2022: My First Quarter in Anime

With a new year beginning I was contemplating what anime I’d watch in its first three months, but daydreaming a full year ahead too. Ideas of “what series to get to next” can sometimes stick in my head to the point of distracting me from what I’m actually viewing, but I might have topped myself some time before the end of last year, daring to think not just of “next year” but also “the year after.” I’ve alluded before to having happened on enough “sample fansubs” of anime from the 1960s to have at least a few episodes of at least one title translated for me from each of the years since Mighty Atom got on TV. The thought of a “sixty-day taste-testing tour” in that series’s anniversary year has been rattling around in my mind for a little while now. Aware I had to get through this year first, though, I decided I wouldn’t have to stretch that far beyond titles I’d already been thinking of to take in at least one thing from, as I’ve said before, “each of seven decades” (or, to be a bit more accurate but a bit less impressive, just about a full fifty-five years).
( Starting off way back: Golden Bat and Voltes V )

( Closer to the present: City Hunter 2 and Cat Girl Nuku Nuku )

( Into this century: Major and Lupin the 3rd Part IV )

( Getting to streaming: Sorairo Utility and Kageki Shojo! )

( Fansub follies: Megaton-kyuu Musashi )

( Finishing and continuing: Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure and Urusei Yatsura )

( Up to the minute: The Orbital Children )

( Everything old is new again: Project A-ko )

( Moving along: Daimos, Memories, and 86 )