Can't say I've heard 隙がない although I probably have. And if that's the case then that does work.
Let this be a lesson on the dangers of vague katakana/hiragana/romaji. Without the kanji, "suki" could mean lots of things and "I don't like it" would have been an appropriate reading given context, to my diseased mind anyway. Also bonus particle practice!
Language-insularity isn't really bad, it's just if you go to play on the Japanese turf, you play by the Japanese rules. Which are in Japanese.
Also [LESSON TIME] I think you might have meant 好きじゃない as I'm sure there's not a ぎない construct, unless you meant がない but then that's the wrong particle when you use it that way: じゃ is で and は put together into a single particle; the が would fall in front of the 好きじゃない to indicate what is being not liked (in this case the language-insularity of the doujin culture, which I'm not even going to attempt to translate but I think you get the idea).
Some of the pixiv crowd isn't afraid of English--I noticed that Gofu has a deviantart page too, and there are plenty of English speakers on the site (although I think that pixiv etiquette requires Japanese). I find it pretty good as it lets Japanese fans reach out and interact with a non-Japanese community and vice-versa.
I was torn by the handling of StrikerS's final battle: on the one hand, I thought the way the series juggled a tonne of different fights at once gave it a nice sense of scale, but on the other hand it didn't feel like there was enough time to do everyone justice (as you say, what about Tia?). A byproduct of the proliferation of characters (how many evil cyborgs?). Though I did feel the final episodes served up a lot of good stuff (*cough* the NanoFate BROFIST, for example *cough*) and as I mentioned in my review, the end of the show made me shed a few tears (which probably confirms forever my terrible taste in anime, or something).
If you ask me -- and they probably shouldn't, given aforementioned terrible taste -- ideally (in a world of unlimited $$$$$$) it'd be nice if Subaru and Tia had only had brief appearances in StrikerS and had had their own six- or thirteen-episode OVA instead.
Though I think A's is probably the franchise's best element to date, I have a soft spot for StrikerS because -- as I think I mentioned before -- having the magical girl characters age and have careers is just an interesting thing to do. So I suppose I prefer the adult Fate and Nanoha. Besides which, they're more powerful.
I'm faintly amused that the picture change hasn't actually set in with me yet. But yeah, I linked the pixiv source because, well, otherwise I might get yelled at.
I thought StrikerS had its problems, but I did really enjoy it, especially when (I thought) it pulled things together a bit for its climax. I think one reason I like it isn't so much to do with its quality as an anime series as it is to do with its basic conceit: making the magical girls grow up and meshing them completely in the mecha-style armies-and-spaceships stuff that the previous two series had going on in the background is a great idea. I don't know if it's an original one, though. Having your magical girls age seems like a fairly obvious thing to do.
Also, regarding your recent post on adoption, which was rather interesting but difficult for me to comment on, StrikerS features an adoption which isn't exactly transracial but shares some common features with transracial adoption, and brings its own problems. It's not the show's centrepiece, and the way it's concluded might be questionable, but it ought to be interesting.
Also,
I got a bit teary-eyed when Mittermeyer adopted Reuentahl's son
in LotGH.
Also also, hell yeah Princess Tutu and Utena. (And I need to try Rose of Versailles myself.)
Ditto. I think I know what you mean about the screams too. I didn't mind Nono too much by the end of Diebuster... but yeah, every other character was annoying as hell. Also despite loving the style in Gurren Lagann, the art/animation bugged me in Diebuster. Maybe it was the character designs or something, I dunno.
Both the beginning and ending were good though. But yeah, Gunbuster is something we and many others still appreciate ~20 years later and more to come. I don't think I'll be saying that for Diebuster though.
Hey you, I don't know you but if you're a fan of Gunbuster then you're a friend of mine. =P
*looks around* You have some pretty good taste.
I think if you liked stuff like Gurren Lagann then you should enjoy Diebuster as well. I really liked it, even if it was VERY different than Gunbuster. But it was just a really fun watch with tons of crazy insane action, and I liked how it connected to the original Gunbuster storywise, and the ending is really nice as well (though nothing compared to the original).
Epic finale is epic. Eh, stay away from Diebuster though... just kidding, but I honestly didn't care for it at all personally. Some people like it though.
