The Price is Tolerable:

Today was the release of a new event in Heaven Burns Red.  The event itself was fantastic, about one of my favorite characters, Hisame, the loli genius swordswoman.  It appears she had a traumatic past wherein she had to kill her own fellow disciples to graduate as the master of her sword arts.  She refused to do so, but the other disciples had other plans and Hisame ended up the sole survivor anyway.  Then she went on a killing spree against the masters who set up the death game and in the end she was the only person left in the entire dojo.  On top of that a Cancer arrived.  Only seraph weapons can defeat Cancers, so everyone in the village was doomed to die anyway, though ironically Hisame was scarier than a Cancer.  In fact, Hisame spent an entire day wailing on the Cancer with her sword to the point that the Cancer grew too disturbed and confused and ran away.

Hisame's frustration is the Cancer ate her friends' corpses so she at least wanted to kill this Cancer.  But deeper in her heart she really wanted to die by this Cancer's hands and join her friends -- except the Cancer is too afraid of her swordplay and always runs away when she approaches.

Hisame's trauma is solved when her new friends in the Seraph butai convince her that whatever happened in the past is past and now it's time for her to move forward.  They also help her take down the Cancer by surrounding it and not letting it retreat anymore.  For a while I thought maybe Hisame really would kill it with her normal physical sword, she's such an esteemed prodigy, maybe she could overturn all physics and logic.  But no, she eventually gave up and used her seraph gun to kill it, so the laws of physics hold.  For now.

The event also came with a new group of SS Memoria you could recruit.  There was a special paid quartz event featuring the winners of the popularity poll -- which meant the best characters' best memorias were on a special sale offer.  With a deal like that I simply couldn't miss it and forked over $45 for the right to roll randomly between the 7 girls on offer.  I lucked out and got the two best options -- swimsuit Yuina and thunder Tama.  They're both very beautiful, as expected of the winners of a popularity contest.  Thunder Tama even contributes a new skill I can cast with Magical Girl Tama, so she properly aids my vanguard power party too.  With swimsuit Yuina I can now field a full squadron of 6 swimsuit-clad girls.

At the same time, you can use your free quartz (quartz you get from playing the game instead of paying Yostar money) to try and recruit a new Hisame in pajamas.  Obviously I also want that, but I failed all my rolls and she still eludes me.  That's why I'm still not satisfied with the results.

Hisame is growing in importance daily because I found the latest score challenge couldn't be beaten with Karen.  It only worked when I added Hisame to my power party instead.  The latest score challenge is pretty crazy, though.  I had to beat another Orb Boss III to get another thunder bane orb just to stand a chance against the score challenge boss.  With that tactic I was able to score 262,000 points and get most of the high score rewards, but by no means all of them.  There are still rewards climbing all the way up to 400,000.  It took heroic efforts -- I must have tried a dozen times, to get 262k, so there's no way I can get any higher.  This game continuously reminds me that no matter how much time and money I invest into it I'm still not doing enough.

It's pretty shameful that Hisame with a level 1 limit break is stronger than Karen with a level 2 limit break and an eternal daphne, but what can I say.  They made Hisame's Munechika ability so broken that it defies the laws of physics, much like how she's going to be the first person to defeat a Cancer with a sword someday.  All I can do is lean in to it and make use of the tools they give me.

Speaking of the popularity poll, the winners were the six main characters plus Yuina, Mari, Charlotta and Erika.  I can agree with all those selections except for Yuki, who I hate because she bullies Tama.  But I was especially happy to see Charlotta in the top ten.  It appears the English speaking world loves Russian lolis as much as I do, despite all the bad press ginned up against Russia.  The heart is wiser than the head.

The event also gave me some dungeon passes so I stocked up on some more powerful thunder and light rings.  That was especially productive.  I also got base Bungo's SS Memoria by free ticket, which I guess is worth something.  Bungo is pretty much the last character I'd play willingly, but SS is SS.

Meanwhile I'm most of the way through Chisaki's route in Riddle Joker.  Chisaki is Nanami's best friend and also incredibly beautiful, sort of like Sherria and Wendy.  In fact Chisaki and Sherria share the same red hair with blue eyes combo, which is perfect.  The only difference is Sherria has big breasts while Chisaki has small ones like a proper loli.  But enough about how good looking Chisaki is.  She's also a great girl -- friendly, bashful, wise, bold and indignant against evil.  After seeing how she behaved around Nanami, Satoru, and the train molester she made it her life goal to catch, I quickly promoted her to my wonderful hall of fame.  I kicked out Hazuki to make room, who is only good for her looks -- and at that point who cares because Chisaki is also better looking.

Between Heaven Burns Red and all these Yuzusoft visual novels I can't imagine a better life.

Nanami Route Cleared:

Honestly this feels like beating all of Riddle Joker, considering how much better Nanami is than all the other girls.  Riddle Joker is a fantastic game already, all it ever needed was Nanami.  If I had known about Nanami before I wrote '100 Waifus' she would've been one of them.  That's how great she is.

As for what happened in the actual route, it was basically what you could expect.  Nanami confesses to Satoru that she's always loved her Onii-chan since they were kids.  Then it does an amazing backstory about how Nanami was emotionally abused in her original family, which led to her being adopted into the new family with Satoru, and how Satoru gradually taught her how to open up and trust other people again.  Everything about Nanami makes so much more sense now -- she became a hacker because her birth parents wanted her to do crimes to make money for them.  She became a cook because she wanted to be useful to her new family so they would value her unlike her original parents.  She joined Satoru's crime fighting organization so she could continue spending time with him and look after him.  There's a meaning behind every trait she possesses, a purpose to it.  A life course.  She isn't just a random assortment of traits, but a willed individual pursuing specific ambitions.

Then Satoru and Nanami work with their friends from school to defeat a gang of kidnappers.  Nanami pays off all her friends for their hard work with home-cooked gyoza, and everyone lives happily after.  (How happy I would be to eat Nanami's home cooking!)

I also played Nanami's after stories because I wanted all the Nanami I could get.  Sadly it's all over now and I'll have to choose some other girl to romance.  On the bright side there's still plenty more of Riddle Joker left to play, and Noble Works after that.

Nozomi is the best girl in Cafe Stella, and Noa is the best girl in Tenshi Souzou, but Nanami is the best girl in all of Yuzusoft's long history.

Riddle Joker is great:

I'm still on the common route of Riddle Joker but it's already obvious this is a great visual novel.  Basically the world is like Railgun, full of espers with super powers, and our hero is like Kuroku, a member of Justice who fights criminal espers with his own esper countermeasures.  There are two main differences -- his organization is a secret organization, unlike Kuroko's;  and he has an incredibly cute sidekick step-sister, Nanami.  Like Uiharu, Nanami is a genius hacker, but she also has the healing esper ability, making her even more useful to our hero, Satoru.  The fact that she's only his step-sister, because they're both adopted foster children, implies there's going to be a bright romantic future for the two once I leave the common route, which is also an improvement over Kuroko's hopeless love.

Nanami has blonde hair and red eyes, so she shares Fate's characteristics.  She also has a rockin' bod, which I guess is similar to Fate's adult body.  I feel like Fate is one of the most beautiful girls in anime, but Nanami is probably prettier.  The only Yuzusoft heroine who could compete with Nanami in looks is Noa, and she's a literal angel.  That isn't all that's praiseworthy about Nanami though.  She's a special agent who fights for the sake of justice, which is awesome.  She loves her Onii-chan and goes out of her way to take care of him -- waking him up in the morning, cooking and doing the rest of the household chores for him, and heals him to max health at every opportunity.  When he's away on a mission she worries about him, proving she cares.  She also cooperates with him on missions and cleans up after him when he makes a mistake.  Did I mention she's an otaku who enjoys making her own cosplay outfits and posing in them at comiket?  She's shy and embarrassed around strangers and blushes easily when Satoru praises or teases her.

To put it simply, she's an unbelievably ideal girl.  Obviously she joins my wonderful hall of fame, replacing Hiromi from that cycling anime with the long name.  I can't say any of the other girls in the game stand out.  They aren't annoying but there's nothing memorable about them either.  Well, maybe once I go down their individual routes and learn more about them, I'll grow to like them, like I did Suzune.  But for now all this game needs is Nanami.

Riddle Joker replaces Shuffle! in my visual novel hall of fame.  I also went ahead and downloaded Noble Works, another English translated Yuzusoft visual novel, in anticipation of the day I finish Riddle Joker.  Yuzusoft can do no wrong, so I'm sure I'll enjoy Noble Works too.  It's so sad that such a great company, with so many smash hits, can't get a translation of its magnum opus, Tenshin Ranman.  Why oh why, with so many other translations, would you ignore the one game we need most?  But either way the Yuzusoft era won't be ending anytime soon.

Cafe Stella read:

I finished the Natsume route and with it the game as a whole.  It turns out Natsume was a lot more attractive before she becomes Kousei's girlfriend than after.  She's really acerbic, and none of it for any good reason.  She always has some reason why she doesn't want to have sex, it gets really annoying.  As a result, I dropped her from my fictional character hall of fame, putting Wonder Woman, otherwise known as Diana, in her place.

Wonder Woman never treated her lover as badly as Natsume treated Kousei.  She was very sweet.  Plus she goes around saving children and defeating Gods in order to save the whole world.  She's pretty damn cool.  Natsume looks fantastic, but Gal Gadot playing as Wonder Woman wasn't half bad either.  So all in all, I have to say Diana has earned her place.

Diana Prince was a good replacement, but I honestly don't have anybody else in mind left.  I can't afford to change my wonderful list a single slot from here.  So today finishes not only Cafe Stella but also my fictional character hall of fame.  Who knew it would take 325 additional characters just to fill up all my 5-star songs with personalized names?  I was excited when I reached 100 characters above and beyond what was found in '100 Waifus'.  To think there were still 325 worthy souls out there left to honor. . .  The book could have carried on for a whole three generations more!  If only I had something more interesting than names left to write about.  >>.

Between Cafe Stella and Tenshi Souzou, I prefer Tenshi Souzou.  But Cafe Stella has its own unique charm, like how fun it was to work, that I don't really see in other visual novels.  Cafe Stella and Tenshi Souzou together are better than either one separately, so it's better to think of them as a pair set.

Still, Yuzusoft has never matched Senren * Banka.  Of course, I hear Tenshin Ranman is the best visual novel they made, but like usual the best works are never translated.  So we'll never know.  For some reason Riddle Joker by Yuzusoft has a translation while Tenshin Ranman doesn't, so I guess I'll play Riddle Joker next.  I have no idea if Riddle Joker is good, but Yuzusoft hasn't let me down yet.

4 characters stuck at 1/2 of a limit break:

I've gotten a good haul of free SS Memorias lately -- I got base form Karen, vulpine Miya, the ticket based Yurippe, and a luck based Isuzu.  But it's all no use because 10 shards aren't enough to give people limit breaks beyond level 2.  For level 3 and level 4 limit breaks I need 20 chance-based shards, or more realistically, 10 chance based shards and 10 protean shards.

Currently I have 4 girls stuck in limbo -- bathing suit Sumomo is waiting on her level 4 limit break, while bathing suit Tsukasa, base Isuzu and base Ichiko are waiting on their level 3 limit break.  All four are girls I use regularly in my strongest parties, so they're all a priority.  >.<.  I guess if I had to choose it would be maxing out Sumomo.  But with only 4 protean shards getting anyone where they should be is going to take a long time.

At least I've upgraded everyone's charm equipment to reasonable levels.  It's all +2 or above when it comes to the four stats that scale -- Dex, Str, Spi and Vit.

I'd say my strength has surpassed everything the game expected of me, except for the existence of the clock tower on hell mode.  I'm stronger than everything else in the game, but way weaker than that challenge.  I'm not sure what they were thinking, making hell clock such a different dimension from the rest of the game.

I flipped a few lower tier songs to 5-star and vice versa.  Amaryllis, Soul Universe, Theme of the 100 Years Quest, Toxic, GG, As Swift as Wind, and Rise Up High! were the beneficiaries, with Tyrano Castle, Under Martial Law, Aozora, Memories in the Earth, Share the Light, Mining Town and Castle Damcyan being the victims.  So my music hall of fame wasn't quite done -- but now it is.  As usual it was vocals going up and instrumentals going down, as vocals are more moving and memorable.  The only unusual aspect is Amaryllis is sung by a boy.  I don't tend to like male vocalists, but this one is special.

As for Cafe Stella, I beat the Kanna route -- she's very beautiful but it was pretty cheap of the story to revive her from the dead.  Well, the story was lame, but she herself was still a wonderful person, it's not like she wrote the story, so I stand by her inclusion in my hall of fame.  Now I'm on the Mei route, the only girl so far that's not in my hall of fame from this game.  Maybe I'll change my mind by the end of the route, though.

Okay, now I've finished the Mei route, and I haven't changed my mind.  She's very pretty, especially when her bangs aren't hiding her left eye, but she has an annoying tendency to complain and dither and be wishy-washy about everything.  I like sincere girls more.  Strangely I feel like Suzune was more attractive in the Mei route than Mei herself. . .  In any case, now all that's left is the Natsume route and I'll have finished this double helping of visual novels one after the other.  Does life get any better than dating this many great girls in a row?

Bill Clinton is a mass murderer and a rapist:

Go ahead and censor this, Blogger.  Call it a 'misleading claim' and 'hate speech.'  It's still the truth.

Bill Clinton was accused of rape by Juanita Broderick, with plenty of evidence to confirm her claim.  She had visible injuries photographed after her encounter with Clinton where she said he tried to rape her.  She had witnesses who report being told by Juanita on the very day or soon after that Clinton raped her.  How much does it take?  Remember Trump was farcically convicted of defaming a girl for claiming he did not sexually assault her, though she had no evidence the sexual assault happened and couldn't even remember what year it happened.  So that's the standard for Trump, but it's a 'misleading claim' to believe Juanita Broderick?

Bill Clinton was also accused of sexual assault by Kathleen Willie (whose husband 'committed suicide' the same day) and by Paula Jones.  Several other girls who had affairs with Bill Clinton mysteriously ended up dead.  Gennifer Flowers, who proved she had an affair with Bill Clinton, made clear over and over again that she is not suicidal and is very careful when driving, and therefore she alone has survived.

Bill Clinton has traveled on the 'Lolita Express' to Epstein's Island dozens of times.  What was he doing there?  Playing golf?  Or committing statutory rape?  We'll never know since Epstein conveniently 'committed suicide.'

As did Susan McDougal's husband, who was in jail for doing corrupt business with Bill Clinton.  Or maybe he died of a heart attack.  Or maybe he died because Clinton murdered him to shut him up.

Vince Foster also 'committed suicide.'  The day before he was going to testify on Clinton's corrupt business practices.

Ron Brown died in a convenient plane crash.  Then the air safety investigator investigating the case committed suicide.

Bill Clinton is responsible for all of his agencies, including the ATF and the FBI.  He sicced those agencies on the innocent women and children of Waco and burned them alive.  That was a massacre and the buck stops with Clinton.  He is also responsible for the murder of the innocent mother who was headshot at Ruby Ridge while holding her baby for no reason at all by a sniper -- and then he promoted that sniper as a reward for the sniper's murder.  Two different British analysts proved it was the ATF or FBI or whoever that set the fires to the Waco compound, burning the women and children alive -- and both of them died in freak events afterwards.

Bill Clinton is responsible for the foreign policy during his time.  This included Iraqi sanctions that his own secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, admitted killed 500,000 Iraqi children due to the deprivation of food and medicine the sanctions caused.  Albright said it was 'worth it.'  Bill Clinton didn't fire her afterwards or anything.  His silence means he must have agreed with her, that it was worth it.  The 500,000 dead Iraqi children are all blood on his hands.

By the way, Osama Bin Laden cited that horrendous massacre of Iraqis for why he felt he had to strike back at America on 9/11.  So you could say the 3,000 dead in 9/11 are also Clinton's fault.  But actually, there's another way he's responsible for those 3,000.  There was a time when Osama was caught in a plane in Sudan and the head of the government there offered to deliver him to Clinton for arrest/extradition and Clinton said 'no, don't bother, let him go.'

Numerous authors who wrote incriminating investigations of Clinton died by suicide or other strange events.

Seth Rich, who pretty much is established to be the DNC leaker, which hurt Hillary's chances in the 2016 election, died by a mysterious 'mugging,' in one of the safest places in D.C.  Only the muggers never bothered to take a single thing from his corpse.  They just blazed him down and left.  As muggers are wont to do, I guess.

Numerous people who found evidence against Clinton in trunks of cars or the like later ended up dead.  Almost all of Clinton's bodyguards died one way or the other.  Somehow the bodyguards of other presidents didn't all die, so saying it's 'a dangerous job' doesn't cut it.

Bill Clinton defamed a general who later committed suicide in traumatized response.  That's basically murder.

Bill Clinton started a war on Serbia for the sake of Muslim terrorists, the Kosovar Liberation Front, killing another bushel of people.  We are told that territorial integrity is so sacred it's worth going to nuclear war over, so it's very strange that it's okay to murder thousands of Serbians for the sake of self-determination, at the express expense of Serbia's territorial integrity.  So either Clinton is a mass murderer for supporting Kosovo, or Biden is a mass murderer for supporting Ukraine.  You can't have it both ways.

Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash when it looked like he was going to lose Clinton's Senate majority.

Monika Lewinsky, in her call to Linda Tripp, said she couldn't possibly dare to release the audio tapes proving he had an affair with Monika, because you 'know what happens to people who cross the Clintons.'  What did she mean by that, except the obvious?  Who would know better than Monika whether her lover was a murderer?  She seemed convinced he was.  So did Gennifer Flowers, another lover of Clinton.  Wouldn't they know?

But perhaps the slam dunk, indisputable mass murder Clinton is definitely guilty of was when he was governor of Arkansas.  Clinton received a bribe from a prison in Arkansas to look the other way while the prison sold unscreened, unvetted prisoner blood to hospitals.  Criminals tend to be drug users and have lots of gay sex with each other, so this unscreened blood had a high proliferation of AIDS in it.  The 'donated' blood was then used to treat thousands of people, including hemophiliacs in France, which then infected and killed them all.  This of course was at a time when AIDS was a death sentence and there was no treatment.  For a quick buck Clinton killed them all.

The stench of death that surrounds Clinton hits everyone around him.  His former lovers, his political rivals, his political opponents, his business partners, anyone who witnessed him doing a crime, any investigative journalist, his bodyguards -- and 500,000 kids in Iraq whom he deliberately starved to death and then said 'it was worth it.'

I don't need to prove that every single strange death around Clinton was definitely a hit job.  Through Bayesian logic, the probability of every single one of them being a coincidence is practically impossible.  1 in quintillion or something.  It's enough to believe that some of those people had to die by Clinton's hand, because the math of probability simply doesn't work any other way.  I can't tell you which ones were coincidence and which ones were murders, but I can assure you that some of them had to have been murders, because that's how probability works.  It's like the electron cloud.  If you see an electron cloud, you can be assured the electron is somewhere in there.  If you see a cloud of death surrounding Clinton, you can be assured a murder was somewhere in there.

And yes, I think Bill and his wife Hillary, who was clearly in on it (her enemies drop dead as often as his enemies do), should burn in hell once they die too.  I would be very happy if I heard Bill Clinton also had late stage prostate cancer.  They are two of the most evil people to have ever lived, and to make matters worse, these two so clearly evil people have escaped any consequences for their evildoing their entire life.  Which means God and Hell are the only justice we can ever pray for when it comes to these two.  If they don't burn in Hell, then the world is fundamentally broken and unforgivable.  These people need to burn in Hell if anyone else can have hope on Earth.  According to Blogger this opinion is too 'hateful,' but I wonder who should be hated if not these two?

4 more switches:

I finished the Suzune route in Cafe Stella and she was so cute and cool I had to add her to my wonderful hall of fame.  That meant one of my four villains in Dead Enders had to go -- Ryu, Hank, George or Cho.  But there's no real difference between the four -- they're all villains, they're all minor characters, and they're all from my own book -- which means they all have three strikes against them.  I'm trying to minimize self-promotion as it damages the credibility of my list (even when the entries are merited), I prefer heroes over villains, and I prefer major characters over minor characters.

With that in mind I decided it was time to go ahead and replace all four at once.  I had a good idea for a second replacement -- Chinatsu from Ao no Hako.  Obviously Chinatsu is worse than Hina, but that doesn't make her a horrible person.  She's kinda cute, she's definitely loving, and she's extremely considerate/conscientious.  Those are all traits I value in a girl.  The fact that she spoiled Hina's hopes and dreams isn't her fault, that's entirely Taiki's fault, so shouldn't be held against her.

That left two more holes to fill, so I went back to the same old well I always resort to -- Unicorn Overlord.  This time I chose Leah and Virginia.  Both girls are feisty -- they care a lot about justice and will throw themselves into danger to get it.  Both girls are quite pretty.  And both girls are fiercely loyal -- Leah to Virginia, and Virginia to Alain.  They aren't my favorite Unicorns, but they have to be better than villains from a book no one has ever heard about.

With this I've cleaned out all the riffraff entries from my own books.  Only major characters from Illyria, Greatest Vision, Twin Spires, Emperor's Son, Wind, 100 Waifus, Sellsword, Changeling and Dead Enders remain.  Much like how I cleaned out the Tears to Tiara entries.  Now there should be no further flaws in my fictional character hall of fame.

I called Biden a rapist because I believe Tara Reade's accusation of rape against him.  It's not just her word against his, there is a lot of corroborating evidence that Joe Biden sexually abuses women, and all these corroborating evidences support each other.  There was the account by female secret service members that he would parade nude around them, for instance.

I called Joe Biden a child molester because his own daughter, in her diary, revealed that he was taking showers with her at an advanced age, which she found to be incredibly discomfiting.  Perhaps this could be deemed innocent, though misguided, fatherly affection, except we also have Joe Biden on video tape groping young girls' chests over and over and over again.  At every public function or photo shoot where a young girl is around Joe Biden, inevitably, he gets handsy with them.  This is all on video, it can't be debated.  The Ashley Biden diary has also been authenticated.  None of this is a 'misleading claim' or a 'conspiracy theory.'

I called Joe Biden a genocidal warmonger because he supported Israel's genocide against the Gaza Strip, which the U.N., Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, the ICC, etc., have all correctly labeled a genocide.  This isn't a misleading claim.  Outside of America, virtually everyone on Earth understands that blockading the Gaza Strip has led to wholesale famine, dooming everyone, not just Hamas, in the strip to slow but certain death.  Men, women, and mostly children.  Even the majority of Americans are now against Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinians.  But Joe Biden was all for it.  He provided diplomatic cover, money and additional arms to Israel all while this was ongoing.

As for the warmongering, he was given multiple opportunities to back down in Ukraine, but he kept pushing war to the hilt in favor of Zelensky's maximalist claims -- that he would take back Donbass, Crimea, and even arm himself with nuclear weapons while joining NATO and allowing western armies and missiles to be parked a few hundred kilometers from Moscow.  Obviously no sane country on Earth would ever abide this, so Biden, by letting Zelensky do this to Russia and promising Zelensky support if he did this, started the war with Russia.  All of this is public knowledge -- John Mersheimer was talking about it a decade ago, what would happen if you pressured Russia like this.  Everyone, including Joe Biden, knew what he was doing.

As for bribe taking, this is well documented by Hunter Biden's laptop, which every news agency has now authenticated.  One of the emails in the laptop said that 10% of a new business deal would go to 'the big guy.'  A person involved with the business deal, who wrote or received the email, said the 'big guy' referred to Joe Biden.  None of this is in doubt.  That was an obvious bribe of Joe Biden, routed through Hunter Biden, to change American government policy.  This is only the most obvious bribe Biden has taken.  There are numerous, hundreds of other times where foreign governments made strange donations to Joe Biden or his family members that make no business sense.  There are tons of weird contracts awarded by the US government to Biden family members to do things they have no expertise in and actually never did, like setting up a solar farm in Panama or Guatemala or something.  The federal government gave the Biden extended family money to do insane things like these, and then they didn't even deliver.

Again, extensive research has been done on this issue.  Schweizer wrote a whole book about it.  This isn't a 'misleading claim' or a 'conspiracy theory.'  Leading Republicans in Congress have held investigations on these matters and come to these conclusions.

Censor this post too.  I don't care.  I told the truth and nothing but the truth.  And yes, I hope Joe Biden burns in hell for these crimes, because I believe in justice, like over 50% of the world believes in Hell and thinks sinners should burn there.  If that's hate speech then simply believing in God or religion is 'hate' and must be censored off the internet.  By that standard over half the world's population has no right to an opinion on anything.  Are they all sub-humans?  Is that the new standard?  Burn Biden Burn.

It feels like it's only a matter of time:

After two additional posts of mine were censored by Blogger, the walls are clearly closing in on this website.  Their 'community guidelines' are so broad that virtually every post I've ever made is against their rules.  If they wanted they could cite one of their standards, like no 'misleading claims,' to censor every single time I said the Covid-19 vaccine was bad, Ukraine was bad, Biden was bad, etc.  Any reasoning I make that is based off of facts not recognized by the government or the elites (though eminently backed by research and observational data plus obvious inferences thereof) is a 'conspiracy theory' and liable for zapping.

Another standard, no 'hate speech,' means any post that criticized any group or even individual is slated for censoring.  It doesn't matter if the criticism is evidence-based or important towards improving our culture and law code, no one can be criticized for anything because that's 'hate' and 'hate' is a priori bad.

Basically the only thing I'm allowed to write on this blog is pointless nothings, like what I had for dinner today, or praise of the ruling powers and the ruling consensus narrative.  Anything that steps out of that narrow tunnel is against Blogger's 'community guidelines.'

I wouldn't be surprised if I tried to log in tomorrow and this blog had completely disappeared, and all my work with it.  Or there could be a constant 'drip, drip' of censorship where first a third, then a half, then two-thirds of my posts are vanished one by one.  It's up to them what happens to me, I have no rights, the words I spent decades writing aren't my property, they're all Blogger's property to do with as they whim.

I encourage people to read whatever posts interest them while they can because there's no telling if they'll be here tomorrow.  As for me, I intend to keep writing whatever I want and they can do whatever they want in response.  I'm a fatalist, I never needed this website specifically to write on.  If I can't write here I'll write offline.  It isn't me who suffers from being censored, it's the people who wanted to read me.  As a person who lives off of investment income, I don't need the approval of anybody else on Earth to live a comfortable and rewarding life.  I'm beyond anyone's ability to touch.  It's just a shame that I can't help other people by giving them entertainment, inspiration or illumination anymore.  This was all a public service to the world.  My attempt to give back to a world which has, all in all, been very good to me.  To the world that gave me 500 beloved franchises which make every day fun.  It isn't me they're punishing, it's you.

On the bright side, before Blogger suddenly decided to pounce on me after 15 years, I managed to garner a million pageviews, so I did manage to entertain somebody out there already.  I've already done the world a great favor by providing all the truths nobody else dared to say.  Silencing me now is kind of pointless -- if Blogger hasn't noticed, Republicans are already in charge of the House, Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court.  The horse is out of the barn.

For instance, I was writing about South Africa's sins 15 years ago, and I assume if I say anything more about them my post will be censored for 'hate speech.'  But it doesn't matter if you can silence me, because Trump just posted a video of South Africa's sins from the White House.  The whole world knows now.  Blogger can't censor him.

This crackdown would have made a lot more sense a year ago, before the election.  At this point it just feels like the petulant tantrums of a little kid.  Picking on the weak (a random blogger with no power) because they can't pick on the strong (Donald Trump).

Meanwhile, I got two more SS Memorias from lucky rolls (not money!), both Memoria I already owned -- Ichiko and magicat Tenne.  Magicat Tenne is kinda pointless, I don't even like Tenne, but Ichiko is great news.  With this I'm halfway to her level 3 limit break, which would make her one of my 6 strongest characters and a perfect inclusion into my 'power party', the vanguard that clears all the toughest challenges in the game.  I was thinking of using Erika as my 6th best character in my power squad, but this changes the equation.  Now it looks like it will be Tama-Yuki-Karen-Tsukasa-Sumomo-Ichiko.

I also got through the common route of Cafe Stella and finished the Nozomi specific route.  The game really is great, the more I play it the more I love all the characters.  It's such a simple story, basically everyone just works at a cafe together, but still so loving.  I'm almost envious of their ability to write compelling material about such a dull topic.  Who knew food preparation could be this fun?

I didn't jump the gun when I added Cafe Stella's characters to my wonderful hall of fame.  They definitely earned their place.  I have an intuition for this sort of thing, if something is great I can tell by the beginning, not the end.

Speaking of the hall of fame, it really does look finished.  I went over the remaining entries and couldn't find any further weak spots or flaws.  Like how Tama-Yuki-Karen-Tsukasa-Sumomo-Ichiko is my unbeatable lineup in Heaven Burns Red, this is my strongest lineup for a fictional character hall of fame.  These 1400 stand above all others.  And the 360 franchises mentioned, that I drew these 1400 characters from, also stand above all others.  They're the world's finest.

With my book finished, my music hall of fame finished, my top anime rankings finished, and my wonderful fictional characters hall of fame finished, I wouldn't have much left to write about anyway, even if Blogger didn't shut me down.  It feels good to finish things.  ^_^.

Cleanup on aisle 4:

Okay, the changes to my wonderful list weren't quite done yet.  After careful consideration, I decided Lulu, Shin, Claus and Mastermind were subpar and replaced them with three more characters from Heaven Burns Red -- Risa, Minori and Inori -- as well as one new character from Dead Rock -- Frey.

I'm not sure if Frey will actually survive for much longer in Dead Rock, but she's already a beautiful, spirited, righteous flame warrior anyone can get behind.  If she falls here fighting for what she believes in that's okay.

I would like to give the new Heaven characters songs from Heaven Burns Red, but then I would have some unattached 5-star songs again, which would break the whole point of this project.  Sometimes things are a little messy.  All three new Heaven characters have shown strength and compassion in equal measure during their own tales.  Minori's hair is too short, Risa is too pampering, and Inori is too quiet, but compared to the faults of the people they're replacing on this list they're still a huge upgrade.

Okay, I found a way to give my three Heaven girls Heaven theme songs -- all it took was moving around a bunch of other people's theme songs so that three 4-star songs (which aren't necessary includes) could be deleted from the list.  Of course, I had to drop Aya from Tenjou Tenge completely because the only song that suits her is Bomb a Head, so I replaced her with Ruriko from Catch me at the Ballpark, a better anime than Tenjou Tenge anyway.  In fact Catch me at the Ballpark could well end up being a great anime, not just a 'silver 60' like it now is.

This also required I adjust my music hall of fame because Autumn Howl and Zetaku na Kanjou had to be promoted to 3-star to fit within the requirements of a wonderful class song.  I demoted two classical songs to make room.  As you can see, I'll do anything for Heaven's sake.

Cafe Stella is great:

It didn't take long for Cafe Stella and its girls to impress me.  Sasuga Yuzusoft, everything they touch turns to gold.  At this point they're on level with key.  Okay, maybe they aren't as emotional as key, but the sheer attractiveness of their characters is on level with key.  And I don't only mean the looks of the girls, I mean how friendly and down to Earth and easy to talk to they are.  It feels like you're among old friends.

The power of people working towards a shared goal is truly something.  Suddenly you have an activity that puts you in the same place and requires you communicate with lots of cute girls.  And then on top of that if you help achieve the goal they'll feel grateful and admire you.  What could be a better spark for romance than that?

Since Cafe Stella is great due to its wonderful girls, I also promoted three of its girls to my wonderful hall of fame -- Natsume, Kanna and Nozomi.  They replace three Tears to Tiara characters.

I also decided today that Uma Musume Cinderella Gray is a great anime, not just good, and promoted Belno (the assistant horse girl) to my wonderful list.  She also replaced a Tears to Tiara character.  That let me narrow down my wonderful Tears characters to the same traditional one I've always liked most -- Astarte (voiced by Rie Kugimiya and super beautiful.)  The Tears bloat was only due to my lack of alternatives, but now that I've experienced Cafe Stella I have no need of bloat.

I also added Rex from Xenoblade 2, figuring if Homura could get in he should qualify too.  I took Laura from Wind out to make room.  Plus I added Umerus from Unicorn Overlord (I told you there were more qualified characters from this game), taking out Youko from 12 Kingdoms to make room.  I never warmed to Youko despite her being the protagonist of the series.

Kazumi from Gokukoku no Brynhildr has been in '100 Waifus' before, so now is a good chance to bring her back, dropping Elsie from Dead Enders to make room.  Negima's childhood friend, Anya, deserves mention.  She's cute and loving and a powerful magician besides.  She takes the place of Faris from FF5.  August, the prince in Kenja no Mago, is a surprisingly good natured, handsome, talented and brave guy.  Usually people think princes are spoiled and mistreat those around them, but August is the exact opposite.  He replaces Neun from The Twin Spires.  Momoka from Girls Band Cry is a mature, talented and pretty girl who is good at looking after others.  She replaces Yue Fang Jong from The Emperor's Son.

Will is the protagonist of Metaphor Refantazio, an incredible rpg.  His determination to fix the realm by winning the election to become King and soft spot for Gallica who he spends all his time alone with are touching.  Shin is the protagonist of Kenja no Mago, best friend of August and husband of Sicily.  It's kind of silly to include Sicily and August but not Shin.  These two replaced Gust and Gale from Wind.

This is also a good chance to invite Frieza and Cell to my fictional character hall of fame.  They're villains, not heroes, but they're memorable villains and that's what matters.  I took out Sacripant and Isolde from The Greatest Vision to make room.  Jenny Elf is a hero who bravely endangers herself to save others, but ends up getting the best of both worlds and having a perfect life herself in the end.  She's someone you can't help but cheer for.  She replaced Phyllis from Dead Enders.

With this, I think I've scoured the wonderful character hall of fame clean of all undeserving entries.  Of course there can always be newer, brighter characters who forcibly bounce out established members, but that will be due to the strength of the new persona, not the weakness of the old.

Humorously by promoting Cinderella Gray to part of the Uma Musume canon, it moved the franchise from the 'complete' list to the 'incomplete' list, because the anime isn't going to cover even a remote portion of the ongoing manga.  Another anime doomed to incompletion.

By using Seika in my ice squad I was able to beat the Ice-vulnerable Orb Boss III.  Seika seems to always be the answer, even though I don't want to use her because of her awful personality. >.<.  The other level III Orb Bosses weren't a challenge since I could wield fire against them.    I now have enough SS Memorias that I can make a squad of every element type -- Fire, Ice, Thunder, Light and Dark.  Getting Kanade from Angel Beats made a Light squad possible, and the blaster Yuina completed my Thunder squad.  Now no matter what a boss is vulnerable to I'll have a proper group of girls ready to pick on that vulnerability.  To top it off I used the delimiter to limit break fire Megumi to level 1.  Now my whole plot party is locked and loaded.

Tenshi Souzou Reboot finished:

For the low price of $100, I was able to acquire both new Angel Beats SS Memoria -- Yuri and Kanade.  Plus a new SS blaster version of Yuina and the base SS form of Adelheid.  Plus limit breaks for base Hisame, Ichiko, bathing suit Sumomo and an eternal daphne for bathing suit Sumomo.  (In fact, I got another bathing suit Sumomo SS Memoria, which means I'm halfway to her max level 4 limit break as well!)  The rolls were all in my favor, giving me limit breaks to the precise people I desired.  I guess it would have been better if maid Hisame had gotten the limit break instead of base Hisame but nevertheless, I was just thinking how I wished Hisame had a limit break and boom, there I go.  I was also planning on limit breaking Ichiko after Sumomo and boom, it happened at random.

That's basically $11 per SS Memoria, and top class SS's at that.  I'd pay that any day.

I tried out my newfound power in the hell mode clocktower and beat the first three monster encounters, a huge improvement over all previous attempts -- but I still lost to the first boss, shadow Yuki.  Then I tried my newfound power on the Oubliette of Tears, attempting to go all the way down to floor 35 before fighting the boss -- that gambit also failed, but by the tiniest of margins.  If I had preserved 2 energy somewhere on that run it would have been enough to defeat the boss.  *Sigh*.  I think it's scientifically possible to start on floor 46, go down to floor 35, then go all the way back up to floor 50, but I need a little more strength to pull it off.  For now stopping at floor 37 is the wisest course.

Then I tried my newfound power on the level III ice Orb Boss and lost after a long and hard fight.  Again it feels like if I were just a little stronger I could pull it off.  But again my newfound power wasn't so powerful after all.  This is why I have to keep powering up by getting more and more limit breaks -- the game is telling me all my efforts so far, valiant as they were, still weren't enough.

There's still plenty of time to grind before Chapter 5 comes out, so I'll get there.

Meanwhile, I beat the Orie and Fumika routes, completing Tenshi Souzou Reboot.  The girls were certainly pretty, but the routes were pretty uninspired.  No big deal, they were just bonus side characters not even featured on the cover of the game.  The worst Tenshi Souzou routes were still better than Hatsuyuki Sakura.  I can now proudly proclaim I've actually played the hall of fame entry that I'm encouraging everyone else to play.  Come to Tenshi for Noa, stay for everybody else.

This doesn't stop me from playing visual novels, though.  I already bought Cafe Stella, which is another visual novel set in the same place as Tenshi Souzou.  The girls of Tenshi Souzou actually dined at Cafe Stella, so basically I can still continue to play the same amazing game.  If Cafe Stella lives up to my expectations, I can add it to the Tenshi Souzou entry of my visual novel hall of fame, killing two birds with one stone.

Maybe Stella will have some new wonderful characters and I can replace some more weak entries while I'm at it.

SS Fire Megumi:

Due to a lucky roll, I bagged the SS Memoria of my dreams, Megumi in shrine maiden outfit with fire elemental powers.  Not only is she beautiful, in this outfit she's strong.  I instantly used her in my 'plot party' and beat the highest difficulty of the score challenge, bagging a platinum trophy for my efforts.  If even my plot party can do that I'm basically unstoppable.  This Megumi is so much better than the light-element Megumi I got previously.

The version 2.0 Heaven Burns Red seems to have buffed all my characters' skills, correspondingly making the game's challenges much less challenging.  I never got such a high score in a score challenge before.  Does that mean I can finally challenge the clock tower on hell mode?  I doubt it, but I suppose I should give it another try.  There's also three new Orb Boss III's I need to take down, and some new, stronger Anachronies, so I suppose the game still offers new challenges to overcome.

The new Angel Beats! crossover event gave me the new protean shards I needed to limit break magical girl Tama to level 4, which is max.  It also allowed me to do my final two skill evolutions, for characters I barely ever use.  So take the usefulness of that with a grain of salt.

I got bathing suit Sumomo's SS Memoria, which I already had, so that contributed ten shards towards her level 3 limit break, so I know who I'm limit breaking next.  (It's wasteful to have 1/2 of a powerful limit break rotting away in the bank, so I have to follow the game's random lead.)

The Angel Beats event was great, as expected of anything written by Jun Maeda.  The old Angel Beats music was super nostalgic.  If I were Miyuki I wouldn't be so forgiving though.  For four classmates to conspire together to terrify you to the point that you accidentally kill yourself trying to escape a 'ghost' that they concocted -- that's murder, plain and simple.  The penalty for murder should be death.  I would have preferred all four of those kids dying for their sin than watching them all get away with it and live happily ever after.  No thank you.  What they did was unforgivable.  But I do understand that Miyuki is a nice girl and nice girls tend to have different viewpoints than mean men like me.

It's very cute that they allowed me to recruit Miyuki as a Seraphim in my army, but she only has an S-Memoria version so she'll never be playable.  Oh well, she is cute.

So long as I keep logging in over the days of this crossover event I'll also get an SS-Memoria Yurippe, which is far more important and cool.  I'd like to recruit Kanade too but not so much that I'll blow money on her like I did for Charlotta and Hisame.  I'll just make what rolls I can and hope for the best.

On that note, despite Hisame having zero limit breaks, she's freakishly strong, finishing off high-rated enemies in single blows.  The 2.0 version of her Mikazuki skill is insane.  It makes my purchase of the materials necessary to get maid Hisame seem like a prescient investment.  With her skills displaying this much potential at zero limit breaks, I should really try to get her to max limit level, but I just have too many other priorities right now.  Besides, she seems fine at limit level 0. . .

Meanwhile, I decided to add Homura/Hikari/Pneuma (the same person with three different aspects, like the Holy Trinity or something) and Elena/Millenia (the same person with two aspects, like Janus or something) to my wonderful characters -- taking out Jania and Marcus from Illyria, who never really deserved mention to begin with.  Obviously characters with multiple names and multiple personalities aren't a good fit for '100 Waifus,' being too confusing, but the more flexible wonderful hall of fame is just the place for girls like these.

Nasa and Maho > Kefka and Kuja:

I was basically recruiting anyone I could think of to fill up my wonderful list, but now that things have calmed down I can do some cleanup.  At the time I inducted them I said Kefka and Kuja were pretty weak entries, and now I've found better people who can carry on their theme songs in their stead.

Nasa from Tonikaku Kawaii gets Kefka because his life is also pretty crazy.  And Maho from Class no Daikirai gets Wicked Melody because her seductions are basically the definition of 'wicked.'

There are still plenty of other characters I'd like to replace, like Raphael from TMNT and Saten from Railgun.  But there isn't a giant orchard of good replacements waiting in line to relieve them.  Okay, how about Colene and Nona from the Mode series?  They aren't perfect people, but they aren't turtles or sexual harassers, which should make them an improvement.  Colene gets promised pain because she's into self-injury.  Nona gets level 5 judglight because her magic is quite high level.

By adding the Mode series (by the same Piers Anthony I was complaining about, but not 90 years old when he wrote it), I can subtract TMNT and stay at a silver 60, so all equilibriums are maintained.

I've spent all day updating Heaven Burns Red in the most obnoxious patching experience in my life.  First I had to reinstall the launcher, then the game from scratch, then the launcher again, then the game was down for maintenance.  Then I was able to log in but the game crashed.  When I started the app again it demanded I download another huge file, so I'm back to updating again.  And for some strange reason the only way to close the app now is to go to task manager and forcibly end task.  The close button just freezes the app and never actually closes it.  That wasn't true before today but from here on I guess that's how it will be.  Nothing but bugs.  It looks like a really fun event if I were only ever allowed to participate in it.  But as it is my whole day is wasted.

At least the down time let me write new '100 Waifus' content, which should really be my priority in life anyway.  I'd never say a day that improved my magnum opus was wasted.  I'll just say it could have been better. . .

As expected the peace talks in Istanbul came to nothing.  Russia should stop negotiating with the west and just get the job done by conquering all of Ukraine once and for all.  Ukraine is an inveterate enemy of Russia now and can never be trusted with independence after what they did with it the first time.  Stop negotiating, stop trying to please the West, and just do what you have to do.  What are they going to do, pass more sanctions on you?  Most of the global economy isn't located in the west, Russia has plenty of customers for their products elsewhere.  Just ignore the sanctions and get on with life.  If they try to invade or bomb Russia or send armies to Ukraine's defense start nuking.  It's really that simple.  There's no reason why Russia has to discuss anything with anyone.  It's one of the most powerful nations on Earth and it should just take what it wants, like the USA does all the time.  Everyone with a moral conscience knows Russia is in the right.  Everyone with eyes to see has seen the Nazi atrocities of the Ukrainians now, and knows what Russia is fighting against.  Everyone has watched the west participate in the genocide of Gaza while Russia objected to it.  Everyone knows who the good guys and who the bad guys are today.  This is the most holy war imaginable.  Go and fight it.  Stop dithering and prevaricating.  Fight and win.

I did it:

After reading over my hypothetical expansion to '100 Waifus,' which would fill in a gaping plot hole that otherwise goes unexplained (how Honoka would view Nagisa's crush on another man now that she'd been made to believe Nagisa had been a man all along), I decided it was scintillating enough to merit inclusion in the best book ever written.  The most sensible place for it to happen is during Christopher's outer space date with Honoka, so I put it there, at the beginning of Chapter 44.

I finished rewatching Precure Max Heart, so I took the lessons learned about Honoka while they were still fresh in my memory to write up why the Christopher (Posing as Nagisa)-Honoka pair is true love.  I think the references to the key scenes in the story were sufficient proof.  I know I had a permanent smile on my face writing them down, they meant so much to me.

One of my goals in '100 Waifus' is to explain individually why Christopher loves each girl and why each girl individually loves him, and I think this additional section helps achieve that goal.  Another goal is to give enough time to shine for every single waifu so the reader can get to like them as much as I do.  Again I think this section helps do that.  Before now Honoka barely got any lines, through no fault of her own.  It was my lack of up-to-date memory of the events of her series as well as a lack of imagination that had held her back all this time, not her personality which is magnetic, or her feelings which are as strong as Kagome's for Inuyasha for anyone who really looks at them.

Luckily this edit was made before I started my 50th reread, so I can still clear the book for the 50th time and be done, like I'd already planned to do.  It turns out rewatching all of Precure was worth it, if only so that I could expand the divine writ that is '100 Waifus' a few words further.

I also finished rewatching Yes Precure 5 GoGo, but that show didn't inspire me to write anything more.  I feel like the Coco-Nozomi romance was handled well enough by the original series so I don't need to expand much upon it -- much like how I did very little with Asuna in '100 Waifus' because the Kirito-Asuna romance was well covered by the source work and didn't need any help.

There are some good episodes of GoGo, mostly the ones focused on Urara furthering her career and refusing to compromise her principles for the sake of that career by letting Eternal have its way.  But there are more good eps and especially movies of Max Heart.  Between the two Max Heart was much easier to rewatch.

Meanwhile, I'm tired of Democrats doing blatant felonies and not being charged for it.  Whether it's Congressmen who assaulted ICE officers on video tape, or Comey who openly tweets with a tongue-in-cheek euphemism for the assassination of Trump, these people should be arrested and charged.  If they're innocent of the crimes they're obviously guilty of, the juries can always let them free.  But they should at least be arrested and put on trial for these crimes.  Republicans are in control of the Justice Department, so why don't they use it for the sake of justice?  What better opportunity than now?  Give Democrats a taste of their own medicine.  When will Trump be avenged for the harassment he received for the past 8 years?  Why are Republicans such pantywaists that they tolerate all this abuse and never dish it back out when they have the chance?

If I did it:

If I were to include Christopher's date with Honoka, what would they have said to each other?:

"I'm going to take this chance to say what I should have told you when your parents invited you to move to Paris with them and you asked for my advice.  'Don't go.  More than your parents, more than anyone in the world, I love you, I want you, I need you by my side.  Stay with me forever."  I finally had a chance to make my feelings clear, now that we were the only two people in a billion miles.

"Even though you were super gay for my childhood friend Fuji-P and not me?"  Honoka cocked one of her eyebrows doubtfully.

"Fuji-P is a great guy, don't get me wrong.  But you know how Eden frowns upon same-sex relationships, so I had to give him up."  I played along with her, given that I was stuck with her memory of events, since Cute and I were the people who gave those memories to her.

"And there I was as a perfect rebound?"  Honoka looked less than satisfied.

"Is it possible to rebound off an ant into the sun?"  I replied.  "I mean, seriously, my feelings for him, and my feelings for you, was there ever any comparison?"

"You sure acted like he mattered."  Honoka replied.

"I never cried while calling out his name again and again because I didn't want to fight him anymore."  I said.

"That was me!"  Honoka didn't let me get away with yet another memory manipulation.  "After I proved once and for all I was the better fighter by putting you in a joint lock, I might add."

"You were the better everything."  I admitted with a smile.  "The better looker, the better dresser, smarter, kinder, more popular, more composed, the better skier, the better skater. . ."

"Oh I don't know.  There were things I admired about you too."  Honoka smiled, taking my hand into hers, where it always eventually went.  "You did win the middle school lacrosse championship, after all.  And every time it looked like it was time to give in to the darkness, you were the first to stand back up against it."

"I knew you loved me when you chose to stay."  My eyes radiated with joy from the knowledge.  "But I'm still sorry I didn't make it easy for you.  I should have done so much more to nurture that love, but I made you struggle with it alone all this time.  No longer.  From here on, I'll love you with the strength of a thousand suns.  Am I still in time?"

"Yes, you're still in time.  Despite already knowing my answer and embarrassing me by making me say it out loud."  Honoka squeezed my hand playfully with hers, like we always had, and always would.

Three Novel Nymphs read:

The latest Xanth book by Piers Anthony, age 90, came out yesterday, and I managed to finish reading it today.  There is nothing new in this book.  As usual, they follow Vinia's 'paths' that tell them exactly where to go at all times in order to succeed at any task they care to undertake, thus not having to think for themselves or be competent at anything.

As usual, the romances occur within seconds of meeting and then carry on happily ever after.  As usual, the root of the problem is a conflict between Demons, and as usual the solution is to give the stupid Demon a lecture on common sense, which the Demon as usual accepts and stops doing mischief thereby.

As usual, the gay Santo is still hanging out with his girlfriend, because Piers is a pussy who won't actually make his gay character gay.

As usual, Bryce still hasn't married Harmony, the one unresolved plot thread in the series.

As usual there are dumb puns.  As usual Demoness Metria is one of the major characters.  As usual the main character comes from humble origins and thinks of themselves in a humble manner, but displays remarkable gumption when the situation calls for it.  It's like the story could write itself.  Or like what an AI would write if told to write a Xanth book.

Gone are the days when Mare Imbrium would organize a resistance to a Mundane invasion in a Xanth-wide war with multiple important characters becoming casualties one after the next.  Or when an unsuspecting Mundane would enter the world of Xanth thinking it was a virtual reality game and insist that none of the magic was really real.  All original plots are long gone.  Now we just have this template nonsense from a 90 year old.

And as typical of a 90 year old, he's completely incapable of independent thought.  In the Author's Note, he whines about how people didn't stay masked at all times and children were allowed to go to school when they should have been locked down -- completely ignoring all the data showing that kids not going to school and masks didn't work.  He also ignored his own anecdotal evidence by complaining that he caught Covid despite wearing a mask and social distancing at all times.  That should have clued him in that maybe social distancing and masks can't prevent the spread of Covid, but no, instead he doubles down and insists that it wasn't done hard enough.  Like a proper member of the Gestapo or Stasi.

And of course, his senile mind can't comprehend that maybe America and Ukraine were in the wrong instead of Russia, lapping up American propaganda like a trained hound and repeating it verbatim: 'Russia has committed savage atrocities in Ukraine!'  Yeah, like what?  You mean when they raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered dozens of young and old women and left their corpses to rot in basements?  That savage atrocity?  Oh, sorry, that was the Ukrainians in the Kursk region.  Try again.  'Russia has left the family of civilized nations!'  Oh wait, sorry, that was Israel when they openly bragged about intentionally starving a million children to death in Gaza.  Of course Piers, the trained poodle, has nothing to say about the savage atrocities Israel does to the Palestinians, like headshotting toddlers with sniper rifles for fun.  No, he saves all his opprobrium for Russia, who is fighting the war with the most lopsided civilian to military casualty ratio in the history of the world.  The most civilized war in history is the only one that gets up his ire.

I have nothing good to say about this book or this author, but I still plan to keep buying and reading his Xanth series until he finally croaks.  Xanth is a series I've read since childhood and I refuse to not see the ending of this great work.  He's freaking 90 years old.  It can't be much longer.

Meanwhile, I switched out Milk for Tashigi (from One Piece) in my wonderful characters hall of fame.  Milk has an insufferable attitude despite her good looks.  Tashigi is decent looking but moreover she's a decent person, always trying to do what's right and help those in need.  I also replaced Rin from Yes! Precure 5 with Faldio from Valkyria Chronicles.  Faldio has been in '100 Waifus' before so it isn't a surprise he could reach my wonderful list.  As for Rin there's just nothing praiseworthy about her.  She falls for an endless series of older men she should know better than to try to jailbait trap, only ever causing trouble for herself.  She's afraid of silly things like ghosts.  She's bossy with Nozomi and argumentative with Karen.  She said an unforgivable thing to Urara.  Her hair is too short.  Bead jewelry is low class.  She's Nozomi's best friend so it makes sense for Nozomi to have a daughter named Rin in '100 Waifus,' but going further and honoring her doubly by including her in my wonderful hall of fame is a bridge too far.

I also discovered that Int in Heaven Burns Red doesn't scale, so once you get around 250 of it all extra Int is pointless.  This is unlike Vit, Spirit, Dex and Str which all do scale.  I think Luck scales in some ways but not in others, so again it's not a stat worth pursuing.  Vitality, Spirit, Dexterity and Strength are where it's at.  And normally Dexterity is worth more than Strength because enemies generally have tougher shields than health bars.

I've built six +6 elemental bracelets, the max level a bracelet can be, so all my characters can be as strong as possible in this domain.  Next up I'm going to concentrate on charms.  Specifically Vitality, Spirit, Dexterity and Strength charms, since Int and Luck don't actually do anything after your stats reach a certain point, which my characters have already passed.  Obviously I do have charms for everyone in every stat field, but none of them are at max level yet, so I could still improve in this direction.

SS Aina:

Aina is the last character in Heaven Burns Red to receive an SS Memoria version.  The game waited practically a year before she could fight on par with everyone else.  So it's somewhat satisfying to declare that I now have an SS Memoria Aina on top of all my other fighters.  In addition, I was able to enhance Aina, maid Hisame and magicat Tenne to full after weeks of grinding in the hyperbolic arena for resources.

I had to use a bunch of paid quartz to achieve this feat, so it's sort of a bittersweet victory.  But oh well, mission accomplished.  Aina is pretty cute and her techniques are cool, but I can't get behind her personality, so she's not a priority to strengthen in terms of limit breaks.

I've finished rewatching all the Precure movies, and am up to episode 33 of Max Heart and Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!.  So basically 1/3 left to go for these two tv seasons.  By the time I'm done with them I'll also need to rewatch Idol Precure, but then my great Precure rewatch will be complete.  It's been an enormous project because Precure is way bigger than any other anime, I didn't really comprehend what I was getting myself into.  But every episode of these seasons and every movie reminds me why I love Nozomi, Urara and Honoka so much.  I have no regrets there.

As for my One Pace rewatch, I've reached Saboady Archipelago, which used to be the halfway mark, but One Piece has dilated so much I think it's more like the 1/3 mark.  I really wish Oda would get on with things.  Stop introducing new heroes and villains and just have the current cast fight it out and be done with it.  But obviously Oda has other plans.

I finished the Kaguya route in Tenshi Souzou Reboot and am working on Orie's route.  As expected these routes are nothing special, but I listed this game as 'must play' in my hall of fame so I must play it to the end.

As for Phantom Brave Lost Hero, I'm around halfway through the game.  As you can see I'm juggling too many things and can't finish any of them.  But there's no deadline so everything will come to fruition eventually.

Today I want to complain about a lot of series not ending or not receiving an English translation of their ending, not just One Piece.

If you look at my hall of fame light novel series, barely any of them are finished/translated.  We're still waiting on SAO, SAO Progressive, SAOAGGO, Index, Grimgar, Full Metal Panic!, Amagi Brilliant Park, Eromanga Sensei (this one really boils my blood, all we need is the final volume, the 13th volume, translated.  Why would you fan translate the first 12 volumes and then quit with only one more to go?), Ryuuou no Oshigoto!, Bakemonogatari, Haruhi Suzumiya, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Rokka no Yuusha, PapaKiki, Spice/Parchment & Wolf, Seikai no Senki, No Game No Life, Sokushi Cheat, Baccano, 12 Kingdoms, Oreshura and Hataraku Maou-sama!.

Baccano is also annoying.  It's on its final volume and the author simply won't write it.

All we need is FMP Family translated and it would be done.  All we need is Sokushi Cheat EX to be translated and it would be done.  All we need is some short stories translated in 12 Kingdoms and it would be done.  But the translators have all quit.

So that's 10 completed great light novel series and 23 incomplete.  Less than 1/3.

As I've reported before, only 74 of my top 200 anime have fully adapted their source works to the story's conclusion.  There are 30 great anime franchises still receiving new content, so at best that will get us to 104 out of 200.  Obviously that best case scenario won't actually happen, but that's at best, 50%.

Visual Novels also can't get their act together.  To say nothing of the vast sea of untranslated great visual novels I've never played (because they're untranslated), a great many visual novel franchises that were at least initially being translated into English have left off unfinished -- Kud Wafter, the spinoff of Little Busters!.  Rewrite Harvest Festa, the sequel to Rewrite.  Majikoi A+.  Renai Karichaimashita's bonus disk.  Almost all of Da Capo.  KonoZora's Flight Diary.  Irotoridori no Hikari is perhaps the most frustrating.  A translation has been released, but no one has patched the original game with the translation and made it available to play, so the translation is completely useless.  About half of Shuffle!'s visual novels remain untranslated.

A lot of these visual novels are supposedly going to be translated someday.  But when?  Why not today?  What is taking so long?  These visual novels are already over ten years old, and still it's some distant prospect in the future?

As for great manga it's again around 50%.  38 out of 75 series have reached their conclusion and been translated.  Zettai Karen Children is the most annoying -- concluded long ago, translation abandoned.  Most manga aren't abandoned by translators, though, they're usually abandoned by the authors themselves.  Like what happened to Freezing, Guyver, Nanoha Force, High School of the Dead, Bastard!!, Berserk, Dragon Ball or Hunter x Hunter.   The author dies in the middle of his work or loses interest in the series and quits or gets too sick to continue.  For some reason manga-ka have the worst health on Earth.

Even video games, which you'd think would be self-contained, have some critical unfinished works -- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3, with no announced release date, is the most important game in history.  Heaven Burns Red still has an indeterminate length left to go.  Dynasty Warriors Origins left off halfway through the historical record.  Granblue Fantasy isn't over and isn't translated.  Lan Di is still on the loose in Shenmue.  And Chrono Trigger for some bizarre reason still doesn't have an HD remaster.  Dragon Quest I gets a remaster but not Chrono Trigger?  Come on.

Will I get closure on anything I care about?  Is everything destined to sputter out midway?  Is art a complete waste of time because every single artist eventually betrays and abandons their fans?  It really makes you wonder.

Trump's schizophrenic foreign policy is so embarrassing:

Trump, on the campaign trail, had a much better foreign policy than Kamala.  But Trump is not a consistent person.  He keeps changing his foreign policy.  At this point no one even knows what his foreign policy is anymore.  Schizo Trump's foreign policy is not better than Kamala's.

When Trump came into office, Israel and the Gaza Strip had negotiated a ceasefire.  All he had to do was demand Netanyahu continue implementing the ceasefire deal.  Instead he let Israel go buck wild, and now the genocide, which had stopped, is back in full progress again.  The children are back to starving.  The hospitals are back to bombed.  The people are back to dying.  Why?  What was wrong with peace?

Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.  Instead he has refused to grant Russia's completely moderate and sensible demands, prolonging the war indefinitely, while still sending more weapons and money to Ukraine.  Trump admits that Ukraine and Biden started the war, and that Russia is responding like any reasonable state would to a hostile military buildup on its border which the USA would never allow on its border, but still keeps arming the Ukrainians and giving them satellite guidance for their long range weapons.

All Russia ever wanted was for Ukraine to follow its own constitution and international law which it had signed -- for elections, not coups or martial law, to determine the government of Ukraine.  For the constitutional provisions Ukraine initially became independent under to not be revoked -- that it would be a neutral, de-nuclearized state, and that it would treat ethnic Russians, the Russian language, the Russian Orthodox church, and Russian culture equally.  That it would actually prosecute mass murdering Nazis who burn innocents to death instead of give them high positions in government.  That the Minsk Accords would be followed, instead of duplicitously signed without any intention of ever being followed, as openly admitted by both the leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany.

As a result of having to go to war to protect these things which should have been taken for granted as the most minimal demands of any state anywhere on Earth, Russia had to escalate its demands -- now it needed Ukraine to hand over the Russian majority territory which wished to be free of Ukraine's genocidal tyranny, and it needed Ukraine to demilitarize so that it could no longer threaten Russia in the future.  These are obvious demands anyone would make when bordering a terrorist state known for its rape-torture-murder of innocents.  But again Trump refuses to accept these peace terms.

America demanded the demilitarization of Japan and that Japan hand over massive territories to China, Korea, Russia, etc. as a result of losing World War II.  Why are the much more modest demands Russia is making to Ukraine unacceptable?  Because Ukraine hasn't lost the war yet?  But Trump himself admits Ukraine will lose the war at this rate.  So why would you wait until every last Ukrainian is killed before signing the same peace agreement you could sign now?

Trump's policy on Taiwan is equally schizophrenic.  Let's assume that Trump supports Ukraine's territorial integrity.  Okay, so why doesn't he support China's territorial integrity?  At the end of World War II the USA signed a treaty that handed possession of Taiwan over from Japan to China.  Legally speaking, Taiwan is part of China.  This is indisputable.  So why are we defending Taiwan from China, selling them weapons to fight China with?

Alternatively, if Trump supports self-determination, and that's why he supports the freedom loving Taiwanese, why is he fighting Russia and defending Ukraine?  All the provinces Russia is trying to wrest free of Ukraine's tyrannical grip have already voted in referendums to join Russia!

But to make matters worse, it is America's declared foreign policy to be schizophrenic when it comes to Taiwan.  We say there is only 'one China' but also say that Taiwan has the right to be completely independent from the rest of China.  It's like talking to a Christian who insists there are both 3 Gods and 1 God.

Trump randomly started bombing the Houthis, demanding they stop blockading ships that were headed to Israel, threatening that if they didn't stop they would be 'annihilated.'  Getting us involved in a war that had nothing to do with us, in favor of the genocidal Israel when, if anything, he should have sided with the Houthis.  Then, earlier this week, he announced the Houthis had 'capitulated' by agreeing not to attack US ships, and therefore America would stop bombing them.  Only the Houthis had never been attacking US ships to begin with until we started bombing them!  All that happened is the Houthis returned to their status quo of blockading Israel while ignoring us.  What happened to annihilating the Houthis?  What happened to Trump's word?  America's honor?  We achieved none of our goals and then surrendered.  What madness is this?

Now Trump is threatening to destroy Iran if they don't de-nuclearize.  There are several problems with this, the first being that all sovereign states have the right to civilian nuclear energy under international law.  It isn't grounds for starting an aggressive war if someone somewhere opens up a nuclear plant, like 100 other countries all across the world have done.

People have claimed Iran is secretly making a nuclear bomb, which would be in violation of international law, but they've been claiming that for over 30 years now.  It's a tired claim with no evidence.  You can't start a war on the basis of 30-year-old rumors that have never borne fruit.  You would think if it were true that Iran would have figured out how to actually build one by now.  The fact that they haven't is proof positive that they were never secretly developing a bomb to begin with.

But let's say they are secretly making a nuclear bomb.  There is no reason to selectively target Iran then, is there?  Because Israel also secretly made nuclear bombs against international law.  They still are in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation act.  So if you want to get all fussy over secret nuclear bomb development programs, why not start bombing Israel?  Why not demand Israel de-nuclearize?  They're clearly more in violation of the law than Iran!

But Israel is good so it can have nukes but Iran is evil so it can't?  On what basis is Israel a better country than Iran?  Israel is currently bragging about starving a million children to death in Gaza.  They are attempting a new Holodomor and they're not even hiding it.  It's openly admitted that they're blocking all food aid to Gaza!  So if the principle is we must stop evil countries from getting nuclear weapons, again we should be bombing Israel, not Iran!

And no, getting hit by a terrorist attack that kills 1,000 people does not mean you get a Holodomor-free card.  That's insane.  By that standard the Holocaust was justified because Jews did terror attacks against Nazi Germany first.  (Yes, they did, you can look them up.  A Jew assassinated a German officer, which was the cause of the Kristallnacht riots.  Jews also attempted a communist takeover of Germany after World War I.)

But to add to the madness, why are we threatening to 'annihilate' Iran when we already tried and failed to 'annihilate' the Houthis?  Why don't the Iranians just laugh in our face and tell us to go ahead and try?  We have zero persuasiveness.  Our reputation is shot.  We lost to Yemen.  Who fears us now?  If Trump wanted to threaten Iran into submission, why did he blow our reputation by surrendering to the Houthis?  Who simultaneously tries to threaten people all over the world into submission while also surrendering to one of the weakest and poorest nations on Earth?

I am a huge fan of Trump stopping illegal immigration and affirmative action.  I have no complaints on the domestic front.  But Trump will do far more damage with his foreign policy than he will heal with his domestic policy, so his domestic policy is largely meaningless at this point.  I want nothing to do with his war with Russia, China, Yemen, Palestine and Iran.  (Plus Denmark and Canada and Panama and God knows who he'll declare war on next. . .)  Can Trump please be removed with the 25th amendment on account of his clear insanity so we can get an actual peacemaker, J.D. Vance in charge?

The Bronze 140:

If gold medalists are the 300 franchises that reached '100 Waifus' and silver medalists are the 60 franchises that reached my wonderful fictional characters hall of fame, who are the bronze medalists?

The answer is franchises that reached my hall of fames without contributing any characters.  There are no such examples among my anime, manga or visual novel halls of fame.  But starting with my video game franchises bronzes abound:

6.  World of Warcraft

7.  Dynasty Warriors

13.  Mega Man

17.  Starcon
18.  Master of Orion
19.  Warlords

20.  Heroes of Might and Magic

27.  Master of Magic

28.  Mario Kart

36.  Mario

38.  Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Dark Omen
39.  Zelda

40.  The King of Dragons

43.  Warcraft/Starcraft

45.  Colonization

48.  Donkey Kong

In the case of Dynasty Warriors, they're historical people, not fictional characters, so can't be in a fictional character hall of fame.  As for all the other video games, they tended to focus on gameplay and not world-building, which led to a dearth of arresting characters.  There's nothing wrong with a game focusing on gameplay.  They're in my video game hall of fame because the games were really fun.  But all it will get you is a bronze medal.  There are only 13 bronze medal franchises here, though, because Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, and Mario all share the same world.  The same for World of Warcraft and Warcraft.

Also from the great authors hall of fame, we get authors who focused on world-building or flawed individuals instead of inspiring individuals, and as a result made very good books about human nature or worlds instead of heroes:

6.  Charles Dickens

7.  Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

10.  James Clavell

15.  Kate Elliott

17.  Harold Covington  

18.  David Eddings

19.  William Shakespeare 
20.  Jane Austen

21.  Tom Wolfe

22.  George Eliot 
23.  Samuel Richardson
24.  Leo Tolstoy 

25.  Ayn Rand

28.  H.G. Wells
29.  John Steinbeck 
30.  Ludovico Ariosto
31.  Nikolai Gogol
32.  Murasaki Shikibu
33.  Arthur Conan Doyle
34.  Louisa May Alcott
35.  George Orwell
36.  Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle/Steven Barnes
37.  Jim Kjelgaard
38.  Jean Raspail

These are the 24 bronze medal-winning fiction authors.

Then there's the non-fiction authors who of course aren't eligible for any recognition in a fictional character hall of fame.  Many of these non-fiction authors are covering the same topics, though, so I can't give full credit to them all.  Luo Guanzhong, for instance, is already covered by the Dynasty Warriors video games.  All Greco-Roman history authors are basically discussing the same thing, so they get one bronze medal, which reduces the count by 5.  A visual representation would look like this:

1.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2.  Plutarch, Edward Gibbon, Thucydides, Tacitus, Herodotus, Xenophon, 
3.  Plato
4.  
5.  David Hume
6.  Charles Murray
7.  Thomas Paine
8.  Aeschylus/Euripides/Sophocles/Aristophanes
9.  Bertrand Russel
10.  Friedrich Nietzsche
11.  Aristotle
12.  Homer
13.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14.  James Boswell/Samuel Johnson
15.  Blaise Pascal
16.  Lucretius
17.  
18.  
19.  Ann Coulter
20.  Jeff Shaara
21.  Charles Darwin
22.  Karl Marx
23.  Craig Winn
24.  Thomas Malthus
25.  Voltaire
26.  Adam Smith
27.  
28.  
29.  John Philippe Rushton
30.  Thomas Jefferson
31.  Baruch Spinoza
32.  Sun Tzu
33.  Immanuel Kant

34.  

This way the non-fiction authors get 28 bronze medals.

Moving on to movies, many are of historical nature and thus ineligible.  Others are focused on world-building instead of character driven.  Gettysburg and Gods & Generals is already covered by Jeff Shaara's bronze medal.  Red Cliff is covered by the Dynasty Warriors games.  Pride and Prejudice is covered by Jane Austin's bronze medal.  Gladiator and 300 overlap with accounts by non-fiction authors of Greco-Roman history.  Still others feature flawed characters that may make for an engaging story but not an engaging individual:  

9.  Stardust
10.  Braveheart, The Patriot, Apocalypto 
11.  'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, House of Flying Daggers, Fearless
12.  Gone With the Wind

13.  Disney's Animated Movies (20 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
14.  Musicals (11 movies) * (Click on the * for details)

19.  Midway (2019)

20.  Silverado, Tombstone
21.  Black Hawk Down, 13 Hours, Zero Dark Thirty

29.  The Mexican, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tetris

31.  Robin Hood:  Prince of Thieves
32.  The Fugitive, Witness, Working Girl
33.  Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai
34.  Apollo 13, The Martian, The Right Stuff

36.  Patriot Games + Clear and Present Danger
37.  Far and Away

38.  Airplane 1
39.  My Cousin Vinny

42.  Clueless
43.  The Matrix 1

45.  Akira Kurosawa Films (6 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
46.  Much Ado About Nothing
47.  Casablanca
48.  The Fifth Element
49.  Jurassic Park 1
50.  Tremors 1

If you break down the movies into their individual franchises, there's 75 bronze medalists.  All in all that makes 140 bronze franchises.

So between the golden 300, the silver 60 and the bronze 140, we get 500 artistic medalists.  This is all the art/literature of any worth ever made.  Amazingly, it's still such a small number that a single lifetime can consume it all.

A new title for this category of great artistic works, encompassing all the medalists, would be the 'Immortal 500.'  Because they should all be passed down to our progeny for eternity, because their wisdom and beauty is too great to be lost to time.

The Silver 65:

Due to my aggressive desire to expand my wonderful fictional characters hall of fame, I started recruiting characters from outside the 300 franchises featured in '100 Waifus.'  The result was 65 more franchises worthy of note, if only for hosting great characters.  But since they're interspersed with the original 300 it might not be so easy to take note of them.  It would be better if I honored them separately so everyone could see them for who they are -- the silver medalists of the fictional franchise world.

12 Dead Enders/Changeling: Kip, Autumn, Shiori, Kotone, Rei, Chiharu, Aiko, Saki, Eri, Yume, Isao and Masanori.

4 Sen no Hatou, Tsukisome no Kouki:  Tsukisome-no-Himemiko, Kotone, Kanami and Elsa.

3 Koujo Denka no Kateikyoushi:  Tina, Lynne and Ellie.

2 Kakkou no Iinazuke:  Erika and Sachi.

2 Sellsword: Jin and Harukaze.

2 In Another World With 100 Waifus: Christopher and Cute.

2 The Greatest Vision: Lucinda and Roland.

2 Imouto Paradise:  Aya and Koharu.

2 Kemono Friends:  Serval and Kaban.

2 Medalist:  Inori and Hikaru.

2 Lucky Star:  Tsukasa and Kagami.

2 Bravely Default:  Gloria and Adelle.

2 Demons Crest:  Yuuma and Sawa.

2 Mode:  Colene and Nona.

2 Kenja no Mago:  Sicily and August.

2 Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta:  Akane and Maho.

2 DC Comics:  Bruce and Diana.

2 Soul Calibur:  Mi-na and Xianghua.

2 Limelight Lemonade Jam:  Anju and Miku.

1 Tonikaku Kawaii:  Kaname.

1 Alien Nine: Yuri.

1 Indiana Jones: Indiana.

1 Dead or Alive: Kasumi.

1 Sakura, Saku:  Haruki.

1 Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare:  Rio.

1 Strobe Edge:  Ren.

1 Die Hard:  John.

1 Cobra:  Johnny.

1 Grave of the Fireflies:  Seita.

1 Back to the Future:  Marty.

1 Ojamajo Doremi:  Onpu.

1 Saber Marionette:  Cherry.

1 Growth Cheat:  Carol.

1 Charlotte:  Ayumi.

1 Hyakuren no Haoh:  Yuuto.

1 Gundam:  Char.

1 World Dai Star:  Yae.

1 16bit Sensation:  Konoha.

1 Henjin no Salad Bowl:  Sara.

1 Ginga E Kickoff:  Erika.

1 Phantom Brave:  Marona.

1 Samurai Showdown:  Nakoruru.

1 Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku:  Sakura.

1 Power Stone:  Ayame.

1 Bio of a Space Tyrant:  Hope.

1 Apprentice Adept:  Stile.

1 Isekai Meikyu de Harem o:  Sherry.

1 Seitokai no Ichizon: Mafuyu.

1 Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko:  Eliaria.

1 The Teen Web Novelist is a Girl Magnet:  Yurie.

1 Ghost in the Shell:  Motoko.

1 Shinryaku! Ika Musume:  Ika.

1 Iria: Zeiram the Animation:  Iria.

1 Ninja Scroll:  Jubei.

1 Catch me at the Ballpark:  Ruriko.

1 X:  Yuzuriha.

1 Usagi Drop:  Rin.

1 Tears to Tiara:  Astarte.

1 Noble Works:  Shizuru.

1 Saint Tail:  Meimi.

1 The Parent Trap:  Annie/Hallie.

1 Tenshin Ranman:  Sana.

1 Who Made me a Princess?:  Athanasia.

1 Yume ka Utsutsu ka:  Iroha.

1 Gone With the Wind:  Rhett.

A round of applause to all the silver medalists!

I'd like to keep my wonderful character count at 1400, with no more 5-star songs to assign and it being a round number, so if new great characters and franchises arrive, I'll probably cut characters from this list to make room.  Especially characters from my own works don't need to hog so much space, they were only drafted out of necessity.  But looking at this list, it looks very solid.  These are extremely good franchises and renowned individuals.  I'm not the only person who likes these works or these people.  Perhaps a few of these franchises and individuals are obscure, but a lot more of them, like Batman, are world famous.  If these are the worst possible additions to the fictional character hall of fame, then I can rest easy that it's still a very elite group.