Zibai is very strong. Even though Knuckle Duckle favors Electro characters, Zibai can out-DPS my Varesa for this fight. I tried Fischl+Sucrose too but that team is slightly worse than Varesa+Iansan.
Now for the video tech: compared to compressing anime, it's significantly harder to compress video game footage. Anime usually has simpler scenes with very little movement or a lot of static objects and backgrounds. Video game footage tends to have a lot of moving objects and higher framerates. I was forced to render this one at 360p, 30fps, VP9 45 CQ slow. With AV1, I think I can achieve much better. What's impressive here is Opus: at only 32kbps, the audio still sounds acceptable.
Here's mine. I kind of cheated with the last three though.
I didn't particularly enjoy The Sky Crawlers as much compared to other films that I did not include in the list but I often use these type of threads to suggest works that aren't commonly suggested anyway. Sky Crawlers doesn't have the same meditative feeling you get from watching other Oshii Mamoru films but Oshii always had a very complex understanding of war and its relation to media and global politics (see Patlabor and the Kerberos Saga) which are often absent in many war-themed films.
The next one, Genius Party, is a collection of short films. I don't think short films get enough discourse within the anime community but if you're looking for originality in anime this is often the place to go. There's one short there with a yapping salaryman and sitting through it makes me want to jump off the roof for fun but in the end I realized that's kind of the point. The life of a salaryman is mundane and boring. Thank god it was a short film.
Last one is from Koji Yamamura. I actually didn't enjoy this one as much as his other short films like Atama Yama, Inaka Isha, and Muybridge's Strings but I think Dozens of Norths is the only one that could be classified as a feature length film.