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Sunday, June 7, 2020

3 Names Changed:

As I continue my 22nd read-through of '100 Waifus,' more edits become apparently necessary.  Like usual, most of them fall upon my fictional character hall of fame, ie, the list of children's names.  After reading Moon Cradle, I realized how great Ronie was (now that Reki Kawahara's deigned to flesh her out as a character), and felt the need to include her as a well deserving fictional character in my hall of fame.

The solution was to give Suguha a new daughter named Ronie, move her previous daughter Mirai over to Yui, and cancel Enya from the list to make room.  Enya is a singer/composer, not even a fictional character, so there was no reason for her to be in my list anyway.

Zack (Saved by the Bell) and Martin (Marty McFly) fell upon hard times for a different reason.  They were from pretty tenuously good sources that barely made it in the first place, and they both are repeat names so I was eager to find an excuse to cut them (for the sake of more name clarity and fewer ambiguities due to repeats.)  When Honzuki no Gekokujou created such great mentor characters for Myne going by Benno and Ferdinand I knew I had found my answer.  Until Ferdinand's name was revealed today in the latest episode I couldn't even make this change, but now I have the green light.  Not only are Benno and Ferdinand a perfect mix of strict and kind, straight edge and humorous, they both have unique names that won't create any confusion, unlike the previous stricken two.  All the necessary edits that splashed down from these decisions have also been made.

I'm about halfway through the book so luckily all these edits fall upon future text, so I'll get to read through the corrected version immediately.  The fictional character hall of fame won't truly be done until Tales of Arise comes out and I can replace some of the weaker Tales names, but this is a good start.

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