Minori and Ai:

I've added two more characters to my fictional character hall of fame, Minori from Pretty Cure Splash Star and Ai from Oshi no Ko.

Minori has a pretty big role in Splash Star, as this is a series of 50 episodes and only two Pretty Cure -- meaning the little sister of a Pretty Cure actually has a lot of scenes.  And every scene with Minori is moving and memorable, the essence of what makes art great.  Minori is very pretty, but what I like most about her is how realistic she feels.  This is the best representation of a young little sister in fiction.  She adores and copies her Onee-san, is bright and kindhearted, but still overconfident in her abilities and emotionally unstable, which often causes trouble for herself or others.  She exudes the potential to grow up into a great girl and her heart is in the right place so it's impossible to be mad at her, but she's not actually there yet.

There have never been sister Pretty Cure, even after all these seasons.  It's a shame because Minori would have been a perfect one.

Ai isn't a little sister but a mother of the main characters.  Clearly she made mistakes somewhere along the way, but it wasn't her fault the boy she loved turned out to be a murderous shitbag.  Nobody can know the true nature of their lover, especially when they're intentionally hiding it from you.  I'm sure he seemed like a decent guy when she first lay with him.  After that, every decision under her control she made was right.  She decided to have her children instead of kill them in an abortion.  Then she was the most loving mother imaginable to them.  In addition, she was a beautiful and successful idol that anyone can admire, beloved by millions of fans.  (For good reason, her performances are spectacular).  And even when a crazed fan gave her a fatal knife injury, she was so compassionate as to remember his face from various fan meetings and apologize for not being good enough for him.  Then even as she was dying she didn't bewail her own fate but tried as best she could to direct Aqua and Ruby towards a bright future, putting her children above herself to the very end.  That is a life and death of honor.

Apparently Andrew Anglin isn't dead but on hiatus due to 'burnout.'  I guess it was bound to happen eventually, as he's been posting virtually every day for decades, but it wouldn't have killed him to warn his readers in advance he was taking a vacation.  Furthermore, after all the times he said he'd keep writing no matter what this amounts to a broken promise.  Well, I guess honoring all your promises is difficult, but still, to not even give an explanation when you're constantly complaining about having a brain tumor, that's really misleading and rude.

I only post new posts when there's something new to talk about, so I can take long breaks, but I don't ask for donations or make promises I can't keep.  If I ever did decide to quit blogging I would say so and not just leave people hanging.  But I guess the biggest breach of honor is to continuously ask people to fund your 'war chest' in order to change the politics of the nation and then quit.  That's basically theft.  That wasn't charity, that was campaign finance, and when you promise to spend the money on a political campaign you can't then turn around and spend it on your pet cat.

It would have been better for Andrew Anglin if he'd stopped posting due to illness or death, instead of dishonor.  He should take a few lessons from Ai.