2008: My Fourth Quarter in Anime

Another three months have gone by, and once again I'm trying to put together some thoughts on all the anime I watched in that time. If I had to give as short a summary as possible, I might say that I kept watching, some of the stuff I saw I enjoyed quite a bit (although the corollary, of course, would be that I liked those titles "more than others"), and if I dwelt on anything, it was on how many DVDs were piling up to be opened, not worrying about "burning out" some small fraction of the way through them. It may be, of course, that in avoiding the complaints of others how nothing made in the past twenty years has satisfied them, I've instead been in the company of those who, now that they're not quite so worried about the enduring North American anime distributors going out of business in the next few months, can get back to complaining about how those companies' latest DVD releases are either defective or just not up to their own highly developed aesthetic standards. I suppose, though, that I'm fine coping with that.
( An awkward admission )

( A long-awaited return )

( Not awaited quite as long, and yet...? )

( Fansubs: the bleeding edge )

( Fansubs not quite so recent )

2008: This Journal in Review

With another full year of journalling behind me, I'm going to try something that I thought of twelve months ago again, taking the first sentence from the first post of each month just to see what I get.
( A year in twelve sentences... )

See you in the new year!