2014: My First Quarter in Anime

As the new year started, I had a new plan for how to keep chipping away at the heap of anime DVDs and Blu-Rays I've managed to pile up. Where I'd spent most of last year picking out "sequels" and "spinoffs," now I was beginning to think of how I'd bought some series on disc and then, before getting to them, also begun picking up their manga versions with the thought they'd continue the story beyond what had been animated. However, also thinking manga might look "better drawn" or be "less toned down" than the anime does keep me from reading it until I've put in the more considerable investment of time necessary to watch the anime, and as volumes piled up I did get to feeling the stakes of finding out I didn't quite care for a story in the first place were rising. I therefore decided that this year I'd start off concentrating on the series I had both anime and manga for. Then, though, the conviction also hit me I can't let all the things still to be opened quite defeat me when it comes to going back to things every once in a while.
( An imposed nostalgic return: Golion )

( Starting to work towards manga: Highschool of the Dead )

( A theatrical side note: Evangelion 3.0 )

( More on its own: Sweet Blue Flowers )

( More manga preparation: The Sacred Blacksmith and A Certain Magical Index )

( Continued streaming: Golden Time, Space Brothers, and Ace of the Diamond )

( Continued personal standouts: Gundam Build Fighters and Kill la Kill )

( A discovery: Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions )

( Wrapping up with movies: K-ON! and Wolf Children )