2021: My Fourth Quarter in Anime

So far as watching anime went, the last three months of this year rolled along much as the months before them had, so much so that I did have a bit of trouble thinking of something distinctive to say getting this introduction started. While I had wondered about not many “third quarter” titles sounding interesting enough as they were streaming to get around to watching with all of their episodes safely “in the can,” that’s not the first time that’s happened. I filled up my viewing time with shows a few years or a few decades old (along with the “Star Wars anime shorts” and a movie animated in France but adapting a manga).
( Super robot development: Voltes V )

( Not quite as old: Dear Brother and Major )

( Catching up to the future: Vivy - Fluorite Eye’s Song )

( Closing in: Love Live Superstar )

( The continuing gamble: 86 )

( Further continuations: Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure and Urusei Yatsura )

( Adaptation at last: Vinland Saga )

( Closing out with more action: City Hunter 2 and Gundam Breaker Battlogue )

2021: Journal in Review

On the face of it I’m ending this year in pretty much the same circumstances as last year. However, I do have to acknowledge the good fortune of having been able to book a booster vaccination shot and receive it yesterday in the pharmacy of the downtown clinic where I got my first two doses in the spring and summer. It did mean aching around for the last day of this year, but I’ve done what I can.

So far as something more profound than the first sentence of the first post of each month might say, this was the year I became an uncle. I suppose it’s not as big a change for me as for the rest of my family, but I have had the chance to deliver two different presents already.
( A year in twelve sentences )