Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2000

When I started roughing out a personal list of “anime I certainly wouldn’t mind going back to again, sorted by year,” I did get to thinking the list thinned out every time two digits turned over in the year. When I started sampling series from that list, I had just one title available to look at from 1970, and a certain uncertainty about how I’d react to it. For 1980 and 1990 I went back to the shows I’d sampled back in 2010, although I was able to give reasons for doing that other than “they’re all I’ve got.” As all four digits turned over in the year there were a few titles on my list, but most of them were series I still haven’t started after more than twenty years, and after all the other shows I’ve seen the first episodes of I wasn’t quite willing to take the chance on any of them winding up really impressive. Still, even if I was going to go back to FLCL as well, it offered its own compensations.
( Ride on shooting star )