The Price is Right:

Heaven Burns Red came out with an offer I couldn't refuse -- give them $90 and you can purchase the SS Memoria of your choice.  Because the game still wants there to be some level of randomness, it would be 2 out of your top 10 picks.  So anyone you get will be someone you want, but maybe not the Memoria you wanted most.  However, I got lucky and received my top 2 picks -- Adelheid and Mari in their ninja forms (not base forms).

I had said previously that all I wanted left was an SS Memoria of Adelheid, Mari and Yingxia, and I got 2 out of those 3 thanks to this special offer.  These two ninjas are gorgeous.  I doubt they're very strong or will be useful in high-level fights, but I'm just happy to have them to look at.

The game continued to bear fruit, though.  With the bonus quartz I got in addition to the paid quartz (which all went to this deal), I recruited some more and received Yotsuha's SS Memoria.  This was the last sextuplet I didn't own.  Now I can form my very own Squad 31-E of pure fire sisters.  Their abilities are crazily synergistic, so it isn't just cute that I can field them all now.  It may actually be useful in high-level fights.  Especially fire-vulnerable foes, this might be my best lineup.  To help power up the sextuplets I also gave Niina her skill evolution.

On top of that I got another SS Memoria of Minori, which let me limit break her to level 2 (another sextuplet).  So my fire sisters got a lot stronger today in a lot of ways.

A new event started today in the game, which meant it was possible to farm more protean shards, so I got the 2 shards I still needed to limit break magical girl Tama to level 3 as well.  The event's S-or above guaranteed tickets got me another 10 shards of magical girl Tama, so my next goal is to reach level 4 limit break on Tama, my first maxed out character aside from the game-provided Ruka (who, though maxed out, is still pretty weak).  Earlier by blind chance I got Misato's level 1 limit break, so I can focus on Tama without a guilty conscience.  I should be able to manage that in four weeks or so.  All in all today got me 3 very good new girls and two limit breaks to very useful girls I fight with all the time.  For $90?  As far as I'm concerned, I got the better part of this deal, by a long shot.

Since I wanted Hisame's new maid outfit, I also bought the light pass and premium pass, as that's the most efficient price per quartz purchase.  Sadly even with all the quartz that got me it wasn't enough to get Hisame.  Well, there's still two weeks to get some more quartz the normal way and see if I can catch her in time.

The actual event was about Niina and was pretty good.  Anything involving the sextuplets is always a great story.  It reaffirmed my decision to promote Niina to my wonderful fictional characters hall of fame.  I had an inkling she was much nicer than she seemed and this new short story confirmed it.

Parchment & Wolf volume 10 is available for reading.  Now that I've finished '100 Waifus' I can turn my focus to it.  I've already ordered my new, perfectly edited and proofread copy of '100 Waifus' to read for the 50th time.

Aoashi is a decent anime series I've now watched in full, and the good news is a second season is coming in 2026.

I added two new characters to my wonderful list -- Shishou (the sword from Ken Tensei) and Rinzu (the princess from Hinowa ga Yuku!).  Nobody wants a sword as a son, but the wonderful list is more lax in its requirements, and as for Shishou's personality he's great.  He takes care of Fran but doesn't boss her around.  He's constantly thinking of what's best for his adopted daughter and puts his great talent to work achieving it.  Shishou got Heavy Slash, a song from the Ken Tensei anime that suits him well.

As for Rinzu, I noticed how much I praised her character in '100 Waifus' and thought to myself, if someone is this praiseworthy surely they should belong on a list already hosting 1,000+ other people.  So I added Rinzu, and of course she's worthy.  A beautiful songstress princess with the strength and cunning to undermine the enemy Emperor from within, I gave her 'Giza Plains' from FF12, which also has a melody that is soft then strong, soft then strong.