Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2001

It’s an odd temptation to bring up the old, half-joshing debates over “so what year does ‘the twenty-first century’ really begin with?” when admitting my entirely personal list of “memorable anime of the year” is as thin on titles in 2001 as in the year 2000. I’ve watched a few series from that later year including the moody and oddly stylish girls-with-guns adventure Noir and the original Fruits Basket adaptation (which I sampled back in 2010), but as popular as I know they once were neither of them quite seem to grab me now. A year that included Spirited Away doesn’t seem altogether devoid of merit, but having been watching TV and OVA episodes up to now I did want to keep sticking with something relatively short. I wound up watching the first Alien Nine OVA, getting very much near the end of an era in doing so.
( Joining the Alien Party )