This one asks you to slow all the way down, and if you can't, it will bore you into dropping it inside ten minutes. Rayca is data made girl, a 31st century construct where people exist only as information, sent back to the 21st century to study our sub-culture, which mostly means noticing the small stuff we stopped noticing. There's no connecting thread here, no arc, just loose shorts that treat everyday texture as the whole point, and reviewers split hard down the middle on whether that's profound or empty. Haruhiko Mikimoto, the man who drew Macross, puts his character design on a piece with almost no spectacle in it, and Tsubasa Makoto's theme carries more emotional weight than any plot beat. Watch it if you like speculative fiction that argues being made of flesh is the strange, lucky part. Skip it if you need something to happen.

Rayca is a single-episode sci-fi OVA from 2002. Its heroine comes from the 31st century, a time when people exist only as computer data. She travels back to the 21st century to study the subculture of that era. Haruhiko Mikimoto, known for Superdimensional Fortress Macross, designed the characters, and the theme song is credited to Tsubasa Makoto.