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I usually only look 1 season ahead, but as far as the upcoming season goes, just the 2nd cour of Ousama Ranking. The others are all iffy, but hopefully something will shine.

Any titles you're looking forward to in 2022? Summertime Rendering, Spy X Family and Police In A Pod are the three I have marked so far.

Saw your visitor message. I agree with what you say. It is interesting to study change and trends, but it can also be a sad thing indeed. May 2022 be a good year to you too!

Hey there, thought I'd speak a bit more about what we said in that thread about the guy who was at the point of hating anime. Specifically your reflection on the point of people hardly thinking anymore.

I think for a relative start is to think of how the 1930s were described in To Kill A Mockingbird. Growth was slow as was technological advancement. It didn't feel like there was anywhere to go. Time was not a scarce commodity. The world was still secluded in continents but radio gave some semblance of what was going on out there. Go forward a few decades and then there's television. As comedian Bill Hicks put it, television brought the horrors of the world into our living room, but at the same time, it felt like there was a chance to be anything in this gradually emerging new world. Tack in computers in the 80s and internet in the 90s. Suddenly, we have access to much we didn't before - but it was still slow. And from an anime perspective, there was still little we could access.

Then over the 2000s, that changes. Mobile phones, broadband internet, Youtube, Facebook, anime subbing. Access is getting faster, there is more to take up our time. 2010s, mobile phones are as capable as a PC/console, internet gets damn quick, Steam and its equivalents for games, anime and game streaming, social media platforms everywhere. Everything is very fast, accessible, instant.

My point - I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Sure, I had things but I still had gratitude for what actually was accessible. The latter lot of Millennials and Zoomers - for them everything is instant and in the moment. There is no need to think and they feel there is no time to. I get told by them that sending more than one sentence in a message is too much for them. Instant reaction videos and giving people little time to fix a losing sports team and instantly declaring someone guilty upon one bit of 'news' appearing is the norm. It's a product of the environment we grew up in and how we were raised.

From a content perspective, I found 2021 to be a very down year. Odd Taxi is the only Japanese anime I'll want to remember (but I will fondly). Arcane suddenly made Western animation relevant again and will set a standard for a very long time (it's worth trying if you haven't). Bad End Theater was a nice surprise for games, Loop Hero was another good one.

Good to hear that you still like to think. GL in 2022.