Train-of-thought. That's what I would say if I were tasked with assigning Satoshi Kon's work a genre. He was a Japanese animation director who unfortunately passed away in 2010 and with only four feature films and a television series under his belt. However, each one of his works presents a vision so singular, so distinct that I would easily put him up there as one of the great directors of our time. His films do not navigate narrative in any sort of traditional way. What Kon was clearly focusing on is delivering stories through intuition and feeling as opposed to having a concrete narrative, arcs, or even clearly defined characters. His films are more akin to a free-flowing drawing; each scene bleeds into the next without much rhyme or reason strictly logically speaking, but emotionally the ebb and flow just make sense. A narrative does come through, but not through any sort of mechanical storytelling but instead through the feeling Kon gets across with, at first