Thanks to everyone who supported the crowdfunding project for the “Best of the 2000’s in Anime”!  Thanks to your generosity we achieved Tier 4, meaning the list will be a Top 10 with write-ups for each series.  As I noted in the Ko-fi post, I will make the selections available exclusively to those who supported the project (and hey, feel free to do so now on Ko-fi if you want in) for one week in countdown form.  After that, I will do the same on the main site.

As far as timing  goes, I’ve just started the process of winnowing – needless to say it’s brutal.  Also needless to say, this is a nutso season.  Nevertheless I will try to get things kicked off sooner rather than later, as the season isn’t going to get any less crazy (just the opposite).  A few stray thought to consider:

• The eligibility will be basically the same as the 2010’s list.  That is, anything still airing in Winter 2000 through anything that finished by Fall 2009.
• That said, because I wasn’t blogging anime back then (or anything else), I’m loosening things a bit to include individual seasons of series I feel deserved inclusion, even if the total package might not have made the cut (or if it had sequels which aired in 2010 or later).
• Just to get it out there: I did not watch as much seasonal anime in the noughties (especially in the first half) as I have in the decades since.  There are omissions here – shows I’m sure are great that I haven’t seen.  If a series you think is a masterpiece isn’t in there, it might be that I don’t feel the same, or it could be that I just haven’t found time to watch it.  Feel free to excoriate me in the comments but it is what it is.
• It’s really striking (though I knew it to be true) how many multi-season anime there were then compared to now.  And how rich the OVA/ONA market was.
• Speaking of which, this would have been an impossible list to compile without including OVAs – they were too important at the time.  But I made a conscious decision to exclude theatrical films, because then as now I don’t think it’s fair to compare them against TV anime.  Maybe at some point that can be a separate project.

Once more, my sincere thanks to everyone who follows the site – especially those of you that made this project a reality.  I’ll be certain to include a roll of honor in the credits once I start the actual countdown.