Aku no Hana 02

I said:
Wowie Zowie that was really great.

Now, as to the question of the "quality" of the animation. I want to firmly declare myself on the side of totally loving everything about it.

Here's a little thought I had about the whole thing:

Anime is an incredibly dogmatic art medium (if you don't think so, go to tvtropes and poke around a bit you'll see what I'm talking about). It's kind of one of the great questions of anime. Why does it all look and act the same? It's not for example, that it is all trying it's best to mimic reality and therefore all seems similar because of a simple goal like that. It seems to me that anime is similar to other anime because anime tries it best to be anime. Now, obviously this is not a rule. If a show deviates in some way from the norm it is obviously still anime, but are there some deviations which cannot be taken? (personally this is why I prefer the simple "it's a japanese cartoon" definition)

So many people seem to be using words like "sloppy" and "ugly" to describe some of the characters, but these are cartoons. Aren't ascetics a little more abstract than that?

Isn't that the whole point of animation? (This is why I hate moe...)