Dune: Part 2 Green-lit:

I subscribed to HBO Max just to watch this movie, so it had better get a sequel!  $15 well spent.  Now I can look forward to 2023 when the second half of this movie comes out.  I think this is the first time Hollywood has chopped a movie in half, sold the first half, and then produced the second half after seeing the first half sold well.  It's ludicrous on the face of it.  Who would buy half a movie?  It's like buying half a car.  But they got away with it so all's well that ends well.

The movie I'm most looking forward to isn't Dune, though, it's Spiderman: No Way Home.  Sadly Spiderman belongs to Sony so it won't be on any handy-dandy streaming service.  I don't like theaters so hopefully at some point I can rent it off of YouTube.

I finished my rewatch of Bleach, including the as-yet-not-in-bd episodes.  It makes me yearn all the more for the 1,000 Year Blood War arc to come out already.  They announced it years ago!  Come on, what's the holdup?  This and Utawarerumono are the biggest teases.  They announced anime adaptions ages ago and after that dead silence.  Not even an air date we could look forward to.  The entire basis of my high rankings for Bleach and Utawarerumono is that they announced these sequels and with these sequels in mind they would be 5th and 13th respectively.  But then the sequels never happened!

Renai Karichaimashita has been great so far.  For the first half I was convinced Emi was the best girl and carefully steered clear of the other girls so I could score Emi, but then I got to know Hasumi better, why she was acting the way she did, and I fell for her against my will.  I bid Emi a tearful adieu and hooked up with Hasumi as she held up a fan of 1,000 yen bills!  So cute!!!

This route will probably end soon enough, and I can go for Emi's route next.  But it's a rare visual novel that can get me to change my mind.

The humor of this series isn't quite Little Busters! level, but it's well done.  The art isn't Little Busters! level, but it's really pretty.  Nothing in this game will make you cry, but it's a freaking comedy so give it a break.

Aiyoku no Eustia still isn't out so Koikari will have to keep me company for at least a while.

442 songs left to reach the 100-playthrough threshold.  I'd say about half of them are western and half Japanese, so it still never gets repetitive even with this smaller selection to shuffle through.