Was this episode one of the selections? Maybe it should have been…
Earlier this week, I took a look at Anime Content Expo’s “Kami Kai Theater” feature, wherein fans and industry people voted on which special episodes of anime shows deserved the title of “kami kai”, or divinely good. In that article I promised that I would provide a top ten list of episodes of anime from days gone by that I felt were overlooked by the selection process. As I noticed while I was looking over the list, and others noted it as well, the selections are plagued with recency bias. Some of this was necessary, as the criteria limited the scope to anime that was created between 2000 and 2012. Despite having over a decade to work with, only three of the anime represented of all twenty-four was from the pre-Haruhi days (Fruits Basket, s-CRY-ed, GITS:SAC). Of the rest, some were barely a year or two old. While I couldn’t disagree with most of the selections, I do still feel that there were some overlooked episodes from some great anime that time has forgotten.
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