2013: My First Quarter in Anime

Three months ago, I led off my look back at the anime I'd watched in the three months previous facing the new wrinkle of the online store I'd got into the habit of ordering all my anime from having raised its free shipping threshold, and in the three months since then I may have had to face compounding consequences. It's one thing to be establishing a fresh habit of "waiting until what I want to get can meet that still higher threshold," but perhaps not pre-ordering may accentuate the deadening effect of the constant complaints on the message board I frequent about how Blu-Ray releases over here don't sound as good or look as good as releases over in Japan, or worse yet have subtitles that can't be turned off, with the blame always pinned on the companies over here for not being able to negotiate adequate terms. The line between "I'll wait," "I'll wait and see," and "I won't get it at all, then" can seem to get pretty fine. Still, I hardly lack for DVDs to open yet. There's also the small yet interesting note of this being fifty years since the first television anime series premiered in Japan, as explained through year-by-year summaries by well-known anime weblog writers (although in my case at least I've made a few discoveries).
( Starting off: Mobile Suit Gundam and Jubei-chan 2 )

( Seeing what it's about: Hayate the Combat Butler )

( Nostalgic modernity: The Garden of Sinners )

( Up to the minute: Space Brothers, From the New World, and Vividred Operation )

( Differing follow-ups: Transformers Victory and My Otome )

( Added in: AKB0048 and Voltes V )

( Movies, too: Madoka Magica and The Castle of Cagliostro )