Dog Days - still paced a little too slow. Knowing Leo's motivations helps a good bit. I'm always quite fond of no-antagonist shows, where you have conflict that doesn't neatly slot into the good-guy, bad-guy paradigm; 7arcs did a wonderful job of that with Nanoha A's. Not quite as good here, but I think a lot of that is just being pitched at a younger demographic. Cute, light-hearted, not too deep, but why not? There's plenty of room for that kind of show too. Images of Shinku playing frisbee with the princess were quite cute in a kind of that's-so-wrong sense.

Ano Hi damn long name - brilliant drama without being mawkish. Best thing this season. Could still end in flames, but that's not the ending I'm expecting at this point. Also tremendously high quality for a show with no real compelling visual elements. I'd call it "slice of life" but that implies vignettes at the expense of plot, whereas this is well-plotted but without a whole lot of fantastic elements other than the obvious one.

Hanasaku Iroha - not completely caught up on this one. First episode was terrible, just raised all sorts of I-do-not-like-this flags. Then it immediately bedded down and started generating good comedy. Go fig. I don't expect much resolution out of it, but I'll take what I've got.

Denpa Onna - too weird to pigeonhole after two episodes. But there's enough there for me to keep watching, to see where it's going to take it. Could get really good or could make me want to throw Erio under a bus, either one's just about as likely. Might sink or swim on the secondary characters...

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