Twelve Thousand Years Later
The best example of a merely good series having one of the, if not THE most beautiful, emotional ending of all time.
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You know an anime is good when they casually make a Deleuze reference
Borderline incomprehensible but really intriguing first episode. The editing is fragmentary, jumping from one character to another, linking apparently unrelated scenes with quick match cuts. Almost no dialogue and just one character is named so far. Only in the end the storylines start to connect, but how they do exactly and who these characters are is something i guess will be revealed in the coming episodes. Anyhow, the willingness to have quiet moments and take its time is a good sign.
PD: almost all of the information contained in the episode synopsis is impossible to know by just watching the episode, which is hilarious.
A story where the personal and the cosmic struggles end up being one and the same. Without hyperbole, the boldest and most ambitious show of all time (and imo, the greatest). But don't let others' opinions sway you, just watch it and decide for yourself.
If you want to take a rest, turn your brain off and just enjoy the wholesomeness that is highschool girls forming and playing in a rock band, this is it. No melodrama, no edginess, no bullshit. The definitive comfort show.
In each episode, the pretenders accept a contract, write a script, get locations, costumes and actors, and perform a live simulation to impose their fiction over reality, to make their world at least a slightly better place. The same tools of alienating TV twisted to reveal the artifice behind our own alienating reality.
