Anime that emphasizes and favors audiovisual aesthetics, artful scenes and experimental styles or formats or ideas over conventional narration and exposition. Or what the uninitiated call weird and artsy shit. But we know better...
grown-up characters and more complex themes; anime I appreciated as I got older because they had interesting things to say and food for thought, so this list leans towards the serious side, I guess
This list features titles that have won or were nominated for awards.
Some very good movies and shows, with a lot of originality, aesthesism and style.