At the end of S3 they immediately announced a Season 4. There's no telling when it will happen or how long it will be, but it's already proof that, as I predicted, they intend to adapt the entire manga. I was so sure of that that I ranked the series #9 before this season even aired. No new announcement will increase my ranking of this series, because I'm already rating it on the basis that the story will be fully told.
S3 didn't have very good material to work with and it was still amazing. Not as good as the previous seasons, but still better than anything else coming out these days. The studio did another amazing job with the material they had to work with.
The next material isn't much good either, just things heating up for the grand finale, but the actual grand finale is amazing, so it will all be worth it. Like usual the story will be better if it could all flow together in one uninterrupted flow, but animators require more time than that, more's the pity.
I'm up to book #45 in my Xanth reread, Tryst of Fate. It only came out a few years ago but I had completely forgotten the characters and plot of this story. It didn't leave a big impression on me because it wasn't very good. Book #44 is the magical trans book where everyone gains the ability to switch genders at will. What the author doesn't understand is that you can't argue for transgenders in reality, which requires dubious drugs and mutilating surgeries that don't even work, by talking about how great magic to switch genders would be. Transgenders are ugly parodies of the opposite sex, magic that lets you actually switch sexes is totally different -- just like Ranma 1/2 is totally different from the modern transgender movement. It proves nothing.
To make matters even more ridiculous, just like how Santo ended up with a girlfriend despite saying he was gay, the male-to-female transgender in the story, who is biologically Larry but wishes could be 'Laurelai,' still ends up with a female lover, Squid. So after pushing the gay and transgender agenda so hard, both characters end up being normal heterosexuals in the end. It's bizarre and avoids all the actual arguments either for or against these issues. It also introduces polygamy into the mix by having Squid fall for a Demon named Chaos inhabiting Larry's body but also still marrying 'Laurelai,' effectively two-timing the same body. This after denying polygamy to Humfrey who can only date one girl at a time, somehow it's okay for Squid to do it with both at once. Obviously if two spirits inhabit the same body that's two-timing, and likewise if a spirit transmigrated from one body to the next and you slept with each of them that would still be one-timing. What's important is the mind, not the body. Who does Piers think he's fooling?
Meanwhile I'm listening to my 3-star tier of music to find out who actually deserves to be promoted or demoted, as opposed to the slipshod strategy I used in my previous update. Like usual there are more songs deserving of promotion to my 4-star tier than there are songs deserving of demotion from my 4-star tier, creating another pretty pickle. I'll have to cut some of the prospects by having them compete with each other until only the most deserving 3-star songs are left. Grading on a curve is painful.
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