Anime Obscure Anime

[SpaceCadetGenocide]

What're some anime that you may have watched that are obscure or you at least think might be obscure?

I would like Kakyuusei, Happy Happy Clover, Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto, Fighting Foodons, maybe some more if I look at what all I've watched.

This is one of my favorite animes, I'm not sure how obscure it is (though I personally see it as such with a lack of discussion besides very sporadic fanart posting from JP twitter. It's a funny shonen about famous composers being reborn as "Classicaloids", and they can perform magic with music. It's a fun watch and its one of my unlike pipe dreams for "Please get a season 3!", although the twitter account is still somewhat active and last year, they did a classical music performance in Hamamatsu IIRC. It helped me get into classical music afterwards

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

This is one of my favorite animes, I'm not sure how obscure it is (though I personally see it as such with a lack of discussion besides very sporadic fanart posting from JP twitter. It's a funny shonen about famous composers being reborn as "Classicaloids", and they can perform magic with music. It's a fun watch and its one of my unlike pipe dreams for "Please get a season 3!", although the twitter account is still somewhat active and last year, they did a classical music performance in Hamamatsu IIRC. It helped me get into classical music afterwards
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So it's called Classicaloids?

 

[OmegaPunch's iconOmegaPunch]

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (yes, that's the actual name.)

 

[Naltic]

I'm going to guess it was mine: https://retrogametalk.com/threads/obscure-manga.4370/, though there's no reply of yours on that forum of mine.

I did make one about obscure manga, i just didn't call it obscure manga.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I did make one about obscure manga, i just didn't call it obscure manga.

I don't think I saw yours.

 

[SpaceCadetGenocide]

So it's called Classicaloids?

not plural, but yes, I would recommend it

 

[Naltic]

I don't think I saw yours.

You can check my profile, I called it "Manga Hidden Gems" so maybe that's why you didn't see it.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

not plural, but yes, I would recommend it

I can't say when or if I'm going to watch it since it's not currently on my plan to watch list.

You can check my profile, I called it "Manga Hidden Gems" so maybe that's why you didn't see it.

Yes, I see it and I replied to it on February 16th, post #9.

 

[Tsetmank]

Yakitate!! Japan

It's an absolutely hilarious show and I think it's pretty obscure too!

 

[hazys]

Has anyone seen the 2003 Astro Boy anime? I'm consistently wowed by the animation quality, every episode feels like I'm watching a movie.

 

[ChronoArcaile2025]

Has anyone seen the 2003 Astro Boy anime? I'm consistently wowed by the animation quality, every episode feels like I'm watching a movie.

I have:P Infact,i remember when the 2003 Astro Boy Remake premired on Kids WB in 2003 and than moved to Cartoon Network's Toonami Block,while it was heavially underated and didn;t get the full atention it deserved,which was only cancelled after a few episodes dued to low ratings (Same thing also happened with a similar case with SD Gundam Force,which came out the same year),but despite all of that,the 2003 series was somewhat still popular enough to spawn both a Game Boy Advance game and a playstation 2 game by Sega:P

 

[Neopolitan]

Gosick:
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This one is actually one I watched waaaaay back when I was in like 5th-6th grade, I liked it a lot and the plot is really well made. Pretty much it's a detective anime where the girl (pictured in the photo above) and the guy (also pictured in the photo) meet up at an auditorium/greenhouse where they discuss the unsolved crimes and later in the episode go the place where the crime happened and try to solve it. I don't know much other than that as It's been really long since I have seen it, but I do know that it's really good.

I love this one! Great show, although sadly it suffered towards the second half of the run. I loved every episode up until the Leviathan three part (which was itself fantastic). The ones after that felt like they took a sharp decline. Still, well worth watching IMO.

I mentioned it on the anime opening thread, but Wandering Witch is fantastic. The video there^ is a cool fight from the first episode. There aren't actually a huge number of fights in the show, and it's only 12 episodes long, but it is gorgeously animated, has great music, and I love the writing/stories/characters. I have the show dubbed, which I prefer, but I couldn't find the clip dubbed. If I had to pick one episode to recommend someone to watch, it'd probably be episode 4, The Princess Without Subjects, which is a good standalone. Episode 9, Deep Sorrow from the Past, is probably the most infamous one though.

 

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Please Teacher! might possibly be obscure.

 

[Max]

This weird movie got me thinking a whole week

 

[OverTheMoon]

Not entirely obscure I suppose but I would say that Time of Eve deserves more love.

Also maybe Gokusen. I don't see many if any people talk about it.

 

[mini pancake]

Rose of versailles, goat

 

[zimandwaffles]

The Legend of the Gambler: Tetsuya​

Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya​

 

[Aisf]

The Animax Ghost Stories Dub aka "Ghosts at school"
I took two clips of it (they aren't great)

But if you want to watch the five episodes that aren't lost media of this then here. https://archive.org/details/ifa1aichangstatsc09ta/[IFA1_Ai-chan]_GstAtSc_05_TA.mkv

 

[DukeRed]

The starship troopers anime was pretty interesting. Especially compared to the hollywood movie.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

The Wizardry OVA
It needed more of these . Way too underrated and extremly obscure.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Possibly Megane na Kanojo or Glasses Girlfriend, (even I forgot that I had watched it in mid 2022).

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[Asian girls lover]

Surprised no one mentioned Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World.

 

[Mecha_]

Surprised no one mentioned Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World.

I don't think Re:zero is a very obscure anime, but who knows. I guess it depends on the niche (?).
But i've seen people walking around with this anime shirt and tattoos even.

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Mahoraba Heartful days is one of those 2000's animes of a guy going to live in a dorm so he can go to university in a big city. This anime is honestly a big comfort food for me, and the characters are more well developed than i expected when i watched it for the first time.

 

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Mahoraba Heartful days is one of those 2000's animes of a guy going to live in a dorm so he can go to university in a big city. This anime is honestly a big comfort food for me, and the characters are more well developed than i expected when i watched it for the first time.

I did watch that anime in late 2023 and it was pretty good.

 

[Gamma]

Pale Cocoon
Watched not too long ago. Short and sweet, I really like it.