Sekai no Himitsu:

I gave in to temptation and downloaded the overly bloated bluray files of Edens Zero so that I could have a full bluray collection of the series for my rewatch.  Luckily the first 12 episodes of the series already had a normal sized bluray version so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

With this I was able to start watching Edens Zero episode 13 in beautiful (bloated) bluray.  It was then I noticed that the ending theme of the second half of this series is extremely poignant.  Sekai no Himitsu.  Somehow I didn't notice this song when I was watching the series originally.  Or maybe I did notice it but the song wasn't released to the general public yet so I forgot.  Well I corrected that mistake.  The moment I heard the song I downloaded it, added it as a 5-star song to my music hall of fame, and edited the rest of my music hall of fame to make room.  Sekai no Himitsu is a slam dunk, there was no doubt from the beginning where it belonged.

The song is by Sayuri, a singer I had already noticed and honored for her ending theme in Boku dake ga inai Machi.  But now she has a 5-star song to her name instead of a lonely 3-star theme, so her points value has quintupled.  I'm looking forward to more hits like this if she keeps working in the anime field.

The unfortunate victims of this song's inclusion were 'Underground Sewer' from Chrono Trigger by Nobuo Uematsu, which fell to 4-star.  Then 'Boku no Uta' by Motoo Fujiwara fell to 3-star to make room .  Then 'Unison' by Bjork fell to 2-star to make room.  Then 'Bosnia' by The Cranberries fell to 1-star to make room, and finally 'Possibly Maybe' by Bjork fell to nothing at all to make room for Bosnia.  Jpop is slowly edging out western girl rock in this manner, one song at a time.

I've reached Chapter 20 of '100 Waifus' in my 32nd re-read.  I cut another 'just' from the book in my eternal war with that word, but so far that's the only edit.  There were some clunky sentences I felt should be edited but I couldn't think of anything better so perforce they remained the same.  Such is life.  Mostly the book reads as smooth as butter.  I'm very happy with what I've read so far.  It's still immersive despite this being my 32nd time.

I don't care that Elon Musk is supposedly going to make Twitter a free-speech zone (I'll believe it when I see it).  It was a free-speech zone before and that didn't stop liberalism from winning total power in all institutions and the government.  Free speech doesn't change anything.  Liberals always win.  Right now 3 year olds are being encouraged to switch genders in schools all across the country.  Free speech couldn't even stop that.  I've long since abandoned all hope in the American populace.  They will never do the right thing no matter how many opportunities they are given.  No matter how many elections conservatives win, actual social policy will still be further left than it was four years ago.  In perpetuum.  This is what we've seen for the entire previous century and it's what we'll see for the entire next century too.  It's like a logarithmic drift to hell that never quite reaches its destination but always curves the same way.  Twitter won't save us.  The only thing that can save us now is a spaceship that can colonize a new planet far, far away from liberals from whom we never need to hear again.  We need the exact opposite of free speech.  What we need is to stop listening to liberals.  What we need is the end of liberal speech.  Stop spending your wealth on speech, Elon, and give us those starships you promised instead.  That's the only way out for the scattered few sane Americans left.