Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2018

A lot of titles from 2018 got onto my list of “personal standout anime” made up just a year later. Even at the time I was drawing it up, though, I did wonder if I’d relaxed my standards after the thinner years just previous for the sake of presenting an impressive-looking retrospective near the end of the decade. At the time it wasn’t hard to make a top pick, but as I sorted out I’d get to this year this time around on a weekend I did start wondering about making a double feature of it. The only nagging problem was the B-title that kept coming to mind threatened to feel “brought up for the wrong reasons, especially when associated with something so impressive.” In the end, however, I forced back my misgivings and went straight from A Place Further than the Universe to Harukana Receive.
( From snow to sand )