7. Ping Pong the Animation (2014)
Masaaki Yuasa adapting Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga about competitive table tennis. The art is scratchy and unconventional, yet nostalgic.
Eleven episodes following two childhood friends through the competitive circuit, built around questions of talent and its limits.
8. Land of the Lustrous (2017)
Immortal gem people defend themselves against beings who harvest them for decoration. The youngest and most brittle of them is assigned to compile an encyclopaedia, having been judged unfit to fight.
Fully CG, at a point when the technique was uncommon in television anime, and widely noted at the time for the quality of its CG work. Underneath the premise is a story about a body being taken apart and replaced piece by piece.
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