2019: Journal in Review
Dec. 31st, 2019 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWe’ve eked ourselves through another year at least (enlivened by discussion of whether we’ve also finished a decade or not), and I’ve eked my journal through that same year. One extra thing I did mange this year was to add more “smart quotes” to my text, although looking back at the first sentence of the first post for each month does exude a strong impression of “anime weblog.”
January: Each successive volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes arriving translated in print raises my hopes we’ll really get to the end of the series, even if it’s a conclusion I’ve already experienced through the anime adaptation.
February: An “Answerman” column on Anime News Network explained where the money so many people these days see as having gone into OVAs and movies of the 1980s had first come from.
March: “Commercially developed capsules will carry astronauts into space launching from the United States” have been talked up for what seems a good while now.
April: As the new year got under way I turned back to an older anime series, and had a good time watching Super Dimension Fortress Macross once again.
May: I’ve admitted a few times already how the proclamation “May the Fourth be with you” feels a bit too smirky for me (to say nothing of noticing in the past few days “big online sales” promoted that way), even if last year I did go on from there to try and articulate my impending detachment from the upcoming Star Wars movie (which I still seem to be getting by without having seen).
June: It was somehow tempting to see even a little dissonance in a book about “American comics” spotted at an anime convention, but its being heavily marked down offered a different temptation to buy it.
July: As the three months just past were getting under way, my big “looking back” project for this year was looking ahead to more decades-old anime series I could draw some form or another of links to Macross for.
August: The ninth translated volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes I understood to be the penultimate instalment in the series.
September: Recording lots of old films off Turner Classic Movies but seldom managing to push aside enough smaller diversions to block out the time for watching even one of them a week did lead me in the end to giving up that channel as I pared back my cable.
October: Midway through this year, my grand-to-grandiose project of returning to the original Macross and then taking in a string of other series had got through everything connected by time slot and official localization; I still had a number of shows left linked up by whims sparked by once-noticed comments and standard brand names, though.
November: By 2012, I was well settled into the new age of online streaming of anime series as they aired in Japan, even if my concentration on those series streamed by Crunchyroll was almost exclusive, influenced then and for years to follow by the disdain others showed for Funimation’s competing service.
December: The list of anime series from 2016 I first resorted to again seemed a bit light on eye-catching titles; I went so far as to ponder whether a “sequel-spinoff with new characters” and a “short episode series” (short enough I’ve found the time to watch it again) could fill things out without stretching my vague, self-defined rules too much.
See you in the new year!
January: Each successive volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes arriving translated in print raises my hopes we’ll really get to the end of the series, even if it’s a conclusion I’ve already experienced through the anime adaptation.
February: An “Answerman” column on Anime News Network explained where the money so many people these days see as having gone into OVAs and movies of the 1980s had first come from.
March: “Commercially developed capsules will carry astronauts into space launching from the United States” have been talked up for what seems a good while now.
April: As the new year got under way I turned back to an older anime series, and had a good time watching Super Dimension Fortress Macross once again.
May: I’ve admitted a few times already how the proclamation “May the Fourth be with you” feels a bit too smirky for me (to say nothing of noticing in the past few days “big online sales” promoted that way), even if last year I did go on from there to try and articulate my impending detachment from the upcoming Star Wars movie (which I still seem to be getting by without having seen).
June: It was somehow tempting to see even a little dissonance in a book about “American comics” spotted at an anime convention, but its being heavily marked down offered a different temptation to buy it.
July: As the three months just past were getting under way, my big “looking back” project for this year was looking ahead to more decades-old anime series I could draw some form or another of links to Macross for.
August: The ninth translated volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes I understood to be the penultimate instalment in the series.
September: Recording lots of old films off Turner Classic Movies but seldom managing to push aside enough smaller diversions to block out the time for watching even one of them a week did lead me in the end to giving up that channel as I pared back my cable.
October: Midway through this year, my grand-to-grandiose project of returning to the original Macross and then taking in a string of other series had got through everything connected by time slot and official localization; I still had a number of shows left linked up by whims sparked by once-noticed comments and standard brand names, though.
November: By 2012, I was well settled into the new age of online streaming of anime series as they aired in Japan, even if my concentration on those series streamed by Crunchyroll was almost exclusive, influenced then and for years to follow by the disdain others showed for Funimation’s competing service.
December: The list of anime series from 2016 I first resorted to again seemed a bit light on eye-catching titles; I went so far as to ponder whether a “sequel-spinoff with new characters” and a “short episode series” (short enough I’ve found the time to watch it again) could fill things out without stretching my vague, self-defined rules too much.
See you in the new year!