Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2006

Having tried to quick-step year by year “through anime” once before, I had my previous set of episodes ready to hand as I considered what shows to sample this time, but did keep thinking that to make too big a deal of “back then I watched that, but now I’m watching this” could get tedious. Still, when I got what to sample from 2006 I did reflect on having previously returned to an episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, if not its first (or even its other first, which only brings to mind all the indignation from those who’d picked up on the show straight off, settled on a particular “fansub” group, and wound up complaining the licensed release over here hadn’t been put together with the utmost care the series obviously demanded). Now, I just seem stuck with the impression of once having seen a comment that show might now be in a “you had to be there” place, and how I’d just about been there only for later jumping through the “watch it in this order if you want the real experience” hoops to not have left as much of a mark on me as with its early fans. I suppose it’s a little too tempting now, even after having read the trailed-off series of original novels in translation, to wonder about the series further marking “anime not quite getting clear of high school.” It might not have been only because of that, though, that this time around I scheduled a different series called Strain (or Soukou no Strain, or Str.A.In: Strategic Armored Infantry). Not only is it “science fiction set in the future and outer space,” it lets me go through a decade by the calendar and still include a mecha series.
( Joining the science fiction army )