My anime watching habits seem to increasingly fall into a certain pattern. Whenever a new season starts I will invariably gorge myself on the latest shows, reveling in their general newness. Usually I justify this by saying that I’m ‘trying them out’ to determine which shows I’ll follow on a weekly basis. In actuality that choice is usually made well in advance, though in the end it is somewhat dependent on the mercurial whimsy of fansub groups and my own personal and exacting requirements as to when and how our subtitle pirates purvey them. But I digress. We are now well into the meat of the current season, and I find this is usually the point that I’ve pretty much abandoned most shows as a weekly indulgence, paring the list right down to just a few. It’s not that I lack time, though it is true that my temporal management skills are somewhat lacking, but if I desired I am certain I could fit other shows into my rotation. Instead, I find myself repeating the same pattern I went through in previous seasons: rather than watch what’s current, I find myself going through my ever-expanding pile of complete shows from seasons gone by. I’ll settle on a ‘new’ show and consume it completely in the space of a few days.
Anyway, this was an overly-long lead-in to what I hoped might become a semi-regular (hah!) thing here, wherein I talk about an older show that I’ve recently finished watching. Any semblance of content on this site is an improvement, I think. Admittedly it’s actually taken me several weeks to get around to finishing this entry.
I don’t have any intention to write this as a review or a summary. I assume that most people have actually seen these things by now. You can find that information in a lot of other places. My intention is more to just give general impressions and observations about the show in question and its significance (if any), since I think that actually has the potential to be somewhat more interesting than the usual overly-worded garbage I vomit up here.
Anyway, by now everyone knows that Slayers is getting a new outing next season. I can’t help thinking that the producers missed the bus on that one about five years ago, but whatever. Let’s talk about Slayers Next!