Did you love Odd Taxi? Did you make the mistake of not watching it, while lamenting that anime has fewer & fewer thoughtfully written, resonant works? Either way, you can watch the beginning of its spiritual successor Housenka & then be sad you gotta wait for more www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQXe66vi0IU

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

Organized a groupwatch for Cossette, in part because it's a fascinating snapshot of Shinbo's evolution, but also because it rules. Uncomfortable psychosexual hangups as a means to explore the idealization of beauty, and a propensity towards gothic horror he can't hold back even when he tries to