Some Calibration of Tastes
Sep. 1st, 2021 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWhen I subscribed to Otaku USA magazine after years of buying it off bookstore magazine racks, I wound up being sent emails linking to news items on the magazine’s web site. What blurbs do catch my eye usually seem to reprise material I’ve either seen on Anime News Network or just go look up on that site, but every so often I’ll follow a link all the way. A report of “the top twenty anime of the past decade as ranked by Japanese Twitter” did pique my curiosity, regardless of just how many people had voted and how they’d got the news to vote being lost in translation.
Out of the twenty titles listed, I’ve seen ten of them, and eight of those ten did just happen to feature on my personal tally of “standout anime” from the previous decade. Seeing My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU highly ranked by others, though, reminded me once more something about that series goes over my head, no matter how many times I’ll tell myself “that’s my fault, not the story’s.” As for the titles I haven’t seen, I was also reminded of my unfortunate, enduring case of self-inflicted “if buying it will be expensive, I won’t even bother with the streaming video” sour grapes towards a great many series sold by Aniplex of America.
It wasn’t all uncomfortable, though. One title might have seemed a bit more surprising than the others, but I’m ready to suppose that any list including A Place Further Than the Universe contains a bit of resonance to my own judgements.
Out of the twenty titles listed, I’ve seen ten of them, and eight of those ten did just happen to feature on my personal tally of “standout anime” from the previous decade. Seeing My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU highly ranked by others, though, reminded me once more something about that series goes over my head, no matter how many times I’ll tell myself “that’s my fault, not the story’s.” As for the titles I haven’t seen, I was also reminded of my unfortunate, enduring case of self-inflicted “if buying it will be expensive, I won’t even bother with the streaming video” sour grapes towards a great many series sold by Aniplex of America.
It wasn’t all uncomfortable, though. One title might have seemed a bit more surprising than the others, but I’m ready to suppose that any list including A Place Further Than the Universe contains a bit of resonance to my own judgements.