I dropped a quick look at Evirus' intro and decided that it's just the anime for me before withdrawing quickly in fear of spoilers. That was a mistake, because having marathoned 5 episodes I went back to read the post and discovered that there's going to be no ending. Also, there were hardly any spoilers. A facepalm for sure.

Anyhow, he made me hooked on Barakamon for better or worse. BTW:

Based on the 25 manga chapters that I've read, there is no love interest in Barakamon. [...] I guess there are male characters who could be potential love interests, but I would be more surprised at that development than a viewer-discomforting timeskip that reveals a torrid affair with a much older Naru.

I don't quite understand why this trope must be "viewer-discomforting". He was making the same noises about Usagi Drop too. But it's moldier than anime itself. Wasn't Genji Hikari an ancient tale about nurturing one's ideal spouse or something?

UPDATE: Evirus' Usagi Drop essay critiqued the same poorly grounded "otaku rage" at length, but he stopped short from roundly condemning the awful moral panic about "paedofillia" that is grabbing a hold of America.

UPDATE: Another thing, do you ever notice how the apologists of violent video games always claim that every gamer realizes that games are distinct from the real world, and would never enact all the violent fantasies that play out in the game? It's their main argument, in fact. But somehow the lolicons do not get to use that "distinct virtual world" defence.