Nobody talks about this one. A single OVA that uses silence and negative space the way most shows use dialogue, watching a woman's life compress into moments of absolute clarity against a synth score that knows exactly when to break your chest open. The animation is deliberately still, almost static, until it moves, and when it does you realize you've been holding your breath the entire time. This is a film about standing still while everything you've ever loved moves away from you. It costs something to watch. Most people won't finish it. The ones who do won't forget it.

A single-episode fantasy OVA from 2006, set in a distant future that unfolds in the skies overhead. In places all over the world, trouble is stirring up dread in the way people see their lives. The story sets existence against both a lifetime and what may follow it, and reflects on the purity and mortality of generations still to come. It is aimed at viewers who think hard about the weight of their own choices.