It was good, not quite a fan of anime style though, it's quite over used. But you did manage to make some relatively decent animation, though you could work a little more on mixing the tweens, with the frame by frame, it was noticeable in a few places and made it a bit inconsistent, animation wise.
The character design was fairly minimum, the alternate take on the anime style was nice, but you could work on differentiating. The old guy seemed to not have a single wrinkle on his face. Also if it's a more realistic/surreal style, you may want to consider varietising the character's anatamy.
like give some more narrow jaws, broader shoulders, or different shaped eyes.
The open monologue was alright, but it could have been a bit shorter, and appear in small segments spread out through the series, that way you could reveal the world slowly, while giving the chance for the viewer a chance to infer some of the world themselves.
The characters were fairly decent, though they really didn't seem to have much going for them.
The voice actors could use a little work, they sounded a bit similar, possibly try going for different age groups, and accents with in your voice acting team, as this may help differ characters' voices.
though you might want to look more in looking at a persons nationality sometimes, rather than there accent, as there are many people who have similar accent but often their voices may vary, like say Vincent Price, he did not sound like the typical american.
anyway fairly good, your pillow shots were good but you may want to watch out on using image files withing your scenes as some of the pixelation was visible