1 I just noticed that Seiji Mizushima is slated to run Natsuiro Kiseki. As the example of Tatsuo Sato shows, there are limits to any director's influence. However, I'm quite hopeful. Note that it's an original script, just like Dai-Guard was.

2 Oh no... Upotte! (the gun show) is being directed by the guy who did Rio Rainbow Gate!.  I'm so doomed.

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Oh no... Upotte! (the gun show) is being directed by the guy who did Rio Rainbow Gate!. I'm so doomed.

Wonderduck, are you volunteering to "bite the bullet" and do a round of Upotte reviews?  From the description, it didn't like your caliber of show.  But maybe I'm just off target, and your range of interests is wider than I thought....

4 That one rates about four moans.

5 So Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus...

I like THAT's presentation best of the four.  The input from the multiple bloggers makes it easier for me to pick the tiny slivers of wheat from the mountain of chaff...  Hmm.  Not the most apposite metaphor given the way my system reacts to wheat.

I hold out some small hope for this season after all.  Chances I'll get to watch anything uninterrupted, though, remain around zero.