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Monday, July 13, 2026

Summer 2025 anime worth watching so long as you're also playing Magic: The Gathering:

I've created a new category of anime -- neither bad, mediocre, good or great -- perhaps the best term is 'tolerable.'  Anime that's tolerable to watch so long as you're also playing Magic.  The vast majority of summer anime falls into this category.

'I want to love you till your dying day' is at least a good anime, perhaps the great anime replacement of Release that Witch I was looking for.  I'll have to see some more episodes before I can definitively say it's great, but so far so good.  It's the premier debuting anime this summer that's reached the 'good' threshold.

It features great art, an intriguing unique setting, and a lovable all-cute-young-girl cast.  I have no idea where the story is going but I'm excited to find out.

Futsutsuka na Akujou is a good series, worth watching while actually paying attention.  Both the protagonist and antagonist are humorous, cute girls.  The ancient Chinese setting is lavish and the art is worthy of it.

As for the rest, these shows made the 'tolerable' mark:

Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi

Otome Kaijuu Caramelise

Uchi no Otouto-domo ga Sumimasen

Tenmaku no Jaadugar

Grow up Show

Oni no Hanayome

Kimi wo Aisuru ki wa nai

Sekai Saikyou no Kouei

Sayonara Lara

Toumei na Yoru ni

Buchigire Reijou

Suterare Seijou

Tai-ari Deshita

Mujikaku Seijou

The Ghost in the Shell

Tefuda ga Oome no Victoria

Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori

All Works Maid

Rakudai Kenja

Koko wa Ore ni Makasete

Ryoumin 0-nin

Neko to Ryuu

Murabito 999

My stepmother and stepsisters aren't wicked

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Ao no Hako manga ends:

Ao no Hako's manga ended on a fitting 250th chapter.  Hina not only won the high school national championship in rhythmic gymnastics, she's now a member of the Japanese national team.  She's following in her father's footsteps and well on her way to being an Olympian.  Taiki made it to nationals as a high school badminton player, but lost to Yusa there, so he rejected a girl who definitively is more accomplished than he was.  What an idiot.

In any case, everyone in the story lived happily ever after.  Except that, like in Kimi ni Todoke and Sakura Trick, Taiki and Chinatsu are in a long-distance relationship at the end.  Chinatsu is going to live in America or something for the next who knows how long, while Taiki stays in Japan.  This works well enough in fiction -- the power of their love transcends all difficulties -- but in the real world this never works.  Two people who live apart will find they have nothing to talk about, because they have nothing in common.  The people they're around are different, their circumstances are different, their activities are different, their time zones are different.  They can't even both be awake at the same time.  What would they have to talk about?  How can they empathize with one another?  How can they give their partner any useful advice, when they're completely unaware of the situation in a far off place full of people they don't know and have never met?  Furthermore, love is continuously fueled by physical intimacy, and a long distance relationship has no fuel.  Eventually both sides will want to be touched and find they can't get that from a phantom on a phone or an email.  Then what?  Obviously they start cheating on each other or dump their useless, nonexistent partner.  In fiction nobody has impure thoughts like these, but in the real world people have real needs.

Do a poll of men or women and ask them how important physical intimacy is to a relationship.  I guarantee you the answer for both sexes is 'vital.'  So that puts a fork in 'long-distance relationships' right there.

Chinatsu and Taiki are so far apart they can never visit each other.  They're permanently separated for years.  It's absurd.  It would never work.  Every romance story insists on this long distance ending -- Kimi ni Todoke and Sakura Trick are equally to blame -- but at least in those stories the long distance didn't cross entire oceans.  This is the worst ending of them all.

The problem is the same in all three manga.  All three manga are about high school romances.  In the real world high school romances are pointless, because everyone breaks up when they go to separate colleges or get jobs in separate cities.  But nobody wants the ending of a high school romance manga to be 'and then they broke up so that they could meet new nearby people in their college.'  But the authors also don't have the courage to buck modern sensibilities and say "and then the girl decided not to go to college and not to get a job, but to move wherever Taiki went and live with him as his young wife and the mother of his children."  That would be an actual high school romance gone right, with a bright future.  But I don't know if it's even legal for a manga-ka to write that these days.  Would a publisher even publish such a heretical ending?  Of course all girls must strive to reach their highest education level and highest possible income.  Love is great and all, but it doesn't trump cold hard cash.  Everybody knows that, right?

So we have a manga that caters to the emptiness in people's hearts, that craves romance, but when push comes to shove it can't say "romance is actually worth forgoing a job."  It can't say "romance is worth forgoing an education."  And it can't say, "their romance was actually weak so they broke up and pursued money instead."  So again and again, we get this fantasy compromise of long-distance relationships.  This is why all published works, with their constant oversight and censorship, are so hopelessly inferior to '100 Waifus.'  Only I'm allowed to say anything that bucks modern sensibilities, so I'm the only one saying anything at all.

Meanwhile, I finished Xenoblade X.  I played the game very thoroughly, completing almost every mission, getting all six spears to weaken the last boss with, surveying almost all of Mira, etc.  It took me over 170 hours.  Maybe 180 hours?  Anyway, too many hours.  The game takes way too long.  Sheesh.  I like the main cast and the beautiful setting.  The plot is okay.  It's a great game, I just wonder if they couldn't have sped things along a bit.  170 hours is a sizable portion of my entire life.  >.<.

Of course, I've played Heaven Burns Red far longer than that, but Heaven is divine so of course that's okay.

I still have a shelf full of unplayed video games I can now switch to, so finishing Xenoblade X means I'll now be more entertained than before, not less.  I can now start an all new exciting adventure and meet all new people, instead of flogging the same tired horse for endless additional hours.

Friday, July 10, 2026

I broke the 2,200,000 barrier:

A terrifying new score challenge appeared in Heaven Burns Red, a monster with a higher rating than had ever appeared before, and a beam that insta-kills the whole party on the first turn.  At first I tried to fight it conventionally with my critical penetration squad but of course it didn't work.

Then I tried my imp Yayoi fire-squad, relying on the invincibility of Adelheid's dodge and Seira's guard break, and indeed it worked, but not well enough to get me 2 million points.  There was still a skill guide and SS-guaranteed recruitment scrip at 2 million and 2.2 million points that I couldn't loot with this squad.

So next I tried moving Adelheid, with her free dodge mechanic, over to my critical penetration squad.  At first I took out Inori to make room and after several tries I did make it to 2 million points.  But what I really wanted wasn't the skill guide, it was the recruitment scrip at 2.2 million.  So I thought I'd try taking out my healer and going all-out offense next time, with Inori back in.  Several fights in a row my characters were broken due to my lack of a healer, and it was looking grim.  But I learned a perfect balance of offense and defense, where if I used Miya's enfeeblement technique at the right time, and the boss attacked Miya that turn, I could focus on offense without being broken.  That got me to 2,197,000.  3,000 short of the loot.

So next I gave Inori the concentration orb skill, which slightly increases critical damage, and tried again.  With all the stars aligned and that little extra damage adding to my 'maximum damage in a single turn' score, I boosted my score to 2,214,000.  I bested the best the game could throw at me, just barely.

This is why I spend thousands of dollars to get stronger in the game, because even with all that money I'm just barely keeping up with their expectations.  I dread to think how weak I would've been against this boss if I'd only played the game for free.

The characters who got high scores on the score challenge got new title badge ranks as well.  My critical penetration squad is at rank 12 or 11, with Yingxia at 10 since I had to take her out to fit in Adelheid, who is also rank 12 now.  The other members of my imp Yayoi fire squad are all at least rank 10.  A lot of title badge growth, because this is the highest score on a score challenge I've ever managed with either squad.

Meanwhile, a wonderful new recruitment campaign became available, with swimsuit Erika being available to roll on 100 times for free.  For free!  Of course with that many rolls I got the new, absolutely beautiful, swimsuit Erika.  There was also a paid quartz campaign with swimsuit Erika being one of the prizes, but after using all my paid quartz I never got another copy of her which would have given me a limit break.  So instead I used my long-saved-up rainbow protean shards to limit break her to level 1.  Soon I'll have enough rainbow shards to get her to level 2.  Why am I eager to power up swimsuit Erika?  Other than swimsuits are fun to look at while fighting, she has an amazing ability that pumps up everyone's morale, and gets stronger with higher morale.  Since she's a dark element SS Memoria, she fits in perfectly with swimsuit Kozue and doctor Seika, who also increase morale and get stronger with higher morale so long as they're dark element.  I now have a synergistic morale squad that has all the pieces needed to be super strong.  The only problem is their limit break levels are still really low, but all good things come with time.

Swimsuit Erika lowers the opponent's dark defense and defense, then creates a dark element field that permanently improves the damage of all dark attacks by 80%, then attacks the enemy directly for decent damage, all for the low price of 8sp.  I can feel the darkness flowing through me.

I also got white-dress Muua, another brand new SS Memoria.  Her exclusive ability isn't that good, but her unexclusive abilities look nice, so I'll be using them on her other versions.

Other than the new Niina and Ichiko SS Memorias I own every SS in the game.  I also got some nice limit breaks, and some inconsequential ones, namely wedding dress Seira to level 4, wedding dress Iroha to level 1, idol Ichigo to 2.5, magician Isuzu to 2.5, a bunch of memento upgrade items (which I used on base Isuzu and swimsuit Erika, but I still have tons more with no current use), swimsuit Tama to level 2, kimono Tama to 2.5, ninja Adelheid to 3, and cute Chie to level 3.

My imp Yayoi fire squad is my second strongest squad right now, and wedding dress Seira is in that squad, so this will yield quality results.  I also gave Yayoi, my strongest seraph, 5 reversions so she could have an additional skill slot and +4 to stats.  Min-maxing is the ideal in every rpg.

Unfortunately my computer, which is only 3 years old, is making a death rattle sound that gets louder by the day, so I decided this time I wouldn't be cheap like last time, but buy the absolute best computer I could find, with the idea that ultimately it would save me money by not dying so quickly.  This new computer, around $2k in price, should be the perfect gaming machine that can run Heaven Burns Red, World of Warcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era, and anything else at absolute max graphics with no framerate drop and no noise.  It had better be.

There's no point spending thousands of dollars collecting SS Memorias if I don't have a powerful computer to play the game with, that can actually play the game the way it was meant to be played.  The two basically necessitate each other.  As they say, in for a penny, in for a pound.

Trump seems to have changed his mind yet again, and now he wants to win the Ukraine and Iran wars.  Even though it was just proven to him that this was impossible, he's such a doddering old senile retard that he's forgotten the lessons he learned last month.  So now we can expect the worldwide depression and famine people were predicting if the Iran war became serious after all.  Thanks, Trump.

Thursday, July 9, 2026

The World Cup is down to 7 teams, all of European heritage:

Blacks failed to prove they were better athletes than whites yet again this World Cup.  All the African teams have been eliminated, as well as all the Asian teams and North American teams.  All that's left is a lone holdout from South America -- Argentina -- which is one of the whitest teams and countries left on Earth.  The other six teams are all from Europe -- France, Belgium, Spain, England, Switzerland and Norway.

It doesn't get any whiter than that.

Admittedly, France fields an almost all-black team.  Belgium, England and Switzerland also have a disproportionate black presence compared to their population at large.  Spain and Norway are pretty much pure white, though, and they're still going strong.  More importantly, if blacks were such great athletes, then Senegal or Ghana would be in the top 7, not 7 white countries.  What we're seeing here is that all-white teams either win the World Cup (like Argentina did 4 years ago), or compete for it at the highest level (like Croatia did 8 years ago).  Meanwhile the only way blacks succeed at the World Cup is if they embed themselves into white cultures, white training schemes, white financing, white coaches and white fans.  90% of black success at the World Cup comes from the white support that surrounds them, only 10% comes from their innate athletic talent that perhaps surpasses the talent white athletes can bring to the field.  And I'm not even sure blacks are better athletes when given full white surrounding support, because after all Argentina beat France four years ago.

All blacks have proven so far is they're competitive with whites at the World Cup, when representing white nations.  When they represent their own nations they're totally hopeless.  The best black player in the world, Mbappe, isn't even black, he's half-white.  (Algerian Berber).  A lot of the best black players are actually mixed race.  If blacks were racially superior athletes, you would think that admixture would lower their performance, but instead it seems to raise it.

White athletic performance is not the most important trait to me, I'd gladly cede it to blacks, saying oh well, what matters is intelligence and virtue.  But while I'd gladly cede it to blacks if there was evidence for this claim, every World Cup, time after time, the evidence always comes out in favor of whites.  I mainly keep bringing this up not because it matters to me, who prefers intellectual pursuits, but because it matters so much to my enemies.  Whenever I compare blacks unfavorably to whites, they'll start bringing up the superiority of black athletes -- only to lose yet another World Cup, the only event the whole world competes in evenly and fairly.  The only sport with 5 billion viewers.

Watch Spain or Argentina win it all and embarrass the black supremacists again. . .

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

4-1:

Belgium destroyed team USA in the World Cup, 4-1.  I watched the whole awful game, and I can verify that all four goals were handed to Belgium on a silver platter.  The first goal, no one decided to cover the easy slow rolling cross to the striker, who only had to tap it in.  The second goal, three defenders and a goalie were contesting a header from one Belgian striker in the area, and the Belgian of course beat all four of them to the ball and headed it in.  The third goal is straight out of a circus, as the goalie forgot how to kick the ball and kicked the ground instead.  This let the Belgian take it right off the goalie's feet and kick it into the exposed goal.  The fourth goal was similar, a defender failed to clear the ball and instead handed it back to a Belgian striker, who easily kicked it into the net from point blank range.

America never played like that up until this point.  The contrast between their play in this game, which 5 year old's would be ashamed of, and their play against Paraguay, where we won 4-1, is night and day.  It's hard to believe team USA through sheer coincidence could play that badly all together.  It was the worst play from any of these players in their lives, all 11 of them.  Belgium didn't have to do anything.  There's no proof Belgium is even a good team.  I could have beat team USA today.  At least I know how to kick the ball and not the ground.

I based my assessment of team USA on that wonderful Paraguay game.  I had no idea they intended to throw their match once they reached the round of 16.  How could anyone predict a showing that awful?  Professionals tend to play better under pressure, when the stakes are higher, but these players all played the worst in their lives.  They shouldn't be professionals.  They failed us so utterly they should just retire in disgrace.  Every single one of them should be replaced before the next World Cup.

How does a country of 340 million people, with the highest GDP in the world, fail to field a team that could compete with Cape Verde?  It's a national disgrace.  First we lose a war with Yemen, then Iran, and now we lose a match to tiny little Belgium.  Not only do we lose, we're completely humiliated.  We're lucky the score was as close as it was.  I thought Trump promised me that with him in charge America would start winning again.  That we'd win so much we'd get sick of winning.  Whatever happened to that?  America has instead become the laughingstock of the world.  On our own home soil.  With FIFA bending the rules to help us.  And this is what we can accomplish.  Clearly, despite all my criticisms, I still don't despise America enough, because I'm still surprised over and over at how awful we truly are.

Meanwhile, I finished my rewatch of Oshi no Ko S3.  To make my great anime hall of fame everything must not only be watched but rewatched and still deemed great.  For my #29 favorite anime, though, this was quite the low hurdle.  Not only was it still great, it made me cry when Sarina got to reunite with her precious Sensei after all this time.  I can't wait for Season 4, which is only going to be better, every episode until the last.

Next up I need to finish Xenoblade X.

Monday, July 6, 2026

'In Another World With 100 Waifus' read for the 53rd time:

I promised that I would not stop rereading '100 Waifus' until I could read through the entire book and not make any edits.  That promise was supposed to have been fulfilled with the 52nd reading, but then I found some more errors in need of editing after replaying Tales of Xillia.  I had spelled Rowen's name wrong and misgendered Teepo.  So I dutifully corrected the errors, and that meant I still hadn't read '100 Waifus' without making an edit.  So now I've dutifully read '100 Waifus' once more.  Once more, I discovered the book was perfect, the greatest book ever written, the sexiest book ever written, and didn't need any more edits.  Once more I've finished this project after eight years of trying.

For anyone who was waiting until it was safe to read '100 Waifus' with the assurance that no more edits would change it under their feet, here's your chance:

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-1.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-2.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-3.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/03/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-4.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-7.html

Rereading the novel never became a chore because I spread it out over a month, taking it easy and not worrying about how long it might take.  The long lists of names weren't as daunting because this time I approved of all the names and was happy to see them.  The name gallery was the hardest thing to perfect in this book but this time I leave completely satisfied.

I love every section of this story, which is why I can read it 53 times, but the second half of the story where Cute arrives is my favorite.  The story really zooms out and starts talking about religion, politics, history and philosophy.  It's such an elevating discussion.  I feel energized by this waterfall of wisdom pouring down on me.  At the same time, the book doesn't neglect at all the eroticism or the loving dates with all sorts of uniquely and marvelously attractive waifus, which remains the central theme of the story.  With 100 different heroines, there's no need to stop writing about how lovely they are, it's always a fresh new topic because it's always a fresh new girl.  There's something so beautiful, though, about the last chapter, which is no longer about Christopher but his daughter Shiori.  It's the passing of the torch which we all must face eventually.

Hopefully I won't be required to read the book a 54th time, but I could totally see reading it again voluntarily once my memory of it fades a bit.  The book is so good I could read it infinity times.

Meanwhile, I got three more limit breaks, but again they were all worthless.  Raccoon Kanata reached level 2, fortune teller Seira reached level 2, and Spanish dress Yuki reached level 2.5.  If I could get Spanish dress Yuki to level 3 that would actually be useful, but there's no benefit to reaching halfway to level 3.  I now have 26 SS Memorias stuck in the limbo of level 2.5 or 3.5.  It's so awful.  My light squad in particular, the entire squad is stuck in limbo.  Yuina is at 3.5, Yuki at 2.5, Ruka at 2.5, and Tsukasa at 2.5.

I reached the milestone of 20,000 enhancements, after which point the game no longer offers any bonus quartz rewards, because there's no milestone past that.  So sad, but also pretty darn impressive.  I also finished Byakko's skill evolution and reached title rank 11 on Karen, the highest of any character.  It shows how much I've grown to like her since Chapter 5 Part 2 came out.

I added two new characters to my wonderful hall of fame -- the T-1000 from Terminator 2 and Rei from Vividred Operation.  The T-1000 was a truly impressive villain that never showed any sense of frustration, pain, anger, or anything human about it.  It was a totally new type of enemy the world had never seen before.  Rei was also a villain, but her motives were understandable and the anime made very clear exactly how pretty she was, over and over again, so I have zero complaints.  The T-1000 received 'Labyrinthine' from FF15 as his theme song, and Rei received 'Dearest' from Inuyasha as hers.  Now all my 4-star and above rated FF15 music is in my wonderful playlist.

Atelier Ryza has finally come out subtitled in bluray at a reasonable filesize for download, so I happily added that to my archive.  The best series should be viewed at the highest possible quality.

Other than the series I expected to be great, like Nanoha EXCEEDS and BanG Dream Yume Mita, none of the new shows have stood out.  But I've discovered a great trick to watching unimpressive anime.  If you watch it while playing Magic, only paying half your attention to it, it becomes far more bearable.  With Magic at my side, I feel like I can watch a lot more anime than normal.  I should have thought of this before. . .

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Konstantynivka falls to Russia:

Years ago I wrote that Chasiv Yar and Toretsk were strategic locations that would determine the outcome of the war, mainly because they formed the two prongs of a pincer around Konstantynivka.  I predicted it would be easy to take the major city of Konstantynivka once those two prongs were secured, and once Russia has taken Konstantynivka, they have a direct path to the largest cities left outside of Russian control in the Donbass, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.  These two cities, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, are now the entire reason the war continues, because Putin has offered to end the war if only these last two cities were handed over.  So the war literally ends in a chain reaction once you've taken Chasiv Yar and Toretsk.

As it turns out, it wasn't easy to take Konstantynivka, even though it was enveloped.  It took all year for the picture in my head to develop as I had planned.  The Ukraine war is setting a new record for how slowly things develop, but they always develop in the way I expected eventually.

Russia has announced the conquest of Konstantynivka, complete with videos of soldiers lifting flags all over the city, so their announcement is an indisputable fact.  Meanwhile, all of Kupiansk east of the Oskil river has been conquered, with only a portion of Kupiansk west of the Oskil river still to be dealt with.  I stated Kupiansk was another strategic point Russia needed to take to win the war, and they've almost done so.  Once they take Kupiansk my prediction was the war would accelerate in Russia's favor until Russia's inevitable victory.  I expect this prediction to also prove true, but also in the strangely time-dilated manner that all Ukraine war developments take.

On America's 250th birthday, I'm celebrating Russia's victory in Ukraine.  Russia is a good country which doesn't bomb little girls or castrate children to further the sick fantasies of rich men, unlike America which glories in these things.  Russia is a good country which doesn't, like the United Kingdom or Sweden, allow recent Muslim immigrants to rape endless women in their country without reprisal, or have hate speech laws forbidding criticism of this policy.  Russia is a good country which doesn't allow sacrilegious 'art' like 'piss Christ' or 'dung Mary.'  Russia is a good country which doesn't intentionally mutate Covid viruses to be highly contagious and lethal to humans -- either 'for the fun of it,' the 'innocent' explanation, or so that they could be intentionally unleashed on America's enemies, China and Iran, which were the first Covid hotspots, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of people.  It also doesn't develop vaccines for the Covid virus America originally developed which are far more lethal to children than the virus itself, and then mandate all children take said vaccine if they ever want to attend school.  Russia is a good country with honest elections -- no mail-in ballots, no intelligence agencies lying and saying Hunter Biden's laptop is 'Russian disinformation,' voter ID requirements, etc.  Almost the entire world has voter ID requirements and no mail-in ballots, so this isn't really something specific to Russia, but it is specific to America.  We're the only country on Earth without even a pretense of honest elections.  Russia is a good country where to be Russian you must have Russian parents, you can't just traipse across the border and gain citizenship like you can here, even if you clearly hate your 'fellow Americans' and wish them ill.

Russia is a good country where leading presidential candidates are given actual security, not 'bumbling nitwits' who let snipers climb nearby rooftops and shoot candidates from near point blank range without interference.  As if any security detail could be that incompetent, which is the official explanation.  It's obvious Biden directed a hit on Trump, his presidential opponent, and ordered the Secret Service to stand down that day.  There's no other way that roof could have been left unpatrolled.  All other explanations beggar belief.

Russia is a good country where there aren't obvious conspiracies like the JFK shooting or 9/11 or the USS Liberty or Project Gladio or the Gulf of Tomkin or the USS Maine or the USS Lusitania or Pearl Harbor where the government deliberately manipulates its citizens into believing whatever the government wants them to believe in order to further their own agenda, instead of listening to and fulfilling the people's will, which was supposed to be the entire point of democracy.

Russia is a good country where integrity and decency is what you take pride in, not deviancy.

America used to be a good country, before Lincoln tyrannized the South in 1861.  It's all been downhill from there, and now we're pretty much rock bottom.  (Is there anything lower than castrating children?)

I would've celebrated America's 50th anniversary, but 250th?  What could we possibly celebrate now?

Okay, I admit America's economy is praiseworthy.  We've been an engine of prosperity and technological growth for the people who live here, and for the entire world, for a very long time.  We've propped up the entire world's economy multiple times (after the World Wars) and saved it from the spread of an economic disaster known as communism.

America's athletes are praiseworthy.  We have many talented athletes who entertain the whole world and win the most medals at the Olympics.  Right now we're doing pretty darn well in the World Cup, the one trophy America hasn't yet claimed in our distinguished history.

Unfortunately America spends trillions of dollars a year to go out into the world and hurt as many people as we can, while making our own people fat, sick, addicted to drugs, depressed, divorced, indebted and sinful.  Sure, you can point to various good things about America, but the balance is so ridiculously negative that it's almost shameful to even mention the good things.  It's like praising Hitler for being a vegetarian.

I spent $66 trying to get the new Niina and Muua SS Memorias, but of course I failed.  Instead I got shrine maiden Risa up to limit break 3.5, which is excellent, and schoolgirl Inori to 2.5, which is worthless, and magician Isuzu to level 2, which is also worthless.  It isn't all bad, though, I still have a lot of leftover paid quartz from the purchase which will help me in the future.  And powering up shrine maiden Risa to limit break level 4 will help out my critical penetration squad, where she's a powerful support to imp Yayoi.  It will also help out in a lot of other, less vital, squads.  All in all I don't mind results like these, especially considering I have the money to spare, so I may as well use it for something I enjoy.