[DreamSword]

Oh man, you actually remember me saying that? Thanks! Haha.

And yeah you are totally right there. Your Kuuga thread actually helped me to realize that alot my favorite shows tend to do this style of storytelling. Whether it be a handful of specific episodes, or just the entirety of their tales in general.

Kino's Journey and s-CRY-ed are two such examples. They're the type of shows that trust that the viewer is, well, for lack of a better way of putting it, paying close attention to what exactly it is they're talking about. They don't hold your hand, and just present themselves to you in pure, raw, (and often minimalist) form.

But again, incase anyone is getting the wrong idea, I'm not trying to claim that that's the only way nor the absolute best way any story should be told, it's just something that tends to speak to me specifically. And hey, I've certainly seen ways I felt the style was done poorly too(like the first act of Agito). Heck, maybe one day in this thread I'll even get to rant abou--err, cover, such a type of show.