[00:02] second. Three anime films that are absolute masterpieces and nobody talks about them anymore. Tokyo Godfathers. Christmas Eve in Tokyo. A runaway death, and a transwoman find an abandoned baby in a pile of trash and
[00:16] themselves. It's a Satoshi Kon film. When his name comes up, everyone says Perfect Blue or Paprika, and somehow this one gets left behind. It's the warmest thing he ever made. The final 20 minutes will wreck you. Mind Game.
[00:30] Masaaki Yuasa's first feature, Mind Game. The protagonist gets shot in the worst possible way, meets a god who can't decide what form to take, and gets straightforward until the animation starts switching styles every minute.
[00:44] Rotoscope, live-action faces grafted onto cartoon bodies, abstract scribbles in the margins, 100 minutes of someone showing you what animation can actually do when nobody puts limits on it. Redline. Seven years of hand-drawn
[00:58] animations, no CGI. Madhouse spent a fortune making one of the most expensive non-Ghibli anime films of its time, and then it lost money at the box office. It's a galactic street racing movie with character designs that look like 70s
[01:11] rock posters, and a soundtrack that should come with a speeding ticket. Find it on the biggest screen in your house. Pick one. I'll fight you about Tokyo Pick one. I'll fight you about Tokyo Godfathers in the comments.