I always give the slot my attention because of its past success, but I admit this year the shows have been interesting, but never a must watch along the lines of Eden or Magnitude. While I like the occasional change of pace (something like Tatami Galaxy…even Trapeze is still on my backlog) is ok, but I would be disappointed if Noitamina went the “artsy” route.

It’s not that I don’t think that they’re good, it’s just that they don’t appeal to me as much as previous shows have. Eden of the East and Tokyo Magnitude were immediate “watch” shows for me. Of course, I also have a track record of not really following their Josei adaptation shows either.……Hmm, I see where this is going.

It’s also testament to lower quality shows *and* my general lack of interest from me when I only watched 7 shows this season as opposed to my usual 12–15. Theoretically, I have enough room to watch more shows, but I choose not to.

House of Five Leaves manga is written by a popular josei mangaka so theoretically it should be perfect for Noitamina. I suppose the Fuji TV executives should have learned from the failure of Ristorante Paradiso that her popularity in manga wouldn’t translate to anime but eh~

The writing for Tatami Galaxy is absolutely fantastic but I do have my problems with it, nearly all of which stem from Yuasa’s direction of the series. I never thought I’d say this, but here’s a series that is chock full of more unessasary animation quirks than anything Shinbo has ever done. There’s stretches of the story that gets ruined by his nonsense, episodes 1 and 9 being two in particular that grated on my nerves.

I read a theory by psgels that the reason Noise didn’t suceed is because it didn’t have an tagline or an aim the same way Noitamina and Anime no Chikara does. The thing about previous Noitamina titles is they clearly had an audience and it was never about simply trying to put out quality titles. In that way it works really well and that’s what they seemed to have lost this season.

(I personally didn’t like any of the Noise shows but eh~)

However I don’t think it’s a coincidence either that it also dipped during Trapeze’s airing and we’ve seen a similar collapse during these shows airing.

However I doubt there’s any chance Noitamina would go generic. That’s certainly nothing you could accuse previous offerings. They’re not as crazilly different as Tatami is but the timeslot will die before it turns to generic.

And yes, you were right about Tatami. But he still talks too fast

I don’t nessesarily think artsy has no place on tv but perhaps on a timeslot of its own and not barging in on Noitamina’s typical audience.

but, it would trigger comments that will put it to 150% stardom or 150% failure.

anyways, I’ll have just to wait before the longest day ends.