Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1981

A bit more than six months ago, I left off watching my way through the original Urusei Yatsura with the thought opening some space between that and the premiere of a promised remake just might help me hold back from incessant comparison that presumably wouldn’t help the new version. Then, though, the new series was licensed by Sentai and put on their private-label streaming service. I contemplated subscribing to Hidive only to run into a variety of complaints about its aesthetics, and just like when people were complaining about Funimation’s private-label streaming service I pushed it all off to “maybe when there’s a home video release” (although these days some are starting to worry about home video becoming more “if” in general). There was indeed some disdain and dismissal of the new version straight off, although at least a few people kept watching it. In any case, I could go ahead and include the first episode of the original in my sampling-through-the-years project, and only have to compare it to the later if not final days of itself.
( “Weird, weird space is super-weird” )