2009: My First Quarter in Anime

Once again, I've defined three months as a convenient measure and motivated myself to look back at all the anime I watched in that time. When I roused myself to start this a while ago (dealing with somewhat longer periods then), I always seemed to find myself thinking "Well, I haven't burned out on the stuff yet..." Then, I began to hope that I had, indeed, been able to accept the certain limitations of animation production in Japan and, in accepting them, let them fade back in my mind and manage my expectations such that I wouldn't all of a sudden find myself convinced I had to devote myself to something else more "acceptable" or, seemingly worse yet, start complaining all the time about how the last year of production I could "accept" was somewhere in the 1980s... It may be, though, that the conclusion of a live-action science fiction show (that I stayed interested in but didn't reconfigure my larger interests), defining a stopping point for myself in following the DVDs of a North American animated series, and some other miscellaneous encounters have left me a little more conscious of just what I do watch and just how I spend a portion of my spare time. Still, the simple fact seems to be that I've enjoyed the anime I watched in the past three months.
( Nostalgia and new stuff )

( More old stuff and a little new stuff )

( Genre cross-pollination )

( Antique fansubs )

( Newer fansubs )