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I like to think of myself as a connoisseur of fictional violence, but this manga took the crown as being one of the most vicious things I've ever read. While other manga will have more gratuitous violence in it, the fact that this is a real event being retold by the man who did the murder makes it more horrifying than anything someone could create in a fictional environment. It is one of the first times a manga actually made me feel an anxious pit in my core, it is heavily jarring.
(side note: if you buy the translated book, be warned it has actual ... autopsy photos at the end and is extremely brutal)

I'm conflicted on it. While on one hand its very interesting to read into the psychology of a madman, it's also something I would not recommend to anybody, regardless of morbid curiosity.
The artwork is crude, very amateur, ugly even. It doesn't take away from the absolute carnage that's relayed to the reader though, it's truly chilling how nonchalantly these acts are talked about, as if it was something that was a simple mistake. It really is a violent display.

A positive (?) is that it really let's you see as close as possible the mindset of a lunatic like this without actually being one. It's unnerving how normal of an urge Sagawa-san sees cannibalism as. In fact, Sagawa-san constantly decides to wax poetic on these actions. It's possibly the most accurate retelling of this case one could possibly get.

I don't know how I'd tell someone about this or bring it up in a recommendation. It really is an anomaly of a manga.

IGPX is by no means the deepest anime out there. It's extremely simple story-wise and the animation is average, but oh god is it perfect.

If you're a sadsap like me who yearns for their 2000's nostalgia back, this anime is the embodiment of it.

Aired on toonami, a soundtrack ripped straight from Ninja Tune, mechs, it is the ultimate slab of serotonin.

More on the soundtrack, IGPX contains the greatest licensed soundtrack in anime history. In collaboration with the legendary Ninja Tune label, throughout the show you will hear beats from Amon Tobin, Cujo, Bonobo, The Herbaliser, and Neotropic. A roster of some of the ... greatest Drum n Bass, Nu Jazz, and Big Beat producers to ever live completely fill the shows soundfield. That alone is deserving of a 10/10.

If you need a quick 2 season run of joy slop, this anime is very readily available to view anywhere. Although, it's no Evangelion in terms of layered story. The characters race robots to heavy beats, and thats nearly the whole extent of the show. It's a simple premise that makes the 'ooga booga' portion of your brain flick violently, and that's all I ever really needed.

The anthology to trump all anime anthologies.

The Animatrix is without a doubt, the greatest thing to come out of The Matrix trilogy. (that 4th one isn't real.)

The Matrix itself has a pretty spotty track record. From the masterpiece original, to the flawed, but awesome second, to the forgettable third.

The Animatrix cuts all the fat and gives you what the series always should've been. As much as I like all the existential cerebral thinkpiece essays mouthed off in the movies, Animatrix strips itself to the bare essentials of the plot and concept of the Matrix. The animation varies in quality, (from great, to excellent) due to ... its episodic format of utilizing a different studio and director for each part.

They pulled out every ace in their pockets for this. The minds and animators behind some of the greatest anime of all time give their talents to this anthology, from Ninja Scroll and Blue Submarine No. 6. (The latter being one of the best ever) All the way to Aeon Flux and Akira. It truly is an amazing lineup of the all time greats. It also works as a time capsule for the best era of anime, the early to mid 2000's.

The compilation covers how the whole idea of the Matrix began, to the people living in and around it, to the industrial dystopian aftermath of the rise of the machines. It's a heady, abrasive, and electric showcase of a re-industrialized world thrown in chaos.

I'm sucking this hard, but for a good reason. Talented animators and artists collaborating with a single goal in mind. Expand an already riveting world, and getting the freedom to bend it to their will.

If you derive "dementia" as the meaning of this, you're an idiot, sorry.

Dementia, a sickness that consists of the mind decaying and slowly losing realization of memory and the world itself until its nothing.

This short starts sparse, and starts slowly building itself into a wild, jazzy, abstract collage of wonderful sense expansion. It truly is the most extreme display of boredom and wandering thoughts expanding into a mess of creativity. no degradation to be seen so far.

The score is wonderful, eccentric loops building until it explodes into an avalanche of free playing. it captures the monotony blooming into chaos perfectly.

My only ... complaint is that the artsy fartsy conclusion isn't longer. it's fantastic, gorgeous shapes and colours splatter all over the place and make a cacophony of saturation not unlike a stained glass portrait completely rearranging itself at will.

so yeah, if you get Dementia out of this, we get it, you listened to that vapid Caretaker album and think you're some scientist.