I don't know where this is headed, and no matter how I search my feelings, I find that I just don't care.

That was more my impression, but I don't follow ratings or reviews much, so wasn't sure. I just know that I rarely see it discussed, but pretty much universally positively when it is.

Is ODDTAXI underrated? If so, then that definitely. It's just quality all the way through.

And Estab-Life: Great Escape. Yeah - it's sort of contrived, but it has so much heart and tells a satisfying story. And Equa is wonderful.

Well, at least Kaede is in the loop now - Kouhei isn't the only one who realizes that this could be something more.

O...kay?

Whether it's lopping off villains' heads or slipping out of bed without waking the kids, Grey's the man.

Yura's awesome - I hope she becomes a regular.

Sometimes it seems that Sanda's character growth is actually negative - that he's just gotten more stupid and childish over time.

Okay, so I finally decided to see what this is all about, and am now in the process of catching up.

And I have a question that's almost entirely unrelated to the manga, and not all that important either, but it's driving me nuts.

I have a hazy memory of a manga character - female, I'm almost certain - latching onto and repeating the name Takakura Ken - like grabbing another character and shaking them and shouting "TAKAKURA KEN! TAKAKURA KEN!" More as a sort of nonsense phrase than as a name.

And I can't for the life of me remember where that's from. The character, IIRC, is a sort of manic boke - like Wada in Food Court de Mata Ashita or Kyoko in YuruYuri, but I'm pretty sure it's neither of them.

And by the bye, this is a pretty good series. It's sort of amusing that it started with that generally unbelievable premise of a shy otaku and a loud gyaru getting together, but then that rapidly became the least unbelievable thing about it. It's as if the idea was as long as we're going to make this unrealistic, let's just go all in. And I'm all for it.

Pshew.

The Taira chapters are always hard for me to read - I know the circle in which he's trapped all too well.

As is always the case, all publishers need to do is look at the scanlation community to see how things will or will not work, since the scanlators are already doing, for free, what the publishers hope to do for profit. Whatever problems exist and whatever solutions there are to those problems, the scanlators have already discovered.

And if they would only do that, they would discover, for instance, that MTL, presented as a finished product on its own, is so blatantly crappy that it's essentislly universally derided, with the only split being between the people who might grudgingly tolerate it in a specific case and the people who reject it outright.

There's no need for the JAT to argue that case when vivid proof that they're right already exists in virtually every comment section of every machine translated manga.

But instead, the publishers consistently make choices that any halfway decent scanlator could tell them are going to fail to appeal to the fans, which choices then - surprise surprise - fail to appeal to the fans.

I could never really get into Steins;Gate, mostly because pretty much every time the MC opened his mouth, I wanted to punch him.

I'd say that the greatest sci-fi anime, mecha or not, is Cowboy Bebop. A pretty mundane answer, but it just is what it is.

My personal favorite is probably Kaiba. I'm also especially partial to Trigun (including Stampede), Ergo Proxy and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. And I feel like I shouldn't let this go without mentioning Now and Then, Here and There, Casshern Sins, Darker Than Black and Aria. And a couple of cheesy gems that aren't even close to the greatest that I just happen to like - Estab-Life and Photon: The Idiot Adventures.