2008: My First Quarter in Anime

Last year, I made up three reviews of all the anime that I watched then, but wound up dividing things into those three chunks more or less because I couldn't quite manage to put anything together at the start of April. Now, I'm trying that much harder... and when I had a simple list of the episodes I've watched in just three months drawn up, I was a little impressed by how much was on it. As if to prove that hubris must always be clobbered by nemesis, though, I started wondering about how I can never seem to find the additional time in an evening to watch an hour-long episode of something in live action from this side of the Pacific on DVD... but then did recall that I had managed to watch all of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" this winter. Perhaps it's easier for me to find the time when that time's already been blocked out by a scheduling department.

With that thought, it does seem that fears that I'm somehow "driving myself too hard" are now back in just about the same remission as fears that I'll "burn out" just because. Of course, that doesn't hold back the angst of others about titles vanishing from the upcoming release lists of North American anime companies, and as much as I was relieved to see many of them be solicited again, some I was interested in buying didn't show up... although in another case of much the same thing, I was more or less indifferent. In the face of those fears about DVD-releasing companies going out of business, though, I have heard about plans to test a few new series in simultaneous subtitled streaming... it may help usher in the millennium at last, or it may not.
( Getting back to one series )

( Wonder of wonders, *new* stuff! )

( But old stuff, too )

( New stuff again )