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This Ugly Yet Beautiful World

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Alternate titles: Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai

TV (12 eps) | 2004 | Gainax, Shaft

One day a light descends from the sky and splits into the ideal girls of Takeru and Ryou. That is where this gentle and vaguely romantic story about our ugly and beautiful world begins. Soon enough the story plummets into the secrets of global extinction and the meaning of life. Everything in this world that is beautiful has something ugly in it, and that ugliness is part of the secret of its beauty. Even for romance this is true...

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