Let me write up a less drunk (read: sleep-deprived) comment on Tatami Galaxy, which I did find to be a very good show, but there were a few things keeping it from masterpiece status in my opinion.
Though I appreciated the main character's motormouth narration, I felt episode 10 in particular should have had much less. It's the part of the series where the layers of fantasy are peeled back (somewhat, at least the rose-colored ones) and we witness some past events as they really (maybe) happened. At that point, I think it would have worked a lot better and had been more jarring to have our protagonist cut down on his monologues by 75%. The images and symbols in episode 10 are so familiar at this point that they need no more explaining, and a lack of dialogue coupled with the present live-action footage gray aesthetic would have really made it a much stronger episode. Plus, he's starving (not literally, I imagine,) and even incessant minds such as ours do tend to slow down in times of malnutrition.
Even though the first episode of these next three was my favorite, I got really sick of the highly redundant "cowboy trilogy," which admittedly is largely due my having the luxury of seeing those three episodes in the span of 24 hours. Still, I felt they wrote themselves into a corner by the Keiko episode, which is bogged down by the episode being nearly 60% superfluous recap.
I once joked that the final episode in which our main character faces reality was probably the most unrealistic, but my gripes were admittedly more sarcastic than anything else. It was just me making a joke about how I seem to prefer fiction to be depressing and that somehow happiness is more unrealistic than fantastical tragedy. Him simply asking out Akashi and her saying yes without missing a beat was a very triumphant moment. It was a catharsis where I was allowed to see my greatest fears conquered with the best possible outcome. I like how it turns out Ozu wasn't the magical chaos-buddy he had imagined him to be in his alternate worlds, a fiction that made Ozu out to be a convenient tool for him in describing his aptitude for failure, imagining a troublesome friend like that would be the perfect person to both vent his frustrations towards the world with and the perfect person on whom to blame his own shortcomings, that all the chaos could be Ozu's fault. But really Ozu was his own person who never set out to be a chaos demon but just came across that way on his honest quest FOR LOVE.
But I'm also saying the final episode may have not actually happened either. Him not describing his future with Akashi seems telling, being that he had always been able to extrapolate the trajectory of his many failures but when he comes up with an alternate reality where things work out he can't imagine where it goes. Or maybe it just ends that way because successful romance really is too boring to talk about. Either way works.
Final word, I did like the series, I really did. I just somehow felt maybe two, possibly three episodes were superfluous, which feels like a lot in an eleven episode series that mostly recapitulates the same idea from a different angle for each episode. It also would have helped to have peeled back the layers of reality in a more steady fashion. It's a little frustrating to see bearded-protagonist man through the wall at the end of one episode only to have to go through the cowboy trilogy immediately afterwards. At that point it's like "We already have visual knowledge of what's up, now you're just teasing us by delaying it."