Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2012

Although much bogged down by spam comments now, the concluding post of a “golden anniversary of anime” weblog (which I know might provoke present insistences animation had been made in Japan for decades before Mighty Atom, and for that matter that show had been preceded by shorter segments of domestically produced animation on Japanese TV) is still up and covering 2012. That post tied into an impression I still have of the weblog’s composite take on things darkening as it approached its concluding point; it spends a good deal of time dwelling on “little sister fantasies” series. I suppose it’s not quite fair to bring that up and then comment how, with the benefit of some years of hindsight, I came up with a good-sized list of personal standout series; for that matter, I haven’t watched the shows the post worried about (although one unfortunate element of that was who’d licensed them).
( The awakening beat )