Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1982

As tempting as it is for me to call 1982 “the year of Macross” (not that long ago, I ran into a reminder that series was one of the first to be made by a new generation who could have been part of the initial audience for anime on TV), that personal thought hinges on having been exposed to at least its animation at an early age (early enough I can’t say “anime character designs” registered for me on any conscious level). I’ve also revisited that series quite a few times already, including during my speedy 2010 tour; back then I watched its first two episodes to get to a solid dose of “mecha action,” and for all that I’ve managed to watch two episodes on a weeknight and then still push through typing a post up I don’t want to do that too often. For more reasons than that, I had intentions of trying out the beginning of some recent “fansubs” of an early-1980s magical girl show I’d known the peculiar title of for some time. Having seen a different series of almost the same age in the same genre before, I did have some suppositions about what Minky Momo would be like. As it turned out, things were just a bit more peculiar than I’d been expecting.
( The further development of magical girls )