Category Archives: Year in Review

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My Top 10 Favourite Anime of 2002

While 2001 was a year where TV series still struggled to work with the digital animation switchover and the actual quality anime was left up to movies and weird experimental stuff, 2002 had the TV series finally get their shit together. The movie front was noticeably barren this year, with even Ghibli doing a movie equivalent of [...]

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2012 Anime of the Year Awards and Top 10

This was the thinking pose the various members of The Cart Driver had to adopt while considering their nominations. 2012 was a fairly unremarkable year for anime. Nothing really shook the industry, unless you count terrible light novel adaptations with ridiculous titles as ‘shaking the industry’. It wasn’t a particularly bad year either, which would [...]

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My Top 10 Favourite Anime of 2001

2001 follows up the trend from 2000 with really terribly animated television series. The fact that Scryed is probably the best looking TV anime of the year is a really damning statement. The switch-over to full digital animation really wasn’t serving them well. I’m sure there must have been some other factors for this too. Over-stretching budgets post-Evangelion leading [...]

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My Top 10 Favourite Anime of 2000

The characters in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure did always look like they were on their way to the local YMCA. Thanks to doing my Favourite and Forgotten post series, I’ve filled out this list a little more comprehensively. However when I’m reduced to scanning the list of hentai aired in 2000 and thinking “at least one [...]

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Top 10 Anime of 2011

2011 was a fairly good year for anime, especially compared to 2010. There was actually strength in depth, rather than a few stand outs hiding a mountain of crap. Instead of doing some stupid award ceremony, giving awards to anime like Guilty Crown just because they had really good animation, I’m simply going to list [...]

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Top 5 anime series and top 5 anime movies of 2010

I was getting bored of the format for my previous Yearly Reviews, mainly because I felt like I was giving out awards to anime I didn’t like. SoreMachi has the best opening and ending songs of the year but I don’t like the anime. Gundam Unicorn is clearly the best animated piece of the year, [...]

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2009 anime: A year in review

2009, the first full year of anime blogging in my life and also the first year where I’ve reached the end knowing that I’ve watched pretty much everything of worth that season. So I feel pretty damn capable of providing a proper review of the year this time round, where as last year I did [...]

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Anime 2008: A year in review

How the hell am I supposed to open this post? I’m talking about every single anime in 2008, the best and the worst in every category. I haven’t seen everything this year obviously, such as Aria, ef, Shigofumi and DMC, but I’ve had a chance to check out pretty much everything else. Anyway, here we [...]

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