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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

I told you Summer Pockets is getting an anime!:

I'm sure people doubted my dubious decision to rank four series in my top anime rankings whose anime hadn't even been announced yet, but now my genius should be made clear -- today Key confirmed in a presentation that a Summer Pockets anime was already 'in the works.'  I read the tea leaves of their prior announcements correctly and correctly predicted the future of my top anime rankings.  Since my rankings are prophetic, taking into account what will be coming out as well as what's already out, ranking Summer Pockets was the correct decision from the beginning! (Kaginado is also getting a second season, which is nice.)

That leaves only Mao, Isekai Kenkokuki and 100 Kanojo.  I still believe they'll get announced sooner or later too.

I switched out 14 4-star songs for 14 5-star songs, flipping their ratings.  Like I warned earlier, most of the demotions came from western artists, while the promotions were centered on Japanese songs.  Yozuca* and Yasunori Mitsuda were the greatest beneficiaries.  This should solidify the accuracy and quality of my 5-star list.  People can always check out the detailed list of who the best composers and songs are via my Good Music permapost, it's always kept up to date.

There's a fine line between 4-star quality and 5-star, with many borderline cases, so I expect some more changes to occur before I'm completely satisfied.

I watched Spiderman: No Way Home but I didn't much like the callbacks to the older Spiderman movies.  It felt like a shameless advertisement for the earlier movies.  Why refight the same old fights?  The only good scenes were the new ones involving Doctor Strange.  That's not enough to get into my movies hall of fame.

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