Could not agree more. It may look prettier in English, but when we’re talking about actually teaching native English speakers (who don’t use accented vowels at all) the minute difference in Japanese between how o and ō sound, it’s easy to mess it up and not remember that the accent is supposed to go there. It’s not…

Since the campaign to save this show began, I’ve tried to get back into it...I just can’t. I’m way more of a movie person than a TV person, is part of it. The show has all the marks of TV that I can’t really get down on—super dramatic but bad TV acting, pretty people everywhere, an obviously limited amount of sets…