The Amazing Digital Circus is about people who are trapped in a virtual world that is supposed to be a fun vr game. The runner of the game Caine is an AI that awkwardly tries to entertain the world's prisoners by creating "immersive adventures" for them to engage with while failing to understand that they just want to go home. While this is going on, Pomni and the others are trying to figure out how they got here, where they even are, and how to leave.
The world of TCAC is presented with fantasticly cartooney and expressive CGI animation. Colors pop without burning your retinas and the movement is eye catching. What makes the visuals in this series truely stand out is the extra attention to detail that is given to the characters. Every single one has a unique way of moving and expressing themselves that takes both their form and personality into account.
Not only is the animation great, but the overall art direction is as well. The whole show has a distinctly high quality yet strangley unfinished, outdated look to it. For example, many of the show's textures have a flat, almost plastic look to them and the backrounds are designed to look like beta-testing rooms. This really adds to the idea that the digital circus itself is a strange, slapped together mess of a "game". Quite impressivly, the show manages to pull off this "slapped together" asthetic while not looking shoddily made itself. I also appreciate that the character designs are all able to fit in to this crummy 2000s game look while being unique and reconizable.
The story begins with the protaganist Pomni being thrust into the world of the digital circus.
The show's strongest feature is it's presentation by far.