2016: My First Quarter in Anime

As another new year got under way, I was looking at all the anime DVDs and Blu-Rays I've piled up over long years of buying them faster than I can watch them (although I've been conscious in the months just past of seeming to have just about cauterized any internal urge to buy the expensive "quasi-imports" that reassure executives in Japan cheap fans over there won't be tempted to "reverse import") and contemplating just which of them to open, but also hoping, with a feeling that might have had a first, slight resemblance to desperation, I'd be a bit luckier this season at taking interest in new shows streaming everyone else wouldn't sour on straight off. In the first three months of this year, however, a few surprises affected both of those intents.
( Starting off: Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact )

( Weekend diversions: Creamy Mami and Gyrozetter )

( An unexpected discovery: Paranoia Agent )

( The lone survivor: Erased )

( The next surprise: Love Live! series 2 )

( Continuing on: Lupin the Third series 4 )