This series often get's a bad wrap for being "confussing," but I think anyone who calls it confusing are people who never actually bother to watch the entire series. Now I'm not talking in terms of "oh, well if you pay close attention to this scene you can see X is conveying blah blah blah" no, I mean straight up (light spoiler) there is an episode about 3/4 through the run where the ENTIRE plot, mythos, and lore are spelled out plain as day. Like, it's so on the nose with it. The character damn near outright look directely into the camera and tell you whats really going on. Now dont get me wrong, in the context of the series it makes *almost* perfect sense, but I think it demonstrates much unfair hate this series gets, and also demonstrates why I believe this is a good transition series for those wanting to venture into grittier seinen series. It gives you the pieces and knowledge to help you dredge through other series that aren't as graceful as to spell out their plots to you.
Overall I highly recommend this series to those looking to broaden their scope of anime genres into darker and more avant garde territories.
P.S Don't get excited over the fact that a Radiohead song is the outro, unless your're pirating, Paranoid Android has been removed from like, all, online syndications due to copyright. Fits so well too :(
