[Cadallin]

Episode 2 was an improvement, in my eyes.

Sorry folks, the comedy antics are straight from the source material. Some of us love it.

Spoiler for Speculation about the Ending, for readers of the manga:

Something that had me wondering for some time while reading the manga, was the repeated mentioning that Yuuko is Niiya's hallucination. For a while I was not totally convinced that she wasn't, and that the series might have gone far darker. This I suspect would have been more like what the complainers want.

It WOULD be interesting to see something like that explored. I doubt it will develop that way, but conceivably...