Homeostasis

Texhnolyze

Deviating from anime screenshots without forward-facing characters and background humans, but I really like this character's mask design. This turned out to be a very interesting anime.

I'm interested in stories that capture a flame right before and after it goes out, or, in this case, the final moments of humanity on Earth. More often, humans cease to exist in a whimper than a bang - the cause happens long before the effect - and the fade out is as graceful as a ripple settling. Homeostasis.