Sigh. I tried posting on the sos-dan.com forums, but man, that sure was a waste of time. It's the worst kind of inane phpBB-style forum.

Let's get some discussion going in here instead! About issues such as:

• Does the manga just plain suck, or is it just the translation that's bad? (http://shana.imouto.org/asdf/%5Bk-e%5Dsuzumiya_v01_ch001.rar, http://s9.invisionfree.com/KawaruEnishi/)
• The out-of-order storytelling seems to be doing quite a complex dance around the climax of the first storyline - first we get confused flashbacks to this event, and "closed space", and now we get an episode that takes place in something that is "like" closed space, but isn't really. It's obviously using the later episodes to build up tension for the events that would otherwise chronlogically preceed it. Clever!
• Episode 7 has a lot of references. There are the obvious "Fumoffu" and "Second Raid" ones, referring to FMP series that Kyoto Animation produced, but there's also the book shelf that has a bunch of hilarious stuff like "Dentaku Otoko" ("Calculator Man"), "Emmangelivion", and also "The NEET Revolution". Anybody get the other references in there? Like "Ashita e PIN-PON DASH" or the Disappearance Diary thing?