Despite what I said in my early impressions of thisseason , I've effectively suspended Space Dandy because I just felt no particular motivation to watch the fourth episode. As before , this has brought me around toa realization about my tastes.

Put simply, interesting animation turns out to not be enough byitself to get me to watch a show. Space Dandy is clearly a showcase(of both animation and storytelling) and this season it has beendoing quite a good job of that, but as I mulled over

It's time for another early impressions post, as before . This entry has been delayed mostly because I neededseveral episodes to make up my mind about some shows (and on top of thatone important show aired a week later than everything else). I'm onceagain feeling like grading very harshly, so shows that might get passesin previous seasons are getting ejected this time around. Overall thisis not a particularly great season; there is nothing that I'm feelingparticularly deeply enthused about and a

As before , it's time for my usualretrospective look back at the season to see how well my final views matchup with my early impressions and my midway views . Sort of as I did in my winter season retrospective , there's one show I'm ranking based on howmuch I'm enjoying it instead of how good I think it is (for everythingelse I think the two match up quite well).

Excellent:

• Ping Pong : This is the total surprise of the season for me

It's time for the usual midway check in on my early impressions ofthis season and as usual, it's a bit delayed. Theheadline news is that I've wound up feeling that this season is a prettystrong one, although I've also wound up dropping a number of shows.

Things I'm still watching:

• Mushishi second season: Either I have rosy memories of the firstseason or this season is tilting much more towards horror than thefirst season did. Whichever it is,

It's time for my early impressions of this season so that I can organizemy thoughts and then later see how badly I did at predicting what wouldbe good and what would make me throw up my hands in despair. Early inthe run of first episodes I thought I was going to have real difficultysorting out what to watch, but as time went on I realized that there wasa clear dividing line poking up out of my early confusion. Unlike backin winter this was not a line of active failure

It's time for the usual retrospective lookback at the season to go with my early impressions and my midway views . This time I've decided to bedifferent in my ranking; instead of ranking series more or less on howgood they are, which I usually do, I'm going to rank by pure enjoyment.

Plain good fun:

• Witch Craft Works : This show demonstrates the power of understandingthat your basic premise comes straight out of bad lightnovel cliches ( although it's actually adopted from

Back in my best N in 2013 entry I mentioned that whileI'd seen all three currently available Rebuild of Evangelion movies in2013, none of them made my year-end list for reasons beyond the scopeof that entry. Today I feel like elaborating on that passing remark.

Fundamentally the reason I don't find the movies really impressive isthat I've already seen both Neon Genesis Evangelion (the TV series)and End of Evangelion . Having seen both, there is

It's time for the usual midway check in on my early impressions of thisseason . I don't think that this is a really strongseason so far and it also feels kind of odd to me; despite watchinga reasonable number of shows I've wound up somehow feeling that thisseason is a slow one (perhaps because many of the shows I'm watchingare packed into the weekend with basically nothing coming out duringthe week). This is tempting me towards probably unwise ideas, like say

After doing Project 365 (where you take at least apicture a day for a year) from 2008 through 2013 ( cf ), I decided to notcontinue it on into this year. Since Project 365 is what got me intophotography in the first place, I feel like writing a little bit about whyI didn't continue mine. Ultimately there are two major reasons for it.

The first reason is that I'd become more than a little bit