2024: My First Quarter in Anime

At the start of this year I’d picked up on a few upcoming anime series that seemed interesting to me from their first descriptions and the comments of a few other people. More than that, I could find the time to properly begin watching all of them. Having only managed both those things during one quarter of last year, I did feel as if things were coming back together at last. Even so, I suppose a few familiar risks were returning too. The benefit of “watching anime as it streams” would seem to be augmenting the experience by joining discussions about it and picking up on the interest of others. That can skew into “my good taste is demonstrated by picking shows everyone else likes,” though, and then the problem becomes that if-and-when smirking shrugs about “Sturgeon’s Law” apply, watching everyone else sour on things, or even bumping into casual brushoff postmortems, can get pretty dispiriting. Even so, the wrinkle of not being as exposed to the comments of others as I once was aside, I did seek a certain solace in still getting around to a good number of “older” titles from previous seasons or decades.
( Once upon a time: Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger and Getter Robo )

( Manga preparation: Heavenly Delusion, Aria the Natural, and Frieren )

( Movies part one: Weathering With You and For Whom the Alchemist Exists )

( Streaming part one: Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki and Metallic Rouge )

( Streaming part two: Sengoku Youko and Bang Brave Bravern )

( Wrapping up and moving along: Soaring Sky Pretty Cure and Pretty Cure All Stars F )

( Movies part two: The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes and Blue Thermal )