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What I mean by trying too hard is that they have too many one-frames. One thing that bothered me about Bakemonogatari is that some of the eps looked like slideshows. It could be party due to their budget being stretched so thin this year too. But SZS is probably my least favorite anime of theirs because all the stuff written on the chalkboard really annoys me.

I'm not familiar with JC Staff, except for Index and Shana, and I don't like romance, so I probably won't be watching the two you mentioned.

Gonzo is #2 for me. I own the complete collection of Gantz, and Strike Witches was my favorite anime last year.

Yeah, you're probably right about sales being marginally off...but it's still extremely successful by anime DVD standards.

And you can't even remotely compare it to live action films. I didn't watch Transformers 2, but it's a special effects bonanza (the main attraction) which had a budget plus P&A of close to $300 million. In other words, the amount of money it made was, percentage wise, is not significantly greater than they spent on it.

There are a lot of great films that are box office disasters and vice versa, but percentage wise, that's far rarer than it is for anime.

Music is a hard case, and even though I'm not a fan, some of the Top 40 hits are catchy to dance to, and at the very least, no one is releasing the exact same song slightly re-mixed eight different ways, which would be the analogy to Endless Eight.

Actually, I think Aria is more realistic and grounded in terms of animation than what I had in mind. Certainly the design is similar to that odious aesthetic, but in the spectrum with Kaiji or Souten no Ken on the left, and something like Clannad on the right, they're still several units away from the right extreme. It also helps that in terms of their bodies, the females are proportioned reasonably.

And Shaft? I like Sayonara Zetsubou, and Samurai Pizza Cats was a lot of fun when I was a kid (well, mostly thanks to the dubbing), but the rest of their shows look miserable.

And yeah, Madhouse isn't batting anywhere close to 100 percent, but when it comes to anime, even .200 would be uncommonly good,.

noteDhero thanks for Bones studio recomandations. Looking at Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and it is great! Realistic especially since it is in BD version.

Some feedback on white album #5 from me to your comments....your thoughts please.

Actually it is European at first. It came later through this guy Jacques Cartier into America in Canada but now only one place has it that France still has contact with and I would think it is Quebec.

Personal thanks for Aoi Bungaku episode 3. I will leave it that, you have answered all I needed to know. Thanks again and looking forward to some replies to my questions of #4 when subs are going to come. I personally do not like waiting for them so I just the whole thing in Japanese. I have a beginners book in French to learn Japanese but I only understand 25% of things. Sometimes some series I wait for subs but not all. Personally I enjoy the challenge without the subs to understand what it is that they are saying.

Need feedback on Aoi Bungaku epiosde 3...check comment.

I mentioned Emma because it is one of those shows that are really nothing special when only looking at the story and characters. It is the integration between those and their setting that makes it so good, even if one generally dislikes this type of tale. Emma struck me as one of the best examples of a living background, a place that was soundly rooted in place and time and was alive with detail and people going along with their setting-accurate dealings. In the light of the above, it's also nice to note how Emma is one of those shows that makes the best use of archetype and trope, or 'true-to-formness': it stays very close to its Victorian Romance premise, indeed, and exactly by being a bit overly Brontesque and using every well-known trick it managed to deliver what it promised. I really dislike all those Romantic novels but could not help considering Emma a brilliant translation of this type from the book to manga (and anime).

The books don't give that much more of an answer to many details, as far as I've found - perhaps because they were meant to be divulged over time. But yes, the general mythus is woven into the storytelling to such an extent that it feels natural. Guin being guided by a wolf-spirit, for instance, would have a very strong deus ex machina-effect in almost every other show but neatly fitted in here. I think I should start finding some Conan-quotes on the use of fate as a plot device in sword & sorcery for the spotlight discussion (when it comes in three years), as Guin manages to use it to the very same effect.
Ha! Indeed, Amnelis is very well portrayed as being a plaything of the gods and other higher powers (among which her own father). What struck me very clearly was Guin's treatment of her, especially in an anime from 2009: the gall of having the honourable main character tell the strong female warrior to go home and pick up knitting really flies in the face of the political correctness that so often overtakes a means of telling a story, without actively going against her wish (and need?) to be a warrior before being a woman. She's also very nicely contrasted to Regia, who is more or less her mirror image, just with rather a bit less in the way of pride; in particular, it's nice to see how both characters are used to convey the idea that the world is greater than their little corner of it and the difference in reaction thereto.

On a completely different topic, and I do beg you forgiveness in advance for bringing this up, I noticed that you voted 'yes' for TTGL in the resurrection you decide. Perhaps you've read my reaction in the spotlight and are aware of the fact that I hate that show with a passion. What continues to baffle me, though, is that I honestly can't find a reason why it is so well-liked, all answers to the question generally consist of it being 'epic' and 'exciting', which is more or less saying that it's good because it's good. Could you explain what it was that you thought was done well enough that you think it should be inducted? Perhaps by so doing I can at least find out something of the 'why' of the popularity.

Finally, thanks for the speed with which the LoGH review progresses. Even though I think I'm letting you do most of the work (sorry for that...) I enjoy working on this.