2020: My Second Quarter in Anime

So far as “keeping up with the crowd” went, three months ago I’d known several anime series I’d watched in previous seasons had new continuations and some altogether new shows had managed to catch my eye too. Along with that, though, epidemiological news from Japan had also registered on me (which might have only a little bearing on recurring ambiguities about a narrow focus on frothier fragments of that country’s cultural productions), and it had seemed ominous enough I had worries the whole down-to-the-wire structure of animation production over there would come crashing down, one insignificant bit of collateral damage. Not wanting to witness that in the form of things to see vanishing, I turned altogether inward and retreated to that old personal stand-by, series already complete in my grasp on discs.

A good many new series indeed had to stop their broadcasts just a few episodes in, but at least a few shows did carry all the way through. Whether that amounted to a “last hurrah” of the successfully ready-just-in-advance productions is something I don’t quite know yet. However, I’d at least kept a full slate of personal viewing, at least sometimes diverting, for all that a lot of the discs I’d opened were of series I’d seen before available in new formats, and most of the episodes I was seeing for the first time were quite old production-wise.
( Now chancing to return: Gundam Wing )

( The substitute players: Princess Nine )

( More revisiting: Nichijou and Space Brothers )

( Experiences older and new: Attack No. 1, Lupin the Third, and Hi Score Girl )

( A footnote to history: Albegas )