Paprika (2006)
This is not one of the easiest anime to get into, but boy, does it give you a lot to think about. Or do you feel a thoughtful contemplation concerning dreams, reality and the internet would be light watching? Well, I mean: this is still entertaining as heck, but definitely more an adult themed and serious movie than what most people would expect from an animated feature. A company has made a breakthrough in psychiatric treatment and invented a device that allows doctors to jump inside the dreams of their patients and try to find what is troubling them. It works really well, but one day, a prototype of the device (the DC Mini) is stolen and a terrorist of sorts uses this device to not only make people go completely cuckoo-crazy, but also merges dreams of several people. Hot on the case is detective Kogawa who is struggling with issues of his own, and doctor Atsuko, one of the leading scientists of the research. Unknown to most people, she has a digital/dream alter ego:...
