Twenty-odd minutes in, you'll realize nobody is going to explain anything to you, and you'll stop caring. This is the 2011 pilot that Rie Matsumoto used to announce herself: Koto crashing into Mirror Kyoto swinging a hammer bigger than she is, a monk who won't give straight answers, a tech-obsessed girl chasing her through streets that were clearly drawn by someone having the time of their life. The color work alone justifies the runtime, layouts stacked with impossible Kyoto geometry, yokai designs with actual personality instead of stock spookiness. Go Shiina's score does half the storytelling, carrying scenes that dialogue never bothers to clarify. Yes, it's incoherent on first pass. It's incoherent the way a great opening chord is incoherent, and people who found it early have been quietly shoving it at friends ever since.

A small incident sends a young girl named Koto wandering into Mirror Kyoto, a strange city that is Kyoto and yet not Kyoto, where spirits and humans have been thrown together. There she meets a mysterious monk, is chased around by a girl obsessed with technology, and throws herself happily into her chaotic, colorful new life. Out of sight, though, a certain plan is being set in motion as the festivities get underway. Toei Animation made this one-episode fantasy web release with the toy maker Banpresto.