Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1998

Some years are a little trickier than others when it comes to picking one single series to watch one single episode from to try to “represent the anime of its time.” As I settled on returning to one episode I’d sampled back in 2010, I was aware of two other quite notable shows from its year, and of the perhaps-convoluted reasons stuck in my mind for stepping past them again. On a somewhat more positive note, going back to Cardcaptor Sakura would let me point out Sailor Moon reconfiguring “magical girls” into “teenaged superheroines drawing on team patterns from live-action shows” wasn’t a “from now on” change to the whole genre.
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