Due to one of the people I'm watching this show with being super lazy about doing anything they are told, I'm only four episodes in still, but I'm liking what I'm watching. Very mind screwy, which is how I like some of my shows. Helped that the main writer is Chiaki J Konaka, who also wrote my beloved Big O and the best season of Digimon that is Digimon Tamers. So it's interesting to watch him go a bit more all in compared to those shows.

I'm really liking some of the art direction here with the way shadows looked pencil in and the use of everyday telephone/power lines to give this sense of connection and claustrophobia. I will say, I'm not expecting a clear answer here. Like this show has started off surreal and I'm just going to assume it will stay that route until the end. I'm not expecting a sensible and thorough info dump by a character or some a-ha moment that is going to really make the first couple of episodes suddenly make more sense in hindsight. So it should be interesting to see where this goes.

Man, they don't make anime like they used to. I miss when the majority of it felt weird because I was gazing into another culture I only tentatively understood.

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