2010: My Second Quarter in Anime

Three months have gone by since the last time I did this, and once again I'm taking a look back at the anime I watched during them. Things seem steady enough with my viewing and my interest, although I did have the somewhat ambiguous feeling in these three months that the angst about anime companies scraping by when they aren't just shutting down in the face of "fansubs" has transferred to manga companies in the face of "scanlations." Once upon a time, there seemed a certain amount of confidence that manga readers wouldn't be as seduced by getting things off a computer screen as many anime viewers were (to say nothing of the confidence that since many manga series are what anime series are made from anyway, print might well just take over from animation), but the flux seems to have spread all the same. Even aware of how my potential interest in manga may have been misdirected for me by fear, uncertainty, and doubt over titles being edited, I suppose all I can do is keep on buying what manga I do buy, just as I buy what anime I do buy (and tell myself that one of these days, I'll even be able to watch it...)
( Finishing things: Kiddy Grade and Code Geass R2 )

( Straight back to the diamond: Big Windup )

( A new awkward admission )

( Some closing comments )