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Films like A Rough Draft.

A Rough Draft (2018) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured fantasy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (2016) poster
1. L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016) poster
2. Death Note: Light Up the NEW World2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Parallel (2018) poster
3. Parallel2018

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) poster
4. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Inhabited Island (2009) poster
5. The Inhabited Island2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015) poster
6. Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Coma (2020) poster
7. Coma2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013) poster
8. Space Pirate Captain Harlock2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Voyagers (2021) poster
9. Voyagers2021

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

ARQ (2016) poster
10. ARQ2016

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Automata (2014) poster
11. Automata2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Four (2012) poster
12. The Four2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are A Rough Draft’s neighbours — where are yours?

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