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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Spy x Family is a great anime:

By the second episode I knew this would turn out great.  The first episode was perfect.  The second episode was perfect.  There's no reason all the remaining episodes won't be perfect too.  I was worried the wife wouldn't be a worthy partner to Loid but Yor is his perfect match.  The three together form the perfect family.  This series is just perfect.

Spy x Family is a strictly superior version of Usagi Drop, so I kicked it out of the rankings to make room for my newest entry.  It will stick around at #197 until I've seen the whole series and know where to place it for real.

Usagi Drop had a lot of problems.  To start with it was only 11 episodes so technically it shouldn't have even been in my top anime rankings, which has a minimum standard of 12 episodes.  Furthermore, in the manga that follows after the anime, the father marries his own adoptive daughter, which is weird, especially considering all the romantic developments he had over the course of the anime with the divorced mother.  The anime is tainted by the future manga source to the point that I don't want to recommend it to anyone, even though the anime is totally wholesome.

This also means I had to restructure the names of Christopher's children in '100 Waifus.'  With Usagi Drop leaving, its representative, Rin, also needed to leave.  To replace her I switched in Hilda from Fire Emblem:  Three Houses.  Hilda is my favorite character in what is fast becoming one of my favorite games of all time.  She's beautiful, charming, winsome, insightful, strong and empathetic.  She has pink hair and twintails.  She's the full package of anything you'd want in a girl.  Plus there are too many Rin's in '100 Waifus' (8 of them), so reducing that to 7 is always a good thing and helps people's memory.

Spy x Family also suddenly needed a representative in '100 Waifus,' so I replaced Rolf from Empire of the East with Loid, the father in this story of three protagonists.  He's one of the coolest boys ever depicted in storytelling, with great fighting strength, a quick wit, a good sense of humor and implacable calm under pressure.  The way he plays along with Anya's antics while still not going along with them is masterful parenting.  It's neither too spoiling nor too harsh.  Unlike James Bond he has no vices, and he's got blond hair and blue eyes to boot.  Like everything about Spy x Family, he's perfect.

By subtracting Usagi Drop and Empire of the East from my franchise count, while adding Fire Emblem and Spy x Family, the honored franchise count stays at a nice round 300.

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