Murase takes a detective story set in a sealed, climate-controlled city and slows it down until almost nothing is left but atmosphere and one question the place was built to make pointless: what is a self, when nothing requires you to have one. It is one of the strangest, most committed mood pieces anime has produced, and not always an easy sit.
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