youtaro writes things that are too big for twitter

       I’m going to start by making one thing clear: I don’t like The iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia . Its very existence is beyond my comprehension, robot/pilot romance is very weird, and it completely bastardizes some of my favorite characters. I watched three episodes with a friend before we both had to stop for the sake of maintaining at least some mental stability, and I’m not planning on going any further than that, especially from what I know about the rest of the series and how it ultimately ends. But something I always found completely baffling about it is the team behind it. The anime was released in 2007 and directed by one Tatsuyuki Nagai, who in following years would go on to direct the 2008 anime adaptation of Toradora —a personal favorite of mine—as well as the adaptation of A Certain Scientific Railgun , which has recently become very near and dear to me (watch Railgun btw it’s amazing). Moreover, the lead writer was Jukki Hanada, who would later go on to serve as the main writ