Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun: I love To Love-ru, but I've never liked any of its copycats. There's something To Love-ru has which every other pornographic series lacks. Rito builds actually caring relationships with girls, he doesn't just assault them in one lucky accident after another. Girls aren't wantonly thrown about nude for no reason, it's always in the context of Rito helping them out in one way or another. I guess there's more of a sense of equivalent exchange and karma rewarding his good behavior. Also, we have to remember that To Love ru spent hundreds of chapters developing a rapport between the characters and had multiple love confessions before anyone was strutting about nude. To Love-ru Darkness wouldn't have been nearly as appealing if not for To Love ru being much more modest and reserved, building up people's bonds first.
Also, there isn't a girl in To Love ru who is so rude or insulting to Rito that they would strip in front of him and act like he isn't even there, less than trash, where it doesn't even matter if they're seen. I hate girls like that -- they aren't attractive in the least. Girls without modesty are just slabs of meat. The girls in To Love ru are all attractive because they all blush. Fail.
Sonny Boy: This is some avant-garde artistic intellectual stuff. Hyper realistic art and motion, minimalist backgrounds, and heavy plot. Other people have called this a remake of Lord of the Flies and I'm sure that's partially true, but it's also an isekai story with superpowers, so it isn't just about the evil in the human heart when unbounded by society. I don't mind a change of pace like this every now and then. Let's see if they can pull this off. Pass.
Meanwhile, Shiroi Suna no Aquatope is a great anime. It's entered my top anime rankings at a preliminary position of #190. It was clear by the second episode this was going to be something special. It's a 24 episode complete original series by P.A. Works. When you have a studio like that making a long, complete story from scratch, odds are it's going to be great. P.A. Works is the new Kyoto Animation. Everything it touches turns to gold. I love the slow unveiling of the situation, the characters and their motivations as the episode passes by. It's a perfect pace for the Okinawa summer. Kukuru is my new favorite character now that I know what she's about. Humorously, she's more beautiful than the idol, Fuuka. But I also love her personality, aggressive but conservative. She's aggressive in trying to defend her longstanding traditional family business and the animals that live under her care at the aquarium. That's exactly the attitude we need and is so sorely lacking these days.
To make room for this new great series I kicked out Fatal Fury. Fatal Fury never really fit well in my rankings to begin with. It's a combination of a filler movie, using filler villains and a filler heroine and a filler situation that never appeared in any game, fighting our well-known heroes -- alongside two oav's that do actually follow the plot from the Fatal Fury video games, but are so old, low-resolution and low-budget that they're painful to watch.
The main quality of the Fatal Fury franchise is that movie -- but the movie is filler! By rights it doesn't even deserve to be counted! Altogether you have a three episode series which is way too short to be in any top rankings anyway. Good riddance to the whole shebang.
Alongside my top anime rankings adjustment, I also had to adjust my fictional character hall of fame embedded within '100 Waifus.' Now Mai from Fatal Fury is out, and Kukuru is in as Shiroi Suna's representative. I have four problems with Mai which meant she had to go -- she's too much of a sex object and no one wants to name their daughter after a sex object, it would hurt their self-esteem -- her name is a repeat and I want more original names whenever possible -- Fatal Fury is no longer a ranked series so she has no reason to be here -- the flat-chested Sakura Yoshino giving birth to the ridiculously bouncy Mai never made much sense.
All the necessary edits to '100 Waifus' have been made. Long live Christopher's new daughter Kukuru!
P.S. [Dmonhiro] has released Love Live! Nijigasaki in blu-ray. Like usual he's sticking to 720p, which is sad, but blu-ray is an upgrade from tv, even when it's 720p resolution. Beggars can't be choosers! If you haven't watched Nijigasaki yet here's your chance in its most polished form.
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