Dallos (and its contemporaries) exists in the rough edges that capitalism has sanded away from anime as an artform over the past 40 years. In 2024, the presence of a highly advanced "anime industry" and all it means - merchandising deals, strategic branding meetings, business influences broadly - ensure that Dallos could never be made now. It is too coherent, daring, and honest to be produced by a major studio in 2024. Dallos's historical significance as both "the first OVA" and part of the early careers of multiple masters of the form (including Mamoru Oshii) make it additionally worth watching for anyone who wants to considerthemselves seriously interested in anime.

What a pity that shows like this are not & cannot be made anymore!