The latest Kaleid Liner movie is now available in blu-ray, subtitled in English over at nyaa.si. This came out last year in Japan but it wasn't a very long delay for us to see it too. I'm too busy to watch it right now but I'm sure it's great.
The conclusion to Madoka Magica Magia Gaiden also came out recently. I'm too busy for it too but I'm sure it's great.
Shingeki no Kyojin surprisingly won't be concluding until 2023. This 'final' season sure is taking a while. I've already read the manga so I'm not on tenterhooks to know what happens in the anime, but anime is better than manga so I'm still looking forward to 2023 now.
Ken Tensei's Another Wish manga has released its second volume but I'm too busy to read it right now.
March Madness concluded with a suitably epic match. Congratulations to Kansas on their first win since 2008. Better than yet another North Carolina title.
March Madness is one of the reasons I've been too busy to do anything else. But the biggest reason is Fire Emblem: Three Houses. On Maddening difficulty the stages are extremely difficult. Sometimes I spend hours trying to beat a stage only to fail and have to restart the whole thing from the beginning again. This game is brutal and unforgiving. The enemy is always stronger than you, so if you don't carefully plan out every movement of every character to get tactical edges the result is instant death. I'm on the very last stage of the Kingdom plotline and Edelgard has become a nigh unkillable monster with four health bars. Just reaching her is almost impossible but I have no idea how I'm going to kill her once I do.
Even supposing I do beat the last boss the game doesn't end. I just have to start over again, this time playing as the Alliance instead of the Kingdom. At least next time will be easier as I can purchase lots of skill and crest benefits for the new game+.
Fire Emblem is a fantastic, deep, addictive and long game. The Switch has an amazing game catalogue and with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 coming it's only going to get deeper. Triangle Strategy might be good too.
I continue to assert that Russia's non-serious method of fighting the Ukraine war is resulting in a mess. The length of the war needlessly extends as Ukraine figures it has a chance fighting Russia so long as both hands are tied behind their back. The dilation allows all sorts of new interference from the West, and the endless propaganda, whether true or false, means there's always a chance the West will be convinced to 'save' their 'plucky little allies' from 'war crimes.' By trying to spare a few Ukrainian lives they risk billions of people dying in nuclear fire or due to famine (Ukraine/Russia/Belarus account for 30% of the world's wheat and fertilizer supply.) If they'd fought total war like we all did in World War II the war would be long over and life would already be returning to normal for all involved.
World War II is the perfect ideal all wars should aspire to. If you aren't willing to fight a war like we did World War II, with full conscription and economic mobilization, the willingness to kill civilians of belligerent nations, the willingness to take 10% of your nation's population in losses, and the demand that the other side surrender unconditionally such that the future peace can finalize all issues without their recurrence ever again, then don't bother starting a war at all. The reason America loses all its wars is it doesn't fight them like it did World War II. The same is now clearly true of Russia. If Russia fought like they did in WWII Ukraine wouldn't stand a chance, but this isn't the Russia of back then. Stalin must be rolling in his grave.
I still expect Russia will muddle through sooner or later and get its stated objectives, Donbass and Crimea as recognized Russian territory. But the hardships the world will undergo before then will be immeasurably greater because they didn't take my advice. I'm so tired of phony wars where superpowers lose to cave dwellers because they aren't willing to commit enough to the task. It's so humiliating and stupid. What's the use of all our superweapons if we can't beat the likes of Afghanistan? A country's warpower is defined by the formula: population x GDP x technological sophistication x the will to win. If any one of those factors is zero then it's impossible to win a war. If any of them are near zero it's extremely unlikely you'll win. Russia has a higher population, GDP and technological sophistication than Ukraine, but without the will to do what it takes to actually win none of it matters. Putin should have thought of this before invading.
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