It's long, but not boring. The question of ef was covered at length elsewhere, but I'll pick just a few tidbits.

What’s amazing about 2007 was I managed to get a new top 10 anime on my list in the form of Manabi Straight. I’ve been watching anime “seriously” for over 10 years now, so having something added to my all-time top list has been a pretty rare event.

Preach on, bro. Manabi Straight is on my top three. Granted, if we count since 2002, when I lost my mind and started studying Japanese, I only watched "seriously" for 5 years, so it is likely to slip down the order a bit. But top 10 is virtually assured.

Rocket Girls was probably my number 1 guilty pleasure in 2007, but I think it might just be some kind of cognitive dissonance at work from owning and watching a copy of Wandaba Style and trying to make sense of Tactical Roar.

I don't feel any guilt in the slightest, it was such a fun show. The story and pacing were great, characters were pretty nice too. If only it wasn't vying for the worst animation of the year prize, it would be a comedy hit, I'm certain.

But all the fanfare L*S had just serve to remind me people have no sense of humor. Minami-ke was so much funnier but only a fraction of people watched that compared to Lucky Star.

Two points here. First, although I did not like Lucky Star all that much, I think Omo sells it short because he's obstinate about classifying it together with physical comedy shows. Once you start thinking about Lucky Star as slice-of-life, it works just fine, at least at the level of Sketchbook and Hidamari (I haven't seen Aria). Second, Minami-ke's biggest problem is Kana. It is as if Ichigo Mashimaro has taught creators nothing.