Ren'ai, Karichaimashita:

It's been a long time since a new visual novel excited me, but this one really looks great.  Like always, this is only out in Japan, and it will likely never be translated.  I long for the day artificial intelligence gains the capability of universally translating all works of art, because until then we'll never get to play this game.  But it exists, so someday, surely. . .

This isn't the first game by Asa Project that looked really good and has never been translated.  I also long for Renai 0 Kilometer and Puramai Wars to receive a translation.  Come the AI revolution. . .  Asa Project will finally get its day in the sun and the respect it deserves, come the AI revolution.

Come the AI revolution, we'll be flooded with so many good visual novels at once that there will never be enough time in the day to play them all.  You'd have to live to age 140 just to cover them all.  The AI revolution is going to change entertainment forever.  You'll never run out of good games, ever again.

Right now we can't even get key's works translated -- Rewrite: Harvest Festa, Summer Pockets and Kud Wafter are still in Japanese only.  Can you imagine?  You produce world renowned hit after hit -- Clannad, Air, Kanon, Little Busters!, Rewrite, and you still can't get your stuff reliably translated into English.  So ridiculous.

But with AI, even Asa Project's entire software library will come available.  This is their 9th game -- not a single one has come out in English.  And there are millions of great companies in Japan just like this one.  All their works are languishing away.

Meanwhile, I dropped 'Each Lullaby' from my music hall of fame.  The problem with the song is it falls into silence, or is so quiet compared to the rest of the song as may as well be silence, for far too long.  I find myself wasting infinite time listening to nothing at all even though the song is supposedly ongoing.  No matter how good the remainder of the song is, I can never get that wasted time back, so to hell with it.  Away it goes.

Now I'm back down to 5,397 songs.  I wonder, by the end of the year, will I have more songs or fewer than what I started with at the beginning of the year?  At this rate. . .

I watched Captain Marvel, and though I felt the 90's were certainly nostalgic, this wasn't actually a good movie.  There were far too many unsolved mysteries by the end of the movie, the plot never really made sense, and Captain Marvel herself with all her politically correct black friends was horrendous.  She spent more time fighting the patriarchy with dumb one-liners than actually doing the world any good.

I can't wait for Endgame to come out so I can cleanse my palate with a worthwhile cast of superheroes.