Saw a comment on the Journal with Witch episode discussion to this effect… what other anime had that effect on you?
For me, as soon as I watched the OP of Girls und Panzer: Das Finale Part 4, I know I’m in to something great. Everything about it was an elevated experience from the past entries. Same with Rose of Versailles (2025) (OP) and The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (teaser visual and from awareness of staff and studio)
Monogatari Series.
This is the first 45 seconds of the first episode:
It’s really perverted but I’ve never seen perversion presented in such a way. I instantly knew it had a different kind of “language” in anime. I love every second of it. and i love hitagi so much
There’s a lot of issues the the Monogatari franchise, but its cinematography is unparalleled