2018: My First Quarter in Anime

In the three months that closed last year, I managed to take an immediate interest in some new anime series being shown through online streaming and watched all the way through them with enjoyment. After nine months of not quite managing that for one reason or another, the reassurance I wasn't altogether excluded from the modern game of many other fans was pleasant. However, I was a little aware "nine months" meant I'd also managed to pick back up on streaming series in the final three months of the year before last, only to wind up dropping back to "older series" of whatever vintage as the calendar changed...

As I started off this new year, though, I did manage once more to find some new series that interested me. Combined with a few shows continuing and not choked off from older titles of my own choosing, it made for a solid schedule. As I started putting these thoughts together (if aware of how vague I can be, through the half-formed conviction that since part of my experience keeps managing to be surprised I don't want to "give the surprise away" to others), I was also thinking further back to how it's been ten years since I started managing to do this every "quarter"; remembering the old world of "waiting for DVDs" crumbling a decade ago and official online streaming not much more than a promise then, I can reflect both on what's changed and that I'm still around (so to speak) to draw the contrasts.
( Starting off by starting back: Horus and Chargeman Ken! )

( Closer to the present: Skip Beat! )

( Closer yet and further down: Made in Abyss )

( Up to the minute: A Place Further Than the Universe and Violet Evergarden )

( Larger risks: Citrus and DARLING in the FRANXX )

( It's magic: Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card and The Ancient Magus' Bride )

( More movies: In This Corner of the World and Gundam F91 )

( Finishing off: Full Metal Panic The Second Raid, AICO Incarnation, and The Dragon Dentist )