Paranoia Agent is a lot of things — it’s a display of a moral panic in motion, as fear grips a population and turns it against itself. It’s a dive into how the media can spread information and disinformation in equal measure, creating a reality where fable is just as “true” as fact. Hearing that, it might lead one to say, on the 20th anniversary of Paranoia Agent’s final episode, “Wow, it sounds ahead of its time.”
