Popcorn N' Roses:

The newest event in Heaven Burns Red featured a new Jun Maeda composition, 'Popcorn N' Roses.'  I wasn't sure what to do with it, but it's slowly won me over.  More importantly, I discovered 'Troops March On' from FF6 was a remix of 'The Empire Gestahl', so I suddenly had an opening in my music hall of fame (which doesn't allow any remixes).

To stay at 5,500 I needed Popcorn.  And to keep my tiers symmetrical I needed to fill the sudden gap in my 5-star tier.  So I promoted Popcorn to 3-star and took the recently demoted from 5-star to 3-star song Unused Shop (from FF Tactics) and promoted it back to 5-star.  Then I gave Benno back Unused Shop as his personal theme song (now that it was 5-star again).  I moved The Trial over to Revya, who is a being balanced between light and dark, in Soul Nomad, so Chrono Trigger is still fully covered.

Revya has been in my fictional character hall of fame before, but was removed due to his/her uncertain gender.  But that same issue exists for many great characters, like Byleth from Fire Emblem, so it shouldn't disqualify Revya either.

While I was at it I added three more Piers Anthony characters to my hall of fame -- Nada Naga from Xanth, Stile from Apprentice Adept, and Hope from Bio of a Space Tyrant.  Nada is one of the most attractive and longest-featured heroines in the long-running Xanth series.  When a series has so many heroines, it's hard for any of them to be memorable, but Nada Naga is unforgettable.

Stile and Hope are cool men who start as nobodies and move up to kings through their own merit and grit, and have fun with girls as a result.  I like carnivore men like that.

Nada got Ami from FF8, because she was always a good friend.  Hope got Battle 2 from FF9, because his life was certainly a boss battle just to survive.  Stile got The Fierce Battle from FF6, because likewise.  This gets my unused song count down to 120.  Still a long ways to go, but a lot better than when I started.

I'm most of the way through the Amane route in Tenshi Souzou Reboot, and my initial intuition of her as a 'wonderful' character was dead-on.  She's been wonderful this entire route.  The more I know her the more I like her.  It'll be sad when I'm done, because nobody else in the cast compares to Noa and Amane.  Well, maybe I'll end up liking Kurumi too, but the others are hopeless. . .