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 No.33153[Last 50 Posts]

Name the most obscure anime shows out there in the deep dark reaches of the internet that most people don’t know about

 No.33154

If Angel's Egg is that deep how you would classify Sakamatp desu ga? It was pretty good, too.

 No.33155

>hetalia level 1
>fucking idolmaster level 6
That pic is either old as fuck, or shitty bait.

 No.33156

lvl 6 filled with idolshit made me lul

 No.33157

honestly the reason a lot of the anime are obscure is because they're shit,only once in a while you find a gem

 No.33158

>>33153
Blue gender. I wonder if it's as hipster'ish as I think it is.

 No.33159

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>>33153
>Prepara
>Aikatsu

but those are excellent shows anon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLA2CzwYDU

Just look at how good Love Me Tear is.

Precure and Mewkledreamy are also on the same tier as Prepara and Aikatsu.

If people actually gave them a chance….

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>>33159
Here's Mirai's (Love me tear) Identity sung by Akari and Mirai. While the version Mirai sings solo I like this version much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2SdR5np1UU

From kiratto prichan here's Ring marry's (Maria and Suzu) song. it's so great to see Suzu singing becasue of how she was at first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsziD14XmP4

It get's even better when Daia da☆mon does her first live. By casting aside these shows you're really missing out on a lot bros. They're also all subbed too, though Prichan is a bit behing.

>pics are the MC from Mewkledreamy

 No.33161

>>33160
>>33159
>mewkledreamy
How do the japs come up with these names? That seems hard enough to pronounce in english, let alone japanese.

 No.33162

>>33161
It's a play on Miracle Dreamy.

 No.33163

>>33159
>>33160
Hibiki's "Be Star". Aikatsu has such good music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCTLALbs4vE

 No.33177

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>>33153
Obscure doesn't mean good…

 No.33178

>>33177
Nobody here said it was.

 No.33179

>>33153
NGE, Sailor Moon, Madoka, JoJo, Bebop, Kill La Kill, Berserk and AzuDai are all normie as fuck.

 No.33180

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>Ergo Proxy Level 4
>not a single mention of Gantz
this list is bullshit

Anyway I like Gantz based on its simple, video game like premise and violent imagery.

Ergo Proxy was an anime based entirely on someone complaining they can't remember shit.

 No.33182

Move everything in Level 2 to Level 1. Move Ghost in the Shell and Bezerk to Level 1. Neon to some extent is known by normies, but only to be mocked, but that still makes it at least level 2. FLCL should be level 1 for being fucking emo nomrie punk. Paprika should be level 2 as plunty of edgy faggots know and parrot it as being awesome. I'd say move Lain up a level, it's well known but watching it does work as pleb filter. Texnolyze is problem the only one they are right about.

 No.33183

>>33181
deepest I can go is Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, but anyone that's a fan of Neon will know this studio and seek out everything they made. The rest is to vague of a description.

 No.33184

>>33181
Furthest I can is detective conan and bobobo. I feel like the fetish H anime and doujin anime is cheating as anyone who just has a specific fetish will fit that tier.

 No.33185

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>>33181
Incidentally I almost hit the bottom low with pre-60's and Ideon so obviously I feel compelled bragging about it. Not much to rec from that era though, Momotarous brave sea warriors maybe.

 No.33186

>>33185
Kimba alone put me at the bottom, this pic should be inverted in my case. Even without Kimba, Doraemon is the only anime I still watch and that would put me pretty deep even though I never even heard of half of those other titles above it.
The guy who did this is pretty hit or miss imo, you have stuff like Porco Rosso, Patlabor and Sakura pretty low, even my mom know about Porco Rosso. Lupin the Third is another one I assume everybody knows about. It's cool though, whoever did this really put some effort in it.

 No.33188

>>33181
i remember a long time ago on 4chan that someone dumped an archive of early japanese animation, it was cool. was either the anime or japan board. 1920s and 30s stuff i think. i can't find any info on it but i want to watch some of them again. if anyone can find it, i think it was a torrent, id appreciate it

 No.33189

>>33186
Not disagreeing with any of that, in this part of the world everyone knows Moomin as it has aired on TV regularly for several decades.
Have you seen all of Doraemon?

 No.33193

>>33189
I've been following the recent series since episode 350 or so, last week they released the 600th episode. I did see some of 80s Doraemon when I was 4 or so as it aired on national TV here.

 No.33194

>>33193
What about it do you reckon is the appeal?

 No.33195

>>33194
It's a sweet show about childhood and friendship, the characters and Doraemon in particular are extremely charming and even Gian and Suneo who often are in an antagonistic position have redeeming and sweet personalities. It's a show depicting a life worth living, I think it's the best way I can put it. The bond Doraemon and Nobita share is very enjoyable to watch. I also enjoy how the plots to this day fails or choose not to realize the difference between science fiction and fantasy, and often several of Dora's gadgets are powerful and potential world-ending black magic items they use to get things like sweets and toys. The people behind this show really have a good grasp on how kids react to things, it's pretty good.

On a more personal note, when I first began learning Japanese I read the entire run the manga had. Also it's one of the few anime I can watch comfortably without subs because the dialogues and storylines are fairly simple and straight forward.

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>>33195
doraemon and nobita relationship shows the immaturity of fragile kid and now that i think about it reminds me of shinji sometimes
fujiko is a very interesting artist to me. I think ive watched plenty of episodes of doraemon (even some of the movies) but i can't say im a fan of the series myself. On the other hand i get the appeal on why people in his home country like his works. must be the timeless simplicity of his designs

 No.33197

>>33181
ive been at level 5 for years and i dont even like anime

a few years ago i went on old ass anime websites and added a bunch of shit to MAL just from digging in the rabbit hole.

http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/meganekko/fulltime-a.html

ive watched anime for almost 10 years but have only seen 50, its not as interesting to me as it was when i was a highschool twink

 No.33198

>>33197
I think a lot of people slow down anime consumption as they age. Your attention span becomes shorter and you become more cynical, so something has to really catch your eye before you waste time even trying it.

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>>33196
On a slightly unrelated note, Nobita has a neet uncle that he looks up to because he's so lazy.

 No.33203

>>33201
> Nobita has a neet uncle
What's his name, I've never seen or heard of him
Maybe he's added after the official series by the deceased author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doraemon_characters#Nobi_family

 No.33204

>>33203
This article is missing at least another minor character, Nobi's dad also also has a younger sister that appears in a story where Nobi and Doraemon goes back in time to see how their parents met. The neet uncle is only mentioned as uncle (he's Tamako's brother) and I think he's only in a single story (he's just there so Nobita realize how having his own apartment would enable him to do nothing the whole day, same for this episode).
For the first 10 to 12 years of the manga run there wasn't much concern on keeping track of all this characters. For example, Shizuka has (had?) a white dog that "she had all her life and loves deeply" only for it to completely disappear, I've never seen it mentioned again and it's in none of the new episodes or movies.

 No.33205

>>33198
I just don't like most anime especially all the high school shit.

 No.33207

>>33205
That's what I mean. You recognize there's tons of high school shit and repeated tropes or settings. So you can be pretty sure you're not missing out when you skip these ones because you probably know everything that's gonna happen.

 No.33209

Ojamajo Doremi is so obscure that it takes an absurd amount of shitposting to convince people to even watch it.

 No.33210

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>>33209
Yep, so obscure that we've had a whole thread dedicated to specifically that for about a year.

 No.33211

>>33209
it was on tv in my country

 No.33212

anime isn't an obscure medium tv series, movies, ovas or anything else requires a lot of people to produce directing, animation, coloring, script, voice acting, sound effects, music…
its not like music, books or small videogames that can be achieved by anyone with an interest or movies than can be by a theater group and a camera in a few evenings
it is also a very consumer centered medium
most obscure animes are probaly old ones that only aired on tv once between 1960-2000 or were released in vhs and only sold 200 copies sending the animation studio into bankrupcy
it's highly unlikely those or the shorts made by art college students are worth watching
if you want to watch anime just go to a database like mal or anidb pick one you like order by less popular if you want to watch something no one ever liked
if by obscure you mean pretentious im sure theres lists out there

 No.33232

>>33207
Every story has tropes in it, which are by definition repetitive, and few settings are original. That a story takes place in a Japanese school does not mean that you are magically going to guess everything that's going to happen–good luck guessing the twist in Gakkou Gurashi just because you've seen K-On. Then again, why are you even expecting every story to have a twist to it? There is not even supposed to be a twist to K-On and many, many other anime that take place in school. That is not the point.

>>33212
Obscure: "relatively unknown, such as not prominent or famous."

Touhou, Cave Story, Undertalea nd Minecraft are games made by a single person, but are not obscure. On the other hand, how many people have heard of Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord? I mention this game because a mere ten years ago it was listed by PC Gamer as the 53rd greatest game of all time. The further back you go in these lists the more games there are that today would only be known to older PC gamers, and perhaps only by name. Even if they were well-known and highly reviewed games for their time, and were made by full development teams, the general gaming public has never heard of them today. In the same way, many games well-known in Japan are obscure in the West and vice versa.

In the West, nearly all anime that has ever been made is obscure. The average person is laser-focused on just a handful of the really, really popular ones that everyone is talking about, and he has little to no idea about anything else. Even people who have spent years in anime communities tend to be shockingly ignorant.

 No.33234

>>33232
Yeah, every story does have tropes in it. Doesn’t make it untrue that once you’ve seen a few high school anime you’ve seen them all. Same goes for shit like Disney movies or medical dramas.

 No.33235

>>33234
School is not a genre. Go look at shows like Gakkou Gurashi, Revue Starlight, SSSS.Gridman, Watamote, Lucky Star, Ping Pong, Hoshiai no Sora, Zetsubou-sensei, Animegataris, Haruhi Suzumiya, Tasogare Otome, Sukitte Ii na yo, Eizouken, Strawberry Panic, Centaur no Nayami and Hibike! Euphonium. They are not interchangeable, not even if they have the same genre or subject matter. The idea that anime set in school is all the same comes from people who don't watch anime set in school, because they heard that it's all the same.

 No.33236

>>33235
Half the anime you listed are hardly in a school at all, and you clearly don’t understand what is meant by high school anime.

 No.33237

>>33236
Which of the anime I listed don't take place in school? How would you even know?

>you clearly don’t understand what is meant by high school anime

You are the one who doesn't understand what it means, which is why you think it's all the same.

 No.33238

>>33237
>Which of the anime I listed don't take place in school?
Ping pong is the biggest offender because high school doesn't matter in the show. They could've all been just hobbyists or adults and the show would play out largely the same. Gakkou gurashi is another one. Sure it takes place in a school, but the setting is largely unimportant. They could've been in pretty much any building. Just like high school of the dead, it's even in the name, but they only spend the first two episodes even in a school. The focus of these are not about school at all. Other ones you said like watamote, lucky star, zetsubou snesei, haruhi, hibike euphonium, etc. are focused centrally about the school, and the plot would be wildly different had it been set somewhere else.

It's like saying evangelion is a high school anime because shinji goes to school sometimes. Or my hero academia is about school when it's really just a battle anime.

>How would you even know?

Because I've seen a ton. And I roll my eyes when they take a field trip to the beach, or a hot spring, or the guy falls down on a succubus, or there's a goody goody class prez character, or a delinquent but she has a kind personality on the inside. Even that japanese are so used to reused characters they have names specifically for that archetype.

 No.33239

>>33238
You said school anime. You didn't say anything about how central the setting should be to the narrative.

>Because I've seen a ton.

That's not possible.

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>>33239
The words school anime carry the connotation that it's about school. Like how horror anime is about horror, and mecha is about mecha. Are you seriously not getting this? Should I start calling things earth anime because they take place somewhere on the earth?
>That's not possible.
Oh wow, sorry, I forgot some anonymous jackass knows more about what I do than myself.

 No.33241

>>33240
It means anime set in school. That's how it's always been used.

>Oh wow, sorry, I forgot some anonymous jackass knows more about what I do than myself.

I only know what you wrote, and you wrote something that precludes the possibility that you have seen "a ton" of school anime.

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>>33241
>It means anime set in school.
Usually that's because the school is IMPORTANT IN SOME WAY.
> you wrote something that precludes the possibility that you have seen "a ton" of school anime.
Okay commander anime. Clearly you know best and I know nothing.

 No.33243

>>33242
The importance or lack of importance of the setting has never been specified.

>Okay commander anime. Clearly you know best and I know nothing.

Correct.

 No.33244

>>33243
>The importance or lack of importance of the setting has never been specified.
It goes without saying. You'd never see someone call kill la kill a sports anime, yet it has an episode with football players in it. Is it now a sports anime?

 No.33245

>>33244
It's just a case of people treating a setting as a genre. That's all it is. Your Kill la Kill example doesn't make any sense; nobody said that an anime has a school setting because one episode features a school.

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>>33205
>>33207
yeah i havent watched highschool bullshit anime since I was like 16. I remember I had read JOJO and realized I had been watching a bunch of other 16 year olds going on adventures and having fun meanwhile I was the kissless virgin autistic crab sitting in his room. Somewhere around that time I resolved to not watch highschool bullshit anime or little kid anime and needless to say I have not watched very much anime since then especially since 2014-2015 when every ironic-weeb normie faggot decided they were anime pros too.

im glad i came to the realization i was not as unique or interesting as i thought i was very young though.

 No.33248

>>33247
«french quotes it is»

 No.33264

there's a show called astro fighter sunred, ten minute episodes based on a satirical manga I think

I just rewatched all 52 episodes after ten years, it's still genuinely amusing and I didn't regret it

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 No.33269

>>33265
whatever

at the end of every five episodes or so there's a short cooking segment where the main villain teaches you how to make relatively easy japanese-ish dishes, a lot of those looked really tasty

 No.33270

>>33269
>whatever
Huh? I just wanted to post the cute song about sunred.

 No.33277

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there's one called kaiketsu zorori but the only fansubber group is some canadian furry duo that takes literally years in between releases these days, it seems they've decided to take another stab at it recently and do another season but it's probably just the usual cycle of stop subbing after a few episodes for a few more years

the time I've waited on these people made me sympathize with that one wiz who was serious about learning japanese just to consume more anime, being at the mercy of lazy fansubbers is horrible

for some reason they also decided the new episodes gotta be 1GB each, it's like who the fuck do they think has that sort of hard drive capacity to spare? or do they think we're playing them on 90" HDTVs? I don't anyway

oh yeah, zorori is a cute

there's another obscure, great anime called okojo san they tried doing and stopped

 No.33301

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The works of Nishioka Kyoudai are the deepest I can go and still enjoy.

 No.33302

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Moe Can Change
It's the OVA for a gacha phone game from the early 2010s, and it's obscure because it's bad. And it's not even bad in a funny manner, it's just a completely mediocre 20-minute advertisement for the game.

 No.33307

I'm currently watching Darkstalkers, an anime adaption of the Capcom game of the same name. I'm not saying that it's particularly hard to find about the anime but I have literally never seen anyone talk about it online even though it was made by Madhouse and the animation is of very high quality.
The same can be said about Doomed Megapolis/Teito Monogatari, another high-quality OVA from Madhouse that is among my favourites, which doesn't get a lot of appreciation online because it's deemed too edgy or something.

 No.33308

>>33307
Oh yeah, the same can be said about Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran, also from Madhouse and I think this was the last show they made with cell animation. It's like a comedic version of the 'lone wanderer' subgenre which I'd also put Kino's Journey and Mushishi into. I also think this was one of the first anime to ever depict the out-of-touch western otaku stereotype.

 No.33415

>>33153
>eve no jikan
Its weird no one I have talked to have ever seen it but it should be pretty main stream? Or am I just really out there>

 No.33418

>>33153
>Sailor Moon
>level 2
That should be on the first one. Conversely I'd add Doremi at 2 or 3

 No.33433

You gotta be careful by what you refer to as "obscure". I mean some anime that is unknown by modern day normies in the west may have been a popular anime in Japan at the time it was released like Lupin. Even some of that old anime can be rediscovered by normies and used as posturing to show how they are "true" anime aficionados. Every anime fan I've met in real life is a pompous asshole, feels like you need to study Japanese in order to appreciate anime, which is why I usually avoid forums like /a/.

On the other end you have shit amateur animations post on vimeo that is art house shit masquerading as an anime tribute. Speaking of which what the fuck happened to the picture from post 33181? The shit it was describing at the bottom was what I was referring to.

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>>33433
How do you guys even summon the will to care about what is or isn't obscure, or who is or isn't a "real" anime fan anymore? It's all so much pettiness and doesn't matter in the slightest.

 No.33440

Idolmaster isn't obscure, it is just very few people are into that shit (though the ones the are tend to be super into it).

 No.33446

>>33195
>gian
I thought he was called giant?

 No.33462

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There's really no such thing as an "obscure anime", unless it's genuine lost media brought to no one's attention. If there are otaku's that drool over the most obscure old-as-mammoth's shit bargain bin tokusatsu films that even the film directors forgot existed, chances are your precious "hidden gem" you watched on kissanime is not so obscure and special after all.

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Shiki is super good, and it's actually on Hulu buy I have never heard a person other than me mention that it exists. Struck a deep chord with me because it dwells heavily on death and people's reactions/philosophies about it and that's the biggest thing I'm scared of.

Not sure how "obscure" I'd say it is. Level 4/5 maybe? I know most of the stuff in 4 and above and not much below it

 No.33477

>>33468
I wanted to like it, but didn't.
The premise I heard was nice, how humans can also act like monsters and how both sides could be cruel and animalistic. But I think anime prolonged too long
-too many characters whose names I forgot
-too much attention on figuring out what was going on
Wish it was more focused on the premise. It had its golden moments yes, but I wouldn't rewatch it.

 No.33543

>>33468
> I have never heard a person other than me mention that it exists.
So you don't lurk in anime communities or this board much then.
It isn't obscure at all and is brought up whenever anime involving darker plots or vampires are the subject.

While I liked the show it had major pacing problems in the middle that dragged down the watching experience for me.

 No.33546

>>33468
It's one of the most well known horror anime around anon, it's just not discussed much because horror isn't a popular genre in the medium

 No.33557

>>33468
It's probably obscure to surface level anime watchers but if you go on imageboards etc it's not very obscure.

According to the chart the most obscure thing I've seen is Mononoke. I've also seen the original Idolmaster anime but that has to be some sort of joke on the chart.

I've also seen this anime called "Yugo the Negotiator" that I've never seen anyone ever discuss. Maybe one other person. That might be mine.

 No.33560

>>33557
>Yugo the Negotiator
Would you rec?

 No.33606

>>33159
Bit late, but are all these of the same series or are they similar different shows? Also, where should I start?

 No.33607

>>33606
They’re all magical succubus shows meant for 10 year old Japanese succubi that people pretend are high art as a joke.

 No.33609

>>33468
Was I the only one who viewed this anime as an attempt to explore the issue of young people leaving rural villages for the city through an analogous anime story? I found it almost to be distracting.

 No.33898

>>33153
If the anime has been localized then it's not obscure

 No.33899

>>33898
That isn't really true of most of the weird stuff that came out during the vhs era.

 No.34064

>>33159
I'm like ~30 episodes into Aikatsu and so far it's good.

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platonic chain
Although not dark thone its kinda good, not sure if it fails into the definition of obscure anime as every episode is 4 minutes length but even so

 No.34316

>>34274
Ewww… bad 3DCG

 No.34329

>>33153
Pripara and Aikatsu are actually pretty good

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>>33153
Obscure? Like Macross Love Live in September?

 No.34358

>>33433
>Even some of that old anime can be rediscovered by normies and used as posturing to show how they are "true" anime aficionados. Every anime fan I've met in real life is a pompous asshole, feels like you need to study Japanese in order to appreciate anime, which is why I usually avoid forums like /a/.
This has been much more common in recent years with people's obsession with the 80's, which I admit is an interest to me as well and I don't know how to feel about it.
I do think knowing Japanese gives you more credit, there's a lot things out there that I want my hands on but will never be translated, and I hate when monolinguals act like they've touched everything anime(or any medium) has to offer. I can barely grasp English, so I'll never get there.
Obscure is a loose term and you are right. And there have been anime that had notable popularity, even in the west, that are no virtually forgotten, Project A-ko comes to mind.

 No.34359

>>33307
I have Darkstalkers downloaded but untouched.
It is a weird one because I wouldn't call it obscure, it's based on a fighting game series from the 90's that still has a cult following now, who spawned characters that still appear everywhere now. But at the same time, a series that hasn't had a new game in more that 20 years and probably won't ever have one. The anime is well known but only in that small culture. I wouldn't call it obscure, but more niche.
Doomed Megapolis/Teito Monogatari, same story, I have it but still haven't watched it. Teito Monogatari I think is why "obscure" is a flimsy word in this case. It's virtually unknown here, but based huge hit novel series in Japan that is practically responsible for sparking an interest in the occult over there and influenced tons of media, everything from SMT to arguably Street Fighter.

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I am really obsessed with the Cat Soup mangaka, she told others that she would kill herself when she hit 30, and well she did

 No.34363

>>34361
when talented people like her or actors, musicians and what not who have it all, money, fame whatever one could wish; if even those people are suiciding themselves, how is an average nobody supposed to make it then? Someone like me who is devoid of any talent or marketable skill. For example this club 27 of musicians one better than the other and all offed themselves at age 27 or died of overdose. If this world was a nice place, people would not pump themselves up with drugs so they die from it.

 No.34364

>>34363
that is bad reasoning

 No.34365

>>34363
Only 0.01% or some shit died by suicide. The average make it by living their usual life.

 No.34366

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>>34363
I have no idea why famous people off themselves (seemingly?) more often, maybe they believe that they already achieved everything, while not feeling that much better than normal people, I don't know

anyway, in the case of Catsoups Nekojiru, if any of you are interested, her editor wrote a long letter after she died, seems they were friends, his wife also killed herself after:

http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/yoshiaki_yoshinaga_on_nekojiru

To me it seems like in her case she didn't really find a place in the world, she seemed somehow asocial, got famous and couldn't cope with the stress and expectations they put on her

 No.34367

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>>34361
I read some but it was too grim for me. I'm grim enough as is, it definitely crossed the line where a piece of work stops being escapism and becomes a reminder of sad things.

 No.34368

>>34361
>she told others that she would kill herself when she hit 30, and well she did
source? i tried finding anything to back that up but couldn't find anything, also it was 31. it seems like no one really knows.

 No.34369

>>34367
I gotta agree. It was just too much bald faced cynicism.

 No.34370

>>34366
Nice to see someone linking Anipages.

 No.34392

>>34368
Sorry I was way too drunk while writing that, think I pulled the "death by 30" out of my ass, can't find any source, no idea where I got that from

Reading the linked article it says that she told her editor
>"You'll be dead at 35."
>I went completely pale.
>Why am I going to be dead at 35?
>A drug overdose? A hit and run?
>I don't want to die.
>I couldn't stop thinking about her ominous prediction.
>She had seen the shadow of death hovering over me.
>But her premonition, it turns out, had in fact been directed at herself.

she also tried commiting suicide before:
>Having attempted to commit suicide in the past, Nekojiru had written wills on a number of occasions.
>Her last extant will in fact dated from several years prior.

her manga also seemed to tell awful much about herself, like the first one, Nekojiru Udon Ch. 11, where the cat wants to become invisible
>I wanted to go and see the other shore myself, but for some reason I was scared and couldn't do it..
>But one day, I just felt like I had to go see the other shore. I couldn't bear it any longer

 No.34393

>>33468
I saw Shiki on DVDs a year ago so I don't think it's that obscure.
What I am surprised is that it was written by the same person as Twelve Kingdoms, which I very much enjoyed but never see anyone talk about.

 No.34429

>>34393
that is weird, i guess twelve kingdoms is too old? it's certainly better than most stuff airing these days.

 No.36767

What is this?

 No.36777

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>>33153
I recently watched malice@doll. Really liked the cg artstyle

 No.36785

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>>36767
The second season of a very popular, fun, and cute show. It's directed by Satou Junichi, if that means anything to you.

 No.36790

Angels egg is my biggest inspiration, someday I hope to make film that at least half as good as this one.

 No.36806

>>33209
Doremi is mildly obscure in the west, but super popular in Japan.

 No.36867

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>>33153
in what fucking world are the faggots who watch naruto and sword art online also watching legend of the galactic heroes?!

i know sandwiching legend of the galactic heroes between sword art online and attack on titan is just bait, but i'm still fucking triggered. OP your pic is completely distracting me from the purpose of your thread.

fucking sage, jesus christ

 No.36889

>>36867
>in what fucking world are the faggots who watch naruto and sword art online also watching legend of the galactic heroes?!
This one. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news about your favorite shitty meme show, but LotGH is unironically reddits favorite anime. Do you need further explanation for how this audience's tastes could overlap with Naruto and SAO?

 No.36980

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Where do you guys go to find torrents for really obscure anime? Trying to find pic related and Nyaa has failed me, yet there is also no other link on the internet unless I want to become a streamfag. Which might be what I'm forced to become at this rate since private trackers are extremely autistic and nigh impossible to get into.

 No.36981

>>36980
Nyaa tends be purist, so you probably won’t find anything Korean or Chinese.

 No.36982

>>36981
Yea it kind-of is, you can still find a lot of the more popular or recent ones though. Technically Yobi The Five Tailed Fox is on Nyaa, but it has literally 0 seeders and was last posted 8 fucking years ago.

 No.36991

>>36981
They're not purist, they have a healthy sense of self-preservation. For stuff that doesn't come with a massive, cancerous fanbase attached, they're fine. They still have all the wakfu shit. Because the French are not threatening to overrun the site and pervert its purpose.

 No.36993

>>36980
That seems to be a Korean cartoon, so not anime. Only Japan makes anime.

 No.36994

>>36993
Autism.

 No.38472

>obscure anime thread
>only anime that would be obscure for reddit

 No.38473

>>36993
True weebs know that in Japan they call everything that's animated anime, even something like The Simpsons

 No.38475

>>38473
Their term for foreign anime is 海外 アニメ, "kaigai anime".

 No.38478

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Kinnikuman. It's the best shounen anime in my opinion.
The western anime fandom is overall retarded with demon slayer and that new whitewashed gyaru anime getting 50 fansubs in 1 nanosecond.
Meanwhile one of the most beloved and best-selling manga in japan to this day doesn't get shit unless enthusiasts get on it.
If the spaniards translating it don't give up maybe we'll see nisei in a few years.

Souten Kouro is also rather good, but then again, westerners tend to think anime based on a Chinese setting is ugly and boring.
Which couldn't be farther from the truth. It's both unique and enjoyable.

Dismissing them both entirely because you can't socialize or have "anime cred" trendy anime gets you for watching it

 No.38479

>>38478
you'll never be japanese

 No.38480

>>38479
And you'll never not be a fag.

 No.38481

I was gonna complain no lain but then I saw it. That guy. Sounds pretty accurate. I hate all the norm pleb anime besides code geass btw.

 No.38604

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>tfw the entirety of the original early '90s Chibi Maruko-Chan series will never be fully subbed

 No.38605

>>38604
The raws are probably out there somewhere. Be the subber you wan to see in the world.

 No.38606

>>38605
I don't know or understand a lick of Japanese, but thank you for the inspiring words.

 No.38607

>>38604
a.i. translation will be good soon

 No.38608

>>38606
You could study japanese for a few months and then just listen to each episode slowly with jisho and a translator like deepl in hand. I have done it before, it will take hours per 20min episode but it could pay off if you're dedicated

 No.38609

>>38607
No it won't.

 No.38610

While downloading 8 trillion ukraine videos my download thing also pulled down this (so someone linked to it recently). I guess it's not obscure because it's on youtube, but it has good art and wizs might like it.

 No.38616

>>38607
Machine translation already exists. The thing about AI is, it'll never be as good as real passionate work. Those cartoon AI voices dont even compare to sentence mixing. Same with translation. The sentence structure would be obviously stiff and robotic

 No.38619

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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic & Kingdom of Magic should be mandatory watching material for all denizens of Wizchan since the final season ends up taking place in a country of Wizards where normans are basically treated as cattle.

Armed Librarians: The Book of Bantorra is another really good obscure watch with plenty of wizchan attitude. There is norman stuff in it like a degree of romance and busty anime gurls but its by no means offensive or distasteful.

Just like most other animes/media its themed around a very Gnostic perspective of reality.

 No.38620

>>38619
book of bantorra is pretty good, I remember watching it on tv actually

 No.38636

>>38604
I just finished watching what was subbed of this series, I loved it so much.

 No.38660

>>33153
I dunno? Maybe some old OVA like California Crisis or Bobby's in deep? Check out this angry short film by Hiroshi Harada. Shit subs but it still gets across.

https://archive.org/details/TheDeathLullaby

 No.38665

>>33153
for now its most likely its hiwous war cronicles weirdly despite being 1st bones anime that aired in 2000s (and translated MUCH later) its seems to be lesser known than zambot3 daitarn3 or even wings of rean (yeah im a tominofag)

 No.38666

>>38665
also im trying to download triton of sea thats the last tomino cartoon i need to watch but been stuck at 44% for like 3months now THAT probs will be obscurest shit ive wasted my time on

 No.39204

>diff between lvl 5 and lvl 6 is too big
>EOE lvl 4
>LOGH lvl 1
not bad overall but some pretty bizarre choices

 No.39244

>>34355
Good > Obscure

 No.39368

>>38665
I watched Hiwou's recently, I think it's really neat. Love me sum Bones

 No.39369

>>39204
Icebergs are supposed to be least obscure to most, right? I wonder if End of Evangelion is more obscure than Galactic Heroes is nowadays, though I certainly wouldn't have said that a couple decades ago. I remember renting End from Blockbuster. I wonder if the original series and movie are neglected for the remakes.

 No.39941

>>33153
Urban Legend Story Hikiko
Shigurui

It's a fucking shame people don't know Shigurui…

 No.39945

>>34359
Like Darkstalkers they did the same thing to Virtua Fighter in making an anime from the game. It was a 90s arcade game that was the first to use 3D models instead of hand drawn animations.
>>34363
some people just want to die young, which I thought was cowardly till I saw someone come down with Alzheimer's.
>>36980
pffft, unless it is super popular you aren't finding torrents these days fag. I have better luck on Youtube or some back water Youtube knock off than torrents.
>>36993
>Alexander the Conquer and Big O are not anime
by the way throw Alexander the Conquer on that list since I had to go out of my way to find it again, but it was made by the same guy who did ANeon Flux.
>>38481
>code geass
last time I heard about this they said Attack on Titan ripped it off.

 No.39953

The Idolm@ster is not an "obscure" anime. Unless I fell off the bottom of this list long ago.

 No.39955

>>39953
These charts are always shitty “ironic” memes that just throw shit at the wall hoping it sticks. Like dragon ball is the same tier as LOGH and hetalia,

 No.39958

agree that being a streamfag is OK, especially when there are no trustworthy public torrents. i only hate watermarks.

 No.40101

Anyone have any suggestions for good historical anime? Not expecting accuracy. Mostly interested in feudal Japan but other settings are fine too. Been loving Vinland Saga 2.

 No.40107

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Two of my Top 10 favorite anime that are still great and cult classic in Greece and Saudi Arabia but obscure everywhere else (even in Japan) are Igano Kabamaru and Plawres Sanshiro:

https://anidb.net/anime/2007
https://anidb.net/anime/3324

Both of them are fan-translated with Japanese audio and English subtitles. If you're Medabots fan, you'll definitely love Plawres Sanshiro since it's its great ancestor and directed by same guy who later directed Pokemon anime.

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>>33462
People even ignore the existence of 2000s mainstream shonen like Konjiki no Gash Bell, let alone obscure stand alone OVAs from the '80s.

 No.42455

Kiko-Chan's smile is a good one.

 No.42456

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>>39941
I have the shigurui manga at home

 No.42457

i cant believe some people took ops pic seriously. i rofld at the level six elder tier idolmaster

 No.42458

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>>33153
Most people don't know about most anime. Your neighbor Joe only maybe knows about Pokemon at most, for instance.
If you mean people on imageboards and places like that, then I recommend looking on sites like AniDB like this https://anidb.net/anime/?do.update=1&noalias=1&orderby.rank_popularity=0.2&tag.7885=1
Although the popularity ranking on these sites may not completely reflect popularity on imageboards, if something has a really low popularity value then most likely it's indeed not popular at all (like IQ – it's good for detecting retardation at low values, but it doesn't measure intelligence at high values well).
Also at the very bottom on there a lot of anime are so bizarre and detached from common anime (didn't watch them; just judging from the key visual) that I don't know why you would be watching them instead of any other obscure non-anime media other than carrying the "anime" brand. So I would recommend skipping 50 or 100 or maybe even 200 pages (you can edit the URL to do that if you're not retarded). Though even then you could have a hard time finding them online (it might be easier if you're a private tracker-using fatass), and even if you do it may not be subbed (not a real problem since Japanese isn't hard but I won't elaborate).
To mention a specific name, I know someone who's interested in the Viewtiful Joe anime, but he's having a hard time finding it online. I also watched "Kochinpa" not too long ago, which looks like an ad for a pachinko parlor or whatever it is, and each "episode" is 15 seconds long, but for what it is it managed to be entertaining enough.
…Anyway, your picture is completely retarded and the placements look like RNG but enough people talked about it already, so whatever.
>>33247
I won't comment on your post's text but that's a curious picture. I would say that the part about Japanese media (eg. Love Live, Neptunia) is wrong, and those aren't exclusively or even predominantly irony weeb things, but the western media things (eg. (((DDLC))), RWBY), western memes (eg. OWO), and western online services (eg. Crunchyroll, Discord) are right.

 No.42460

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>>33247
>>42458
I made a revised, more accurate, and more 2024-relevant version of that picture.

 No.42461

what the fuck does ironic even mean

 No.42462

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>>42461
Zoomers making a shallow cover of being "weebs" for "meme value" while in reality despising and looking down upon Otaku culture.

 No.42463

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>>42463
>>42462
yeah, I just cant comprehend why would anyone be into all those pictured things but underneath despise the weeb culture

 No.42465

>>42464
Because you're a brainlet.
The first picture is a bit weird and outdated so I can't blame you if you don't get it but the second and third pictures are mostly focused on Western memes and slop detached from actual Otaku media and culture. Ironic weebs would obviously prefer the former to the latter and only see the latter as a device to fuel the former or to fuel their own mental illness (eg. watch anime only to self-insert as the succubi)
The third one is too focused on tranny/mental illness LARP stuff though the overall message is similar.

 No.42468

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is witch hunter robin obscure anime?

 No.42469

>>42465
no reason to call me names ;[

 No.42470

>>42468
Bad anime

 No.42472

>>42468
Now you got me rewatching this

 No.42473

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>>42469
The reason is that you touch yourself at night.

 No.42476

>>42470
indeed but very comfy
>>42472
nice hope you enjoy again

 No.42484

>>42476
>nice hope you enjoy again
I am. Thank you.

 No.42486

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>>42484
try gilgamesh afterward


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