Bad shows, cancelled shows, just stuff that never reached the surface. Curious what you've stumbled across :3
EDIT: Almost can't keep up with all the recommendations, thanks to all of you!!
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Last Exile was a god level series and yet… no one talks about it…. Its steampunk as well
Yeah that looks like fun from google search, gives me slight Final Fantasy Steampunk vibes, might check that out. Thanks for your comment!
The CG shows its age but it's an amazing show.
I loved Last Exile. Great steampunk world building
Attack No. 1 from 1970. Mostly it’s just because it’s old, but it a wonderful sports anime about girls volleyball. Particularly starring a well mannered cocky girl prodigy who transfers to a new school and builds a team from a group of delinquents.
For old sports shows, Capeta is pretty good.
Attack No 1 is one of the more influential and respected series from 60s, kinda shame that it comes up in threads like this.
Shows I've completed that I've never/rarely seen talked about:
Fun seeing Rozen Maiden hit a list of unknown anime. That anime was EVERYWHERE in the mid-2000s, and then just disappeared.
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Huh, it's always weird finding anime that I think are obscure but were just popular in a past life
Woah a whole list, non seem familiar, huge thanks! The first 4 look super interesting too!
If you liked my self yourself then you might like His & Hers circumstance.
If you do like it I suggest picking up the manga and finish it because it doesn't have a second season it desperately needs or gets the same treatment that Fruits basket got.
Devilman Lady is really obscure somehow.
Flowers of Evil. It's got a good concept (the manga is amazing) but between the unique art style and meh execution it's not really surprising it did poorly.
Unique is well said lol, thank you!
unrelated, but if you like Akuma no Hana, I highly recommend reading shounen no abyss and Dazai Osamu's no longer human.
Sorted my anilist by popularity and scrolled up from the bottom and these stuck out to me as far as the five least watched shows I'd recommend still:
Yomigaeru Sora - A pretty interesting show, very much a character focus while also dealing with rescue operations even if the actual technical details of those situations are not well handled.
Armor Hunter Mellowlink - More excuse to shill for this, I love this. A great pure revenge story without much fluff and with interesting battles. It's a spinoff of Votoms but you don't need to watch Votoms to understand it
Vampire Princess Miyu - Gothic horror and pretty engaging with a great style though very episodic. Nice touch on the themes as well despite the short run time
Simoun - has some consistency issues but everything else about the show was interesting enough to pull me through anyway.
Ys - an 80s adaption of an 80s video game story, it's not faithful but that works to it's benefit and combined with some cool battles and using remixes of the games iconic soundtrack it was a good watch
Those look really cool, never heared or read the names, thanks!
Hopefully you like them! I can say I at least had a good time with them all, or outright loved them, so it's nice to be able to recommend them to others
Damn, Simoun is really that unpopular. For some reason I always assumed it was somewhat more well known.
I can see why it doesn't have broad popularity but after watching I was surprised I hadn't heard more about it from some of the niche circles
Is Ys an adaptation of the first Ys game? Because it's pretty light on story for a video game. I wonder how it would do as an anime.
2 separate short series (11 episodes total) that loosely cover ys 1 and 2. It's pretty rough
Yes. It actually doesn't do to bad as they didn't do it 100% faithful. The first game is adapted into 7 episodes and cuts a couple of areas/bosses but fleshes out the character interactions, while Ys II has 4 episodes and unfortunately pretty frantic pacing but does it's own thing with the lore which was interesting. Really weird art design on that one though
If you like the game/franchise I recommend them as a watch but they aren't masterpieces
Gargoyle of Yoshinaga House is the most unknown anime I have on my list, with#7219 in Popularity on MAL and my second-lowest result when I sort my anime by Popularity on AL.
Honestly, not even that bad. Not exceptional or anything, but is good and even has a good number of funny, cool, and heartwarming moments.
I only caught wind of it because HIDIVE added it to their library. I think it's pretty cool that I have an anime like it on my list.
Really glad that it's not that bad, art style and characters look really intriguing to me, thanks for that recommendation!
MÄR 😭😭😭 and Kekkaishi.
I enjoyed Kekkaishi especially after I watched most of the popular shounen battle anime.
Yeah I really liked its concept and weapon of choice with the boxes. I wish it would get a reboot. I feel like it would have had a bigger fandom if it premiered when streaming was more of a thing.
Found the first 20 volumes for like 60$ total at a second hand store. It's pretty good, kind of an in between the older shounen series and the newer ones if that makes sense.
Marchen awaken romance man its been 12 years since i first watch it lol dorothy still best
I don't think I have ever stumbled across any as there is always a group of people who like a particular anime series
Yea true, but that's fine, I just wanna find some of the most underground or "least" known ones like for Example "Under The Dog" or other failed (or partly failed) Kickstarters, or anything in that type of stream.
Probably “Love Lab”. Haven’t heard people talk about it before.
Neither ever heared of it, thanks!
Well for me it's probably Tenjou Tenge. It was one of my favourites when i was like 14 years old or something. Action and sexy girls, everything a 14 years old need to get interested with the show 😂
Haha I feel that, thx! 😂
A Kite
Kubikiri Cycle OVA
Medaka Box
Cross Ange. It gets a bad rap but it's better than people give it credit for.
Air gear perhaps??? Never seen anything like simca also kekkaishi
Mysterious girlfriend x- Also it's pretty weirdly wholesome
Savage bu or survival games club. Was mad funny but ive never heard anyone mention or who has even seen it
Attack no. 1
Ace wo Nerae!
Vampire Princess Miyu
Infinite Ryvius
Hiyokoi, it was a ova of a manga and I thought it be a anime because it was very cute. Nope. It stayed in manga and I finished that manga. It’s okay but I don’t think it make it very far in anime compare to a lot of other romance anime out there.
Lookin cute yeah, will check it thanks!
Michiko and Hatchin, I don't really see it talked about often. Very much enjoyable for me at the time I found it.
Definitely a badass show
Loved that one! Especially the ending song.. One of my favorites!
Core memory unlocked.
I don't watch tsunami but i would stay up pretty late so i came across that ed a few times.
bless you
xD
Thanks never heared of that one :)