Why You Should Watch Paranoia Agent

she wanted to avoid the stress of designing a new, iconic character so she... designed a new, iconic character

Fun fact: the opening was made the way it was, was because the anime would air late at night so they wanted a theme song that would wake viewers up to keep watching.

so what you're saying is. that we live in a society.

The death of satoshi is one of the worst lost of talent that has happened

the dancing plague would make a perfect junji ito manga

Between this and Perfect Blue, it's crazy how Kon kinda predicted how the internet and the new information age would have psychological effects on us.

"Shonen-Batto" is actually a pun. There's a word in Japanese "Shounen Ba (正念場)" that roughly translates to something like a tough moment in your life. Like being in between a rock and a hard place; hell or high water.

I was actually questioning what was Mental illness, supernatural, insanity, imagination, or reality while watching this anime

Paranoia Agent is amazing. Its so ironic that it all started because Tsukiko was being pressured to make a character bigger than Maromi and she ends up succeeding by making up Lil Slugger.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

I've been an insomniac since I was a child and I got to a point where when I'd wake up in the middle of the night I would just turn on Cartoon Network and watch whatever anime was on. I saw two episodes of this as a child, the one with the lady with the split personality and one with three suicidal people. That was one of the oddest experiences of my childhood. Didn't scar me nearly as much the Full Metal Alchemist episode where the dad combines his daughter and dog though ;_;

That one guy on episode 8 cutting and weakening the rope on that little girl's noose is almost endearing.

13:11 The detective isn't just imagining Cardboard Cutouts, he's imagining himself inside of a kamishibai, a sort of classic paper puppet show that would be put on by various street performers which reached a height in popularity during the early 50's. This is a really cool detail because it shows that even the era the detective wants to go back to doesn't really exist. People weren't just "good" and "evil" until they weren't like the detective seems to believe, this is simply his own skewed view of the past, presented in a medium that often used good vs evil storytelling.

I remember the opening very clearly, it was haunting, weirdly upbeat, brilliantly mad, like everything satoshi kon touches it.

Episodes 2 - 4 and 11 are so fucking strong with 11 being my favorite. Hearing the detective's wife talk about her love for her husband and their struggles while avoiding death from Lil Slugger was so heartwarming and heartbreaking

Imagining what sort of work Kon would be making today if he was still alive genuinely saddens me. I think with the current popularity of anime in the west he could have broken through and been popular globally in the same way Bong Joon Ho did with Parasite. His death was such an enormous loss to animation and film in general.

Your voice makes a common statement sound like a STARTLING DISCOVERY

the dancing plague sounds like the roughest mosh pit in history.

The dancing plague was a case of people getting their fuckin groove on. Never again will any human commit such acts of funkery

I swear to god, I barely remember this anime and thought it was a horror dream I had