Hinowa ga Yuku! cancelled due to low sales:

My second favorite manga, Hinowa ga Yuku!, the continuation of the great Akame ga Kill!, has been cancelled due to a lack of fans.  That just goes to show what poor taste the world has.  The story was only beginning, lots of things still needed to happen, all sorts of cool character moments were in the works.  Now it's all gone with the wind.  Hinowa ga Yuku! is by the famous author Takahiro, also responsible for the Majikoi visual novel series and Yuuki Yuuna anime series.  It's hard to believe any of his works would be a professional failure or not have a following.  I don't understand what happened.  To me, Hinowa was as good as any of his previous works or any part of Akame that came before.

Takahiro is still working on many other series, Mato Seihei is getting an anime, it's not like he's become any less popular or any less of a well respected genius in Japan.  But apparently this one series didn't connect to people for some mysterious reason.  I could have accepted Hinowa being cancelled due to the author's poor health, it happens all the time, but poor sales?  That's a disgrace.  The quality of Hinowa is top notch, and there's millions of crappy manga series still ongoing that somehow, apparently, are more popular than this one.  How do all those millions of other series succeed and a magnificent work by a famous author like this one fail?

In other news, Roe v. Wade really was overturned.  I'm glad the Supreme Court stuck to its guns and wasn't intimidated out of its draft decision.

Also, the second cour of Spy x Family is coming soon, October of this year.  It's basically just one season of Spy x Family with a short intermission.  This will make October an even better anime extravaganza featuring all the big guns.  Bleach, Utawarerumono and Spy x Family?  Yes, I'll take that.

Russia took another city, Severodonetsk.  Germany made lots of territorial gains before ultimately losing World War II, so taking territory isn't proof that you'll eventually win.  But when you combine that fact with Russia being three times as populous and three times as rich as Ukraine, it really is playing out as an unemotional bystander would expect.