I don't have much to say of substance today, at least until I get around to writing up any one of the following: an episode summary of a new anime show, an episode summary of Card Captor Sakura, or an essay about the appeal of the meganekko.

So as most of you may have noticed by now, I've changed my theme to Daisy 1.0, after I got tired of the Pool theme not respecting paragraph breaks in comments. I don't think I broke anything when changing over, but I'm not entirely certain. I'm still trying to figure out how to include the sidebar on individual pages, which the theme author seems to specifically exclude.

Also, I grabbed the Makotofox icon from Hikago, although damned if I can find the original post thereof.

In any case, if anyone has any suggestions about improvements to the blog, please feel free to comment on it. I'm open to suggestions about new plugins or sidebar stuff, or even another new theme. Criteria for the former are that it should not be a feature for the sake of being a feature (I know the perils of the road to feature-creep), and criteria for the latter are that it should be simple, soft, evoke a feeling of moe~ or hanyaa~n (vague, I realize), and not cause someone to go "wait, isn't that the same theme as such-and-such other famous anime blog?"

On another note, here's a minor random thought that would probably not be substantial enough to get its own entry: just because there are "better" shows in a season does not make a particular series "bad". Otherwise, we'll have to have a long and particularly flaming row about how The Gargoyle of the Yoshinagas was pretty much ignored during the Spring 2006 season, what with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Ouran High School Host Club, NANA, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni… (note: not all of these series I liked, but I can admit that they were very popular.)

Take each series as its own beast, unless the series specifically aims to emulate or continue the tradition of some other. Comparing Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS to Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's is fine. Comparing Hidamari Sketch to Azumanga Daioh is iffy. Comparing Lucky Star to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya makes no sense whatsoever.

Finally, I really need to organize my "unsorted" folder of cute/funny anime pictures. Windows Explorer seems to have problems with displaying more than three thousand thumbnails in a single folder.