I just finished watching the series today. This anime is old but I think I wouldn't appreciate this have I watched it earlier or during the airing time. This anime is for adults and one must have a taste for philosophy to finish this until the end. I find the first episodes a bit boring because I wasn't able to understand the happenings and I was expecting something else base on the description.
Some of the episodes seems to be unrelated but as it progressed it will give the viewer a light of the significance of the previous episodes. I skipped episode 15 or the game show episode because I thought it was just one of the extra episode to make the series long. but, the later episodes gave flashbacks on it. it turns out that every episode is important.