Let’s get ready to reflllllllllleeeeeeecccccccttttttt!

My most ambitious blogging project from last year returns with enthusiasm, and I find myself at quite the loss for words on how to hype it.

I could just go the typical overdramatic style, embellishing the Twelve Days Project with all the flair and intensity of your average superhero movie, replete with punchy, choral music and lots of cuts to black and angsty voiceovers, but somehow, that doesn’t seem to fit something like this.

Even though dramatization and plenty of emotion is something that would definitely fit it, somehow I imagine the Twelve Days Project as something that would come out of a slice-of-life more, almost Aria-esque in its raw warm-fuzzy-ness.

This is because the Twelve Days Project is composed of more than a fair bit of nostalgia; it’s an annual tradition I decided to pioneer last year, as a nostalgic look back upon a year well spent on anime. Based around the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas celebration, Twelve Moments of Anime is a countdown of some of our most loved or remembered anime moments over the last year.

I say our, because, as with last year with the Anime Blogging Coalition, I’m extending an invitation to everyone in the otakusphere to count down with me, if only for a few days, and remember some of the moments that help make anime what it is today.

Amidst all the dreariness of companies collapsing and season previews sucking, and Akasaka episode after Akasaka episode, it’s quite a refreshing feeling to look back on all the times that really made us glad to be anime fans. Because there is a heart of gold buried beneath it all, and it’s that feeling that I wish to pull out and treasure.

So, in short:
December 14th to Christmas Day (the 25th).
Twelve moments in anime, one a day.
Let’s join in a display of enthusiasm and spirit~

It doesn’t have to be anime from this year. (Just as long as you watched it this year, is my guideline.) It doesn’t even have be a particularly ‘good’ moment. Whatever happens to evoke emotion in you, that was really memorable … that’s what I’m looking for.

Those moments that stick with you, through your troubled times and your happy times, that really make that passion within you burn…

-CCY

Ironically, I have yet to finish either anime I have pictured in this post.