Being decisive is not my forte, so determining whether
something is the greatest of all time or even game of the year is much more challenging than even a timed
underwater escort mission for me.
Thankfully my love of professional wrestling presented a solution to my
issue of making declarative statements about my preferences for things. Booker T, the five time WCW champ, has gifted
unto me the “Fave Five, dawg,” a collection of 5, really this is just a broad
approximation because who is to say how many five really is dawg, things he likes
most at any given time. In this case I
shall borrow the concept of the Fave Five and apply it to the year 2012 and the
media of various types released therein.
Anime
One of the things that fills my life with meaning and gives
me reason enough to wake up the next morning are giant robots, and few mediums
provide the necessary daily dosage of mecha quite like Japanese
animation. So allow me to present my
Fave Five shows of 2012, oddly enough a list pretty lite on the mecha front.
5. Aquarion Evol
Osore! The story
begins 12,000 years after the events of Genesis of Aquarion, a series more notabable for its theme song than anything else, and follows a somewhat similar format. An academy of gifted youngsters is tasked with the mission of defending their home planet from invaders. To accomplish this task they utilize 3 jets that can combine into the titular mech the Aquarion. The show is a twisting tale of gender relations and previous lives, which causes nearly all the conflict that occurs in love and war. It is even more ridiculous than it sounds as it is quickly established that there are no rails where we are going, this unsurprisingly leads to a trainwreck of an ending.
