being spoken from thin air by nobody.  Plus I replaced another abominable 'just' with a more appropriate term.  As I move forward no doubt other opportunities to improve the story will avail themselves.  My hope that I could read through the book without finding any obvious errors is already gone, which means at some point I'll have to read over it a 28th time.  So long as the best book ever can be improved upon it should be.  I want my magnum opus to be flawless by the end of this process.

I also edited my 'The Vast Majority of People are Evil' permapost to smooth out some contradictory statements.  Now it should make more sense.  I also upgraded https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-we-should-ignore-coming-armageddon.html to permapost status because it serves as an excellent bridge between my hall of fame permaposts and my political permaposts, tying them both together into a coherent single philosophy.

The great thing about permaposts is they're continuously updated so they're always getting better.

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