Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2003

Forty years since Mighty Atom appeared on TV in Japan (which I have had to keep considering corresponds to Astro Boy appearing on TV in America) is still twenty years back from today, and if there remains something to the suggestions that drift around that the great majority of the anime-viewing audience keeps turning over within a few years I should still be dealing with titles that are older than those people. (The suggestions have to at least be weighed against all the mutterings how “nowadays anime is made for a handful of creeps who’ve stuck with it for too long...”) The series from twenty years ago I’ve returned to the opening of was popular in its time and endured afterwards, but the endurance of the original anime adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa’s Fullmetal Alchemist manga just might have been a matter of getting tangled up with controversy.
( An equivalent exchange? )