Ryuuou no Oshigoto! volume 6 read:

This is the start of a long journey.  The book was hilarious, though perhaps not as much as earlier entries like volume 4.  Everything involving Ai Hinatsuru shines so brightly that it overpowers the rest of the volume to insignificance.  That's why she's mai waifu and no one else in the series particularly matters.  However, most of this book was actually about Ginko, as she has a tough time competing with male shogi players.

But even that isn't really the point of the novel.  The real point of the novel is that the all-powerful Alpha Go is better than all shogi players combined.  That nothing can stand in the way of infinitely calculating machines, and that now all a shogi player can hope to do is be appraised somewhat closer to what a machine would move like than his opponents.  Your standing as a professional shogi player is related to your skill at shogi, but what does that even mean when any kid taking orders from a smartphone is automatically better than you?  What was all your work for?  And why continue even playing such a pointless game you're no longer any good at?

That question, what is your worth as a human being shogi player, is the main theme.  I expect it will continue to grow in importance as the books progress, as machines and players who obey the orders of machines only grow stronger and stronger.

I think of it like the Olympics though.  Cranes, fueled by internal combustion engines, can definitely lift more weight than Olympic weight lifters.  But we haven't discontinued weight lifting as a sport as a result.  We're still interested to see how far our own bodies can take us, screw the machine.  It's the same for our minds.  We want to see the potential of humanity's thinking, machines can go play in their own corner and more power to them.

Now that I've officially read a book by Shirow Shiratori, I can now add him to my good books hall of fame.  It comes at the expense of the author of Suka Suka, Akira Kareno, who I think dragged on a series that had no real reason to drag on once Chtolly died.  Rather than promote a bunch of pointless books that are no good after the anime, I'd rather support books that are still good even after the anime ended.  For now I can only judge Shiratori on volume 6, but I'm sure his ranking in my light novel hall of fame will continue to grow as each new volume I've read piles on.  Once we reach volume 14 he could be #1 for all I know.

Meanwhile, Scarlet Nexus is dropped.  The anime has too much going on, which actually means too little is going on.  There's no depth to anyone's persona or actions.  We leap from one thing to the next without ever understanding anything.  There's like 12 characters and I couldn't remember any of their names, and five plot twists within the same episode.  All dialogue is of the most basic kind which tells us nothing, no better than 'please pass the salt' at the dinner table.  How can I relate to or care about characters with lines no better than that?

[Judas] has released more bluray Bleach, which gets us up to episode 308 in bluray.  We're closing in on a bright future of pure bluray Bleach.  Maybe I can rewatch that after the first pure bluray rewatch of Fairy Tail. . .