For any anime to really be successful, you need to be able to connrct with them on an emotional level, right?  You have to care about what happens to them, and not think of them as a bunch of 2d drawings.  Lucky Channel kind of killed that for me.  Always referring to the show as a "show", trying to guest star on it.  Made me think of the characters as actors playing the roles, that what was happening to them was just a script.

Yeah, I know, it is just a script, but you get my meaning.