Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2004

Pushing further into the first decade of the millennium, my latest choice from among my options for one year gets entangled with “titles that were merely popular in their time.” For that matter, there seemed to have been mixed feelings towards My-HiME from the start, with insinuations of this “high school girls in mecha-beast and supernatural-power battles” series having meandered into a corner it left only by pulling a moth-eaten rabbit from a hat. I recall a few more enthusiastic comments noting it having been made by the animation studio Sunrise only to promptly proclaim it “an effort to make up for the Gundam Seed subfranchise,” and that didn’t help me very much either.
( Carry on restarting )