Infinity World:

It's as I feared.  Infinity World, the final volume, has no firm conclusion romance-wise.  The book is full of hilarious scenes, especially the horror game sequence (I won't spoil it!), which was as funny as anything in Bakemonogatari.  As a comedy it was a grade-A success.  Firill in a wedding dress as a portrait is an artistic masterpiece.  But as a conclusion to his muddled romantic life it's no use at all.  He could get with everyone, or no one, or somewhere inbetween, all we know is that for now he's happy not deciding anything.

So ends Unlimited Fafnir, last son of Denethor.  But this is actually convenient.  Two facts I didn't know before -- Mitsuki actually wanted ten kids, which is exactly the number she ends up having in '100 Waifus' with Christopher, as though the book was written for her sake.  And at no time did Yuu actively choose Iris over Mitsuki, so them ending up in a polygamous marriage is something they were expecting from the start.  These two as part of a harem go together like peanut butter and jelly.  I'll have to edit '100 Waifus' to reflect this reality.

It's so nice knowing more about these two girls.  The books in themselves were wonderful, but I also wanted '100 Waifus' to be accurate and that was impossible until I reached the end of this volume and knew what the hell was going on in the canon version.  Two birds with one stone.  A flower in each hand, as it were.

Even though the ending was like that (cowardly!), it's convenient to my own book so I'll ignore it.

Meanwhile, very inconveniently, the USWNT, undefeated for 44 games going into the Olympics, somehow managed to lose to Canada, who had never beaten them in the last 20 years.  When such absurd things happen against all statistical odds it's no wonder my predictions go wrong.  The women's soccer world cup champions actually dominated all game long but gave up a stupid goal near the end of regulation and then ran out of time to make it up.  What an ignoble ending for a dream team of superstars with a long career of great achievements.  Most of those players are too old to compete again so the whole team will be retiring after this.  *sigh*

On the bright side, our blue-eyed, blonde-haired gymnast, Jade Carrey (what a great name!), won gold on the floor mat, while the black superstar who was supposed to compete sat the competition out due to 'mental illness.'  Aryan supremacy at its best.

Obviously there are difficulties this Olympics.  Japan is on the other side of the world, so all the exciting stuff happens at 3am over here.  There are no fans in the stands.  Lots of people are disrespecting the Olympics with political protests.  It isn't perfect.  But look around you!  Caleb Dressel won 5 gold medals in 5 contested events, all gold!  He swam the best any man has ever swum in history, and set a world record while he was at it.  If you stop grousing and enjoy what's available there's plenty to like.  There's still six days left to catch up with China's gold medal haul.  It isn't over yet.