Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2009

As this personal indulgence of watching my way through sixty years of anime one tiny bit at a time got under way, I did have a sudden thought or two about a particular potential risk. Carrying the indulgence to the point of not watching anything else out of order had me wondering if I’d get stuck anywhere, finding too little satisfaction following a more golden stretch of time. The thought might have really cropped up in the days that took me through the 1970s and a certain amount of variety in genre; it’s easy enough to run across people muttering how “anime wound up just like American superhero comic books, targeted at a handful of long-time maniacs to the point of being sealed off from anyone else.” For that matter too, the years between 2000 and 2009 or so, where digital production settled in but shows were made for standard definition and not a line better, had left me with an impression in recent years of not having aged well.
( Only my Railgun )