I'm still away, currently leeching the open wireless Internet from the Zimmerman library in UNM. If anyone sent me any e-mail, I'll reply on Tuesday... hopefuly. [Update: While blog's backend was broken, I moved to ABQ where I'm waiting for a delayed flight.]

Meanwhile, I am sorry if I repeat myself, but people keep doing the same thing. Here's Astro wrote in Steven's comments:

Pete baffles me. Neither of those managed to survive a one-episode test for me. I've tried to follow his thinking and give his recommendations a chance, but I've come to the conclusion that the only one we'll ever agree upon is Azumanga Daioh.

Then again, my favorite from 2007 was Myself; Yourself, so it's not like my opinion matters much anyway...

I don't know what "his recommendations" was supposed to mean, since I do not make unsolicited recommendations [anymore]. My series-end pattern has "Liked:", not "Recommended:". Being on the receiving end of many recommendations taught me that most of them are useless.

What is the alternative? If someone has time, it's possible to trawl blogs and gather a variety of views and, most importantly, reasoning behind them. Unfortunately, most of us don't have the time. You also collect spoilers this way. The next best thing is probably a capsule comment list. I promote my list any chance I get. The idea is for a user to read the comments and narrow the field, ignore the rankings. For example, if you are a fan of yuri and I rapped a series for lesbians running the show, that may be an anime for you to watch. The comment will have the necessary information.

BTW, I would probably see more of M;Y if I had time. I listen to OP and ED quite often. One of them would make a suitable track for a reverse AMV with carrier ops or a Navy recruitment video: it's nicely dynamic.

UPDATE: I'm afraid I know what Steven hints with the backlink... Best not go there. But this is a good excuse to observe that I wish he kept his list more up to date (e.g. Yumeria). It's very useful for the purpose I outlined above.

UPDATE 2008/06/07: Found a recommendation for Figure 17, made in August 2007. I'm not sure if the "anymore" clause covers it. Consider it a special exception.