…I think I will leave my curiosity at that.

(Disclaimer: I’m orientation-neutral, I don’t hate, and usagijen almost convinced me to watch that one BL show in the next season.)

IKnight: Well, hopefully Kaiji will walk out with something at the end of episode 26 or whatever, unless the animators decide to pull a second season. It depends, because supposedly there’s a lot of manga left to work from. In other news, Kaiji is going to need some serious sleep and blood transfusions at the end of all this. Going to be one hell of an adrenaline crash for both character and viewer.

And for H2O and witty comments, not all the H-game scripts aren’t too bad. I think the Key fare is excellent, although you might beg to differ. Still, the majority of the stuff is probably page upon page of “1) Stick in in. 2) JAM IT IN. 3) Genuflect”, so I could imagine why some writers would feel their talent are being wasted.

koneko: To be fair I’m only actively watching about 7 or 8 of these, but on a busy subs day even that feels like more than I could ever handle. Even writing about 16 of them is a monumental task. It really makes me look up to all the people who can actually watch 95% of what’s airing at the time (like I’ve seen a couple bloggers write about).

And to be honest college basketball goes over me, so the resemblance here is in name only. To me, all the anime are ‘new’, which is why I can compare them the way I do. Comparing finished anime with currently running anime, though, that would be an interesting task.

It’s a little bit weird seeing current anime mixed in rankings with some slightly older shows. Seeing Kiminozo next to Clannad is kinda like comparing the 2003 Syracuse University Orangemen to today’s University of North Carolina Tar Heels (again, with the sports references).

As for H2O’s trap, I’m always tempted to see these things as ‘writer’s revenge’: once you’ve suffered the indignity of being paid to write h-game scripts for long enough, you become bitter enough to want to take a swipe at your fans.