This show really walks a fine line between gritty realism and nightmare psychedelia.

I swear to god if he starts shooting people in the mouth with a poisoned candy launcher it would make "Monster" the best piece of media ever created by any person. No joke. Unironically.

Is this the work of creepy psychic kids, or is Kenzo just falling to paranoid psychosis and poisoning his coworkers?

The masterful evoking of paranoia and dread, the almost feverish surreal social horror, and the excellent art, music, and voice acting. Kenzo is also really growing on me as a protagonist, though I think that has at least as much to do with his VA as it does the script. Whether this goes in the weird crime drama or supernatural horror direction, I'm here for it.

One of the best anime pilots I've ever seen.