Yea he's much better than those boring harem leads for sure , and Kurisi owning him on the time machine theory was pretty funny. Huh so that John Titor stuff was based on actual occurrence?

Haha yuri involving Yuri would be fun XD, and I watched the first two episodes of Steins;Gate!, the main character's insanity is fairly funny at times, and it's actually interesting so far plus Hanawana's character is cute , so I'll plan to keep watching it.

Well generally it's rare for me to be a "hater" of a series or characters, but Kanade is one of the very few exceptions, though I originally just disliked her as I viewed as worse version of silent type of characters, but her absurdity level of popularity combined with her lack of a backstory, real development, or explanation of her power, and my dislike to made me a hater of Kanade . [Similarly to how my views on FLCL and it's popularity worked]

Index and Ilya are the only other two characters who appeared in ISML this year that I would label as such myself as a hate of .

For animation/art quality I think they're in the top tier with quite a few other studios. They're definitely A-List, but no better than the likes of any other studio that gets name dropped on these forums IMO. Of course if you don't watch shows by other studios you'd never know this and probably want to praise them for it.

Music they are a mixed bag. They can get good music going in their stuff like with the Haruhi film, but the rest of it is either taken from the source material (Key) or bleeps and bloops. To me they only seem to care about having memorable soundtracks to their shows every now and then.

The adaptation thing I found kind of annoying too, especially in the case of Disappearance where I don't think it being a straight verbatim adaptation helped the movie at all. Rather it dragged more than any studio should let a movie drag during the beginning section for no good reason. It's a common problem with B-Movies where the scriptwriter lacks the ability to fill a feature film with enough actual content resulting in a dreadfully slow pace of nothing happening and the plot becoming a dragged out mess, but with Kyoani there it was a refusal to leave even one line of dialogue or page of story from the book out.

What they don't seem to realize is book/=movie and that it's really quite okay to trim the fat so to speak in order to keep the movie flowing along in a way that won't lose the viewers attention. For diehards of course this is no problem, for everyone else it's a death sentence. To me there's a difference between preserving the source material and relying entirely on it, and Kyoto Animation operates somewhere in between.

I find it kind of amusing that some of the more die hard fanboys have started trying to cannibalize the less die hard. Perhaps this event should have been expected and be allowed to pass cause I can think of no better potential wakeup call for that fandom then to have it turn on itself as a result of it's own zealotry.

Oh I knew it was a studio I know, White Fox, the premise sounds like it could be something different, so I'll give it a try later today or tomorrow.

Steins;Gate! is the new PA works show, right?

I like SG. One of the few bright spots for me so far. But DD... Boy, a big letdown. I really had high hopes - thought it would be witty and irreverent. But the lead is terriblel and the premise - why? Who thought this was a good idea?

I appreciate you offering feedback - it helps a lot.

Thanks, Archon. I did like the premiere of Stein's Gate - I plan to blog it. I liked Tiger x Bunny as well and probably will do the same. I wasn't a huge fan of Kaiji or TWGOK so the sequels never even made it onto the watch list - maybe I'll reconsider.

I guess, for me, Iroha is the only premiere I'd call "excellent" so far - SG and T&B fall more in the "good" range". And 5 or 6 I've seen are frankly terrible, or close to it. That feels like a weak batting average to me. I'm terribly disappointed in Dog Days too, which doesn't help as I had big expectations for that one. But you raise valid points, and I'll certainly keep an open mind.

I think it helps that I always have user invisibility on so that I can appear in a thread out of nowhere with absolutely no warning and fire off an entire paragraph or two in a couple minutes.

By the way, have you ever been able to decipher what the whole attention to detail thing is about exactly? It seems pretty ambiguous and like something that could apply to just about anything let alone a specific anime studio. I'd be much happier and probably a lot more receptive to pro-Kyoani arguments if people would point out things that are actually tangible with regard to their shows as opposed to what I refer to now as the mythology of Kyoani.

It'd also help if they'd tone down the exaggerated praise that always seems to get thrown at the company for par for the course material. I really do swear sometimes that all some of those people watch are Kyoani shows because they seem to have little experience or awareness on where they actually stand in the grand scheme of the industry and that they didn't somehow invent most of the things they get praised for. Like you'd swear they think the anime industry has only been around for 5 years or something.

Yeah it's based on the cliches I picked out of a negative rep I got. Remember when I made that post about the April's Fools Joke on Nichijou? Well somebody took offence and send some long rambling message about how I've always hated Kyoani and I would just recognize their, "execution style" and "attention to detail" that I'd be able to appreciate their shows more and if I can't do that then just go back to my mecha and loli anime.

People that know how I love to role play would probably recognize that the loli thing a year or two ago was essentially pure bullshit, although I genuinely enjoy most mecha anime. Anyway I decided to go with "execution style" for a couple days because let's face it, it sounds pretty badass, and am going with "attention to detail" atm as you well know. Probably going back to my own custom title pretty soon though.