So recently I had an anime watch party and we were browsing anime to watch and I came across Pluto. Admittedly I’m only 2 episodes in but so far it’s SO solid. And I’m just surprised I had never heard of it and it came out 3 years ago. Especially since it’s a reimagining of Astroboy and everyone’s heard of that…
Another one I had surprisingly never heard of but so far seems solid is Level E written by Yoshihiro Togashi. My favorite anime is YYH and I loved HxH so how come I hadn’t heard of Level E until now? Again, only 2 episodes in but seems legitimately good and it’s by a wildly successful creator.
What’s an anime you didn’t expect much of because it seems lesser known, but turns out to be very good? I mean like, not only do u like it but ur surprised the general public - casual anime fans aren’t aware of it.
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.
Outlaw Star
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)
Big O
It’s showtime!
I used to make fun of Big O for being bad when it was on adult swim (I literally never watched it). Maybe I should finally give it a shot.
the ending was rushed but make sure to watch all two seasons. the show is inspired heavily by Batman the animated series
it was show about giant mechs, and living in a biodome, due to “nuclear winter outside”
Freedom (2006)
Wave, Listen to Me! (2020)
Added these to my watchlist.
I read Pluto and really enjoyed it, will try to watch it in the near future for sure. It’s kind of stupid but “I parry everything” was excellent if you can get past the gag that the MC is just clueless.
I do hate when MC’s are clueless but I suppose it CAN be funny if done right.
Maybe it’s just because it hit me the right way at the right time, but besides the deau meme, rozen maiden’s first season hit me so hard I’m surprised it wasn’t way more popular
Added it. There seems to be a bunch of them?
Yeah, but it’s one of those shows where the further you get from the original, the more you wish you’d just watched the first season and left it there.
Flip Flappers!
I’m still reeling from that twist.
Pluto was great! Have fun watching it and enjoy the plot unfolding and twisting :)
Angel Beats was great but apparently not good enough to go mainstream. Only single season of like 13 episodes. I’ve watched it a few times. It’s funny and I recommend.
Definitely heard of angel beats, but never got around to watching it.
What more could they have done with that story? Ended kinda definitively, no?
It was mainstream for its time. But yeah, great stuff!
Yeah, Angel Beats was very popular for a while when it aired. Previous commenter probably watched it much later
I thought YuYu Hakusho was way more popular than it actually was.
It WAS super popular when it came out as well as when it was on Toonami around 2003. I’d consider it mainstream. But lately, aside from the live action hype, it’s overshadowed more than it should be.
FWIW, its getting the TFS abridged treatment, so maybe that’ll boost its popularity a little bit.
Oh that’s right. I hope it helps it out a bit. Honestly it would be amazing if YYH got the HxH treatment
Yeah, like if you ask most people about the best OG shows of that era, it’s usually Dragonball, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, and Gundam. Even Hunter x Hunter ended up becoming more well known.
Terminator Anime. It is surprisingly good but it had been cancelled because it wasn’t popular enough.
inuyasha seems wierdly geared towards night audiences,. evangelion. its not as popular as bleach, naruto, onepiece, brotherhood/or og alchemist.(im guessing the latter 2 are too short of a series and the time between final season, or series is staggeringly long. rather than having season by season each year. inuyasha had a horrendous amount of time between the official last season to final act which showed signs it was clearly rushed for just one final season, like 4-5years, AOT level of ridiculousness.
Inuyasha was one of the most popular shows back when I was in middle school. Around when anime first started becoming more accessible in the US via Toonami and Adult Swim. I watched a little bit but didn’t stay up late enough to watch it continuously. I’ve been meaning to finish it.
Shoutout for Pluto!
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION
This and Pluto are the best scifi anime we had in recent years.
crunchyroll fumbled the marketing for this (i.e. there was none) and fucked up the subs. i fucking hate crunchyroll.
Nice, This is actually on my anilist “plan to watch” already. So I’ll get to it eventually!
