Twenty-five years on, one of anime's seminal groundbreakers, Ghost in the Shell, remains as alluring, intriguing, confounding, and problematic as ever.
Paranoia Agent is terrifying in the best way — it’s scary not just because of what happens, but because the bigger implications of what it presents are even more unnerving.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit has a wide-ranging plot and a teeming cast of characters, but what makes it most impressive is how much restraint and discipline has been brought to the storytelling,
A show that does a simple, focused thing competently and enjoyably is rare enough, and in that sense there's no wrong in calling this show a classic and a treasure.
I may be dismayed with how little faith it has in the humanity it is only too willing to obliterate, but I've lived with it long enough to know that not everything we love aesthetically also has to love us back.
