Yessssss it's sooo good. I love Geass. Back when it came out I skipped it, because I hate clamp's character designs, but that show is a really good mindfuck of a mecha melodrama. You're not supposed to get it all the first time. It's one those that you continue to appreciate the more you watch it. One of my favorites to this day. And the way the drama is done, even when you know everything, it's still just super-entertaining. It's like a good play, timeless. Everyone could know the plot and people would still turn out.
I'm thinking about going in for Shinsekai Yori again. That show did not get enough love when it came out. Everybody remembers the stupid bonobo part and the memes, but nobody actually watched and realized it was a true epic with a rich world built to explore so many dark themes and societal constructs. The whole show was about that, not the time when all of the kids were gay for part of one episode. It kinda went on this tangent about bonobos and this whole idea of "what if people were more like bonobos?" One of the weaker parts imo... people just aren't like bonobos. It wasn't portrayed as a good thing, but rather one of many misguided forays used for controlling people. That was kind of the lesson. It was part of a larger, sequential run through different aspects of human nature, brought to life through the characters and a storyline that encompasses several generations of a strange, cult-like, post-apocalypse society's development. Cool stuff. That's one of the most noteworthy aspects. It covers a very long timeline in a short run, in a way that makes sense and adds some mystique and plausibility to everything. It has those extra layers of context to peel back. I dunno, I felt like that really turned my brain on in ways most other shows weren't even trying to. Most people probably got bored before they realized the scale of things... that it wasn't telling another normal, generic little episodic tale that's made to seem bigger than it is. It's actually huge, without needing hundreds of episodes.
It doesn't look like a thinkey think show, but I think it's actually one of the better ones, only getting hamfisted as hell a few times
The society and world built up for it is just crazy, and the way it's used to make you consider what it is to be an individual in that society makes for some powerful realizations. It's got that mystery and wonder to it that makes you want to learn more about it. That one's always gonna have a special place in my heart. A rare gem. They really went there, if that makes sense.
Also, it had Dvorak, so that was neat. It's so brilliant and it's like nobody even saw it cuz... 2012-2013... yah
I mean... there was Psycho-Pass, Chunnibyo (not my thing but that was huge,) friggin Jojo, Nekomonogatari... just in that fall slot those were some hyped shows. And then in the winter we had Mauyuu Maou Yuusha and Tamako Market. Couldn't stand the latter but it's all you heard about. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but those were big. No room for From the New World in there. I mean, right before it was the infamous SAO, which pretty much devoured everything in sight for the next couple of years.
Wait, I think we also got Humanity Has Declined (another forgotten gem) and I think Moyashimon (fuckin animentary about microbes.) OH and of course Hyouka. I think Fate/Zero was still running - I loved the animation and general atmosphere in that series, even if it could otherwise be a slog. Jormungand came out that year, too.
I don't know why I remember these things... but 2012 was a low key good year. I remember that being a time when I was losing faith
