2023: My First Quarter in Anime

All the “quarter” I have left to review here amounts to thirty days. After sampling a bit of anime from each of the sixty years just past (and managing to post something about that every day), I supposed I’d have to push harder than I usually do through a mere handful of other series should I still want to wrap them up and move along at a regular demarcation point. I managed that in turn, but it might have pushed back and displaced memories of my much less extensive exposure to the titles in a single and altogether personal sweep through anime. Having wound up supposing I’d managed to enjoy that stunt of sorts (which neither left me “regretful the saner anime of the 1970s hadn’t endured” nor “jaded at last by the now-worn transition decade after 2000 or so,” as I’d wondered and worried at certain anticipatory moments once committed), that later realisation had a certain weight to it.
( Two samples followed up: Wonder Three and Oh My Goddess! )

( Moving along and wrapping up: Demon Slayer and Delicious Party Pretty Cure )

( Actual streaming: Vinland Saga 2 and Nijiyon )