Currently Airing Anime

Gen'ei wo Kakeru Taiyou: Lots of dark scenes throughout this show, with its rather light animation style and character designs really made it work well. Especially the final three episodes with Akari being (mind) raped, and then the typical happy end. I would have been fine with a bad end for this show, with the set up they had going. Really would have fit well either way, but they played it safe?

The show was terrible. It started off so well too. All that potential, WASTED. :/

Tamayura More Aggressive: I tuned in only to hear them say モアアグレッシブ and to hear Kayano Ai stutter lots. hnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggg. Otherwise, it's the type of show that puts you to sleep with how relaxed, and possibly boring, it is. Liked it more than the first season though.

Well, iyashikei anime aren't for everybody I suppose.

Me? I freaking love the genre.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Ilya: From what I hear, they chopped out a lot from the manga which is weird since the actual episode pacing was slow as pineapple and the overall length was 10 episodes. I don't know whose decision it was to have such irregularly long pauses between dialogue and scenes, but it did not do this show any favours. They could have had more comedy filler or scene/background panning, but they decided to do stills on characters waiting for them to talk. The actual action/service scenes were fantastic, but the breaks in between to try to fill time were garbage.

Having read the manga, I can tell you that all they really chopped out were scenes with foreshadowing (Sella talking about there being signs of Illya using her "power" recently, Irisviel asking her daughter if she was afraid of her own "power"...). The manga went at a blisteringly fast pace, ending most battles in little more than a few pages.

They also changed what happened right after the Assassin battle. In the manga, Illya was so mortified at having lost control of her powers that she ran flew away before anybody could say a word, while in the anime Miyu is all "I don't wanna fight with you ever again, get out of my face".