2008: My Third Quarter in Anime

It's time to take another look back at the anime I watched in the last three months, which started off with some large and surprising realignments in the North American releasing industry and seem to have rounded out with people complaining about how the re-releases of the titles caught up in those realignments are pitched via collections to the mere "mass market," not to however many of those who were actually buying the series one instalment at a time before. (There are some more positive tidbits of news these days too, though, with even battered companies starting to talk about new licenses and series being available for appealing prices.) Nowadays, thinking about these "reviews" seems to provoke amused thoughts about how what still seems like not that long ago, I was worried that one inevitable day I would burn out on the stuff just like all the complainers I used to keep reading... and yet despite my continued enjoyment, I suppose that nowadays I find myself wondering about how much of the stuff I'm buying, at certain recent times on what might be quite insubstantial whims with minimal expectations, to meet the high "free shipping" threshold at one personable online store. I can afford it in terms of money, but time to get around to watching things seems the limited resource... still, despite similar proclamations to this sort in the past, I think that by now I've indeed ransacked the various back catalogues to the point where there's very little left I want to pick up on sale. (On the other hand, I've been able to assemble some substantial "pre-orders" in the past little while of stuff I'm pretty interested in seeing. Unfortunately, I've dipped into my "backlog" in those recent days not so much because I want to but because some of those orders have been held up by delays of just one or two of the titles in them...)
( Rewatching once more )

( A lucky discovery )

( 'Giant robots,' giant scope )

( *Tough* 'girls with guns' )

( An experiment in pseudo-nostalgia )

( Fansub adventures )