I liked the showmanship of most of them, like the Shanghai Dragon bit and moon drive, and Gala,
And Baby Blue was a somber but fine piece of work to even out the outlandishness of some of the entries.
I agree that Limit Cycle where the weakest of the lot, mostly because it resorted to just bladder on with its ramblings about god and math. Done much better in Pi.
But hands down, forgetting all else. While the best of the other ones made me go "wow", Koji Morimotos Dimension Bomb just blew my friggin mind away! Quite seriously, I was gasping and holding my head by the hair, occasionally letting off a nervous laughter in short bursts while the credits rolled. And I had to take a long walk, 4 o clock in the morning, in the freezing Swedish winter just to regain senses enough to be able to go to sleep.
It could be that I watched all of the works from both anthologies in one sitting, essentially subjecting myself to 3-4 hours of varying degrees of psychedelic anime. And Dimension Bomb became the final blow to a weakened mental resistance. So I cannot say if watching it on its own would have the same effect on me at the second viewing. But having seen Morimotos previous work has convinced me that he is the closest I'll ever need to get the experience of LSD...
Oh, and I guess I now know why he loves Tempura and Ice Cream... ;)
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