7 anime · avg brightness 0.442 · dark ending

2025's dark-ending arc (0.442 average, higher than 2023-2024) suggests a slight brightness recovery even as the narrative grammar remains dark. Dan Da Dan Season 2's Blue-Green closes the dataset — a fitting ending that returns to the register of Lain, the cool alien palette of shows that treat color as a marker of the uncanny. The bookend is perfect: a dataset that opens on Red and closes on Blue-Green, from genre convention to genre transgression.