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Looking for something new to dive into.

Manga:

• Karakuri Odette probably counts as obscure, it's a shojo manga about robots but I liked it a lot when I read it in middle school even if I wasn't the target demographic.
• [en.wikipedia.org] Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is kind of well known, I guess (certainly better known than Karakuri Odette), but people still don't talk about it much and it's really good. Also about robots… kind of. But really it's not so much that as it's the atmosphere and a sort of sense of sadness and longing as the planet falls apart.
• Sankarea, which is about zombies. Also it's a love story.
• Dragon Half - silly and wacky but was also a really fun read for me. Not sure how well known it is because I'm younger than most people who are likely to know it.

Anime:

• Dragon's Heaven - cool, experimental, very different.
• Patema Inverted - one of the newest things on this list, i think it was from around 2013. Very cool and unique sci-fi setting. Was absolutely fascinating to watch.
• Dragon Half - silly and wacky but was also a really fun read for me. There's an OVA series too.
• Key the Metal Idol - well known in certain groups but I think especially younger people might not have seen it. No one knows what I'm talking about when I mention it anymore. And I don't think it's had a blu-ray or other HD release, just DVD and laserdisc and VHS.
• Not even remotely obscure, but no one talks about it anymore, anyway: bubblegum crisis.

I'll also recommend reading tetsuwan atom (astro boy) which is not at all fucking obscure, but no one actually seems to read it anyway despite its significance.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Jul 1 2025, 04:31

Manga:

• Maken-ki! - Probably one of the best battle shounen people aren't reading simply because it has fanservice. Give it a chance and you might be glad you did.

Anime:

• Scrapped Princess - If you're a fan of high fantasy and sci-fi, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. It's got high production values including, art style and animation, top quality voice acting, cinematography, storytelling, you name it. This one hooked me from beginning to end. It's that good.
  
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit - This is another one that's flown under most people's radar. If you've seen either Princess Mononoke or Avatar: The Last Airbender and you liked them, then you'll almost certainly love Moribito. Gorgeous art style, sweeping orchestral soundtrack, and some of the best choreographed animated fight scenes you'll ever see. Oh, and there's lots of world-building to.

This post has been edited by wish_cash12: Jul 1 2025, 05:44

Abenobashi Mahou☆Shoutengai if you enjoy hilarious absurd journey with surreal plot and parodies here and there

Trigun - if you know
AIKA series
Doraemon series and Hattori series
And I forget the name about ninja + salamander series

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For game:
Xenogears series
Star Ocean Series
Final fantasy early series

Prunus Girl is an old favorite of mine.

Some of the above aren't obscure, or I'm just old.

Here's mine. (Not necessarily favorites.)
[myanimelist.net] https://myanimelist.net/anime/284/Area_88_TV
[myanimelist.net] https://myanimelist.net/anime/266/Gunparade...a_Naru_Kougunka
[myanimelist.net] https://myanimelist.net/anime/4618/RideBack
[myanimelist.net] https://myanimelist.net/anime/3859/Top_Secr..._The_Revelation
[myanimelist.net] https://myanimelist.net/anime/798/Yomigaeru...a__Rescue_Wings

If you care, last one has a special of Noto Mamiko touring the show's setting.

This post has been edited by 海想列車: Nov 5 2025, 05:36

lurking here for recomendations

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg0U...twCJMrwFtZ5Mdwb

Season 3 is airing now but there are no subs yet.

The What a Beautiful VN series is amazing.
Sekien no Inganock and Sona Nyl especially are written beautifully poetic with the best art in the medium.

Dimension W (manga) series feels like its not that well known unless you were to look for recent sci-fi stuff

Campione!

The Irresponsible Captain Tyler

Captain Tyler isn't obscure, it's one of the best-known series. My club shows it every week. The Yahoo of anime is at soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu... well, it was.

I don't know if by obscure you mean horror but here is the list of anime that I consider as such:

Dark Gathering
Dead Mount Death Play
Highschool of the dead
Umineko (When They Cry)

Lain, I completely don't understand what the author is talking about, it's very stream of consciousness.

Out of more recent ones I really liked "the little lies we all tell", somehow it didn't take off in popularity at all.

try Hyperdimension Neptunia or Date a Live.

Seconded Neptunia. The first game on PS3 is extremely rare and lost in license hell. It's regarded as a bad game by most, but it has its charm and moments that most have never experienced.

Even without that context, the anime version is still hilarious. The Japanese comedy is reasonably well carried over in English. The Dub is also worth listening to. It largely predates the woke era and you can tell that the actors were having fun and going out of their way to do a good job.

This post has been edited by floppy-willy: Sep 22 2025, 08:24

Manga: Oyaji

A short 2 volume series anout fatherhood, it contains several violent fights and several touching moments without any violence, a great in my opinion, and it's definitely obscure.