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As the title says. I'll start: Seikai no Monshou. A 'Space Opera' with qt blue haired space elves set during a war and follows a normal human MC who has been elevated to the nobility in the blue space elf empire. Lots of spaceship battle scenes, drama and romance. All around decent anime.
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No.61412
>>61401
Typical cuckchan-tier reply which you can expect getting on this place.
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No.61413
SPACE DANDY
Seriously. They made a big deal about this show and tried to hype it up, but it seemed like no one gave a shit. It's some of Watanabe's best work yet. It's totally hilarious, and visually amazing. The only way I'd be more impressed with the visuals was if it was entirely hand drawn. I was at a convention and Funimation was running a promo reel of all their properties that would be out on bluray/dvd/ soon. Everyone cheered for generic shonen show #9001 and collectible card game show #9002, but I was the only one cheering for Space Dandy like a damn fool. It actually has a good dub, too.
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No.61416
>>61413
Probably would have done a thousand times better with a coherent plot that wasn't taken over by a different director every other episode. The arc where he helps the orphan space loli was great purely because it gave Dandy a chance to actually be more than an intergalactic skirt flipper.
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No.61421
>>61416
>different director every other episode.
Pretty much every episode. It was done on purpose. Watanabe purposely wanted different opinions and ideas in every episode. Just like character models aren't strictly adhered to. Almost every alien in the show was designed by someone different, to make sue that they were all truly unique.
>>61416
>it gave Dandy a chance to actually be more than an intergalactic skirt flipper.
Oh, I get it, you haven't even watched the show.
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No.61423
How is banner of the stars fucking underate or hidden? It is constantly on lists of best anime made. Jesus fucking christ I hate how 8ch is nothign but third world spics that don't watch or understand anything any more because they are shit for brains monkeys mimicing their betters.
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No.61427
>>61423
It could be worse. You could be posting on /a/.
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No.61429
>>61423
>How is banner of the stars fucking underate or hidden?
By being unknown by a lot of people, that's what a "hidden gems" thread is for
>It is constantly on lists of best anime made.
No shit sherlock! It's almost like some anime can be very good without being well known. Thus making it a hidden gem. If everything that were good was also well known, then normalfags would be fucking savants.
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No.61431
did you really expect this had any chance to be a decent thread when it was destined from the start to have newfags and jaded elitist spergs collide with each other over what is old and obscure enough?
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No.61439
>>61421
>Oh, I get it, you haven't even watched the show
It was 90% slapstick comedy with more animation budget than it deserved and nothing you accuse me of will change that.
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No.61441
>>61416
>>61439
The whole point of it was presenting a set of episodic stories about the three main characters which showed off flashy animation and different styles in both visuals and storytelling. Not every show needs a serious plot to tie the episodes together, especially not a show like Space Dandy which was meant to be goofy and insane. Also, they actually did exactly what you asked for at the end of the second season/cour and it pretty much ruined the show.
>>61423
>It is constantly on lists of best anime made
Really? That's the first I've heard of that, neither AniDB or MAL have it on their highest-rated anime list but even on individual lists people are bound to put stuff like Cowboy Bebop and Mushishi on there (or Steins;Gate and Code Geass if they have shit taste). I only found out about it recently because I was on a 90s spree and saw it being compared to Irresponsible Captain Tylor which I enjoyed.
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No.61461
Shimashita
To all this, someone could tell me what is the name of "Watashi", all I know is the goddess of the fairies
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No.61488
>>61461
It seemed like a boring "style over substance" series to me when I saw it. Visually it looks really nice but the plot and characters were kind of boring which is weird because I mainly watched after seeing it getting praised online for it supposedly reflecting modern-day Japanese issues or something. I don't see how the elves, who are hyperactive and constantly multiply, are in any way similar to the new generation of Japanese people who are often introverted and lack an interest in partiticipating in society.
Unless the joke is supposed to be that the Japanese might get replaced by foreigners who seem overly social and energetic to them but I'm guessing that's way too farfetched.
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No.61500
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No.64085
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>>47192
>Watched Dragon Ball Z when it aired on TV
>Watched Dragon Ball Z Kai
>Watched Super when it aired
<Finally watches Dragon Ball
<Holy shit!
>Fanservice in every episode
>lollicon fanservice not even 10 episodes in
>teenage lollicon fan-service the first episode in.
>Constant action and things going on
>The animation ACTUALLY holds up really well and is better than some animation today.
I truly do think this is underrated only because nobody really has taken a chance on Dragon Ball. Should do so. Its as bad as avoiding Ghost In The Shell and not knowing the origins of how anime was influenced today.
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No.64088
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>>64085
Wait til you get to the Red Ribbon Army arc. Better than anything Z or Super ever crapped out. Anime in general doesn't really lend itself to enemies that are individually weak but come in huge numbers, but the Red Ribbon Army made it work amazingly.
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No.64099
>>64085
>>64088
Dragon Ball > OVA's/Films >>>>>> Dragon Ball Z > Dragon Ball GT > Dragon Ball VoreZ > Dragon Ball Spicverse >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cancer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dragon Ball SuperSpic
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No.64104
>>49049
I remember watching this one ages ago. All she wanted to do was complete her quest to get drunk but every asshole in existence kept interrupting her and she had to kick their asses. True suffering.
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No.64111
>>64099
you forgot abridged at the very bottom
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No.64119
>>64111
If you're going to count abridged as having a place, what about Buttlord? Where would you put that, out of curiosity?
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No.64500
>>64088
Thanks I will keep watching it to see what happens next. Honestly I did not expect it to be this good.
>>64099
Me> DBZ English dub Nigger.
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No.64508
>>64500
>Honestly I did not expect it to be this good.
No one ever does, and honestly, it's a shame. A generation grew up on the over the top action of Z and so few care about the first half of the story. Classic Dragonball has a sense of adventure that sorta went out the window with Z, which is all the more weird given that Z actually goes to space. When you do get to the Red Ribbon Army, take note of all of the different backdrops for the action and contrast that with the constant greens of Namek - It's jarring. The fight choreography is also really good since this was before battles devolved into beam spam and earth shattering impacts.
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No.66618
>>54072
This show posses some kind of powerful spiritual "comfyness", it's also fucking blatant how the writers of The Legend of Korra ripped BIG TIME from this
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No.66621
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>>54072
>>66618
Looks great. Thanks for the rec.
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No.67322
>>54072
>>66621
Started watching the first episode myself and was getting something of a Noein vibe from it, especially the render style for close ups. Which was apparently right on the money; both are Satelight productions, so I assume there's a sharing of at least some staff.
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No.67335
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Is Belladona of Sadness obscure lol? I think it was pretty noteworthy at the time. It'd definitely worth a watch as it's just a movie so no big commitment there and the art is unique and top notch.
There's this Soviet-Japanese collaborative cartoon film called Lolo the Penguin that was surprisingly good and has some good morals stuff in there. It's for children I guess but Russian children so like 45 US age.
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No.68767
>>61423
This is one series I barely anyone outside places like here or elsewhere talk about.
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No.68786
>>67335
Belladonna of Sadness might not be obscure but it is older than most anime watchers tend to know about. Most of what you'll see in the before 2000s thread will be 80s stuff and maybe some 90s stuff so 70s anime goes under the radar.
>Russian children so like 45 US age.
Makes sense a 7 year old Russian lad has faced more hardship and seen more vodka with their Alcohol Fetal Syndrome misshapen eyes than any 45 year old US citizen.
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No.68804
>>67335
>>68786
It's fairly popular with radfems, popular enough that it got a 4K restoration several years ago and overshadows the other Animerama films. Shame too, since A Thousand and One Nights and The Sensualist are kino.
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No.70513
>>47197
>Arete Hime:
Really liked this one.
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No.70568
Twilight Q is a Twilight Zone inspired two episode OVA from 1987, complete with "We now control your set" preface. The first is the more normal of the two, where a girl finds a camera with a photo from the future. It's pleasant, with all the 80's beach aesthetics you could ever want. The second is absolutely bonkers, being an almost completely experimental work by Mamoru Oshii with a running narration and jumping from sparse extraordinary animation to lengthy slideshows of city photographs with filters on them. If you've ever watched something with great talent but bad budgeting, like Kare Kano, you'll know what that entails.
Apparently this was originally supposed to continue with new talent on each episode, but like many interesting OVA's of the time the money just wasn't in it.
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No.70584
>>54072
What the fuck, I wanna enroll in Greenpeace and Peta now.
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No.75367
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No.75522
I will mention Origin: Spirits of the Past. It is a pretty good movie with an interesting background story.
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No.76857
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No.76860
>>59948
I loved this one
>>75522
Shit I should stream it some time.
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No.77059
A great series ruined by OVAs that fuck up the story
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No.77061
>>77059
The Jazz version of it's OP is fucking amazing.
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No.77062
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I swear people only know this for the theme being covered endlessly on NND
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No.77162
>>77062
It's an average anime that doesn't overstay it's welcome.
And I love it for that
jump force inclusion when
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No.77477
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No.87010
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No.87022
>>76860
Jesus fuck. Flashing her panties would have been enough. But then someone goes and punches in the face.
I remember I tried watching Akiba's Trip back then and dropping it early (don't remember why though).
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No.92500
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No.99426
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No.100302
I just realised that no one in this thread has posted Dantalian no Shoka. It's been a while since I watched it and I remember some questions regarding the plot being left completely unanswered but overall it was very aesthetically pleasing. I'm planning on rewatching it soon.
I feel like the series falls under this unofficial subgenre of experimental/artsy episodic anime, in which I'd also include Panty & Stocking, Space Dandy, Mononoke and Katanagatari.
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No.102898
>>47254
Monster of the week stuff nearly killed it. Also, lots of QUALITY.
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No.105925
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No.105928
>>70568
The second Twilight Q OVA was instrumental in Mamoru Oshii getting his career back on track after Angel's Egg tanked at the box office and he had a falling out with Miyazaki over an unfinished Lupin III movie they were assigned to. Twilight Q was where Oshii met many collaborators that would form Headgear with him and later create Patlabor, which revived Oshii's career from then on.
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No.113964
>>49049
sounds like samurai jack
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No.117505
>>47200
Should really have a stream of this one.
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