It's a slice of life/science fiction story about the looming apocalypse and how we find ways to keep on living amongst a formless, all-pervasive sense of dread. It's got everything you could want in an anime: aliens and weird gadgets and strange geometry and high school girls holding hands and abject horror in the face of senseless violence and at least one (1) crossdressing character. It's also the first anime adaptation of a work by Inio Asano, perhaps best known for his seminal work Oyasumi Punpun.
The first episode aired earlier this week, and I had no idea about it until I found it by accident. This blew me away, because D8 is one of my favorite manga of all time. I have been so excited for this adaptation, and to see it get so little response and hype that I didn't even realize it had begun airing is really sad. This was one of my longshot hopes to receive an anime adaptation, and I'd rather it not just fade into the background this season.
So, if you like science fiction or slice of life or anime in general, please give it a try! Or go grab the manga, even--the entire series is out in translation now, so you can read it from beginning to end if you wish!
Thank you for your time, and please spread the word. This story is incredible, and it means a lot to me that it has this opportunity to reach a wider audience.