Via Don comes the news that ABe is considering HR2. To his credit, it's not his idea and he's being prodded into it by the producer.

While seeing his ideas for older Rakka may be thrilling, this reminds me why I could never get into being a fan of a creator. ABe's record, in my view, is that of making of or participating in: 1. horrible NieA_7, 2. acclaimed Lain (which I didn't like), 3. one of the three or four greatest series ever Haibane Renmei, 4. a bunch of post-Haibane works which I cannot even remember. Likewise, I am not together with Kiyohiko Azuma on Yotsuba. It would be great for him to get out of the rut and move on, IMHO.

In general, no matter who you take, the record is nearly always mixed on the average, past performance is no guarantee of future performance, and so on. So, why concentrate on people or studios?

UPDATE: Omo comments, and right off the bat he tries to reject the premise. Look, certainly Shinbo can be trusted to continue to make artsy shows (anyone remembers Yuno's delirium in the original Hidamari? good preview for ef and 99 voicemails), but the thing is, I do not like all of it. I dropped Hidamari. From my point of view, it does not pay to be a fan of Shinbo, to "keep an eye". Are we talking at cross purposes here?

THIS IS JUST RICH. In Omo's comments:

Because I dislike the spread of misinformation, and because I can’t comment on Author’s blog, I just want to point out that I think Author is making a pretty big assumption in saying that ABe is “being prodded into it [Haibane Renmei season 2] by the producer”. There’s no reason to believe that just from reading Marc Hairston’s post.

Firstly, there's a link for everyone to read the post make up their minds regardless ABes initiative. But also, the sheer stupidity of polluting Omo's comments is special. If 50 people replied to my post, would he leave 50 identical comments on 50 blogs? Again, the guy has a blog. Why did not he post there, like Omo has done? Perhaps because Omo has a working brain.