Rolling Star:

I'm rewatching Bleach in full blu-ray for the first time, so it's only natural I'm paying attention to its music more than usual.  The fifth opening struck me as hall of fame quality so I added it to my list, though I'm far from getting it to 100 listens like my other songs have already achieved.  That gets me back to the nicer, rounder figure of 5515 songs in all.

Bleach has a great soundtrack all around, if I were feeling ambitious I could add dozens of songs from the series to my hall of fame, but right now I want to finish this project, not add to it.  With 1624 songs left to go I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, so long as I don't heap more work on myself first.

I watched Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision.  Neither were much good, though I guess they weren't terrible either.  Certainly not enough to merit a Disney+ subscription to watch.  But hopefully actual movies, Black Widow and Shang Chi, will be as good as advertised and then Disney+ will make sense.

I have little hope that Loki or Hawkeye or any other Marvel television series will be much good either, given what I've seen so far.  Rather than Marvel tv shows, I'm looking forward to The Wheel of Time tv and the Lord of the Rings tv shows.  There is very little western tv worth watching other than live sports, that's what anime is for.  The west is better at movies.

9 of the top 10 anime are receiving new content in the years to come.  (Pretty Cure, Fairy Tail, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Code Geass, Sword Art Online, and Fate/etc.)  That's pretty phenomenal.  Of course Naruto's new content isn't worth watching, but still.  It means the industry is definitely alive and well despite the low franchise counts of the past two years.  So long as the best anime is getting expanded upon, the rest hardly matters.  I never expected things would be looking so good after Bleach, Fairy Tail and Naruto all ended.  We've been blessed with an unexpected reversal of fortune.  It also means Japan, and the worldwide market as a whole, generally agrees with me on what the top ten series are, or they wouldn't keep investing more and more into them.  They wouldn't be so popular and successful if they weren't great.

I'm really looking forward to 2022.  The World Cup, the Olympics, 9 of the top 10 anime get new content, what is there to dislike?  Surely Aiyoku no Eustia will come out by then as well.

I like the Big 12 getting back to 12 members.  It makes sense for there to be 12 teams in the Big 12.  Plus Houston, Cincinnati, Central Florida and BYU generally have stronger football programs and higher rankings than the 8 remaining Big 12 teams do, so it will enhance the league to be much more competitive than before.  The SEC is going to be a monster with Oklahoma and Texas included, but the Big 12 actually has a fighting chance with the likes of Cincinnati, currently ranked #8 in the country.

It makes me wonder what took so long for these deserving programs to get an invite to the Big 12 in the first place.  Well, all's well that ends well.