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Originally Posted by lightbringer
A place where they shovel kids onto conveyor belts and then crush them to pieces? I doubt it. It has "metaphor" written in big red letters all over it. Yuri's story was also laced in metaphor and I'm not sure how much of what she experienced was real. I think we can only safely say that she was physically abused (and potentially sexually assaulted) by her father.
PengDrum has been a rollercoaster so far, but I'd wait until the very end to decide whether it was a product of real genius or just drama for the sake of drama. It depends on the payoff.
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I don't think either were metaphorical. It's surrealism. Ikuhara is pretty obviously influenced by Murakami, who does the exact same thing in all of his novels. Even the dialogue in this show (the conversation between Himari and Sanetoshi at the beginning especially) is reminiscent of Murakami's style.
Fantastic episode, fantastic series, 10/10, best anime series I've watched in years, etc, etc, etc.