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Sunday, May 18, 2025

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.

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