Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1978

After sampling three anime series in a row about as old as I am but still new to me, I returned to the opening of a show I’d first got around to not that long ago. I have to admit to having begun Future Boy Conan at a moment when “saving what you’ve long been told is the best ‘for later’ because it just might all be downhill afterwards” had come to feel risky. It had appealed over its first half, but I do keep thinking back and wondering if some ungrateful part of me began resisting, for no clear reason, wanting to call it “the best ever” in its closing episodes. Then, it just so happened the more than four decade-old series was licensed for Blu-Ray release not by Discotek but by GKIDS; Hayao Miyazaki having directed it would seem the reason why. As ever, I did feel obligated to buy a legitimate copy.
( Diving into the future )