This book is available at nyaa.si. It came out yesterday, and I managed to finish it rather quickly. It's a good book with solid plot progress. Miyako warms up to Haruto's attentions, gets started at work and does a good job, and Itsuki marries Nayuta. Chihiro is nude a lot and mainly the butt of jokes, but oh well, you can't win them all. It's nice to see this series wrapping all of its plotlines up satisfactorily. Next volume is the last, where I assume Miyako and Haruto will also tie the knot.
This series is more of a comedy than a romance, but regardless of what it's pushing at the moment it makes you smile.
I'm screening Triangle Strategy's soundtrack for inclusion into my music hall of fame. The successful songs that are worth listening to 100 times will be entering soon enough. Also, the opening movie theme to Da Capo 5's visual novel, sung by the irreplaceable Yozuca*, is a surefire 5-star include once I hear it 100 times. It's a shame English speakers never even got to read a translated D.C. 4, much less 5. . .
The difficulty of the Micaiah levels of Radiant Dawn is ridiculously higher than the other stages with other cast members. One stage took me an entire day to beat. Though I do recall some Three Houses stages that also took an entire day for me to beat, somehow Radiant Dawn is more frustrating and less exhilarating. I'm mostly continuing to play this game out of stubborness, I don't want to lose to it more than I enjoy playing it. The difficulty level is way too high, and this is supposedly 'normal' difficulty. What on Earth would this be like on hard mode?
Russia has now formally legalized its annexation of Novorussiya. The problem is it's all words with no actions to back it up. In the real world Russia is losing all of its conquered territories and soon enough will lose Crimea too, because they are unwilling to do anything to change the momentum. They won't commit more troops to the battlefield and are outnumbered 10 to 1. This massive country of Russia, the largest on Earth, can't match the troop count of their little pipsqueak neighbor. It's so pathetic. Something horribly wrong has happened since World War II. In the olden days the USSR could field 20 million man armies but now they can't manage 200,000. What the hell happened? Aren't we supposed to be richer now than we were then? Then why is everything so pathetic these days in comparison? I blame everything on Putin who, in his pusillanimous way, started a war without first raising remotely a powerful enough army to win it. I never imagined anyone would be that stupid.
So long as Putin remains the leader of Russia they cannot win this war, because he will not do what it takes to win the war. I throw up my hands in despair. The amount of territory they lose per day is breathtaking compared to the complete lack of progress Russia made for months trying to advance. The difference in quality between the two militaries is mind-numbing. Ukraine can do anything effortlessly and Russia never could do anything, not even the most obvious and simple tasks like pushing the Ukrainian artillery away from the capital city of Donetsk so that no more civilians would have to die from Ukraine's ruthless genocidal indiscriminate attacks. If you treat war seriously, like Ukraine did, you can do anything. And if you lack the will to fight there's nothing you can do, no matter how large your country's population or economy or arms industry. It all comes down to will and Russia, for whatever reason, doesn't have any.
Lastly, The Eminence in Shadow has aired and is available with English subtitles, so my top 200 anime rankings are now complete. There are 200 qualified shows -- not cg, not film-length short, and having actually aired and thus actually exist -- in my top 200 rankings. Only BanG Dream's first season is animated as opposed to cg, but that's enough to qualify. Heck the series was in my rankings after the first season anyway. The same is true of Berserk, only the first season is an anime, but that's enough to qualify. It's been a long journey reaching this point. Over a decade of collecting, rating and adjusting. But it isn't quite over yet. Once The Eminence in Shadow stops airing and I can give it its final ranking, not just this provisional number of #199, then and only then can I say my top anime rankings are complete. A perfect guide to everyone else's anime journeys for the rest of time. ((which may not be long given that we're on the brink of nuclear war. . .))
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