Year In Review: 2009 Changed, Introduction
The world looks different when we take a different perspective. I think the annual, end-of-year review is just another trick to see the same things in a different light, but sometimes it’s quite the insightful thing to do.
If anything, the motif of the stuff that happened this year screams “change” to me. And I don’t mean it in the memetic-iconic HOPE sort of way. A lot of changes this year are a far cry from being for the better. Still, there are good changes too.
Instead of looking solely from the point of views of anime that aired this year or what franchises I followed, fell in and out of love with, or which otaku idol is on the rise, maybe looking at the changes that happened this year makes more sense. And maybe to contrast with that, we could talk about some things that hasn’t changed.
The problem with this approach is that who am I to say what changed how and for how much and for good or evil? I think it makes more sense to just talk about what changed for me, and how did these changes impact my life from the approach of an anime fan and some guy on the internet. For example, last year there was all this hoopla about Odex in Singapore about a year ago. Do I care? Not really. It was a political and local thing that signals a much broader, deeper and pervasive trend in regards to treatment of copyright in the international arena. But this year I could talk about all the English-language simulcasting and the new video on demand options via PSN/Live/etc., despite most of those options are for some North Americans only. Well, you get the idea.
I’ll try to touch on all the most immediate things first. I don’t know how long I can go for, but here goes.
Year in Review 2009:
- Introduction
- Otagei
- Streaming
- Figure Imports
- Retrospective
- #MALKeionbu
- N^2 List
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