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Sunday, August 24, 2025

'In Another World With 100 Waifus' read for the 50th time:

I finished my reread of '100 Waifus,' which included for the first time the new Honoka section and Nanami from Riddle Joker as a daughter.  This time I managed to get through the book without making a single edit, so the book is officially done.  It took seven years in all, a lot longer than I expected, but here is my magnum opus available for perusal:

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-1.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-2.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-3.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/03/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-4.html

https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-another-world-with-100-waifus-part-7.html

I'm thoroughly convinced this is the best book ever written, and the fact that I could reread it 50 times is thorough proof of that.  If anything the 50th time was sexier than ever.  You'll never find a more attractive collection of girls, or a more happy romance with them all, than you'll find here.

The name galleries have been honed to perfection.  Given the various requirements the name galleries are trying to meet, this is the best collection of names possible.  The name galleries are usually a chore but this time I even liked reading over them.  The nostalgia really kicked into high gear.  If they prove too much of a bother you're free to skip over them though, they have no real impact on the plot.

Time is set aside within the story to get to know and appreciate all 100 waifus, over and above the love you should already have for them from reading/viewing/playing their source work.  While staying true to their sources, I put my own twist on them that shows how splendid they would be even in an unfamiliar environment and situation.

This book is as close to perfect as a book can get.  It achieves all its objectives, ranging from heaven to hell and from the origin of the universe to a thousand years into the future.  It's the all-book.  I instantly started missing Eden the moment the book ended, since I wanted to stay in it forever.  But I didn't feel for an instant that there was a portion of the story missing, a plot hole that left me unsatisfied for not being addressed.  It was just a wistful feeling -- 'why must good things end?'  But even that question is answered within the book.  Because it's the all-book.

With '100 Waifus' finished I can turn to Index GT volume 13, or the short story anthology by Mitsuru Adachi, appropriately titled 'Short Game,' which I bought for $10.  I'm currently on an Adachi marathon so I wanted this new content to go along with my rewatching of all his older stuff.  There's also football highlights to view, new visual novels and video games to play, Magic decks to playtest, and basically I've never been busier.  One thing ends and another begins.

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