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...then you might like Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou add

Despite their strikingly different premises and visual styles, UN-GO and Concrete Revolutio share the same concerns. Both series are intensely political, casting a critical eye on both cold-hearted pragmatism and blind nationalism, and showing how easily public opinion can be manipulated. The overarching tone is of weary cynicism -- not the "edgy", nihilistic cynicism of a grimdark series, but the cynicism of a disillusioned idealist who still believes that people should be capable of better things. While the postwar settings are different - one in a near-future dystopia, the other in an alternate-universe Japan - the real war being referenced (and the postwar issues in its wake) is the same. There are also more obvious parallels. Both series have a disillusioned protagonist who nonetheless forges onward and tries to find his own justice, police forces who always seem a step or two behind, and widespread media censorship to serve some imagined greater good. It makes sense when you realise that both shows are helmed by Mizushima Seiji and Aikawa Shou. Concrete Revolutio feels like a revisiting of UN-GO's themes on a larger, less personal scale.