Mirai e no Tegami: Kono Michi no Tochuu kara

Despite probably being made as part of a money laundering scheme, this anime is beautiful. Regional copromotion anime tend to be pure wastes of time. This show, however, is a series of excellent vignettes about life in Fukushima, from the comedic to the tragic. It uses a variety of artstyles, from standard TV anime to watercolors to paper cutouts to thick-outline characters to CGI cube people. The standard anime style vignettes are pretty cringe, but everything else is a visual and emotional feast, about the struggles of rebuilding, living, and growing after a modern-day Chernobyl incident. Many of them aren't even about Fukushima; they're just greatart pieces on their own. Gainax must have given their artists a lot of freedom to tell the stories they wanted to tell. Every anime studio probably has artists like these, and it's a shame they don't get to share these stories outside short films like this.