ITT we discuss anime with superior art style. This doesn't mean "oh wow the anatomy is all correct, I'm glad they did it RIGHT", but rather stuff that is amazingly original and beautiful and feels like unplanned-for electric shocks in the cerebral cortex.

My favourite anime of this type has to be "Kyougoku Natsuhiko - Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari" (aka Hundred Stories). It is full of absolutely stunning use of colour and form. It shows enormous self-confidence by using large single-coloured surfaces of pure white, fog that looks like pencil eraser marks, pitch-black shadows and mixing all this with intentionally-bad CG animation - and it gets away with it.

When you watch this anime, nothing matters anymore: you know from the first instant that The Deed is Done, you want it or not. A million tiny needles of art pierce your mind as you get elevated to the Next Level.

Sadly, the only anime that I recall doing anything like this for me is Boogiepop Phantom; the first episode I believe, in the alleyway with the train passing by, made me think "wow, that's fucking cool cinematography."

I don't remember it lasting into further episodes. But I seem quite oblivious to things like this.