Whether you finish or not kinda doesn’t matter, but it’s not that bad. I’d say somewhere around 8/10, but that doesn’t mean much unless I compare it to other series in the range. ^^

If you don’t like it then you can choose to help him, but you can’t force him to write a new post just because you or others didn’t like a post.

That choice would be up to Neko, would it not? I’m just saying if you don’t like a post or you feel like it isn’t enough try to kindly help instead of angrily attempt to force him to rewrite an entirely new post.

I just wonder what would have happened if I had said something else instead of “boring”…

Now you are contradicting yourself.

>>Of course, I could adapt to nowadays’ picky readership (some more than others), and start doing stuff everyone does, but I would not have fun doing so.

Look, I’m not telling you to take all the fun out of your blogging or try to appeal to everyone, that would be fucking horrid and not even possible. However, a post like this that is a statement aimed at no one should have no appeal.

I wish you’d stop trying to make me into a bad guy with your replies – you downplay the value of my words by trying to stuff this bad persona on me. I can’t help but feel that you can’t be reasoned with, and that you don’t care what your readers have to say. Call this me analyzing your personality from just a bit of information but, uh, that’s what happens when you blog.

If, in fact, you were able to satisfy everyone’s favorite mustachioed ball of rage by saying definitively WHY you don’t feel something for Canaan, you’ve in essence solved the problem!

Exactly, but I have no real mind to do that right now because for one, I still can not really explain why it bores me so (time and again, I’ve been saying that I don’t know what it is lacking, but it IS lacking something, either in story and/or execution, or any other thing that’s currently beyond my grasp), and for another, I want to allow myself three more episodes to confirm or refute my doubts/thoughts on this. I don’t want to jump the gun, say everything there is to say right now, and then dish out a review in 3 weeks basically reiterating what I would have been saying now.

Thanks for standing up for me, though. I appreciate constructive comments like yours a lot, especially after some demoralizing, or should I say, “testing” snarks like those at the top.

I know, nowadays in this macdonaldized blogosphere where hundreds of posts are dished out every day, you can’t just post whatever, but this is what I feel about this anime. Time and again, I’ve been told to write what I want, how I want, to have fun in blogging. And that is what I am doing, and no single angry man can change that. Of course, I could adapt to nowadays’ picky readership (some more than others), and start doing stuff everyone does, but I would not have fun doing so. In either case, I can never please everyone. There will always be those who think my posts are too superficial, or too deep. Can’t help it.

But to generalize either way, that nobody would want to read my unopinionated, ineffective blog posts, is just too much of a stretch, since it is up to the individual reader whether they like it or not. You are not everyone, even though you would like to convince me otherwise. I tend to believe that people like reading light-hearted, unserious stuff every once in a while, without going mental on something they don’t like.

But it’s interesting how you’ve already analyzed my personality (because one unserious blog post already tells a lot about the blogger; Canaan sure is a fitting cover to my book) saying stuff like I wouldn’t care, self-absorbed, etc. You’re also cleverly applying reverse psychology onto me, threatening not to read this blog so that I wouldn’t want to lose you and all the like-minded readers whose angry minds you are representing. True, I could as well just say “well, take it or leave it”, but that’s not really my style, either. And whether my thoughts are ineffectual or not depends entirely on the reader. Which is why I am writing, and hoping for people to input their constructive thoughts in a civilized manner.

I reiterate: this post was a heads-up to everyone (who can take this sort of updates with humor and a grain of salt) so that they know what my current feelings about Canaan are. Not a review. I should have clarified it from the start, nn I ga culpa mea.

If, in fact, you were able to satisfy everyone’s favorite mustachioed ball of rage by saying definitively WHY you don’t feel something for Canaan, you’ve in essence solved the problem! It’s apparently less than the sum of its parts, and if someone actually does have the answer why, I suggest you forget about telling digiboy and just forward it on to Type-Moon and PA Works.