I understand this is the TV House and people focus on the TV series in this thread, but since the schedule also includes anime movies, I guess it makes sense to address them here also.
I checked the other days these two oddities that are Kurayukaba and Kuramerukagari, two 1 hour long films released in april that share the same steam-punkish universe. Same staff in both, for two very different original stories told in pretty different ways.
Kuramerukagari takes place in a mining town made chaotic because of anarchic constructions, digging of mines, cave-in, man made tunnels hitting existing natural galleries, etc. The main character is a girl who maps the ever changing city and doing so she stumbles on a gang's secret plan to topple another. Kurayukaba follows a PI into the depths of the labyrinthic subway system of a city to investigate some mysterious disappearances.
The esthetic and the flavor of the world are similar in the two films, but the story telling is very different. For lack of a better word, the map girl story plays out in a "classic" way, with a deliberate pace and clear structure that makes for an inteligibble story even if the city is filled with mysteries. The PI story on the other hand is an art house fever dream, packed with flash backs in silent film form and, for a very weird reason, it feels both rushed and disjointed, a bit like if it was a very long trailer for the actual movie you want to see. Very very strange. It may be because the budget was lower on that one (I think it was a stretch goal in the initial crowd funding for these?), but every shot seems designed to limit the animation work needed and it makes it feel like the film is a succession of shots instead of being a fluid chain of scenes and sequences. Because of that I had a hard time getting into this one, even if it was full of interesting ideas in its world and story.
