Manga Adaptation by Kyoto Animation
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Premise

A look into the daily lives of a few ordinary people in the city.

Jel’s verdict: Extraordinary

To paraphrase episode 25 of Nichijou, our ordinary lives are actually a series of miracles. As Nichijou’s spiritual successor, I can tell City is ready to carry on that theme. In fact, City feels even more down to earth. There are no child geniuses, robots, or talking cats here, and yet this first episode didn’t feel any less weird or silly than it’s predecessor. Nothing happens and everything happens at the same time, and it’s great.

Unfortunately for this review, words cannot do City justice. It is my favorite kind of anime in that you can’t explain why it’s good in words, you have to see it. I’m not just talking about fantastic animation and technical execution, I mean crafting an audio-visual experience that makes you feel something. I hate to keep comparing this to Nichijou, which also looked amazing, but City somehow manages to make the same art style more clean and technically precise while ALSO feeling more warm and textured. It doesn’t make any sense, but god does it look good.

So rather than rambling on, I’ll just link the clean version of the OP that KyoAni put on their Youtube channel.