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Kaguya-sama wa kokurasetai ~ Tensai tachi no ren'ai zunô sen ~: Kaguya Wants to Know/Kaguya Wants to Give a Gift/Chika Fujiwara Wants to Confirm It (2020)
a major step-up
For the first time in the series, an entire episode revolves around, basically, a single plot-point, and it is glorious. Getting an extended look into the close family of both chika and miyuki through the searing eyes of kaguya is a thrilling change of pace from the typical classroom antics, and when it builds to the main conflict of the episode, that being, kaguya, vs kaguya, vs kaguya, the mental war is as exhilarating as the antics between our two protagonists. And there is still antics galore in the final third of the episode, a back and forth tennis match with an unexpected, positively hilarious outcome. I believe this episode tops everything in the first season.
Serial Experiments Lain: Ego (1998)
A perfect send off
Lain has long been my favorite anime series, and the works of Chiaki J Konaka (such as Malice@Doll) have explored concepts in media that have connected with me down to my deepest beliefs in a way I've not gotten from any other writer. To top off a magnificent avant garde journey, Ego serves as the perfect conclusion to the world, and character, of Lain. I won't get into the plot in specifics in this review, but the colossal stakes of the final events of tackled in these last twenty minutes of Lain elevate this singular concluding episode above the rest of this already stellar, one-of-a-kind experience steeped in a healthy amount of experimentalism and legitimate philosophy.
Our Planet: The Next Generation (2023)
Another fine peak in the world of Attenborough Documentaries
This new season of Our Planet had already set itself apart in the first couple episodes from the multitudes of nature docs narrated by our infallible David Attenborough, with a fast-paced, sharper editing style, a commanding, diverse soundtrack, and a gorgeous color palette with cinematography that accentuated particularly striking landscapes. But the third episode, covering the tribulations of newborns and parents throughout the challenging fall months, managed to blow the first two out of the water! An abundance of particularly fascinating and unique animal stories fly by in a flash in this very pruned tour-de-force in what a nature documentary set to the Attenborough formula can be.