Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1974

While I’ve been managing to get some thoughts typed out about each of the sample anime episodes I’ve watched this year, I have to remain clear this is just a personal indulgence. A single half-hour episode of TV animation, or even a single series, can’t define a whole year’s production. For the year I’ve now got to, I suppose I’ve been conscious for a while that while the English-language fandom directed my attention to Space Battleship Yamato first, afterwards I did see comments (still in the same language) about a rather different series walloping it in the Japanese ratings at the time, such that Yamato wound up “a phenomenon only after the fact.” Even “Heidi versus Yamato” can’t define their year, of course, but I did get to pondering trying to watch the first episodes of each series in a single day.
( The debate and its stunning resolution )