Again the Aro-nouto period is upon us, but it's not my fault that other bloggers post nothing interesting. Meanwhile in the Autumn 2009 preview:

If Ushio was male, this would be just some ignored generic shoddy romance, but because she’s a female, suddenly this supposedly becomes creative and interesting.

Indeed. Even J.C.Staff found this sort of thing a tall order. Good luck, AIC.

BTW, aside from Whispered Words, someone else gets a bat:

This is probably the only one of the sequels that I actually have a personal grudge against. If the world had fewer of these ‘romance’ shows where the girl is some kind of perfect angel that was just waiting for the milquetoast male to glance her way so her life could be whole, I’d be rather pleased. I just dream of the day that psychological pandering is as reviled as physical pandering. Okay, I’m done with the soap box now.

Wait a moment, he was just calling for SHAFT to produce "another terrible ef spinoff" a few paragraphs up... I understand giving the Hypocritic Oath, but doing so in the same post is a bit much, isn't it?