2009: My Fourth Quarter in Anime

Once again I'm trying to set down a few words about all the anime I watched in the three months just gone by, however nonspecific those thoughts always seem to turn out. I suppose I'm also conscious that at this time, other people are thinking back on and summing up a full ten years in a wide variety of things. That seems a bit much for me, but I am able to remember that ten years ago, I was facing (among other things) a "break from anime," having moved to a new job and away from any chance of visiting my university and staying with friends while I went to the anime club shows there, but not making enough money to buy what then seemed rather pricy videocassettes found only in comics shops. Many things have changed a lot since then, but I do still find myself thinking both "nope, not 'burned out' yet" but also "well, I'm still buying big quantities, faster than I can watch it." (Two big orders arrived just lately, one on either side of Christmas.) Beyond those paired constants of the present moment, I suppose there was also something of a change to my viewing habits in the past convenient block of time. Having been put on shift work again, I wondered how I would take days when there weren't hours left to watch anything, but wound up thinking they heightened my appetite so that during days off, I was fine watching several episodes. With that so, I may indeed be getting through a little more each week than when it could be tricky to find time in many weekday evenings to watch two episodes.
( Returning to one thing: Mospeada )

( Returning to different things: Code Geass R2 and Gundam 00 )

( Delving into the 'backlog': Dirty Pair and Azumanga Daioh )

( On into 'fansub follies': Cross Game and Macross 7 )

2009: Journal in Review

To finish the year off, I'm going back to the first sentence of the first post for each month. It was in this year that the numbering on my posts passed the six-digit mark, and I suppose that does mean just a little to me.
( A year in twelve sentences... )

See you in the new year, and let's see what we can do to make the next ten years better.