I was quite satisfied with the triptych that I made for Marimite, but alas, it's difficult to hit the right tone every time.

This may be a bit too obscure. Nanoha is supposed to express my dissatisfaction with the outright magic and implausible combat that is completely railroaded by the creators with Deux Ex Machina as a locomotive. To make it more unfortunate, some may remember that Nanoha made me stop enjoying anime. SOPS was nowhere as bad; I would rather avoid that connotation.

This one is a bit of a lie. Using Nadesico is difficult for technical reasons: when I scanned my screencap collections for this, I realized that I almost never take pictures of mecha and starships, and for Nadesico I have none. What I really expected was Nadesico's zanniness. The bemused Yuriko helps a little bit, but still it's not the same. Last Exile's bullshit in the end was almost perfect, except that again, there aren't good visuals.

I wish someone did better with more humour, like this classic:

It's funny because it's true, yes. But that's not all. The decline in quality of direction towards the end of Starship Operators is true too, but to express it visually is a different thing entirely.