Top 30 Unknown Anime & Manga You’d Recommend
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 29, 2015 05:16 JST
- Tags: Baccano!, Corpse Party, Kill Me Baby, Rankings, S-Cry-Ed
Hardcore anime fanatics have been questioned as to those minor titles they would like to see recommended more widely – with an unusual title largely free of both moe and shonen camaraderie not unexpectedly netting the top spot.
The ranking, consisting of 10,000 votes:
1. Baccano!
3. Corpse Party
4. Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight
5. S-Cry-Ed
6. Fractale
7. Choubakuretsu Ijigen Menko Battle: Gigant Shooter Tsukasa
8. The Daily Lives of High School Boys
9. Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
10. Kaleido Star
11. Ef: a Tale of Memories
12. Inumarudashi
13. Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge
14. GA : Geijutsuka Art Design Class
15. Revolutionary Girl Utena
16. Bokurano
17. Haibane Renmei
18. Mangaka-san to Assistant-san
19. Psychic Detective Yakumo
20. Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto
21. Ashita no Nadja
22. Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto
23. Hybrid Child
24. Dennou Coil
25. Jormungand
26. BPS: Battle Programmer Shirase
27. The Big O
28. Drifters
29. Jinzou Konchuu Kabutoborg VxV
30. The Flowers of Evil
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I second that, great work.
Baccano is soooooo GOOD!Possibly the best overall show I've ever seen
I've seen the anime of a few of these...
And kill me baby is boring... just another 4-koma that seems to be doing the same thing over and over again.
Kill me Baby sold so bad, everyone who bought it got a custom avatar as a present.
http://seventhstyle.com/2013/01/17/kill-me-baby-creates-686-twitter-avatars/
The vast majority of these are quite well known, and even well regarded. I'm happy to see them on a list featured here, but seeing them called "unknown" is very disappointing when they aren't.
The survey was done from the Japanese audience so it isn't that crazy that these shows are on here.
Western anime tastes usually differ from japanese tastes.
I was basing my statement on what I knew of Japanese viewers, though I won't pretend I know anything more than what I've soaked in frequenting 2ch, and what my Japanese colleagues/friends have hinted to me. And I can honestly say that the anime on this list are hardly "unknown", unless I've been rigorously mislead.
just me but that list sucks... doesn't even list something that i don't already know about. I was expecting something new to read or watch... at lest one of these to show up
tate no yuusha no naragari
ubel blatt
Mushoku Tensei
gate thus the JSDF fought there!
shina dark
Mx0
I hated Both Utena and Scryed. Though Utena is mostly because I lose all respect for Utena near the end.
What no My Balls?
Is Corpse Party really that unknown? I thought it was pretty popular. Guess not?
How is Kaleido Star "unknown"..? It even has an OVA and is translated into multiple languages outside Japan.
Define "unknown", please.
I guess this list is meant for stuff that is "unknown" to most anime viewers. Say, you look at 1000 anime lists and only a handful have these anime in their list.
Sure, Kaleido Star has dubs, that doesn't make it well-known or popular. Personally I loved it and would recommend KS, but I'm absolutely certain that most anime people haven't even heard of KS. You also have to consider the huge amount of people who only follow current seasons and what's "in" (current stuff is always "in", duh).
I've completed more than 1400 anime (inb4 haters calling me a weeaboo and shit) and several from this list can be found there, but most of them I haven't seen. Of course I've heard of Baccano (and I wouldn't consider it unknown or unpopular, rather the opposite), but it's not on my list.
Btw it doesn't matter whether an anime has OVAs, nowadays everything has OADs/OVAs, specials, movies etc.
Everyone should read Mujaki no Rakuen.
Who defines what is unknown? How is Baccano unknown? Or fucking Star Driver? Kiraboshi!
Jungle wa itsumo hare nochi guu
Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto is amazing highly recommended
I like Manabi Straight too gives me feels
Kill Me Baby was a good anime in the end. Love the Boku and Tsukkomi routine.
Want some real unknown gems? Here you go in no particular order.
TV
Gallery Fake
Tenshi na Konamaiki
Air Master
OVA
Kirara
Shocking Pink Girl MoMoKo
Junk Boy
Kyoukasho ni Nai
Yagami-kun no Katei noJijou
Sukeban Deka
Call Me Tonight
Kyou Kara Ore Wa
Movie
Fuse Teppou Musume no Torimonochou
Why you should watch 'em, let's give you an example. Call Me Tonight is about a guy that turns into a Monster when he gets an hard on, he calls a help hotline and some hot chick comes and tries to help him with is problem.
Tenshi na Konamaiki is like GTO, only with a girl which is really a genderbendered guy. If she/he isn't pissed off at guys, s/he knocks punks out.
unknown, Baccano
....lol
ITT: list of animes adult swim would never air
They aired The Big O
And S-cry-ed
It's a shame that the list, even in Japanese, doesn't let us see what would have otherwise come in at number 30 if they had excluded from the list creepy rotoscoped shows that are basically just live-action with After Effects filters.
The manga is really good and nicely drawn, the anime is awful.
Yeah, I suppose the FLOWERS OF EVIL manga deserves to be mentioned. Maybe one day it will get a proper anime adaptation where the "character designs" aren't just live-action actors wearing anime-style wigs.
Ah, nostalgia and blast from the past. Would recommend all but the anime version of #30.
As well as a ton of real old school ones.
To be honest quite a few anime (even popular ones) look like crap, so I fail to see your point. Even some that were highly-regarded as visually beautiful now look like utter crap. In fact I'd say the rotoscoping wasn't even the biggest problem with "#30".
Unknown? I've seen all of them...
it means unknown to most people.
Utena is unknown!
Well, I didn't knew that at least.
Well, glad Naruto isn't listed, if it were this would've been the most unaccurate list of Sankakus of all times.
Who class of lulz found this companys to maked this rankings?
S-cry-Ed, bitches!
If you never watched fractale you're missing out. Its the industry standard for calculating sales volumes.
Fractale sold just as bad as Kill me Baby, averaging at around 700 sold units. It was a pretty crappy show for it's time and everyone will be better off not watching it.
unknown to nowadays would be any quite old anime title
Honestly the biggest surprise to me is the fact that Big O is made the list.
There are a lot of anime I could add to this list, but I'm calling one that no one else will name. That one I consider the first "anime" I've ever seen back in ~1994.
(I highlighted anime because as a child one might have watched countless anime, but it's not known whether they are anime or cartoons. Also, at that time the term anime was alien to everyone^^ I've seen NGE, Escaflowne, Gantz and even rare gems years before hearing the term "anime". Still, I consider "my first anime" to be the earliest I remember watching, which is definitely considered "anime")
Attack No. 1 / Mila Superstar
(great sports anime, full of hardships, tears, drama and even some "brutal" scenes. I don't remember any happy moments, just suffering lol)
yay
Glad to see Haibane Renmei here.
detroit metal city
Baccano was good, but not #1 good.
Fractale was okay, but it's no lost gem.
Daily Lives is not unknown.
Seto no Hanayome didn't make the list, but I suppose it gets mentioned now and then.
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki was never seems to make radar, though. I'm not actually sure why. Did they botch the broadcast or something? Distribution? Didn't seem like a high level series at all, and it was plenty fun.
What, no mention of the infuriatingly-titled Sketchbook: Full Color's?
All in all not that bad compared to the usual lists that get posted here.
Out of 7, 12, 21, 23, and 29 are any particularly noteworthy?
Kino's Journey and Kamichu!
Boku no Pico
Bonus point for not for including the fucking master piece that is Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Also anything that Ikuhara farts is gold, go watch Mawaru Penguindrum preferably without reading spoilers.
I'd like to add Rah-Xephon. It's from the era of the Eva clones, except Rah-Xephon didn¿t try to just be "like eva". It pretty much tried to school Eva on proper writing and in many ways it succeeds.
Also Planetes for the most realistic science fiction anime/movie ever. It makes the movie Gravity seem fake.
And do give a try to Okusan wa Mahoushoujo. It starts slow but it get's way better towards the end.
That's a nice list, of least popular shows.
That's why you should recommend them, to make em more popular.
Igano Kabamaru, Nobunaga Concerto, Speed Grapher...