Congratulations to Precure on their 900th episode of great quality anime:

I'm a Precure connoisseur, I don't accept any and all seasons as great, only the actually great ones.  But when you add up all the great episodes and great movies of Precure, today is the day the legendary series broke the 900 barrier.  No other anime has even reached 600 yet, and here Precure is at 900.  Of course most series are lucky to get 25 episodes.  The rarified air Precure lives in is truly ridiculous.

Nevertheless, the repeat animation and repeat situations of normally episodic Precure episodes means this number should be taken with an asterisk.  If you were looking for genuinely original content, I'd say Precure is around 300 episodes long.  The problem with saying 'it's actually 300 eps long,' is viewers still have to watch the episodes in full, there's no 'abridged Precure' or 'Precure Kai' fan edit, so it actually is 900 episodes long.  It's a 900 ep long slog that feels as rewarding as 300 eps.  It's the price all Precure fans must pay.

900 is ridiculous, but even at 300 eps worth of distilled quality content, that's very rare.  That puts Precure in the company of other titans like Dragon Ball, Fairy Tail, Naruto and One Piece.  And whaddya know, Precure is in the top ten alongside all those guys.  There's no fighting the sheer enormous quantity of Pretty Cure.  It's like Germany versus the Soviet Union.

Speaking of Dragon Ball, Daima is better than I expected.  I was prepared to rate it as great as simply a fillip to the dead Akira Toriyama in honor of his passage, but that isn't necessary because it actually is great.  He still had it.  To his dying day Akira was a genius.

As of now the fall season is airing new episodes of canon #1 ranked Fairy Tail, #2 ranked One Piece, #4 ranked Precure, #5 ranked Bleach, #6 ranked Dragon Ball, and #7 ranked SAO.  Such a legendary lineup has never happened before and will never happen again.  It borders on the miraculous.  Like every planet in the solar system lining up as they revolve around the sun.  You won't see this again in 500 million years.

What a time to be alive.  Savor and cherish this moment, because the world could plunge into nuclear fire at any moment.  Israel vs. Iran, Russia vs. USA, everything is right on the brink.  In a few weeks the world economy could mean anime can no longer afford to be aired and no one will have the internet to receive it.  All satellites above Earth could be destroyed.   Or we could just all be dead and thus unable to view this lineup.

This is such a weird moment in world history for so many different reasons.

If we do manage to survive World War III, at least we have the ending to Hero Academy to look forward to.  They announced a final season that covers the rest of the manga starting next year.  One more mega-project to scratch off the to-do list.

The Ohio State vs. Oregon game was as good as I said it would be.