Personal Standout Anime of 2019

It would be nice to end this personal look back at ten years of anime watched with some sort of “happily ever after, at least for now” proclamation. However, when I turned to a list of titles for this year I couldn’t seem to see many that grabbed hold of me again. For previous years I’ve been able to fill out my choices with series I’ve seen some time after their initial streaming. There could be the chance of that given I don’t have subscriptions to every streaming service and didn’t quite muster the resolve to go looking for limited theatrical screenings, and yet that doesn’t help here and now. That’s not to say the only titles I watched and quite liked this year came from years previous (even as I did revisit a slew of older series and saw some vintage titles for the first time); I did get caught up in the second Mob Psycho 100, the fifth Symphogear, and the third Chihayafuru series. Having managed to keep from padding out previous posts with “sequels,” though, I can wonder now “and how many things from over here start with familiar names these days?”
( What choices there are )

( Strange looks ahead )