Sorry about the slow posting. Been a bit hectic this week, what with the parents getting hit by a hurricane and all. (They're okay. But they're not coming up here unless their power is out all week...)

Finished Ayashi vol. 4, so now we're down to two volumes left in that series. I kind of liked the last volume, but the show's provenance (as a planned 52-episode series that got cut short) is starting to show; we're still doing short character arcs when we ought to really be in the swing of the general plot.

Saimoe's still chugging along. Steven posted a comment observing that Nanoha was moving an awful lot of characters to the second round. Indeed it is; what Nanoha fans there are seem to be enough to push Nanoha characters forward against anything but serious opposition, and there's just not that much of that this year. The only Nanoha characters that have lost their round so far are Rein (close match with Konata) and Signum (first round against Nanoha, heh). No other shows have that kind of response, excepting Hayate the Combat Butler (and Aria is doing pretty well in the early rounds, as usual).

It's not that no other shows have popular characters, just that they tend to only have one or two of them, so they aren't standing out at this point. Ah well, let's wait until the first round concludes, and things should get more interesting with most of the no-hopers out of the running.

Edit: and of course, as soon as I post that, Subaru loses her round. Well, snap. She's probably my favorite of the new characters... though she's more rambunctious than moe, exactly. (One of the illustrations from the new drama CD that was released, a "three years after" story, had Subaru performing a rescue despite having shrapnel and rebar sticking out of her leg. Awesome, yes, but not moe...)

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