Few great franchises reach their endings and are subsequently fully translated into English. Overall the odds are less than 50%. But at least we get to score one victory on this front with the upcoming ending to Akatsuki no Yona.
In a couple chapters the whole story will be complete. It's still unclear how everything will pan out, so we'll just have to see how satisfactory the ending is in December. Lately the manga has sucked with a bunch of supernatural dragon stuff I don't care about. What I liked about the series was the politics and romance, not the magic, so the moment it concentrated on the magic the series tanked. It will be a mercy for it to finally be over. But that still leaves hundreds of great chapters of manga which were never covered by the anime, making it my 6th favorite manga from a value-added perspective.
Meanwhile I've finished editing my music hall of fame, with 53 songs flipping from 3-star to 4-star, and conversely from 4-star to 3-star. My music hall of fame permapost has all the newly corrected data, but I can offer some broad strokes about what happened here. Mainly it was vocal pieces that went up, whether that was music from Heaven Burns Red, anime themes or western rock artists. Mostly what went down were instrumental pieces from games. Hitoshi Sakimoto and Nobuo Uematsu were the hardest hit. They'll be fine, though, because they're still rated #4 and #1, respectively, in my all-time composers rankings. Perhaps the coolest change was that Jun Maeda joined the ranks of 1,000+ point receivers. By breaching that threshold, we can seriously start talking about the 'big 6' instead of the 'big 5.' Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Motoi Sakuraba, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yoko Shimomura, and now Jun Maeda all have over 1,000 points worth of great music. Together they account for most great music ever composed, despite there being hundreds of additional esteemed composers in my rankings. However, if Octopath Traveler 0 has the great music I expect from it, we'll be talking about the 'big 7' soon with Yasunori Nishiki joining the ranks of over 1,000 point composers. I guess that's something to look forward to next year.
With these changes Enya surpassed The Cranberries as the best Irish band by 3 points, 266 vs. 263. Well, Loreena McKennitt is actually the best Irish band with 340 points, but she was born in Canada so technically Enya wins.
Just as an example of how close and fierce this competition is, Mitsuo Hagita improved to 11th place with 409 points, which beat 12th place Sarah Brightman by 1 point (408), who beat 13th place Paul Romero by 1 point (407). Even once the scores reach high values the gap between artists remains razor thin. And if the new Heroes of Might and Magic game has the same quality of music as the older games, Paul Romero will shoot back up over these rivals once more. Not only is the fight close it's still not over.
By lucky happenstance my free log-in roll got me an SS Memoria, blaster Yuina. That gets her to level 1 limit break, but still not useful to me. There's no room in my thunder squad for anyone else, the six I've picked of that element are all chosen elites. I actually have so many good thunder SS Memorias I could field two squads of them instead of the normal one, but sadly the game doesn't really give me any good reason to do so.
I've learned a lot of skills on a lot of characters recently, but it still isn't nearly enough. Almost all my characters have at least one skill left they still need to master, and most of my characters still have multitudes. All I can do is keep plugging away.
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