Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction

📖 SYNOPSIS

A massive alien mothership has been floating over Tokyo for three years now, and nobody really knows what to do about it. It's been three years since it showed up, and life just... kept going. Kadode Koyama and her best friend Ontan are high school seniors trying to figure out their futures, deal with crushes, and survive the general awkwardness of being seventeen — all while the government ramps up weapons production and protesters fill the streets. The aliens are just kind of there, like background noise nobody can ignore but everyone has learned to live with.

That contrast is what makes this 17-episode ONA from Production +h. so compelling. It's a slice-of-life show where the slice includes existential dread on a civilizational scale, but the camera stays focused on two girls scrolling their phones and making dumb jokes. The animation has this loose, almost sketch-like quality from Inio Asano's manga that makes everyday scenes feel slightly off, slightly dreamlike. The soundtrack quietly does a lot of heavy lifting too.

If you liked the way Neon Genesis Evangelion used its sci-fi premise to dig into personal psychology, or how FLCL buried real coming-of-age emotions under surreal chaos, this hits a similar nerve — just quieter, more grounded. It's not about the aliens. It's about growing up in a world that feels like it might not have a future, which, yeah, sounds familiar. Based on an Inio Asano seinen manga, so expect that particular brand of melancholy beauty.