One small thing that everyone seem to miss in the debate is that I have never seen an episode of K-ON. I wished it turned out like Manabi, but I don't know, so I made no claims about it.

Besides, K-ON only posted 5 episodes, so nobody knows what's planned except the director. In Manabi the hard stuff barely begins in ep.06 and goes in the open with the evil principal's speech in ep.07.

Moreover, for a while I hoped the debaters would take a more general view, and talk about the propensity of watchers to see any new series through the prism of the previous experience. To take just one example, when Lucky Star came out, I saw comparisons to Azumanga, PPD, even Haruhi. So, I intentionally ran "Sekirei vs Everything" series (every installment more ridiculous than the one before). This is just how we see things. Is this good, bad, limiting, the only way to construct knowledge? But no, they just discuss what Zaitcev had or had not said. What am I, Chairman Mao?

At least Lelangir tries.