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Neon Genesis Evangelion

1995–1996TV TokyoAnimation

Ninety seconds cut faster than the eye resolves, with whole frames of text and diagram flashed for one frame each. Yoko Takahashi's theme is bright, major-key J-pop laid over imagery that is doing nothing of the kind, and the mismatch is the point rather than an accident.

Season 1

One sequence for all twenty-six episodes. It rewards being paused more than being watched — a fair amount of what it shows is legible only a frame at a time, which is a strange thing to build into something a viewer sees weekly.