Hallelujah! The top series I wanted to see animated is being animated, the release date is sometime this year! However, there's a catch -- only a small arc has been announced. It's a good arc, it really is, but it's so short it may as well have been made into a movie. I'm actually quite confused why it wasn't turned into a movie, given how successful the train movie was.
This small arc will be turned into a tv series -- okay. But what about the rather blah arc after it? What will become of that? And then -- what about the tremendous, god-like, best ending in the history of manga arc? Will that be animated? No announcement of that yet. So this is good news but it's also not the good news I was really hoping for. I wanted them to announce they'd finish the whole series like they did Bakemonogatari or Attack on Titan. With the sales it's getting it should be a no-brainer. What are they hesitating for? This is only whetting our appetites.
The same problem with Sailor Moon. At the ending of the latest movie release (which we in America will probably get to see next year), it had a 'to be continued' promise. But a hazy ambiguous promise like that isn't worth anything. Until they actually announce they're going to animate the 5th arc in accordance with the manga (which would be a first for this anime) we're still in as wretched a state as when we began. The biggest problem with the original Sailor Moon series was their butchering of the 5th arc. So every arc has now been corrected except the one most in need of correction!
Sailor Moon is back on my wishlist until that 'to be continued' turns into something concrete. Conversely Kimetsu no Yaiba is off my wishlist, for now, because something concrete has been announced. The rules of my wishlist say I can't be greedy and ask for more of a show if more has already been announced, so Kimetsu had to go, even though I really wish I could wish for more.
Meanwhile, Trump got acquitted, which was guaranteed given that there were 50 Republican Senators and it takes 67 Senators to convict. Still, I hope he never runs again, I hope he keels over of old age or something, because I don't want to spend any more time talking about Trump in my life. I don't want to defend his antics anymore, even though of course they didn't rise to an impeachable offense and it's absurd to impeach someone after he's already a month out of office. I want him out of my head. He's another failure like all the others. He doesn't deserve to be thought of anymore.
Much more important to me, I received a laudatory comment for '100 Waifus' over at Scribble Hub. All those edits were worth it if it meant giving this reader an easier time. It appears he really did read it all the way through to the end and came away with a positive impression, so that's as good a stamp of approval as I can ask for. The money quotes are:
I'd like to start off saying that you really blew me away with how well written the more emotional interactions were between Chris and the wives. When Chris cried, it made me want to cry. When he was touched, I was touched.
And:
The way he holds his wives in such high regard and how they reciprocate is really every otaku's dream.
It can no longer be claimed that I'm hallucinating or have delusions of grandeur. There are other people out there who see the same things I see. If they can appreciate the book, the fault isn't in me if you don't. It just means you don't live up to the quality necessary to be as good a reader as this guy was.
Still, I'd love to hear more approving comments concerning this book or any of the other books I have posted on my permapost sidebar. Affirmation is a wonderful thing I could always use more of.
Meanwhile, I'm most of the way through the latest Xanth book. It's been a hard slog and at $16 it totally wasn't worth the price. I feel like I'm this far into the series though, it would be crazy to give up now. The satisfaction of seeing this through to the end is worth a bad book every now and then, or even a bunch of bad books in a row. Hopefully Piers Anthony dies soon too and then I won't have to follow this series anymore. He's already 84. How much longer can the series really go?
I'm most of the way through the Vikings tv series. It's cool that it's based off of the actual sagas, but the primitive folkways of the past, whether pagan or Christian, aren't appealing. I find myself fuming over everything that happens and every decision every character makes. They're so stupid, slutty and cruel and all they do is kill people and break things. What a horrible mode of life. I'm glad I was born in the present, where reason takes precedence over superstition and law over violence.
Once I finish Vikings and Skeleton Key I can refocus on Xenoblade Chronicles X and the other Nintendo Switch rpg's I've recently purchased (including Bravely Default II which comes out in a couple weeks). All I really want to do is read Aiyoku no Eustia but it remains stubbornly in 'translation check.' But with all these games on my plate I should stay occupied one way or the other.
Healin' Good Precure, for all intents and purposes, ended yesterday. It was a fantastic episode. The series ends next week. I'm not only about to finish watching it, I'm also about to finish rewatching it, since I synced up my rewatch to be at about the same time as the ending of the broadcast. Everything I list as great requires a rewatch, and this is about as fast a rewatch as one can ask for, but it's well worth it. The series has tons of wonderful and impactful moments as befits my favorite anime of all time (Pretty Cure as a whole, not just Healin' Good, but Healin' Good is part of why Pretty Cure as a whole is so good).
Of all things I didn't expect to see, the latest episode of Pretty Cure has the villain quoting Hitler, "to live is to fight," and Cure Grace, the heroine and protagonist, agrees. I didn't see that coming. Both the villain and the hero admit the premise that nature demands contest and struggle and there's no point sugarcoating it. Nodoka simply sees a better way to fight and a better opponent to fight with than the villain does. Now that's fair and balanced newscasting.
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