2022: My Fourth Quarter in Anime

So far as “drifting back to the way you used to do things” goes, three months ago I was once again contemplating having put myself three months behind everyone else watching new anime series for a good many seasons. The singular case or two in seasons just past I did relinquish “waiting for the all-clear from other fans” I’m afraid I did get more or less stung by production delays or just plain curdling opinions. However, with my grand (or just grandiose) plans to “watch sample episodes from all the years since Mighty Atom got on TV” leading to thoughts of “trying to concentrate just on that to better experience time’s march,” wondering about winding up six months behind everyone else had me thinking it might be time for a bigger gamble at last. It just might have helped that not that many shows from the season just complete seemed to have wound up attracting real enthusiasm; there was anticipation for a certain number of impending series, though.
( Deepening adventure: Daltanious )

( Speedy pickups: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Die Neue These and Spy x Family )

( The surprise: Cyberpunk Edgerunners )

( Mechanical and magical girls: Gundam the Witch from Mercury and Delicious Party Pretty Cure )

( Filling diamonds: Love Live Superstar and Taisho Baseball Girls )

( Two big names, one happy chance: Mob Psycho 100 III, Do It Yourself, and Chainsaw Man )

( Multiple movies, too )

2022: Journal in Review

Another year has gone by, but I’ve got to admit that regardless of what consequences there might yet be I’m not ending it in quite the same hunkered-down state I ended last year and the year before in. In travelling for the holiday I managed to get home on a day that was just grey; snow started blowing hard the very next day and we spent that day and the next wondering if the power would stay on (it did). On Christmas day we started digging out, and it took us two days to get to the end of our country driveway (with the family snowblower giving out in the process). After one day of snowshoeing the great thaw started; I at least managed to see my just-over-a-year-old niece in person before driving back to my place on quite passable roads. As for the first sentence of the first post of each month, I started the year trying to be a little more concise, but things stretched out with time even as the odometer of file name numbers turned over the “four hundred thousand” mark.
( A year in twelve sentences )

See you in the new year!