Writing for his own new-fanged teamblog, WAH pulls all stops in being anti-CSW:

If I had to use one word to describe Yamakan, that word would be “pretentious.” After leaving Kyoto Animation, this guy has been doing nothing but talking smack about other anime, why it isn’t good enough for him, and how it’s not helping the industry. While there may be some truth to Yamakan’s observations, he’s done nothing to live up to his mouth. He directed Kannagi, a shounen romance show 100% targeted at otaku, and produced Black★Rock Shooter, another otaku money-maker. This isn’t to say these shows aren’t extremely well done, but they’re targeting the exact same niche and doing the exact same things Yamakan supposedly frowns upon. So while watching Fractale, there’s this overwhelming feeling of him trying to break away from his otaku roots… and it’s just not working.

In what seems like an attempt to draw one’s attention away from how unoriginal the setting is, Fractale’s world is partly populated by holographic avatars who stand in for people in faraway worlds. These avatars look like rejects from Kamichu or Welcome To The Space Show, and feel shoehorned in for the sake of trying to spice things up. Another thing that’s shoehorned in is the show’s soundtrack: It’s typical orchestral stuff, but in more than a few scenes it adds nothing, and in fact just distracts from the action. But the cracker — the one that just slays me — is that the show’s setting and presentation themselves seem shoehorned into an otherwise normal otaku anime. There’s a spineless lead, two mysterious girls, and one lolita.

Ouch.

There is just one problem with this: even when WAH is this eloquent, he may be wrong. May be, as in e.g. I am not quite sure if he was objectively speaking wrong when he parsed K-ON2, but I took out something different from early K-ON2 (ep.7 notwithstanding). SDB loved Fractale 01 and was dismayed by Aroduc's disapproval of the episode. Still, yeah... Yamakan needs to do a lot of work to atone for all the badmouthing. Kinda like WAH himself needed after his "I lived in Japan, so I am better than you are" phase.