If anyone has read the Reverse Thieves blog they will know that I even more than Narutaki love to wax poetic. Therefore we decided that I might as well put that too good use in a supplemental post about the anime of 1979 as our first draft was getting sort of monstrous. I was going on a bit too much on the little details that I found fascinating about the shows that year so we streamlined our post for the main Golden Ani-Versary around some solid themes and then threw my random observations and quirky esoterica about the shows we watched for this post. If our main post yesterday looks at how each show contributed to greater themes of the year than this looks at why each show had its own charm. Continue reading →

If you pay attention to the anime and manga blogging community you may have noticed the The Golden Ani-Versary of Anime project. Geoff Tebbetts decided to celebrate 50 years of anime being on television by having different bloggers each take a year from 1963 to 2013 and discuss how it fits into the great portrait of the history of anime. We boldly decided to tackle 1979.

1979: Men are from Mars,
Women are from 18th Century France

As always, we are just slightly verbose so to keep everything in under the suggested 2000-word limit for the project we decided to divide up our thoughts into a couple of segments. This part here is a bonus introduction to our contribution to the project.

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