As visitors to this blog probably noticed, I ended up having a two month hiatus or so from blogging, which I think is the single longest stretch that I ever went without blogging anything.  I think this mostly resulted from just getting into one of those funks where I fell out of interest for a while with anime before getting back into interest, which is pretty much where I am now.

As you probably have noticed, I’ve started catching up on my blogging of Kobato and will hopefully be completely caught up posting those episode reviews by Wednesday.  I also need to catch up on all the anime I had been watching in the fall season as well, because when I said a funk, I meant a funk, meaning I didn’t watch anything over the course of the past two months or so.  It’s not that I’ve been busy or anything. I just…didn’t feel like it for a while.  In any case, this will probably delay some of my end of year top 10 lists and such since I can’t really make, say, a top 10 anime of the year list without actually finishing the shows I was watching in the fall season.

Otherwise, I wanted to go back and see what I missed over this time, and this appears to be the highlights:

• Funimation’s new initiative to co-produce new anime shows based on non-Japanese franchises.
• Funimation licenses Sekirei and both Birdy the Might DECODE series.
• Sentai licenses The Skull Man, Maria Holic, You’re Under Arrest: Full Throttle, Yozakura Quartet, and Tayutama: Kiss On My Deity

OK, not a whole lot I guess, some interesting news from Funimation and 8 series getting licensed.  Nothing like the 12 days of Christmas licensing fest or whatever like we had last year.  At least it seems like The Studio Formerly Known As ADV (aka Sentai) is busy licensing new titles, though I’m sure they’re all going to be sub-only like their others.

Also, I finally got a blu ray player for Christmas myself, so hopefully I can start trying out some of these anime series on blu ray, though they still seem to be somewhat few and far between right now.