It is a '17 - '18 joint depending on what you watched it on and I think it is really good.
I was sick so I banged it over the past few days and It seems way better than it has a right to be. Like a cheeper nausica. Geat painterly art. Posive depictions of feminine men before it was cool. dramatic acton. Cool japanese hipster muisic that is diagetic to the story. Lovecraftian horror Cool crunchy nature vibe world building. Anti-imperialist themes.
This one just didn't seem to get it's moment. Unless I missed it. There doesn't even seem to be much fanfic. Did people bounce off? Did the release window fuck up it's momentum? I am gonna go back and check out the manga so I am only up to the part where the show covers so I dunno the rest of it. I think there is a season two that got stuck in development hell but I am not sure there.
...is it? Maybe I don't watch enough anime to know. I got it's got the early '00s sigel effect for powers but it seems to be done in an overall interesting way. Part of my enjoyment was how few classic anime tropes I remember being in it. Which might be related to why people didn't like it maybe
Beats me but you can google it and see that reddit didn't like it (or assumed other redditors didn't like it). I think it suffered from the netflix release schedule, weebs mad because not only was it not simulstreamed like most anime these days but also released three months after the season ended. So already viewers got a chip on their shoulder against it for being made to wait to see it (and the show had zero opportunity to build up expectations week to week and spoilers would already be out there from anyone that torrented/fansubbed).