Sousou no Frieren gets ranked early:

After watching the trailer for the upcoming Sousou no Frieren anime, I'm confident it will be great (and the anime will properly follow its source), so I decided to rank it ahead of time, before it starts airing this fall.  This is because I've already moved on from Ginga E Kickoff, which Sousou replaces, having already deleted any mention of it in '100 Waifus.'  Sousou was already in effect in my top anime rankings, and Ginga was already in effect out of my rankings, so it was better to just make things official.

I went ahead and added all the series that are planned to air in 2023 to my great anime chronology as well.  As things stand 2023 will have 24 great series with additional new content, which is about the average of this new Covid-19 era.  But who knows, that number might expand if new great series I don't currently know about catch my eye.  It could also shrink if more series are postponed.  The current list is just an estimate.

The ending to 'The Last of Us' was pretty ridiculous.  The Fireflies apparently attack everyone who enters their territory on sight, without any attempt to discern friends from foes.  Then they apologize for attacking Joel and say instead they're going to do brain surgery on Ellie to save the world.  Joel doesn't like the idea of that so kills all the Fireflies in the entire base and kidnaps her away, lying to her and saying she isn't a cure for zombification after all.  Both sides in this conflict acted so stupidly that I throw my hands up in the air.  The world deserves to be overrun by zombies with humans acting like this.  What a dumb ending to what was such a good show.

Oh well, perhaps season 2 will fix this most bizarre plot twist in history.  It actually reminds me of another HBO show, Game of Thrones, where Daenerys randomly burns down her own capital city after it's already surrendered, despite being compassionate for the entirety of her previous existence.  What's with protagonists in American shows suddenly, for no reason, with no foreshadowing, deciding to kill everyone on the last episode?  Why is this a trend?

I've finished the donations quest in Fire Emblem Engage, every kingdom is now maxed out.  All that's left is support skits and getting all my characters to max level/optimal skills.  It's crazy how much of the game comes 'after' the game is supposedly beaten.