[using this page as a placeholder for the 50 episode television series. some light / vague spoilers below.]
nearly eight years since my first full-length viewing (mid-2016, with the encodergasm release) and still epitomizes everything i could ever really want from the medium. the most fun i've had in a while.
personal favorite anime, maybe.
- this is, for the most part, a gently paced narrative with many carefully observed scenes of earthbound naturalism, though it contains identifiable traces of the…