Minor Edits:

I'm about 1/3 of the way through my 21st re-read and re-edit of '100 Waifus.'  I hoped to make it through this re-read without changing a single thing, but alas.  I found there were still a few minor issues that needed cleaning up.

For one, I decided for consistency's sake it made no sense to include 'tiara' in Cure Flora's appearance description due to her having one when transformed into a Precure, but not to have 'tiara' in Sailor Moon's description even though she has one when transformed as well.  So I added in 'tiara' to Sailor Moon's appearance description.

The other issue that needed resolving is greater abidance to my own 'ground rules' of child naming.  This meant getting more children to be had by parents of the same franchise.  Now Nagisa properly has a full slate of nothing but Clannad-based children, and Mikan has the full roster of To Love ru-based children.  Combined with the earlier fixes to Nico, Kotori, Orihime and Nayuki the child-mother franchise bond is tighter than ever.

The only exceptions to this rule remaining are MOMO, Sakura Haruno and Rin Nohara.  I'll explain why my plan is to leave them as exceptions -- MOMO does cover all the children from the Xenosaga franchise, which is actually her franchise.  Expecting her to cover all the Xenogears kids just because they're minimally connected seemed like too much of a bother -- especially when I could instead play up the mother-child bond of both being robot girls -- like with Schwi, Beta or Yuki Nagato.

Sakura Haruno and Rin Nohara don't have pure Naruto children because there weren't any more Naruto girls to be had.  It's unreasonable to demand these two have nothing but sons just to make the names match up.  Leaving some extra Naruto sons up for grabs for other girls to have balances things out for everyone involved.  Sakura and Rin already have everyone close to them in the story so it should be fine to leave things at this.

In absolutely every other case the franchise mothers and children are as matched up as humanly possible.  The ground rule does say, 'if possible, the mothers and children should be matched by franchise,' so I'm not even breaking the rule.  The 'if possible' gives me an out for exceptional cases.

In Nagisa's case these changes are extremely beneficial to the reader.  Now that she's having Tomoyo, Kyou, Yusuke, Mei and Fuko herself, confusion can be averted.  There are 2 children named Tomoyo, Kyou, Yusuke, Mei and Fuko in the story, but it's easy to tell that the Tomoyo, Kyou, Yusuke, Mei and Fuko Nagisa have must be from Clannad, and by order of elimination the Tomoyo, Kyou, Yusuke, Mei and Fuko other mothers have must be from other franchises.  This is the beauty of matching children and mothers by franchise -- it removes double name controversies and gives the reader the vital extra information they need to figure out which fictional character we're talking about.

For Mikan as well, there are multiple children named Lala and Momo running around, so it really helps the reader to instantly recognize that her Lala and Momo must be the Devilukes from To Love ru.  Not only am I following my own ground rules better, I'm also making it easier for readers to avoid double naming bouts of confusion.  It's two birds with one stone.

Still, these are comparatively minor edits.  The fictional character hall of fame is the most frequently edited aspect of this book, but it doesn't have any impact on the plot no matter how much it changes.  Most readers will probably never even notice.  And I've already read through 1/3 of the book, and this is all I felt the need to change.  That's amazing.  No capitalization errors, no grammatical errors. . .nothing.  It's such a huge relief as the proofreader to be able to read along so smoothly without ever having to stop.  Due to not having to edit as much, I feel like I'll finish my 21st read-through faster than any of the others.

Even once I finish my 21st read-through the book won't be finished until Tales of Arise comes out and I can fiddle with the names of some of my Tales-based children.  But this too is an extremely minor edit that has no impact on the reader.  It's safe for anyone who wants to start reading now, nothing of note will change in the future.