Sailor Moon Cosmos:

The best anime announcement in a long time -- Sailor Moon Cosmos greenlit.  This will be in the form of two movies that cover the final arc of the Sailor Moon manga.  Something that has never been animated before, because the previous Sailor Moon anime was almost entirely filler.  Now we'll actually get to see the story as written, the original intent of the genius author behind the groundbreaking classic, Sailor Moon.  This is about as important as landing on the moon.

Actually, between the two, a canonical, true to source anime rendition of Sailor Moon is far more valuable to humanity than landing on the moon.  I will take the anime any day, split second, no question.

Right now I have Sailor Moon ranked as the #38th best anime of all time.  Now that the series will be animated in full all the way to the end that ranking should go up.  But I don't know by how much.  I've never seen the proper ending to Sailor Moon, I've been waiting for this day all this time.  I can only give Sailor Moon's true ranking after I see these new movies, which if we're lucky will show up on Netflix in 2023 but if we're unlucky will take until 2024 to show up for American viewers.

Sailor Moon is primarily about love triumphing over any and every difficulty life throws at you.  Whether it's family problems, loneliness, romantic rejection, taking care of pets, illness, getting attacked, trouble at school -- whatever happens, if you consult with your loved ones and work with your loved ones and take the effort to fall in love with more loved ones, you will overcome.  It's an empowering message for women to lean in to their true superpower -- to love and be loved.  The more women who take this lesson to heart the happier the world will become.  Women will use the power of love to overcome their own trials and tribulations, just like Usagi, and meanwhile men will get to be loved for once which will completely transform their lives.  A complete Sailor Moon which can be used to teach our children how to blossom into functional adults is a priceless boon to mankind.

It's like a legendary sword which will save the kingdom once drawn from the stone.  I can't wait for the world to be able to brandish this Excalibur in 2024.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only education anyone needs in life is to watch my top 200 anime.  That is the moral education, the moral foundation, that can propel anyone to be a good and productive member of society thenceforth.  Sailor Moon, a complete Sailor Moon, is a keystone to that moral foundation.  Just like Clannad or Kimetsu no Yaiba.  It's impossible to overstress the importance of this announcement.  Sailor Moon has so many fans worldwide, and will continue to entrance so many billions of kids far into the future, that having the true form of its story in beautiful modern movie quality animation is priceless.

I wish the air date weren't so very far away, but in the meantime we get to watch more Kimetsu, Shingeki and Bleach, so the time will pass quickly enough.  There are other important anime projects reaching their conclusions as well, and they're pretty big deals too.

Less than half of anime is rendered in full true to the source.  That's true even of great, ranked anime.  It's of course even more true of unranked series.  Sailor Moon is now joining that elite cadre.  It sure took long enough.  Over 30 years.  But thank God, here we are.

Sailor Moon was on my anime wishlist, but with the wish granted, it's been removed and replaced for a wish to a conclusion to the Sore ga Seiyuu! anime instead.  That would certainly be nice, though I know it'll never actually happen.

Meanwhile, I've taken a shine to two more spring anime series that started airing later than the rest of the season -- Kakkou no Iinazuke and Summertime Render.  I don't think they're great, just watchable, but I'll take them in an otherwise sparse season.  They have good art and engaging premises that seem like they'll be fun to learn more about.  That gets us up to 14 watchable shows per week, not bad.

I also upgraded two names in '100 Waifus,' thanks to my new crop of characters I learned about via playing 300+ hours of Fire Emblem.  Both Flayn and Sothis are wonderful girls (who share green hair due to being relatives).  They're beautiful, ancient, powerful, mysterious, and altruistic to the point of self-sacrificing.  In other words, heroes.  Sothis has a wonderful childish excitability to her manner of speech, while Flayn has a wonderful childish fascination with trivial things like fish or dancing, despite both being ancient immortals.  Preserving that youthful zest for life is a testament to how big their hearts must be.

They'll be replacing Mei and Himari from Dal Segno, who are mainly there due to their pretty bodies.  I admit their bodies are pretty, even prettier than Flayn's and Sothis', but their personalities can't keep up.  Not even remotely.  And it's not like Flayn or Sothis are bad looking either.  They are belles of the ball, no question.  Mei also has the problem of her name not being unique.  There's also a Mei from Clannad.  So I get to upgrade the quality of two characters and replace a repeat name with a more memorable unique name.  Benefits all around.

With everything else read and all these changes to '100 Waifus' since the previous time I read it, re-reading '100 Waifus' seems eminently reasonable.  It's best to see all the changes in context as part of the larger whole, to receive the true benefit of them.  It's also important to make sure I didn't leave behind a proofreading error with everything constantly being in flux.  Hopefully this readthrough I won't see the need to edit a single thing, which will prove it's polished to perfection as is.