As the end of the year draws closer, I’m thinking more and more about the upcoming Year in Review. In the past, I never much cared for doing such a thing, but last year’s was so well received that I feel compelled to do it once again. So, for months now, I’ve been building a mental list of my ten favorite new shows of the year, the contents of which have actually been a bit surprising. Of course, you’ll have to wait until December to see for yourself.
One notable thing about this year’s anime offerings, however, is the level playing field. There have been a number of good shows this year, yet very few stand out from the crowd. Even the shows on my list that I’ve gushed about aren’t necessarily any more special to me than those about which I haven’t. So, while populating the list has been an easy enough task, arranging the entries has not. And it’s far too early to determine which Autumn shows will make the cut (although, I do have an idea). I figure I’ll be re-arranging things up to the very last minute.
I do want to make an effort, however, to start writing my Year in Review posts as early as reasonably possible. Last year, I churned them out in real time from my temporary home in California between twelve hour workdays and holiday festivities. I wrote the final post of the series on my laptop at a New Year’s Eve party, getting it out the door only a few hours before the year ended. Obviously, I’d like to avoid such a mad rush this year, so I intend to start early. Even if I don’t know the final order of the list, I know certain shows are at least guaranteed a spot. No harm in preparing their posts beforehand.
Anime blogging is serious business.
Shows aside this year has been pretty crazy as far as all the director firings, run aways, plagirizing, censoring. Gosh you got a lot to work with :D
Last year’s end of year post for me was difficult because I actually had to remember what all I had watched. Hopefully I’ll have a bit better memory this year. There’s definately a lot of good things to choose from, just have to figure out what funny category I can stick them into.
Anime blogging is serious business.
So true, oh so true…
QFT.
All in all, this seems like a great concept to round off the year with. Don’t mind if I borrow the idea, do you? (:
I wasn’t the first one to do it, so borrow all you want.
I’m thinking of doing some Year in Review posts myself, but since listings things from 1-10 seems more tedious than I’d want. We’ll see what happens though. Good luck with your writing them. :3
We will wait to the “Year in review” post then..
I’m so tempted to do this for the “your favorite show is ranked lower than mine” factor but I’ll settle for more vectors of Manabi Straight instead…
Oh, well, for somebody that’s not up-to-date with many of the shows this past year, I can’t qualify to write a “Top 10″ list. Looking forward to your future pre-2008 posts!
Speaking of vectors, you wouldn’t happen to have a full-size version of that Manabi vector handy somewhere?
Here’s the original, Muey.
The public thanks.
Though, with the full version in view, sort of wish the tracer would have gone a bit lighter with the line thickness for most of the image, but I guess you can’t have it all. Still nice~