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Top Anime of 2024 (And Year in Review)

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Hello folks, and welcome to the end of another year on this swiftly decaying orb. There’s no sugarcoating it; this has been a year of absolute horrors on the global stage, with my own government doing its best to sanitize a ruthless genocide while the world at large slips further into regressive, reactionary social attitudes and outright fascism. The neoliberal consensus of the early 2010s has broken on the back of capitalism’s increasingly ruthless post-COVID exploitation, and the best message the alleged adults in the room could muster was “things are fine the way they are,” a message that resonated so poorly it sent a narcissistic, buffoonish reality show host back into the most powerful seat in the world.

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Sailor Moon and the Pleasures of Adaptation

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The past few weeks have seen me charging through Sailor Moon, which I’ve long considered one of the most egregious outstanding gaps in my anime education. The series pits Usagi Tsukino and her fellow middle schoolers-slash-sailor guardians against a wide array of foes, as they stumble their way through adolescence while also fighting off supernatural beasties on a seemingly daily basis. Though most episodes follow a fairly similar pattern, the show remains consistently heartwarming, and has been a generally rewarding ride – though not, I must admit, for precisely the reasons I expected.

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Summer 2014 Season Preview

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We’re three quarters of the way through the season now, meaning it’s once again time to first tremble at the reality of our encroaching deaths and then swiftly distract ourselves with the thought of new cartoons. I don’t think this summer will be able to match this spring’s selection, but this spring had possibly the best crop of shows since I started this whole blogging business (competing fiercely with last summer’s Uchouten Kazoku, Monogatari, and Gatchaman Crowds), so that’s not really a fair complaint. It’s certainly no last season, either – we have some real potential gems to look forward to, and if worst comes to worst, Jojo will carry us through the dark times on his broad yet secretly nurturing shoulders. So let’s start with the obvious, top-tier, serious-reasons-to-expect-greatness contenders.

Oh right, first I should explain how this list works. For my previews, I only really highlight shows I’m actually excited about – I don’t think anyone would get much out of me saying I’m gonna be skipping thirty-some shows, and if you want premises or staff, you can always check anichart.net. Anyway!

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