SAOAGGO Rewatched:

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online has now been watched and rewatched, a worthy addition to the SAO corpus, the #1 anime of all time.  When you can hold even with the best anime ever, your spinoff is pretty damn good.  Or in other words, this anime is part of why SAO is the #1 anime of all time.

Llenn and the rhythmic gymnastics squad are adorable, and M is a cool guy in his own way, and creates a lot of humor.  Pitohui's sinister red sith saber, that even has twin lance blades just like Darth Maul, was the perfect antagonist.  Llenn hiding in a suitcase and then absolutely wrecking that special ops force is still just amazing, no matter how many times you watch it.

I wish they'd make a sequel to SAOAGGO, but that will at least have to wait until Alicization ends, there's no point in two SAO shows stealing each other's thunder.

I already gave my opinion on spree killing mosque attendees in an eerily apropos post circa January 31, 2017 --> https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2017/01/should-people-shoot-up-mosques.html

I admit 49 is a much more admirable kill count than 6, but the principal still stands.  This is a large-scale problem requiring a large-scale solution, and individual shooters aren't going to get us anywhere.

Now all I need to do is rewatch Major 2nd and I'll have both watched and rewatched all my ranked anime that isn't currently coming out in full.  That's about as close to fulfilling my promise as humanly possible.  The only way to do better would be to watch everything as it comes out twice instead of once, which just seems a little silly.  This should serve as abundant proof that the anime I feature in my rankings, and detailed in my chronology as to what exactly I'm referring to within each series, really is great, or else how could I have spent so much time on it?  This isn't just pretty words I'm talking about, this is years of my life devoted solely to gargantuan amounts of airtime I'll never get back.  We're talking 9,000 episodes here, 9,000, all watched not just once but twice! (And in the case of my favorite series often 3, 4, or more times. . .)

It's impossible to fake loving a story enough that you'd read it over four times in a single month (ie, my newest book, In Another World With 100 Waifus), and it's impossible to fake loving anime enough that you'd watch it all twice over, despite being 200 series totaling over 9,000 episodes in length.  (By the time all my favorite series end it will probably be over 10,000).  If I love these things so much, it has to be for objective, concrete reasons that appeal to anyone of good sense and good taste.  Which means everyone else should try my recommendations out too and be amazed.