that one's on my list of things to watch. how's it going so far?
It's...
strange. I had heard people compare it to Yellow Submarine before I started watching it, and now
I can see why. Except, Yellow Submarine, despite clearly being an acid trip, was still generally pretty upbeat and just gave you a good feeling the whole way through, whereas this is...
unsettling. Like, it has some really over-the-top moments that I can't quite always tell whether they're being played for laughs or they're supposed to be taken seriously, and then it also has these moments where the entire thing just seems to start tripping out and suddenly you get sucked into some sort of weird nightmare, only to get pulled out of it as the climatic fight scene of the episode begins with whatever strange creature is going to come out of the protagonist's head this time around.
Also it's really hard to follow sometimes but I feel like I just... don't care? Like... it's just an interesting experience and I sort of don't mind if I can't catch every plot point.
Also there are parts were I just feel like it's trying to say something deep but I just can't figure out what...? Like, the main character always seems to get punished with all this weird shit happening to him whenever he sees "something dirty" (apparently this has to do with some sort of curse...? I think...?), but, I'm starting to notice, he's actually incredibly closed off most of the time and really doesn't want anything to do with all the sexual stuff going on around him, and it's
everyone else who's perverted, but he gets smacked with this curse whenever he so much as accidentally walks in on what
other people are doing, so... I dunno, just something I noticed.
And if you want an idea of the more ridiculous stuff that goes on...
Imagine a satellite falling out of orbit, causing the sky to light up all the colors of LSD as it enters the atmosphere, and the only way to blow the thing up is for this kid to deflect some sort of satellite-destroying missile at it -- except the missile looks a lot like a giant baseball, and this kid has to use a guitar (which was retrieved from the inside of his head, by the way) as a bat to hit the thing and send it back at the satellite.
And that's the only ending I've seen thus far that didn't involve a bunch of fighting robots -- robots that came out of people's heads, mind you. So like... yeah. This anime is weird, and weird in a different way than most weird animes, but I... really enjoy it for that? It's hard to put into words.
Also, despite it only being six episodes long, I've kind of been taking my time getting through it just because I need a good chunk of time to process each episode...
OH, and the music's pretty good, too. The ending theme I find especially catchy.