Hanayamata fully translated:

Hanayamata is a wonderful, beautiful series that appeals with sound, visuals and colors, bubbles, feathers and sparkles, creating a phantasmagoria.  The beautiful girls are certainly at the center of this spectacle, but their clothes, the surroundings, and their feelings make the girls larger than life.  The striking poses and faces they put on while thinking about various things or falling into melancholy give breath to the perfection of their bodies.

For all this time Hanayamata ended abruptly in the anime and we never got to know the rest of the tale.  The manga ended five years ago, in 2018.  The anime was even longer ago, ending in 2014.  But now we in the west can enjoy Hanayamata in full.  Today marks the end of a nine year torturous wait.  Some intrepid scanlator went ahead and translated all the missing chapters of the series at a quick pace that made up all the lost ground in something like half a year.  If only others could learn from [Hachi]'s example!

I think the animated portion of Hanayamata is better than the manga-only portion, but that changes nothing.  Hanayamata is a great anime and a great manga, becoming slightly worse than the heights you've already scaled still puts you in the top percentage of artistic works.  Since most of the value of Hanayamata comes from the visuals, the incredible illustrations of the girls, the manga is as valuable as ever regardless of what's going on in the plot.

Hanayamata joins New Game, Kitakubu, Haganai, Hataraku Maou-sama! and Broken Blade as series that started long, long ago but now come to a gentle close.  2022 is featuring so many of these wonderful moments that I dared never think would actually happen.  Here's hoping for many more before the end of the year.  After all, we're not even halfway through 2022!

Meanwhile, I edited Flayn's name in '100 Waifus' to Cethleann, in accordance with my 'no nicknames' policy.  Flayn is an alias, not who she truly thinks of herself as, which is shown in the epilogue where she petitions Seteth to go by Cethleann now that the times are peaceful.  This is different from Franky.  Franky was an alias Cutty Flam took on to hide from the World Government, but I still list him as 'Franky' in '100 Waifus.'  Why?  Because he never thinks of himself as Cutty Flam or mentions he's Cutty Flam ever since he changed his name.  He's happy with his new name of Franky.  He's now Franky.  It's not a nickname, it's his true self of the current era.  Flayn still thinks of herself as Cethleann, so she's still Cethleann.

I still provide her a nickname in addition to her official name, 'Flayn,' so people will still know who I'm talking about even if they only have a cursory knowledge of Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

What's interesting about Fire Emblem: Three Houses is that most of the characters only show up in one arc -- the Blue Lion class in Azure Moon, for instance.  But other characters join your party in every arc -- Sothis, Byleth and Flayn.  This makes them the core of the story while the others are peripheral.  You won't notice this difference if you only play one or two arcs, but if you play the game long enough you can start to see how much more characterization there is of these central pillars than the other kids.  Special dialogues occur when Flayn meets the turtle, or fights the Death Knight, or fights you in Crimson Flower, etc.  These special extra lines don't happen for most other characters.  She's just special to the series, she gets to say more.  In a lineup full of interesting and wonderful people, Flayn, I mean, Cethleann, floats above them all on top of her gorgeous pegasus.