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Gajeel: so? 'refrain' is not 'must NOT'. Do you think that the URLs in my review added nothing, or were spammy, or were self-promotional, or were gratuitous, or...?

The Dark Flame Master appreciates your nice "Chu 2" review.

Cool "MP" review,Chiquito.

I don't think it's fair to devalue a show because the humor is "too Japanese".

Not to be a smart ass, but this is Japanese animation that's aimed towards those in Japan.

hey gwern

I see you've completed She & her Cat, I haven't seen myself but it brings to mind reading -leafing through more likely, but it was so long ago- this philosophical treatise by a cat on existence, meaning of life and so on and so forth.

It seems there's a whole sub-genre in which a cat wallows around and waxes poetic on stuff or undergoes some journey of enlightenment - read acid trip-, witness anime like Cat Soup.

It probably works with any other animal acting like a human, but for some reason the felines get used often.

Oops, I guess that's another example of how easy to misread someone's tone over the internet.

I had never heard of Karuta before watching Chihayafuru so I didn't have any prejudice going into it, and while it's obviously a pretty simple game it's also an example of how anything that requires a bit of skill (unlike the two examples you gave) can make for an interesting competition if taken seriously. Then again I'm also the kind of person who can get wrapped up in a random sports competition I happened to stumble across on TV and had no previous interest in or knowledge of.

But Chihaya (as loveable as I might find her) does cry an awful damn lot :P.

I'm stuck at episode 7 of _Chihayafuru_ , initially motivated by the same thread that probably also motivated you, but no longer much interested to continue...

I've not yet seen anything interesting in the series that I didn't see more than a decade ago at Hikaru_no_Go -- but one thing it did do is allow me to recognize the game played at a scene in one of the festival episodes of _Hyouka_ :-)

Yes, mixed feelings sums it up nicely.

If servicey stuff ruins the taste, what about 'good' bad shows or guilty pleasures? I see your point though after never touching the servicey stuff until recently, it can drown out the heftier ones.

Sloppy writing or jerky pacing will always make a show lose points, but fan service is a lot harder to categorize, it's too general a term and hence I think any discussion at the lever of 'fan serivce good/bad' is doomed to meander around.

I think the real issue for me is the moe and cat eared prepubescents,it feels like the anime industry on this topic is reaching the place DC and Marvel comics are at with their endless multverse incarnations of one superhero/ine after another.

eh, I'd rather talk about what makes interesting stuff interesting in the first place but this bothered me a bit so there.