{"id":70114,"date":"2024-01-01T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=38786"},"modified":"2024-01-01T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:36:58","slug":"top-anime-of-2023-and-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/01\/top-anime-of-2023-and-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Anime of 2023 (And Year in Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year has come and gone, leaving us undeniably older and presumably wiser, though at this point it\u2019s hard for me to tell if each new year of knowledge outpaces the mental erosion of aging. That phrase \u201cthey\u2019ve forgotten more about subject<\/em> than you\u2019ll ever know\u201d always seemed a bit strange to me – I mean, I\u2019ve forgotten <\/span>way<\/span><\/i> more stuff than I\u2019ve remembered, and I don\u2019t exactly take that as a point of pride. I\u2019m really good at forgetting stuff! It\u2019s probably what I\u2019m best at! It does not make me a better thinker or critic!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anyway, the dubious merits of aging aside, this has been a year of upheaval on my end. The apartment I\u2019ve shared for a decade caught fire in early July, prompting the ramshackle family I\u2019ve gathered to scatter to the four winds. If you\u2019ve read any of my pieces about found families, I\u2019m sure you can guess how gracefully I weathered this transition; fortunately, I was able to lock down a new apartment in late October, so I\u2019ve at least regained a private corner to sit and think about cartoons. Change is inevitable, and though I still mourn the home I\u2019ve lost, I\u2019m coming around to the possibility that a shakeup was probably good for me in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as anime and my work are concerned, I think I\u2019ve earned myself a hearty pat on the back for my exceedingly productive year. I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019d fallen into a rut a few years back – the one-two punch of the KyoAni fire and my father\u2019s death essentially knocked the wind out of me, and made it significantly harder to passionately commit to longer essay work. I\u2019ve always written with my heart on my sleeve, and when my heart\u2019s not feeling anything but fatigue and grief, it\u2019s hard to find much insight or poignancy to share with you all. As such, I tended to favor the easier projects on my list, sticking mostly to episodic reflections over more ambitious projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, I decided enough was enough, and thus opened 2023 with a resolution to tackle one ambitious project every week, be it a long-form essay or full film notes set or whatever else I had commissioned. And I\u2019m proud to say I\u2019ve stuck with that resolution, charging through many of my outstanding Current Projects come hell, high water, or even apartment fire. I\u2019ve written my way through Land of the Lustrous, Kaiba, Planetes, and a wide sampling of the early Toei Doga filmography, alongside a variety of other fresh and fascinating stories. I\u2019m feeling more confident about my own writing than I have in years, and though it\u2019s harder than ever to make a living in this odd little field, I\u2019m happy to be doing right by you readers who\u2019ve stuck by me all this time. Outstanding current projects beware, I\u2019m coming for you!<\/span><\/p>\n

As for this year in anime, hot damn! As far as my interests are concerned, this has been the best year of airing anime in quite some time, boasting enough distinguished productions to comfortably populate a top five. Of course, just confining myself to 2023 would provide an inaccurate and impoverished view of all the stuff I loved this year, so I\u2019ll once again be including any shows or films that inspired me this year, regardless of their temporal origin. Without further ado, let\u2019s dig into my top anime of 2023!<\/span><\/p>\n

Vinland Saga S2<\/b><\/p>\n

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Across Planetes and Vinland Saga, Makoto Yukimura has proven himself one of the most thoughtful and far-seeing humanists in the animanga sphere, grappling frankly with the injustices of culture and capitalism while still maintaining hope for a better future. Vinland Saga\u2019s second season abandons bloodshed in pursuit of that hope, as the once vengeance-driven Thorfinn comes to appreciate the profound labor and incomparable satisfaction of tilling the soil with your own hands, of actually <\/span>creating<\/span><\/i> the furrows and fields that are the essence of productive living. Ketil\u2019s farm proves a microcosm of all human conflict, its inhabitants expressing the far reaches of cruelty and compassion while demonstrating our capacity for reinvention, and the fundamental longing for validation and community that unites us. Yukimura\u2019s vision embodies the best of us, and Vinland Saga\u2019s second season is a blueprint for achieving that distant vision, that Vinland waiting beyond the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\n

BanG Dream! It\u2019s MyGO!!!!!<\/b><\/p>\n

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Character drama is back, baby! It\u2019s been too damn long since we\u2019ve had a top shelf character study, and MyGO provides that and more, proving itself both an insightful exploration of a half-dozen fuckups and a thrilling band drama in the bargain. MyGO\u2019s understanding of voice and perspective is exceptional; it\u2019s the kind of show where simply watching the main cast interact is an inherent pleasure, as their distinctive perspectives and interpersonal frictions make for a marvelous articulation of our collective, eternal desire to be truly understood. And on top of that, it\u2019s also an astonishingly atmosphere-rich exploration of the amateur band experience, tethering its grand emotional peaks to performances that embody the anxiety and catharsis of pouring your heart out on stage. Plus the songs are actually great! A superior band drama in all regards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pluto<\/b><\/p>\n

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I frankly didn\u2019t have the highest expectations for this one. Urusawa\u2019s work has always struck me as consistently professional but rarely profound – fun thrillers, but a little too formulaic and impersonal to be genuinely moving. But through its overall clarity of purpose and exceptional adapted quality, Pluto rose high above my predictions, offering an exploration of grief and revenge that strikes to the core of what it means to be human. As in the best robot stories, the question of \u201ccan a robot become human\u201d is a misdirect, a framing device for exploring whether <\/span>humans<\/span><\/i> can embody our own alleged best instincts – or whether it\u2019s best for us to step aside, and let the handmade cradles of our ambitions carry on without us. Urusawa\u2019s tendency for narrative iteration feels at its best here, as one vignette after another adds fresh hues to his portrait of mankind, painting a prayer for redemption out of loss, sorrow, and rage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Scott Pilgrim comics were just about my favorite thing ever back in high school, which should give you some impression of the precise flavor of intolerable I was back then. Not that the comics are bad; they\u2019re actually phenomenal, a playful and inventive exploration of young adulthood that consistently drives the hooks into their contemptible protagonist. They\u2019re so excellent that a strict adaptation always seemed superfluous – which is why I\u2019m so delighted that Takes Off is something else entirely, a story that flips the script and celebrates all the delightful characters that the original framed as either villainous or simply of little interest to the self-absorbed Scott. Combining witty, character-rich dialogue with creative variations in genre and form, Takes Off finds new life in the margins of Scott\u2019s world, and provides a winning argument for both a post-Yuasa Science Saru and international collaborations more generally.<\/span><\/p>\n

One Piece<\/b><\/p>\n

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The end of 2023 also coincides with the end of One Piece\u2019s Wano arc, a landmark achievement drawing in multiple generations of animation talent, from the legendary morphing grace of Shinya Ohira to international all-stars just breaking into the field. The finale of Wano was a triumph of ambition and imagination, as one brilliant animator after another set their pen to realizing the culmination of twenty years of sprawling, preposterously ambitious adventures. And ultimately, our protagonist Luffy\u2019s final trick served as a celebration of animation\u2019s unbound potential, with his magnificent \u201cGear 5\u201d transformation drawing not just on action animation staples, but also the comedy and fluidity of legends like Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Wano on the whole has been a truly preposterous adaptation of the most deserving possible action manga, with a generation who grew up alongside the Straw Hats now carrying their ambitions into the stratosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Princess Arete<\/b><\/p>\n

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Sunao Katabuchi\u2019s In This Corner of the World is perhaps my favorite animated film: sobering and enchanting in equal measure, thoughtfully portraying the lives we live and opportunities we miss in the shadow of unimaginable tragedy. His prior Arete is just as good, offering an incisive dissection of fairytale ethics that serves as both a feminist parable and a vivid fantasy in its own right. Featuring a bright young princess and a sad old wizard, the film finds only loneliness and stasis in their assigned roles, instead cultivating a new mythology of curiosity, wonder, and proactive engagement with the world. It\u2019s rich in theme and bustling with vivid characters, fascinated with how the stories we tell inform our identities, but ultimately certain that those who will carry us forward are those who <\/span>do<\/span><\/i>, who reach beyond fantasy and grapple with the substance and trials of humble, everyday existence. A truly marvelous film, one that has stuck with me ever since first viewing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Horus, Prince of the Sun<\/b><\/p>\n

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I could put any number of the early Toei Doga films on here, but ultimately I can\u2019t deny the absurd beauty of Horus, Prince of the Sun. Isao Takahata\u2019s directorial debut is one of anime\u2019s great treasures, offering a story already rich in the melancholy, reverence for the natural world, moral ambiguity, and ultimate faith in community that would define his filmography. It\u2019s also bursting with stunning sequences from many of the greatest animators of all time, including Yasuo Otsuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Reiko Okuyama, and Yasuji Mori. Mori in particular is at his best here, with his and Okuyama\u2019s realization of the somber, treacherous, and ultimately sympathetic Hilda opening the door for new realms of characterization and acting in animation. Horus\u2019 legacy is everything I love about anime, but the film itself is just as impressive, having lost none of its singular beauty or thoughtfulness in the decades since its release. A film worthy of its status as a medium-wide paradigm shift.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mobile Suit Gundam<\/b><\/p>\n

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Even I am not immune to the tendency to regard certain historically significant artworks more as \u201cessential homework\u201d than something actively compelling. Well, that instinct\u2019s stupid, and hopefully the undeniable urgency of Mobile Suit Gundam will prevent me from pulling that crap regarding any more would-be favorites. The original Gundam is thrilling, harrowing, and exceptionally propulsive, sculpting a world that feels far larger than the concerns of its immediate drama, but ensuring the feelings of its cast are never sidelined by the grandeur of its conflict\u2019s scope. Its characters feel sculpted by war in a manner precious few anime can match; you can feel the weight of their fatigue as one catastrophe after another befalls the White Base\u2019s amateur crew, and civilians are forced to become heroes entirely against their will. From the convincing details of its mechanical inventions to the thematic ambiguity of its variable factions, Gundam proves an astonishingly ambitious and perpetually gripping drama, making it easy to see why this production spawned a decades-long empire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked<\/b><\/p>\n

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Tomino\u2019s followup to Gundam is crueler, messier, and far stranger than his first masterpiece. Rather than envisioning an entire solar system\u2019s worth of factional conflict, Ideon hones in on one unlikely crew of would-be pilots, trapped within a ship that is salvation and damnation in one. Only the power of the Ideon can protect them; but as episodes stack up, it becomes clear that the Ideon possesses a will of its own, and may well be judging its passengers for their violent acts of self-preservation. The production\u2019s cold, fatalistic ethos reaches its apotheosis in Be Invoked, one of the most savage and unrelenting films I\u2019ve ever seen, made all the more desperate for the long episodes we\u2019ve shared with its forlorn protagonists. A torrent of despair capped by a desperate scream of hope; the influence on End of Eva is clear, but there\u2019s nothing quite like Be Invoked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Brother<\/b><\/p>\n

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Oh, to be a student of the magnificent Seiran Academy, lost in the maelstrom of drama that is the vaunted Sorority! The combination of Riyoko Ikeda\u2019s top-notch melodrama and Osamu Dezaki\u2019s endlessly generous adaptation have stolen my heart, with each episode providing deliciously devious twists and sumptuous visual compositions. Suffering has never looked quite so majestic; Nanako\u2019s drama feels like a work of great Elizabethan theater, as every day ushers guarded hopes and profound injustices, all realized by one of anime\u2019s most visually imaginative directors. Dear Brother is an absurdly generous production in all regards, and personally serves as a welcome reminder of how much <\/span>more<\/span><\/i> treasure this medium still has to offer – after all, this is only my first Dezaki production! God bless you Nanako, and good luck with all of the Problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

So that more or less covers my year in anime, though I\u2019ve certainly enjoyed plenty more productions along the way. Having escaped the natural burnout of rigorous seasonal viewing, I\u2019ve found myself enjoying both where this medium came from and where it is going, savoring old classics even as I look towards the increasingly unpredictable future. Don\u2019t limit yourself to genre, don\u2019t limit yourself to era, hell, don\u2019t limit yourself to anime! Every loss of creative passion simply demands a reorientation of perspective; there is more beauty in art than any one person could hope to experience, so take heart and engage widely. Let\u2019s make this new year a good one!<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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