Onii-chan Dakeshimete read in full:

I've been having a rough time with visual novels lately -- I chose not to read all the routes in Tenshin Ranman or Ren'ai 0 Km.  Nevertheless, Sana and Misaki were such good characters within said vn's I still included them in my wonderful hall of fame.  Sana even showed up in '100 Waifus.'  But the first visual novel to break this curse isn't Tenshin Ranman, it's Onii-chan Dakeshimete.  Kohaku, who is in my wonderful hall of fame, is by far the best girl in the game.  She's beautiful, hardworking, diligent, and an incredible caretaker of the rest of her family.  Not only does she do all the cooking and cleaning, she also notices when people are misbehaving and lectures them, or are out of sorts and helps them.  She tends to everyone's needs, from the basics to emotional counseling.  Aside from a dumb flaw I won't get into she's perfect.

What's impressive about this game isn't Kohaku, though.  Sana > Kohaku.  What's impressive is that the other routes are also worth playing.  Sora, Akane, Sumi, and the Harem route are all worthwhile.  Of course, it helps that Kohaku has great scenes in all the routes, but Sana also has great lines in the other routes of Tenshin Ranman.  It isn't all Kohaku, the other girls are much more appealing than the alternatives in Tenshin Ranman or Ren'ai 0 Km.  I end up smiling no matter which girl I'm currently romancing.

Onii-chan Dakeshimete isn't for the faint-hearted.  There's lots of sex with lots of imoutos.  But Imouto Paradise was also all about that and I enjoyed all of them too.  Aya and Koharu from Imouto Paradise are also in my wonderful hall of fame, as is Kurumi from Life with a Flirty Step-Sister, which is also focused on sex with an imouto.  If I cared about those things I wouldn't have been reading these sorts of visual novels for years.

This visual novel isn't all about sex, though.  Nor was Imouto Paradise.  Mainly it was about how affectionate and kind and good the whole family was, how they spent time together and got along with each other.  Not only the onii-chan gets showered with affection, but the sisters get along brilliantly while the onii-chan watches on, half the time.  It's those warm moments that make you fall for the girls, more than when they treat you specifically well.  Ren'ai 0 Km was also about a group of sisters, but they didn't get along nearly as well, and it really hurt the product as a whole.  Of course, it would be hard to get along with the sisters of Ren'ai 0 Km, since most of them were such oddballs, but oh well.  It also helps to not be a deliberately annoying person, that too is a way to show kindness to the family around you.

I've finally finished a project, but my schedule is still infinitely crowded.  A promising new visual novel came out, Ren'ai Karigurashi, which I definitely want to try.  There's also Happiness 2, which I've been waiting forever to start.  Majikoi A+ got a full translation patch, but that was on April Fool's, so I'm not sure if it's real.  Furthermore, the patch is useless without a copy of the game, so as much as I'd like to prioritize Majikoi I can't.  Maybe some kind soul will eventually post a patched version of the game for download.

Speaking of visual novels, I'm almost certain Heaven Burns Red Part Chapter 5 Part 2 Act 2 is coming out tomorrow.  I benefitted from the monthly refresh already, getting Admiral Aoi to limit break 3.5.  In a couple weeks I'll have her up to max limit break 4, and then the two strongest SS Memoria in the game will have reached peak power.  From then on I'll be invincible.  I'm so lucky I was able to get diva Ruka and Admiral Aoi to full power at relatively low expense -- compared to the thousands of dollars I was spending last year. >.<.  I can actually envision never spending another dime on Heaven, considering how strong I've already become.  I don't actually need to throw any more money at it.  I've got all the characters and abilities I want and need.

Kanteishi's anime adaption is horrible.  I've decided to not bother watching the anime and be content with the manga, which is infinitely better.  Nigetsuri was good, though.  I like noble ladies with blue eyes and blonde hair, or purple eyes and blonde hair, either one works for me.

The new Idolm@ster ova was nice.  But a single ova obviously doesn't do much for the quality of the series as a whole.  Love Live! is offering a whole new season, starting in January of 2027, with a new group of girls.  I'm looking forward to that a lot more.

The new Kenichi manga is amazing as expected.

According to science the brain comes to a decision before it is even aware that it has come to a decision.  But obviously something had to cogitate on an issue, weigh its various sides, and come to a decision, before a decision can be made.  So what was doing the thinking?  Science says the decision generated spontaneously, for no reason.  Religion would say the first mover was the soul.  The soul relaying its decision to the brain makes a lot more sense to me.

I've transmuted so many 'copper' series to 'silver' by mentioning them in my wonderful hall of fame, I wonder how many 'copper' series remain?  

As for visual novels, anime and manga, every single hall of famer has a mention in my wonderful list.

It appears from video games:  Warlords, Heroes of Might and Magic, Master of Magic and The King of Dragons.  

From books:  James Clavell, Harold Covington, Samuel Richardson, H.G. Wells, John Steinbeck, Ludovico Ariosto, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Orwell, Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle/Steven Barnes, Jim Kjelgaard, Jean Respail, Charles Murray, Thomas Paine, Boswell/Johnson, Rousseau, Pascal, Ann Coulter, Darwin, Marx, Craig Winn, Malthus, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Xenophon, Rushton, Jefferson and Spinoza.  

From movies:  Braveheart, The Patriot, Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, Fearless, Beauty and the Beast, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, The Fox and the Hound, Wreck-It Ralph, Peter Pan, Snow White, Singin' in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Roman Holiday, Dancing in the Dark, Evita, Midway, Tombstone, Gettysburg, Black Hawk Down, 13 Hours, Zero Dark Thirty, Gladiator, 300, The Mexican, Once upon a time in Hollywood, Tetris, The Fugitive, Witness, Working Girl, Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, Apollo 13, The Martian, The Right Stuff, Ikiru, The 7 Samurai, Kagemusha, Rashoman, Yojimbo, Casablanca, Jurassic Park.

Many of these 'copper' series are still 'copper' because they're non-fiction.  It's hard to include them into my fictional character hall of fame or mention them in '100 Waifus.'  So by one measure there are 79 copper series, but from another, series that could possibly qualify but haven't yet, there are only 45.  That's a pretty good job of inclusion.  If I find good songs that I feel I must promote to my wonderful playlist, I can consult these remaining 45 options and represent one of them.  For now they're fine staying copper works, though, because they really are less impressive than the silvers and golds.

Wonderful +20:

I wanted to turn more 'copper' hall of fame entries into 'silver' hall of fame entries, so I honored names from various movies in my hall of fame, giving each of the new inductees their own theme song.

Stardust's Yvaine got People without a hope.  Apocalypto's Jaguar Paw got Primitive Mountain.  Airplane's Ted got Silvard (Epoch) ~Wings That Cross Time~.  Tremor's Valentine got Hydraen's Wrath.  Harry Potter's Luna Lovegood got Under Beberu.  Far and Away's Joseph got The Emigration Tunes.  Jack Ryan's Jack got Delita's Theme.  My Cousin Vinny's Vinny got Battle 2 (Unreleased).  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' Robin got Ultema - The Perfect Body.  House of Flying Daggers' Xiao Mei got E. Honda Stage.  Xena:  Warrior Princess' Xena got wings of sorrow (pyrrha's theme).  World Teacher's Sirius got Beginning of Tale.  Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival's Alicia got Billow in the Dark.  NEET Dakedo HELLO WORK's Masaru got U.M.N. MODE.  Ant-Man's Scott got Enishi.  Empire of the East's Ardneh/Orcus got incarnation.  Warhammer's Morgan got God's Fist.  Frozen's Elsa got Frozen.  Zootopia's Judy got Magical Weapon Nash.  The Incredible's Violet got FLASHMAN STAGE.

Xena is a tv show, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is a video game, Empire of the East is a book, whilst NEET Dakedo, Otome Game and World Teacher is a manga to be precise, but they left a lasting impact on me so I wanted to honor them too.

This let me use up every last 4-star Chrono Trigger song.  Chrono Trigger has such good music it would be a crime not to include every last tune in my wonderful playlist.  Of course all the other 4-star themes I included are also amazing.

I felt the same way about Street Fighter 2's 4-star songs, Heaven Burns Red's, Ogre Battle's, Lunar's, Xenogears', FF 4's and Xenoblade 3's.  Sometimes a game has such a good soundtrack everything must be included.

Grand Prize: Unrivalled Harem is not a very sophisticated story, but it's an entertaining enough manga to escort me to the Final Four.

$19 Heaven:

Heaven was offering a deal that was too good to refuse -- 10 protean shards, a ten roll recruitment ticket, and a guaranteed SS-Memoria with a resonance skill ticket.  So I bought it for $19, and boy did it pay off.

The guaranteed ticket got me Diva Ruka, one of the two best memorias in the game.  I then used the 10 protean shards I got, combined with these newfound Diva Ruka shards, to get her to max limit break level 4.

But it was the ten roll recruitment ticket that surprised me most.  I got both base Adelheid and base Charlotta.  Adelheid moved up to limit break level 2, and Charlotta to 2.5.  Earlier, for reaching a new player rank, I got a recruitment ticket that luckily turned into base Misato, which gets her to limit break level 3.5.  And today I got a free SS-Memoria recruitment ticket just for logging in, which netted me thunder Yuina limit break level 2.  That's a lot of SS for $19 bucks.

I added Doctor Strange to my wonderful fictional character list, seeing as how I've liked him in every Marvel movie he's featured in.  He received WOODMAN STAGE for his theme song.  I also added Ichika and Ciel back from Precure, figuring if Ayumi qualifies surely they do too.  Ichika received the theme song GO! GO! MANIAC.  Ciel received the theme song Watashi no Koi wa Hotch Kiss.  I'm really enjoying my new expanded wonderful playlist, full of amazing 5-star songs and above-expectations 4-star songs.  They mesh perfectly.

The Railgun manga came to a satisfying end, after a long 19 years of serialization.  On the other hand, Fate/Strange Fake was a disappointment.  The series ended on a cliffhanger and there was no announcement of a second season, despite there being plenty of source work material to work with.  I added a new season of Fate/Strange Fake to my anime wishlist because this should be a high priority for the anime industry.  Fate/etc. is my #11 favorite anime, and many other people would rate it higher than that.

P.S.:  Okay, now they've at least added a 'to be continued' video to the series, which I guess is the same as announcing a second season, so I'll take it back off my wishlist.

The winter anime season has almost come to a close, and the spring season has already begun.  Spring has a lot of stuff to like, but I'm already looking forward to the summer and fall seasons, which are going to be jam-packed with hits.

Sousou no Frieren S3 announced:

Like Oshi no Ko S4, Frieren S3 is not a surprise.  This is a popular series with plenty of additional manga material, so making another season makes eminent sense.  In addition, the next season of Frieren covers a great portion of the manga, it will be much better than season 2 was.  Frieren S3 starts airing in October 2027.

When I added back in all the fictional characters from my own books, I had forgotten Marcellus from Illyria.  So I added him today and gave him the excellent and appropriate song Fatal Struggle from Lodoss War.

The previous owner of the Rise song, which the Tachikomas got because it's a Ghost in the Shell song, was given Enemy Attack (FF10) instead.  Since Yoji is the protagonist of GATE, and the first thing that happens in that anime is an enemy attack, the song is perfect for him.

When I recruited those 7 new SS Memoria, momentarily I didn't have all my characters at full skill levels again, but now they're all up to snuff.  I also have all the skill evolutions in the game.  The latest score challenge was tackled by my thunder squad, who scored 1,485,000 points.  They blew the opponent away in 4 turns.  That felt pretty good.

By combining all of Mitsuru Adachi's baseball romance anime into a single work, I made room for two more anime to enter my top anime rankings.  For now, Mao will be ranked at #180 and Demons Crest at #67.  Mao starts airing in a week, Demons Crest won't be here for a while, but I may as well rank them now since I know they'll be ranked once they start.  Unless something surprises me with its quality, this should be the full gallery of my ranked anime.  This is a future-proofed list.

Tsugimonogatari read:

There's an intriguing aspect to Yotsugi's creation, which is the curses all the specialists received from bringing her to life.  It turns out no foreign entity cursed them, it was a restriction they put on themselves to fuel the necromancy.  They called it sharing a part of their souls with the corpse.  We also learned the precise nature of everyone's curses -- Kagenui can't step on the ground.  Gaen can't look away from any problem.  Kaiki can't be a good person.  Oshino can't sleep in a bed or with a pillow.  All of this was mentioned in passing or hinted at in the past, now we get the precise rundown.

Why did all these specialists get together to do such a difficult thing?  It turns out they were trying to revive Gaen's imouto, but accidentally revived the wrong corpse, due to a case of mistaken identity.  So we got the completely irrelevant Yotsugi instead.  It's a cute twist.

This book was particularly good because it was hilarious and very informative about characters heretofore shrouded in mystery.  A prequel that reveals all secrets.  A series of events that beggars belief but has a satisfactory explanation.  It's pure genius.  The book was so good I moved the worth of the light novel series, overall, up to my 4th favorite.  I like when Oshino met all the loli versions of the girls Araragi would eventually end up helping when they were grown up.  This prequel is not set in the distant past, only seven years before the beginning of the series.  Yotsugi is not very old.

I had hoped Chapter 5 Part 2 Act II of Heaven Burns Red would start today, but no such luck.  Maybe next week.  For now there's March Madness.

Oshi no Ko S4 announced:

I had predicted this.  There's no reason to animate S3 of Oshi no Ko unless you've already decided to animate S4.  This is because S3 is a rather dull 'things plodded along' section of the manga, with the fireworks all coming at the conclusion.

Nevertheless, it's nice to have it in writing.  We will have a fully animated adaption of the Oshi no Ko manga.  I gave it the ranking of 29th on this basis, so this won't affect its ranking.  The 29th best anime of all time is extremely high praise.  That's much higher than I rate, for instance, Sousou no Frieren.  I can't wait to see the conclusion to this anime.  It's a brilliant conclusion.  I'd say Kimetsu no Yaiba has the best conclusion of any manga, but Oshi no Ko is up there.

Mayonaka Heart Tune is also getting a sequel season.  It's no Oshi no Ko, but it's nice to have.

Ranma 1/2 is getting a third season, but it's still retelling stories the original anime covered perfectly.  It doesn't help us at all.  What we need is a Ranma season that covers material the original anime didn't.

People might dismiss Transformers as a franchise as just a toy commercial for kids.  But the Transformers animated movie was exceptional.  I did like Transformers toys as a kid, but that movie should be impressive to anyone.  That 1986 movie, where the Autobots and Decepticons work together to overcome the planet-sized devourer of Cybertron, Unicron, deserves to be immortalized.  It's essentially an anime, with art direction coming from Toei.  And it was a war movie in the truest sense, with people actually dying in battle one after the next.  Nothing came easy to the protagonists.  As such, I've added it to my movie hall of fame, taking out The Music Man to make room.  I barely have any memory of The Music Man.  It can't have been that good, considering I have vivid memories of the Transformers movie.  Now Transformers being in my wonderful hall of fame makes sense -- wonderful movies produce wonderful characters.

On the Heavenly front, I got Squad 31-B to defeat Skullfeather 1st form for the first time, giving them precious title badge experience.  Squad 31-B is really strong now, hosting Erika, Kozue and Sumomo, who all have eternal daphnes, so I knew they should be able to do it.  I tried to get Squad 31-C to win too but they were far too weak.  31-C, 31-D, 31-F and 30-G aren't keeping up with my premier squads.  At least I got Mari and Adelheid, who both have eternal daphnes, from 31-C to win by teaming up with non-31-C members.

Meanwhile, Tsugimonogatari has been fully translated and is available for reading.  This is the next book in the Monogatari series, one of my favorite light novel series.  So this is a day to celebrate for many reasons.

The Silver 133:

With the newly expanded wonderful hall of fame, it's interesting to note what franchises made the wonderful list but not the '100 Waifus' book.  These are the series that shouldn't be left off the radar when it comes to seeking future entertainment, once the over 300 options in '100 Waifus' are exhausted.

Dynasty Warriors, Star Control, The Emperor's Son (my own book), The Greatest Vision (my own book), Illyria (my own book), DC Comics, Isekai Meikyu de Harem o, Tonikaku Kawaii, Kenja no Mago, Mega Man, The Twin Spires (my own book), Wind (my own book), Sellsword (my own book), Imouto Paradise, Kemono Friends, Lucky Star, Bravely Default, Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta, Mode, Kakkou no Iinazuke, Soul Calibur, Saved by the Bell, The Teen Web Novelist is a Girl Magnet, The Legend of Zelda, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Hunger Games, Prism Rondo, Spy Classroom, Super Mario Bros., Azumanga Daioh, Ghost in the Shell, Noucome, Incarnations of Immortality, Nicholas Nickleby, Shuumatsu no Izetta, Phantom Brave, Alien Nine, Full Moon O Sagashite, Indiana Jones, [Sakura, Saku], [Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare], Strobe Edge, Die Hard, Cobra, Grave of the Fireflies, Back to the Future, Ojamajo Doremi, Saber Marionette, Growth Cheat, Charlotte, Hyakuren no Haoh, Gundam, World Dai Star, 16bit Sensation, Henjin no Salad Bowl, Ginga E Kickoff, Samurai Showdown, Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku, Power Stone, Bio of a Space Tyrant, Apprentice Adept, Seitokai no Ichizon, Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko, Shinryaku! Ika Musume, Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Ninja Scroll, Catch me at the Ballpark, X, Usagi Drop, Tears to Tiara, Noble Works, Saint Tail, The Parent Trap, Yume ka Utsutsu ka, Gone With the Wind, Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Yuusha Party wo Oidasareta Kiyoubinbou, Minami Kamakura Koko Joshi Jitensha-Bu, Ren'ai 0 Km, Onii-chan Dakeshimete, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tenjou Tenge, Slow Step, [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon], Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Life with a Flirty Step-sister, The Matrix, The Fifth Element, Silverado, Transformers, Triplet, Tangled, Moana, Nichijou, Devil Hunter Yohko, Harukana Receive, Idoly Pride, Nanare Hananare, The Wizard of Earthsea, Atlas Shrugged, The Belgariad, Jaran, Penhaligon, Middlemarch, Little Dorrit, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Dead Souls, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Bonfire of the Vanities, Vanity Fair, The Count of Monte Cristo, Xena: Warrior Princess, Robin Hood, Jack Ryan, My Cousin Vinny, Tremors, Airplane, Far and Away, Apocalypto, Stardust, World Teacher, House of Flying Daggers, Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival, NEET dakedo HELLO WORK, Warhammer, Frozen, Zootopia, The Incredibles

Before my leniency update to my wonderful hall of fame, necessary in order to secure more songs, it was the Silver 65.  But now it's the Silver 133.  Double the number of great series above and beyond '100 Waifus.'  If '100 Waifus' mentions around 307 great franchises, that would bring the total up to 440.  A lot of what I did was cannibalize from the 'copper' group.  I took unmentioned hall of fame series and mentioned them.  Another thing I did was mention things I thought beneath mention by lowering standards.  But there's also been a lot of recent good art that wasn't around last time I did this.

Between the three processes here we are.  We live in a bountiful world with at least 440 gold or silver works of art.  It's so much that even I, who doesn't work, can't keep up with it.  I haven't played Xenoblade X or Octopath 0 despite belonging to golden franchises and despite the games sitting on my bookshelf.  And now Heaven Burns Red is saying that Chapter 5 Part 2 Act II is coming out soon (which explains why the Part 2 I played was so short, it was only Act I apparently).  Obviously Heaven always takes priority, so the backburner will continue to burn.  To make matters worse, Akaneiro's visual novel is slated for release soon.  Since Yuuhi is one of my '100 Waifus,' I've been looking forward to playing it for years.

On the bright side, at least I'm caught up with great anime.  By finishing my rewatch of Spy x Family S3, I've now watched and rewatched all great anime that came out before 2026.

Speaking of great anime, I officially inaugurated Release that Witch into my top anime rankings.  It was given rank #121.  To make room, I combined the Higurashi and Umineko anime into a single franchise, which is fair enough because it is a single franchise.  Release that Witch has been the highlight of every week.  My only fear is the anime won't cover enough of the story and end after a single season.