Thirty minutes that feel like someone plugged a cathode tube directly into your optic nerve. This is Shinya Tsukamoto four years before Tetsuo: The Iron Man, already treating animation like something to be assaulted rather than composed, and he's doing it in service of King Terry's illustrations at full blast. It was never a broadcast or a theatrical run, it was a 1985 VHS in a line of illustration-based video tapes, which is exactly why half the people who find it bounce off in ten minutes and the other half never shut up about it. If you want clean lines, character arcs, and a plot you can summarize at work, this will feel like a prank. If you want to see what Japanese animation looked like when a cult filmmaker and a cult illustrator got a camera and no adult supervision, it's right here. Watch it twice. The second pass is where it stops being noise.

Terry 100 Channels is a 30-minute animated special built on the artwork of illustrator King Terry, made when his drawing was at its height. Shinya Tsukamoto, the cult director known for Tetsuo: The Iron Man, directed it. It first appeared in Japan on VHS in 1985, as one entry in a line of videos centered on illustration. Its genre labels mark it as a mix of action, comedy and ecchi.