Best Anime Not Mentioned Elsewhere

[Mae]

When people ask for recs on what to watch next people generally give the same answers (Trigun, Kenshin, Hellsing), but there's lots of other good if less popular anime out there. Every once in a while I'll run across something that will make me say, "WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE!? THIS KICKS ASS!"

I kind of randomly came across 1. Kare Kano and 2. Haibane Renmei, but both turned out to be really excellent. If you have suggestions for other stuff that you think is underrated and shouldn't be overlooked please add, and try not to repeat too much, k?

I would also reccomend:
3. Condor Hero (released by live-evil (their Naruto joke-sub is kind amusing too)), an old-fashioned kung-fu anime
4. Key the Metal Idol (rated R)

[Locke]

Berserk isn't the most well known anime, but it is the best anime. ever.

shadow skill
wild arms
EAT KFC, it's finger lickin good!!!
arc the lad

[Shadow-wolf]

Originally posted by: Locke
Berserk isn't the most well known anime, but it is the best anime. ever.

shadow skill
wild arms
EAT KFC, it's finger lickin good!!!
arc the lad

I must have "guts" for asking this question, but I heard this series ended on a cliff-hanging note. Is this true?

[Poiple Weezard]

Rumic Theatre is great. I've only seen the first five episodes out of 13, but I love it. Drama/Comedy.

I've also only seen the first three episodes of 12 Kingdoms, but that was developing nicely. Great animation and a wonderfully deep story unfolding. Fantasy.

A 60-minute OVA that I've never heard anyone else mention ever was Weathering Continent. Good stuff there as well. Fantasy.

Dominion Tank Police and Dragon-half are well-known in specific circles, but not to bulk of the anime community. Both are hilarious comedies with a truck-load of memorable quotes.

I've never seen any other Patlabor, and I usually don't hear people talking about them, but the story and (at least in WXIII) animation of Movies 1 and 3 (WXIII) are some of the best I've ever seen.

Video Girl Ai (was this the only anime made out of the manga?) was a touching romantic comedy.

Otaku no Video is a comical documentary (not quite a mockumentary) about the start-up of an anime company. I believe it was Gainax.

Now I'm sure you're heard of almost all of these, but I rarely have ever seen them on someone's recomendations lists.

[hopeknight]

Dragon-half is an instant classic, unfortunately it's only 2 episodes.
My Dear Marie, another classic, once again, unfortunately only 3 episodes.
Mahou Tsukai Tai, the OVA, not the TV version.
Kanon
Azumanga Daioh

That should be a good start.

[AkimichiChouji]

id like to say Record of lodoss war...i loved it [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] woot to vhs box sets

[DraGunZer0]

I My Me Strawberry Eggs - Guy teacher cross dresses to enter an all girl school, kinda like Great Teacher Onizuka
Condor Hero - Very old anime, still being subbed, Live-Wire takes their time on it....
Grappler Baki - Badass fighting anime, too bad I got rid of it because they were taking their jolly ass time on it. (Bout 2 months for an ep)
Angelic Layer - Girls that control lil dolls with their minds in a small virtual arena... made for girls but i liked it...
Excel Saga - Anime for the insane. They make fun of almost every anime (even themselves.) I'm currently watching this one.
Fushigi Yuugi - 2 girls get sucked into a book and live out the story in it. Heart breaking tale.
Gate Keepers - Teens with special powersdo their stuff.
Hikaru no Go - Welcome to the underground world of Go where drugs and death reigns.... I'm lying, but the anime is really kick ass.
Mahoromatic - Battle Android turns into a house maid and makes her master happy.
Slayers - Magic sorceress Lina and friends go own ass while Lina constantly eats like a pig and worries about her small breast.
Star Ocean EX and Tales of Eternia - Anime about some games I play... just got it for that reason only.
Vandread - Men and women are seperated into 2 worlds until one day a couple men are captured by the women. Then one guy has the ability to pilot a special robot that can fuse with each of the other girl's robots for unique abilities.

About all I can think of... and I think most of those are well known.... but ya never know... some people might not have heard of them so.... beh thats my list...for now...

[ExTREm-San]

Galaxy Railways
Airmaster

Those to series are great to and not so known i as thought. With those people i know who watch anime they never heard of them. :S

[DraGunZer0]

Airmaster owned... although the last 2 eps was completely trash...

[ExTREm-San]

Yeah, the end was dissapointing. I wanna know who "won". One more thing that was a bit irritating in the serie was Mina-chan. Always looking for maki and her big boobs. =/

[DraGunZer0]

Yea that was funny at first but then it got really really annoying. And the person who won was umm Spoiler alert...




























The number 1 dude they were fighting






























end of spoiler

[ExTREm-San]

****SPOIL****












You mean that big guy Maki was fighting ? hmm... If so I think Maki would be a better since we atleats could see her stand by her own legs and walk away from the former building. Wondering if the big blue guy was still under those concrete blocks. D_d



****END SPOIL****

[DraGunZer0]

You might wanna label spoilers since it is the last couple eps.... might as well make a new thread on this

[ExTREm-San]

^__^ Gonna edit the msg. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[diaded]

Golden Boy (the dubbed version is really, really hilarious)
Cowboy Bebop(the best ever; the first anime [i've seen] where black people were drawn in proportion and the OST owns)
Mahoujin Guru Guru (too funny)
Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu (teehee; the akwardness of these episodes made me reconsider my humanity)
Mad Bull (Shaft like)
I totally agree on Azumanga Daioh btw, its great

blah... some more i suppose


and Great Teacher Onizuka (since Im a teacher in training I love the series)

[Gods_Son]

Grappler Baki, and you can't put Cowboy Bebop in a list of anime not mentioned much.

[Death BOO Z]

Maison Ikkoku and Kimigure orange road....
I haven't seen the anime versions, but i've read the manga and they're great romance\comedy, and from what reviews are i read, the animes do justice to the original story...

[Uzumaki Naruto]

ever heard of galaxy express 999 one of the best animes ive ever seen

[ExTREm-San]

Uzumaki Naruto: I've heard of it and even seen 2 episodes that Live-eviL has released. But for me seeing that serie i need to be released more often since it's a serie of 113eps. It would take to long to even finish the serie in this speed they are doing now.

[Swallow Your Soul]

I've only seen the first few episodes so far (I couldn't find them before, but I'm downloading the series now so I'll be able to watch them all soon) but Vampire Princess Miyu is pretty old (and I guess its pretty well known...but no-one mentions it. Its quite slow paced but the 5 or 6 eps I watched a year or two ago were really good, I'm looking forward to seeing the whole series.

Bubblegum Crisis is something I'm watching at the moment (up to the 6th ep of 8) which I haven't seen anyone mention and that is really cool and full of action (though its full of cheesy 80s pop...in the manga that I read Priss was the singer of a Thrash band with lyrics about the politics involving Genom etc...but in the anime she's a cheesy 80s pop singer singing cheesy 80s songs [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]. Its very old but its well good. I'm gonna d/l Bubblegum Crash and the new version of Crisis as well...