{UPDATE: Team blog strikes again (but this time I don't have the excuse of theme making the post's author less obvious, so fail indeed; they even have a correct Creator tag in the feed).}

CJ watched [actually, Crisu did; see above — Author] the little OVA and apparently misses the whole honking point. Her review never mentions the overdramatic musical score ("Like watching Victory at Sea"), the identity of aces, even the Stonehedge Stonehenge. I was going to complain when Daniel said on #animeblogger: "At least she enjoyed it."

In a weird twist of fate, CJ nearly put me into the postition of silly people who claim that Lucky Star cannot be enjoyed unless you pick the references. I am here to report it false (I hated the Initial D parody and the cosplay caffe, but there's more to Lucky Star than just those). So, someone watches Strike Witches without knowing her Sakai from her Hartmann, and... still likes it.

And it's great.

I had doubts about the viability of longer series, because it seemed inconceivable for creators to carry the out of this world awesomeness of the little OVA into a longer format. And it still may suck royally. But CJ proved that it does not have to.

UPDATE: Lolikit points out the obvious mis-spelling. But isn't Stonehenge a big stone hedge anyway? OK, I fail. Nothing is left but to invoke the Uneducated Redneck Blogging defence.