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.