Sarazanmai and Run With The Wind, at halfway (ish)

It's definitely more likeable and accessible than I recall Yurikuma Arashi being, but it sure isn't a new Utena or Penguindrum. Like, the only reason I know the names of the Otter Cops is because they keep cropping up in the tag (fandom clearly knows which are the most important characters and it's not the cutesy middle school protags), and I'm not terribly involved in the juvenile drama of the cutesy middle school protags.

Apparently episode eight is going to be even worse of a betrayal than seven was, so... that's interesting, I guess, given that the drama this far in has been pretty been-there-done-that.

Run With the Wind, on the other hand, was pretty dull for the first half, to the point where I get that people pretty much weren't watching it. But it was up on more than one of the "best of" lists over at ANN, and with the first episode of the second season, I'm suddenly seeing a turn towards the direction where a friend of mine would describe it as "arguably way more gay than YoI".

I mean, there's definitely no "hug that might or might not be a kiss IDK you decide" or grown men using engagement rings as good luck charms, but there was a moment. A pretty dwelling one. So let's see how that one pans out. The drama was luckily kicked up a notch too, so here's to hoping that it gets a lot more exciting from here on on.