12 Moments of Anime: #1--Sacrifices

As the finale to everyone's favorite magical girl series started winding down, I thought that I was doing pretty good.

12 Moments of Anime: #2--Family

In the immediate wake of Penguindrum ending, this scene from episode 18 has still left the most impact on me.

12 Moments of Anime: #3--Hide and Seek

An emotional end to an emotional series.

12 Moments of Anime: #4--"It's Barnaby"

This moment accurately summarizes my experience with Tiger & Bunny, being simultaneously awesome and fall-out-of-your-chair laughable.

12 Moments of Anime: #5--Not Alone Anymore

Everything that I love about Natsume Yuujinchou was contained in this episode.

12 Moments of Anime: #6--Censoring Done Right

Say what you will about this remake, but this has to be the gutsiest Sunday morning kid's cartoon I've ever seen.

12 Moments of Anime: #7--Bros

And to think, I thought that Waver would be the first one out of the running.

12 Moments of Anime: #8--Soul-Stealing Panda

On a slightly unrelated note before we begin... I want his hat.

12 Moments of Anime: #9--The Universe's Greatest Troll

It's the harmless-looking ones that you have to watch out for.

12 Moments of Anime: #10--GUESS WHO'S BACK

Back again. Dio's back. Tell a friend.

12 Moments of Anime: #11--Daisuke Ono's Greatest Role

Nichijou had a lot of epic moments. But if I really had to pick just one, it would be this.

12 Moments of Anime: #12--Someone Needs to Lay off the Drugs

From today all the way through Christmas Day on the 25th, I'm joining my fellow anime bloggers in counting down the moments that defined anime for me in 2011! Looking back, it's been a pretty great year. I've found several new series to love, whereas in the past I've felt lucky if something that I liked at all aired within the year... Anyway, most of my moments have to do with characters and the scenes I feel describe them best, since if you read this blog frequently, character development is a thing I harp on a lot. However, this first moment doesn't have a lot to do with that. I enjoy a good comedy, and I enjoy unintentional comedy a lot more. So it only makes sense that I start things off with my favorite unintentional comedy of the year: Uta Pri.