[00:02] Naruto, Code Geass, FMA Brotherhood, and also some of the most experimental anime ever made that almost nobody watched. Dennou Coil, children running through a near future suburb wearing AR glasses hunting for ghost software in the layer
[00:16] between digital and real. It came out the same year the first iPhone launched reality would [music] actually feel like for the generation growing up inside it. 26 episodes of pure imagination. Nobody made anything like it before. Nobody has
[00:30] made anything like it before. Nobody has since. Mononoke, not Princess Mononoke. A medicine seller wandering pre-modern Japan exercising spirits in 12 episodes that looks like a ukiyo-e woodblock prints came alive. [music] Every arc is
[00:42] structured like a locked room mystery where the room is haunted. The art style is so specific the screen caps still [music] go viral 15 years later from people who've never even watched the show. Gankutsuou: [music] The Count of
[00:54] Monte Cristo. The Count of Monte Cristo retold in space in the year 5053 by and looks like one, too. The animators use a technique where the patterns on a >> [music] >> They stay locked to the screen. So, a
[01:09] coat covered in roses just slides past itself as the person walks. It should be unwatchable. Instead, it's actually hypnotic. 24 episodes of betrayal and revenge dressed in the most aggressive visual style anime has ever committed
[01:21] to. If you've seen all three, congrats. You're old. What did I miss?