The Staggering Agreement

The evening was wearing on yesterday when I clicked a link kept ready at hand to take one more look at the Anime News Network web site. It might even have been a little unusual for me to head to that site then; I can’t recall any particular motivation for it beyond, perhaps, wondering if anything else had been added to the start-of-the-season previews (although it’ll be another three months before I get around to any of those new shows myself).

For the very first item in sight, it took an instant or two to make sense of all the names in the headline together. That’s not to say I couldn’t see what connected them, but “Big West” and “Harmony Gold” hadn’t been associated with “agree” before. Pushing into the article, though, I read the explanation “the distribution of Macross and Robotech” had been worked out, read it again, and reminded myself we’re more than a week past April Fool’s Day. It took some time to gather my own thoughts.
( Years in the making )