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Sunday, March 7, 2021

Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure is great:

After two episodes of delightful Laura-Manatsu interactions I can safely conclude this will be a great anime.  Pretty Cure almost always is great, it's weird when it isn't.  I can't explain what happened with Kira Kira and Huggto being awful back to back.  Too much pushing of the LGBT agenda I guess.

The point is Tropical Rouge isn't like those two seasons.  It has a solid theme, great new characters, beautiful visual design, and there's nowhere to go but up.  Laura starting to appreciate how rare a good person is and how hard it is to find a second even when you're fed up with the first is a wonderful lesson for us all.  Treasure the people you've found because you'll never find any more.  Even though there are billions and billions of humans they're all worthless and you'll never find anyone again.

If there are this many life lessons to be found in just the first two episodes of the series I can't wait to see the next 40+.  Plus have you seen Cure Summer's design?  That rainbow ponytail?  The bare midriff?  She's amazing!

Most of the cast of Tropical Rouge Precure hasn't even been introduced yet, so it would be premature to add my favorite Tropical Rouge characters to '100 Waifus.'  I don't know who my favorite characters are yet, or if they're better than the Pretty Cure who are already in '100 Waifus,' two things I need to know before I can make any changes.  Ideally Manatsu and Laura would replace Karen and Makoto, thus giving me two more unique names.  Even if Manatsu and Laura are slightly worse the appeal of having original names is weighty.

As far as I can tell, Musubimonogatari really is the conclusion.  The remaining volumes jump back in time and cover Araragi's college years.  So actually we do know the ending to Bakemonogatari.  For some reason or another, he loses every bond he gained during the rest of the series and is now a bitter sullen mystery detective, the end.  All right.  I guess it is the author's world to nuke as he sees fit.

At least with the time warp backwards it's possible these six volumes occur before Araragi becomes embittered, so it could be good content again.  I'm still looking forward to Shinobumonogatari.

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