1 114 Rio - Rainbow Gate

Oh god...

2 The thing with Rio is that while the character designs are otherwise very nice (as long as you're secure in the knowledge that you'll never have to hear these characters speak), the designs include that stupid design tic many anime artists have of giving the light reflections off of, er, rounded places a lurid pinkish-red hue that has nothing to do with anything else in the picture. 
I'm not sure what this practice is supposed to achieve - simply drawing the eye? Suggesting robust good health? Reassuring us that the character is alive and not an exsanguinated and posed corpose? 
The effect it does have, though, is that of large, painful-looking blisters, as if someone's been torturing the poor girl in the picture with a hot iron. ...Well, this is anime we're talking about, maybe that is the intended effect, sneaking in a bit of torture titillation on the assumption that everyone has a secret sadism fetish.
...So, to try to haul myself back out of thread-drift territory here, Rio is a very nice set of drawings to look at apart from that one baffling but minor flaw, and here's a vote of praise for including them. Maybe somebody will invent a Photoshop filter to remove reflection blisters...

3 s/corpose/corpse

4 Count your blessings, Wonderduck. At least I didn't use any pictures from Dokuro-chan. Or Eiken. Or Strange Love.

5 Can you arrange it so that ducks always see Rio when they visit?
-j

6 Alex, I agree: the designs for RRG! are quite nice.  They also bring unpleasant flashbacks.  The horror... the horror...

7 Were there any good ones in Madoka, or did they all have those surreal backgrounds?

8 Madoka wasn't the kind of art I was looking for.