Crossover Redux:

There was a small deception in my previous Crossover post.  Though it was true that more songs had crossed the 100-playthrough threshold than not, it was not true that more total minutes of songtime had.  This is because I listened to all the short songs first to bolster my numbers.  But now even this threshold has been met.

6.2 days of playtime have crossed the 100-playthrough threshold, 6.1 days of playtime haven't.  Now by any conceivable measure it's all downhill from here.

It's only by a small margin, but the remaining unfinished songs still have a median of 87 playthroughs.  So now even by total minutes left, I only have 13% of 50% to go. (6.5%)

I've had to listen to music intensively around-the-clock to square away this discrepancy but now it feels great to be done.  Of course, I'm only 93.5% done.  That last push remains, and if I add in more good music over the year the goal will retreat yet further away.

It's the same with my Full Clear post.  It's true that I reached a full clear, having watched and rewatched all great anime.  But then I deleted Grave of the Fireflies from my rankings and added in Shadows House, which I had not rewatched yet.  So suddenly I wasn't really 'fully cleared' after all.  Well, this problem can't be fixed until the series is done being released, but I'm both watching and rewatching every episode as it comes out so the moment episode 12 is released I'll have squared away that little problem too.

Rewatching old established content's sequels and spinoffs isn't necessary to prove a series is great -- it would be great even without the newest content -- but Shadows House is different because it's a series with no prior track record.  I haven't rewatched any portion of this show yet because this is the first season.  So proving this is good by rewatching it is my top priority.

Edens Zero and Kanojo mo Kanojo aren't the same because I've read their manga.  I know exactly how good the anime will be because I've seen the story it's going to adapt already.  In a sense the anime is my rewatch of the story.  But of course I'll get around to rewatching them as well, it's just a matter of priorities.

Of the remaining 2506 songs to go, what is their makeup?  A good deal of it is western rock, movie soundtrack, video game and classical music, because I added it in later so it's had fewer cycles.

However, most of it is still the usual suspects -- 213 by Hitoshi Sakimoto, 209 by Yasunori Mitsuda, 159 by Yoko Shimomura, 198 by Motoi Sakuraba, 248 by Nobuo Uematsu, 70 by Naoshi Mizuta, 73 by Junichi Nakatsuru, 40 by Yuki Kajiura, 34 by Toshiro Masuda, 33 by Masaharu Iwata.  So altogether 1277 songs by the same famous composers that make up much of my finished music.

It might be a slightly bigger chore to listen to my remaining music due to its western (and thus inferior) bent, but these reliable stalwarts will help the medicine go down.  They'll escort good and bad alike across the finish line.