Obsucure anime/manga you enjoy? - After watching some classics like æon flux and The Big O, I figured I should try to see what you guys like.

[Brent mused...]

A few manga recommendations.

REIKO THE ZOMBIE SHOP
Reiko is a schoolgirl who is also a necromancer for hire. It's fun, bloody and gets wacky.

NIGHT PATROL TEACHER
The stories of a teacher who spent years walking the streets of Yokohama at night on patrol to keep vulnerable young people safe.

DROP
A yankee manga about a normal high school kid who loves yankee manga and decides to become a yankee at the start of his new semester at school.

 

[Greedy Fly]

Kekkaishi might be obscure now but the anime was on adult swim years ago, the manga is good and I never see anyone ever say they've read it.

It's a shame it never got much attention; anytime the manga comes up on /a/ it's always praised for being "shounen done right:" zero filler, people die when they are killed, childhood friend wins.

Birdmen is also good though I think the ending was weaker than Kekkaishi.


For some josei I'll recommend Real Clothes. It's about a frumpy young woman who works at a high end department store getting transferred from futon sales to the women's fashion section; it's very satisfying to watch her learn the trade and climb the ranks of the company.


After God is absolutely gorgeous. Humans vs "gods" that have invaded Earth. Of the ones I'm listing here it's the only unfinished one and it's going real crazy places.


Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu is an adaptation of a book, about scientists turning people into beast-hybrid-things, done with great attention to detail and full of cool designs. Heavily into South American mythology.


Ogeha is short, just 15 chapters, about a boy who discovers a freakish bug alien and takes it home.

Spoiler: Shitpost suggestions

●Rec
I'm the Main Character of a Harem Manga, but I'm Gay so Every Day Is Hell for Me
Master of Martial Hearts (OVA series based on an eroge. English dub, go in blind, watch it until the end or not at all)

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I happened across .Remote. at the library, and I was surprised. The artwork has a novice look to it, but I was intrigued with the character interactions while Kurumi Ayaki slowly comes into her own as a police officer. It is an ecchi since she often gets into sexual situations to solve crimes, although because the artwork is so off-putting it makes it hard to realize it's supposed to be titillating (which I think is why the writing makes up for it).

If you could hear voice-actors while reading, I honestly had the late-Philece Sampler as Kurumi in my head the entire time. I dunno, the character kinda reminds me of Mimi from Digimon all grown up, and I think it helped me become endeared to her.

 

[CumDumpster]

Might not be considered obscure by some users ITT, but one of my favorite anime films, by one of my favorite directors; Mamouro Oshii, is Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago)

What about Australian-fried Angel's Egg?

 

[Night Owl]

GUN x SWORD

People call it a Trigun rip-off, but personally I liked it way more and I honestly don't think they're all that similar anyway. If you're sick and tired of the "revenge bad" trope, this is a revenge story without any needless moralizing and pearl-clutching.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

A tree of Palme and Catnapped by Takashi Nakamura.



Noiseman Sound Insect by Koji Morimoto and Studio 4C. (short film)

Nekojiro Sou (Cat Soup) (Another short film)

Neo-Tokyo ( there's some scenes that have been used for vaporwave type stuff but people don't know its from one of the shorts in this movie)



Dragon's Heaven. An OVA that looks a lot like an animated moebius comic. I really love the visuals

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

Jiro Matsumoto: everything this guy does.

I second this one. Jigoku no Alice is fantastic, and Freesia is sublime. I dread the day when the algorithm feeds this guy's works to the zoomers and they gentrify it, like they did with Berserk or Cormac McCarthy's stuff.

I'm surprised you didn't recomend Eden:It's a Wonderful World, since it's your avatar. Unless that's not obscure anymore. Maybe the algorithm got to it.

My recommendations (other than Freesia):

BioMeat: Nectar: Japan bioengineers an organism that solves all their problems: tardigrades that feed on garbage, and humans can eat their meat. One day, they breach containment and spread across Japan, eating anything... and anyone they encounter. A group of kids gets caught in the wake of the all-consuming monsters, and they must escape! It's a ton of fun.

Ciguatera: It's a dark coming-of-age story like Goodnight Punpun. Unlike Punpun, it has happy moments to create contrast from the depressing parts. It manages to capture some great bittersweet moments, feelings of genuine child-like joy, and some gut-wrenching darkness.
I also recommend Wanitokakegegisu from the same author.

Fraction: WARNING: This is by Shintaro Kago, a guro artist. This one is gory, but it's a mind-bending work of art. It's about a mysterious string of murders where people get cut in half. Simultaneously, there's a meta story about the actual author, Shintaro Kago himself, writing the serial killer story and explaining some technical aspects of manga writing, which are some cool insights. I can't give more away without spoiling, but the twists are amazing and flip the story around completely several times and it devolves into a deranged mess that will leave you howling.

Anime: Marriage of God and Soul Godannar. This is a litmus test. If you don't like Godannar, you don't like anime. You're a normie and should be gatekept. It's the anti-Evangelion. It says "No. Giant robots are amazing, and you're a faggot for suggesting otherwise. Now look at these titties."

 

[Arthur_Schopenhauer]

@Biggie Smalls' Taint I recommended Eden it's an endless world in many of my profile posts (also I forgot to mention it in my posts).
Don't worry about the zoomers, they will never know.
Other cool series:
-All rounder meguru: an mma manga made by the same dude behind eden
-Fullmetal panic sigma: The full story of the full metal panic light novels (the anime never finished adapting it)
-Fourteen: kazuo umezu made a manga based on a dream, it makes no sense and each page is a meme.

 

[Registration]

I feel like I am the single fan of Coppelion in the world.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I feel like I am the single fan of Coppelion in the world.

I liked it back when it aired. I haven't seen it since, though.

 

[Registration]

I liked it back when it aired. I haven't seen it since, though.

I am talking about the manga. Which even less people experienced. I love it so damn much

 

[robotjaks]

Spoiler: anime made by lunatics

take the x train,1987​

a short ova from my favourite director, rintarou. Its about tooru, a down on his luck salaryman, discovering his mysterious psychic link with a haunted ghost train. Watch it for the odd character designs and the cool electricity effects.

urda,2002​

historical (?) action romp with a messy time travel plot. Two wartime rebels try to stop Nazis from discovering a crashed NASA time machine. Ludicrous action sequences will almost make you forget the shite early cg. Only around 30 mins, runtime, give it a shot.

crystal triangle,1987​

Complete and total mindfuck. Its a slow burn, starts off as an Indiana Jones style hunt for the 11th commandment. then the writers drop Salvia, and we get the cold war powers (and some Buddhist alien cult) warring over an ancient alien spaceship containing the capital g-god. Not the prettiest anime out there but this story goes places.

 

[TheTitKoker]

Kyousougiga. Quirky, wild, almost bombastic while trying to keep somewhat grounded. In a way, if FLCL and Tatami Galaxy had a baby that didn't follow in either parents' footsteps.

Pompo: The Cinéphile. This one is just a fantastic movie basically about Hollywoo and how it takes being an utmost autist to become a great director. Absolute quality stuff in promised 90 minutes.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Pompo: The Cinéphile. This one is just a fantastic movie basically about Hollywoo and how it takes being an utmost autist to become a great director. Absolute quality stuff in promised 90 minutes.

Don't take advice from a pretentious bratty loli who's in the film business despite her despising movies if they're not 90 minutes exactly. Fuck this movie.

 

[ChiribiscoToo]

There's this manga called Freesia. Its about some dystopian Japan where regular people can call hitmen on criminals that have wronged them. Main character is schizophrenic and works at a hitman agency. Very mysterious feeling manga.

Edit: oh dang, its already been listed. But yeah check it out, it really kinda stuck with me after reading

 

[sadbird]

Read Goth [2008] It's a very short read and its free on 'dex.

https://mangadex.org/title/53aba86a-ea26-4e7a-bba6-68b15bf76a0a/goth?tab=art

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I'm not even going to bother explaining, its that short (but good). The manga vibe is good ol' 2000s edge crossed with this image (it'll make sense once you read it).
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Another fave pick of an obscure manga is Ressentiment. Also on 'dex fully complete.

https://mangadex.org/title/b0d4592f-67b5-47bd-b7c9-c1ef2a7e07c5/ressentiment

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Made by the guy who did I Am A Hero (haven't finished it nor all of the spin-offs) and Boys on the Run (also a fave pick of mine). The protagonist is basically a lolcow and its pretty funny in a gross black comedy way. This shit would've made for a great anime adaption...
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And lastly, Virgin Extinction Island. Funniest manga I read recently.

https://mangadex.org/title/574b07c1-8094-47c5-b704-5d9b6b00bbc4/virgin-extinction-island

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Good ol' Japanese schizophrenia.
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Enjoy, my niggas. I'll come back later with more reccs I saved up.

My favorite part about Ressentiment is the ending to be honest. To me it almost comes off as a giant middle finger to him being an adult man obsessing over a tween girl the entire story.

 

[MazonLabs Recruitment Rep]

All time favorite manga was a B side short story work by Katsushiro Otomo

 

[General Grievous]

Dungeon Black Company: Pretty much the only Isekai anime/manga I have ever enjoyed. It’s a comedy about a wealthy asshole who gets sent to a fantasy world where he has to then has to work a sucky menial job while scheming to become a wealthy asshole again.

Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You: I’m unsure if it’s obscure enough for thread, but I still feel the need to shill it. It’s rom com about forty something Salaryman and a twenty something supermarket cashier becoming closer through the power of smoking. I’ll recommend the Manga over the Anime, as it’s A. Farther along and B. Doesn’t have weird translation decisions

Like seriously why would a 40 something tech illiterate Salaryman say “Low Cortisol”

 

[McMitch]

Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You

It’s super good and one of the few pieces of media that utilizes the “character is misunderstood to be two separate people” without having to contrive reasons to keep that plot point from resolving.

Inspector Kurokochi has been getting more English updates. The fact we’ve entered an era where there’s no good comprehensive manga reader site, official translations are way worse than fan-made ones, and the only way to reliably read a completed series in a European language is to learn Spanish or French means we’ve come full circle to 2005.

The manga is question is a fucking great neo-noir detective story.

 

[Raww Dog]

I think that I'm one of the few that knows of Project A-Ko and Lily Cat. The later felt like a fever dream.