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