Now we get to the second part of this 2018 Anime Summary. This can be seen as individual awards, where I will pick the Best, and the Worst, as well as Runner-Ups. It will divide as Individual awards, Production Awards and Character Awards. Get on board for a tour around the town now, shall we?
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Happy new year, folks. I’m not beating around the bush here, these past few months I haven’t found much passion to write at all. I much prefer watching to writing and boy, did I watch a lot this past month. Although I can’t say that I love writing, I do want keep this blog as a logbook/ diary on what I had watched and what my opinions on shows/ films I watched at that given moment. It means that I’ll find new ways to keep you readers informed of what I watch during a month or so. On that end I’ll make a Movie/Show log every fortnight or so with a brief impression about them, and doing more seasonal reviews, bunk reviews instead of full reviews.
Towards that goal, this week will be about the comprehensive summary of 2018 in anime. In general, I consider 2018 an underwhelming year. It has many solid shows, but none breaks out as a modern classic for me. I suspect 2018 will be remembered as the year where Netflix original anime storms the mainstream. While I do have some reservations towards its models (never a fan of releasing the whole batch in one go, and I feel Netflix originals are a tad bit too retro, not in a good way), they do take risque and any platforms that brings more exposure to anime is always a welcome. 2018 is also a really strong year for comedy. Comedy that is plain silly (Grand Blue), comedy that makes you cry (Anzumatsuri), comedy that is too dry (Pop Team Epic)… this year has it all. Less idol shows this year compared to the last few years, but at the same time more hopeless isekai shows, imouto incest shows, shows adapted from mobile games and soft-core porn shows, 2018 sure leaves its mark boldly.
For the next few days, I will split the summary into 5 parts:
Part 1: My favorite 5 OPs, 5 EDs and 2 full songs of the year Part 2: Several technical/characters/miscellaneous awards Part 3: Genres shortlists and Awards Part 4: Honorable Mentions and Top 10 shows of the year Part 5: List and rank Anime Movies of 2018 (Note: at this moment I list 15 films – 5 watched, 5 more available, 5 non-available. I will post this part once I finish these 15 films in the shortlist.
Stay tune for the next day for Part 1 – my favorite tunes of the year
Original Name: Asobi Asobase
Studio: Lerche
Season: Summer 2018
Episodes: 12
MAL Link: https://myanimelist.net/anime/37171/Asobi_Asobase
Original Name: Slice
Director: Austin Vesely
Debut at: Sep 2018 (83 min)
Country: USA (English)
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4411234/
Original Name: Dogman
Director: Matteo Garrone
Debut at: 2018 Cannes/ Main Competition (102 min)
Country: Italy (Italian)
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6768578/
Original Name: Loro
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Runtime: 145 minutes
Language: Italian
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8335880/
Original Name: Lazzaro Felice
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Runtime: 130 minutes
Language: Italian
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6752992/
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Original Name: Mirai no Mirai
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Runtime: 100 minutes
Language: Japanese
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6900448/
Original Name: BlacKkKlansman
Director: Spike Lee
Runtime: 135 minutes
Language: English
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7349662/