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Pay no attention to the people saying this is deep, it's not. It's just a girls face morphing into different faces for a few minutes. An old man's face, or a demonic face, and everything in-between as it stretches, squeezes, and growls quite loudly. That is mostly it.
I liked the way the different faces melded together and stretched as they were changing in a psychedelic nightmare of an lsd trip that this short was. The wall of nightmare sounds (demonic growling and a metal pole being hit with a stick?) added another level of uncomfortable surrealism. Overall though it was ... pretty pointless. I appreciate the amount of effort went into the art though. Making complex scribbles into animation takes a different effort than drawing standard in-between frames.
Eventually you see her real face, which was probably already spoiled for you. She looks at the camera and says a short phrase, then it ends, leaving you wondering why this exists.
It is what it is, a short art piece with little meaning or point other than displaying the grotesque. 3/10

This is a shounen show about a Princess who is tired of her town and just wants to get away from it all, but the issue is: there are murderous Ogres outside her town walls.

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Soon enough, one of these Ogres enters the town and demands 30 human sacrifices PER MONTH or else he would slaughter the whole town.
I don't really see the point in complying, since the whole town would end up being killed in both scenarios. But a mangirl named Mikoto comes to the rescue by chance as a traveler, and all the Ogres are quickly and effortlessly decimated, in ... typical shounen fashion. He then leaves and the Princess can't bring herself to chase him. One month later she decides to cut her hair because she hates being pretty (so tired of anime doing this shit) and ventures off.
What's confusing about this? Well, because the hair cutting and the venturing off happened in episode 4. We now circle back to episode 1. Episode 4 ends at the exact point episode 1 begins. Which is confusing for some, but I have a feeling all of those people did not, or were even old enough to have watched Haruhi season 1 while it was airing. Now THAT is confusion.
A town gets destroyed in one fell swoop while a soldier from the town, who had just left minutes ago, watched it all happen. In the next episode, he's all of a sudden in a fighting competition. It's pretty interesting, and not that confusing once you understand that the show is not presented in chronological order.
It's a pretty generic shounen show at the end of the day, but the show makes itself more interesting by using the Haruhi formula and mixing up the episodes. Not bad. 7/10.