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Thursday, November 11, 2021

Brave Witches Prequel manga:

The first half of this manga was released years ago, but now we have the second half available all at once.  It documents only the first volume of the light novel series of the same name, but it's better than nothing, right?  As always the chapters can be found at mangakakalot.

The manga basically covers how Naoe made friends with the other Break Witches, before Hikari arrives.  One more delayed project brought to completion.

I updated a lot of my permaposts for accuracy.  James Bond movies 'Tomorrow Never Dies' and 'The World is Not Enough' are back in my top 200 movie rankings, replacing 'The Thing' and 'Final Destination 1.'  I decided I can't in good conscience endorse horror movies, because the better they are, the more horrifying they are, the more traumatic they are, especially on young minds.  Some things are better off not known or seen.

Hopefully Shang-Chi will be good tomorrow and I replace another movie, probably 'Curse of the Golden Flower' from my kung-fu films.

There are around 30 ranked manga which will continue releasing content into 2022, whether that be finished manga only now getting translated or manga fresh off the press from Japan.  Manga is going to be huge in 2022.  The endings to UQ Holder and New Game are for sure.  Chihayafuru is highly likely.  So is Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card-hen.  Nichijou, what was thought to be a finished manga, will be resuming in 2022.

There's also a lot of visual novels that were disappointingly not translated in time for 2021 -- Rewrite+, Summer Pockets Reflection Blue, Aiyoku no Eustia, Kud Wafter, Majikoi A-5, etc.  All of these will surely arrive by 2022, making next year look explosively fun.

Bleach has announced an announcement about its anime this December.  The only conceivable thing it could be about is its pending air date, which again should be 2022, or else they would be keeping their mouths shut.

I've been boiling with rage for quite some time that Kyle Rittenhouse was even arrested or charged with anything, given how clear the video evidence for self-defense was from the start.  But it looks like the rest of the world is slowly catching on and he'll be cleared of all charges soon enough.  Unlike with Chauvin justice will prevail.  The Arbery case is also clear-cut self-defense against a serial criminal who tried his luck one too many times, but I have no idea what the jury will rule in that one.

I'm so tired of all these hoaxes, where innocent white men are railroaded by the authorities in order to perpetuate the narrative that America is unfair to minorities.  It all started with Zimmerman.  Before then you could more or less expect justice from the courts, that if you were innocent government was no threat to you.  Now it's a total crapshoot.  Sometimes you get off, like Zimmerman did.  Other times, like with Chauvin or James Fields, who only accelerated his car because it was under attack in an attempt to escape an armed mob, they put you away for life.

When a criminal kills or rapes or whatevers an innocent person, I'm mildly annoyed, because one person out of 8 billion on Earth did something wrong.  But when my government harms an innocent person I'm outraged, because that's 330 million evildoers equally participating in the oppression of the innocent victim.  Crime is obnoxious but injustice is intolerable.  Injustice is worth fighting a revolutionary war over.  You cannot live alongside people who, all together and on average, are as criminal at heart as Ted Bundy.

2135/5510 songs have received a preliminary rating.  Of course it's too early to draw any conclusions from what's happened so far, but I can say one thing already -- Motoi Sakuraba won't be at the top of my music hall of fame once this is done.  Most of his music is only getting 1 star.  No matter how prolific a composer one might be, since my points double per tier (1 point for 1 star, 2 for 2 stars, 4 for 3 stars, 8 for 4 stars, 16 for 5 stars), amassing a giant pile of 1 star songs won't get you anywhere.

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