Thought I'd offer a status update. I have occasionally spent time collecting framegrabs for a big top-rotation update. I'm not ready to do it yet, but I'm making progress.

I've gone through the episodes of Railgun available so far and ended up with 49 grabs, but a lot of those are duplicates. And some of them look good but probably can't be framed in a 4:3 format, what with the series being 16:9. (I've run into that problem many times before. NO SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!)

Last night I went through the first two episodes of Aika Zero and I had a lot of trouble finding decent images. Lots of indecent images, of course, but it was tough coming up with things worth looking at which wouldn't get my readers fired or divorced. So that meant things like this:

And definitely not things like this:

Ye Gods. Shots like the latter are more common in that show. I swear, I think that someone's panties are visible on screen somewhere at least 50% of the time. (I do love Studio Fantasia!)

I also went back through Training with Hinako and managed to come up with maybe 10 grabs from there.

Jinki Extend turned out to be a real disappointment. In the entire 13-ep series I only got about 10 usable ones. Kaze no Stigma was no better; I bet I won't have more than maybe 10 worthwhile grabs out of that whole show.

The second volume of Kenichi, the mightiest disciple was a lot more fruitful. But just how many pictures of Miu will my readers put up with? Macademi Wasshoi was a lot more fruitful; I think there are probably 50 out of that. Not just cheesecake, either. I got several good pictures of Mini-Eneuses. (Aww, they're cute!)

So progress is being made, albeit more slowly than I'd like. (NO SUGGESTIONS PLEASE)

UPDATE: How do you folks feel about this as a new size for top rotation pictures?

The existing size is 440*330 which is 4:3. That new one is 500*330 which is just a tadge larger than 3:2. I realized tonight that since I'd widened the entire page, I could soak up some room by making the top rotation picture wider. 3:2 is a nice compromise between 4:3 (1.333:1) and 16:9 (1.777:1).

It's still possible to display older 4:3 images in the new page layout, but they'd leave a big white section between the picture and the menu in the upper right, so if I go with this I'm probably going to want to replace the rotation completely. Which is a bit of a problem; as of tonight I only have about 300 candidates, and that's not really enough.

Of course, I could use this as an excuse to revisit some older shows and grab new pictures from them.

UPDATE: If I use 500*330, then this is how it would fit in a 4:3 and a 16:9 frame grab:

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