Anime

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There's quite a few that I'm surprised I've never seen anyone talk about outside of dedicated forums.

Akudama Drive ruled start to finish. It's worth watching for the animation alone.

Xam'd: Lost Memories feels like it's only a few years old, but it came out less than a year after Gurren Lagann. In 2008. Bones makes real pretty shows.

Speaking of Bones, Carole and Tuesday was solid. My only issue was that it didn't take a hard enough stance against AI, but also it came out before ChatGPT and long before AI generated music was a real issue so I can't really blame them.

planetes... enjoyed the heck out of it. I've only met one other person irl who's watched it... :|

These are my submissions

Katanagatari (Bumping OST and cool fights with Nisio Isin writing)

Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (vibing isekai too busy surviving to care)

Ben-to (Stupid premise combat anime that lives rent free in my head)

I just watched Pluto in the last few months, one of the best Anime I've ever seen.

1. The OG BanG Dream series. Born too late to define the CGDCT genre (that went to K-On). Born too early to radicalize it (that went to Bocchi the Rock). MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica, fortunately, capitalized on the post-Bocchi surge of girls band genre.

2. Perrine Monogatari. I find this the superior series to Ie Naki Ko. Both overlapped in the seasons they aired.

Terminator Anime. It is surprisingly good but it had been cancelled because it wasn't popular enough.

I'm watching Hell's Paradise right now. It's clearly done on a decent budget, but the animators are pretty good at knowing where they need to focus that cash. Meanwhile, the story is actually pretty good. For something like a Shonen-style power-system story, there's a lot more going on than just flashy martial arts. I'm enjoying this one, and am surprised I haven't heard of it before last month.

It wasn't completely ignored, but I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder that Apocalypse Hotel didn't get way more recognition than it got. Should've won all the awards.

Going back a little deeper, I can't pretend to be surprised that Akagi isn't mainstream, but Kaiji by the same mangaka deserves more popularity. It's a tragedy that the anime ends at part 2 when part 3 was the peak.

The Fable, for sure, especially since people loved Sakamoto Days which is basically the same anime — except for the comedy.

Dennoh Coil (2007), it's basically if Studio Ghibli did Sci-Fi. Won a bunch of awards in Japan, but never got mainstream.

Warning, these are titty animes, so feel free to judge me if you want.

I have literally never heard anyone else talk about Sin: Nanatsu no Taiza/Seven Mortal Sins (this is NOT the Seven Deadly Sins show from Netflix), but I think it's incredible and incredibly deep. It doesn't totally beat you over the head with the themes, but it's an excellent take on the message of automony, free will, and determinism, with Lucifer the falling angel taking center stage.

Beyond that, I think Sekirei is probably one of my overall top favorite anime, with some truly fascinating world-building. It's Pokemon but big tiddy babes instead of little pocket monsters! That being said, there is one character that almost ruins the show with weird pedo bait and god I wish so very very much that character and her storyline just fully did not exist (Kuu).

Fire Force. I got god damn hooked on that show a few years ago. And I'm someone who general just watches anime films, ovas, or limited series. favourites being Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and Second Gig, FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, etc. so generally nothing that has multiple seasons.

So Fire Force really isn't the type of anime I'm into. I'm not huge on the goofy fan service type of stuff that takes place over multiple seasons. hell I've never watched One Piece. But this show for whatever reason just hooked me. I had reminders set for when new episodes would come out. I can't quite put my finger on why I liked it but I just did. It's fun.

Other than that I don't know how popular it is but Psycho Pass. that one is more up my ally. I enjoyed that and the theme song is a real banger.

Children of the Whales, also on Netflix. Pretty sure it flopped, cause it was years ago, and I haven't seen a second season.

Shoutout for Pluto!

I thought YuYu Hakusho was way more popular than it actually was.

Flip Flappers!

Pluto was great! Have fun watching it and enjoy the plot unfolding and twisting :)

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION

This and Pluto are the best scifi anime we had in recent years.