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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Wolf and Parchment volume 5 available:

It's actually been out for a couple weeks but I only noticed now.  I bought it quickly for my Kindle and will now settle in for some more cozy fun.  Myuri is very cute.

Since Index GT 4 isn't quite translated yet I have to read something, so this will do.  Everything else I was looking forward to has been delayed until June.  Facing Reality by Charles Murray, Hataraku Maou-sama! volume 19, Choyoyu volume 10, everything.  Luckily with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 I have plenty to do either way.

I started playing Fate/Hollow Ataraxia now that Heaven's Feel is over.  The beginning is bizarre.  People who should be dead are alive like nothing happened.  There's flashbacks to things that never happened in the first place.  I wouldn't call this a sequel, really.  Maybe an 'if' version spinoff?  I can see why they didn't bother adapting this nonsense into an anime.  But I did discover one gem that justifies the entire visual novel -- the opening song, appropriately titled simply 'Ataraxia.'  It's fantastic.  The moment I heard it I stopped, went to YouTube, downloaded it and added it to my music hall of fame.  Now I'm listening to the song on repeat and will soon enough bring it up to 100 like all my other hall of fame prospects.

With the addition of Ataraxia I'm back up to 5485 and 12.5 days of continuous play.  With all these additions it does feel like I'll never actually reach my goal of 100 playthroughs for all honored songs, but I am making progress, slowly but surely.  Surely next year. . .

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