Character (Un)Select:

On the 84th playthrough, 'Character Select' bored me half to death with its repetitive, meandering melody, and thus was stricken from the rolls.  The music hall of fame demands better from its representatives, so back to 5516.  Motoi Sakuraba is down to a nice round number of 870.  Well in the lead at 1st place quantity-wise, but I wouldn't be so sure once things are reappraised in terms of quality x quantity a year from now.

I finished Komaki's route in To Heart2.  This was the last route that really interested me.  There are still many more girls I could conquer, but. . . even the routes I have done weren't very good, and the remainder will be even worse.  I feel like the To Heart2 anime really covered all the good material and the visual novel puffed up those good moments with too much filler.  The anime is quite good, but the visual novel is superannuated.  I can't believe I even had to resort to To Heart2.  Aiyoku no Eustia, Majikoi A-4, Rewrite+ and other games should've been out long before now.  But here we are still waiting on the first new visual novel of the year.  It's almost August!

Why was Megan Rapinoe substituted in at the 60th minute, once we were already trailing 2-0?  If she had played the whole game we would've won, but as it was it ended up being a one-sided slaughter.  What horrible coaching.  Luckily this was only the round robin stage, so we'll probably end up okay.  Actually I still expect we'll win the gold.  After all, all we have to do is play Rapinoe from the start and we'd win every game.  The moment she was substituted in she created two goal-scoring opportunities.  Imagine that offensive power all game long and we'd be destroying the competition.

Okyu no Trinity is over.  It was a sweet simple ending.  The manga was never good enough to reach my rankings so it hardly matters.

In about 18 hours the Olympics will have its opening ceremony.  Then there will be meaningful sports events going non-stop for the next couple weeks.  Medal clenching events, no more round robin games.  On top of that, there's still a jam-packed summer anime season ongoing.  This is about as good as it gets.