One year and over a hundred posts later from the date of the first post, and this entire anime blog project of mine has yet to burst into flames. So that is pretty swell!
In the spirit of celebration then: Reflecting on Cool Stuff and eyes toward the future! Cake and drinks are in the kitchen!
We may as well start this off on a strong note, I feel! Given, these are my personal considerations and favorites, but what I liked did not necessarily need to perform well in terms of view counts or actually drawing people to the site.
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A history focused article on the development and release of the original fan animation that turned a bunch of university aged folks into Gainax.
As the initial “long form” article on the site about a singular topic, it is probably a little on the dry side, and has some formatting quirks I would do in different ways now. But, I like that I did it because of both the subject matter itself, a proof of concept push for how I would approach longer content, and how it would play into events later when putting together my rag tag Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise article (which you will see linked elsewhere in this post in another category!).
This was a doozy: I wrote out the English alphabet, then typed down the first anime the came to mind for each letter (meaning they did not all need to be
Finger In The Mouth
, just what I thought of), and then writing a paragraph or more for each of those entries. I think this may be the longest article on the blog.
A self imposed challenge after Justin, Editor-in-Chief over at the Organization ASG blog had nominated this anime blog for one of those “ABC Award” chain posts. In its original form the writer is to fill in a word as it relates back to themselves via personal traits, hobbies, achievements, etc. I took the idea and morphed it into a far more titanic beast however.
I think it was a good at a glance look at how my mind recalls a large swatch of anime works in general, especially at the time of writing. Plus, there were interesting scraps on the floor when taken as a whole (“N” did not make me think Neon Genesis Evangelion, for instance, nor did “C” cause me to think Cowboy Bebop, as examples).
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The newest of the posts in this list, but I like it a lot for what I tried doing here: Taking an multiformat rising artist from a textiles background whose very limited anime work is mostly in directing music videos. Then providing said music videos with commentary and an attempt to demonstrate how his personal stylistic stamps shine through even in a format so small.
It is very different material and a way of approaching an anime subject than this blog has dealt with before, so it was an interesting and lively experience for myself to undertake as a writing project. It will definitely be the kind of thing that will be very helpful to have done when I attempt doing a dedicated article on my perspectives of a more headliner director’s work
This was a six post series containing a list of ten works, with the first being what would amount to my #10 – #6, while the upper half of the scale each received their own articles for expanded attention and remarks.
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The late December through early January part of the calendar year is stacked with events and holidays, so while my intention was to do them far closer together they each ended up a few days apart from one another given personal events. I like the idea of having done the series this way, especially for the top half, as if I rank something highly at the end of the year I would like to have space to indulge on it and give it a nice little spotlight for a time. But, it is also a lot of work outside of my usual posting schedule as well, so some parts may not be as tight as they otherwise could be given the wider spread of my focus.
In either event, I am glad I went with a more ambitious route, I still stand by my list, and I look forward to however I will approach the one for 2014 half a year from now.
I feel Mamoru Oshii’s Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer is a really important film when it comes to the increasing development of more auteur professional studio anime works in the early half of the 1980’s and then the later explosion by the later part of the decade. 2014 marks its thirtieth anniversary. I slipped making the post by the actual anniversary date, but it did give me some extra time to think and gestate on how I wanted to approach talking about it.
Kagura (gin Tama)
The feel the final result was something that is both engaging for those who have already seen the film, while also all the while trying to keep an eye towards those who have not. To want to engage their imaginations in such a way to inspire them to go and see it, or failing that, to know the feelings and sentiments contained within regarding the dreams of one’s youth. That they can at least carry such a shard with them, always. I would like to hope I was able to accomplish that task here.
For this, a few posts are going to be ignored. The earliest posts on this site, the initial Mothballs entries for my back catalog watches, are not very well optimized. They are kind of a mess to be honest, often trying to cram in way too many productions, and they lack screenshot images for more robust search results. So it seems unfair to be too harsh on them. But those aside, we still had some rather spectacular failures when it comes to view counts:
This was focused on the Panzer Dragoon OVA, a hyper cheap direct to video cash grab based on Sega’s rail shooter game of the same name for the Saturn. To the point where it actually uses a lot of the same prerendered CGI cinema sequences (except somehow in
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Now, the reason this flopped is rather straightforward to me: Panzer Dragoon as a game series has not been relevant since said Sega Saturn era and the release of Panzer Dragoon Saga. Sure there were later things like Panzer Dragoon
On the Xbox or the recent series inspired successor Crimson Dragon. But, there just is not a whole lot of eyes looking for Panzer Dragoon OVA commentary, especially as the resulting production was so dire on every conceivable level that there is very little desire for or even possibility of significant new insight in 2014. It is largely forgotten, dead, and buried otherwise, for good reason.
(Mezame no hakobune) complete with trying to explain how it was even put together for those in attendance and the massive technical effort involved in bringing it to life.
A Person Screaming Of Tiredness In With A Hand Over Their Mouth
As what amounts to a grand experimental or “art” film of almost a decade ago but is so linked to the three dimensional theatrical attendance for it achieve its goals in purest form, I can again understand why this did less than optimally. I think it is an interesting and quirky little history peice, given the scale of the effort and the name of Mamoru Oshii attached to it. But the home copy of the production can of course not match what would be possible in its original event spectacle form, so search results or other kind of interest in it not going so well years removed from the event is fitting.
Going forwards, I think it will perhaps be fun for someone embarking on a deep archives binge as a “Huh, that is kind of odd” sort of thing in the future.
This surprised me, going through the numbers. My least viewed post, when accounting for the exceptions I noted, consists of one of my posts from my favorite anime productions of 2013 series.
Deep Dark Thoughts
Of course, of the ten productions that made it into those six posts, and especially of the five that received their own articles, gdgd Fairies is less popular with English language audiences than any of the others. Heck arguably The Flowers of Evil, which was my top pick but moved only a few hundred disc units, was more successful with western audiences.
A whole lot for its brand of late night improvisation comedy antics, and I do not regret the spot I granted it when looking back on the list now. Comedies are always a tricky thing to recommend. But for me it did the job and was a great time every week with its talk show style cycling of events combined with bargain basement but expressive CGI and the sense that everyone involved really was having a blast making it. I would recommend the show for how much they really do with so little, which is always a great thing to see
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