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What's your favorite obscure anime? Mine's, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi.
I have the box set - it's one of the series I hung on to when I sold most of my collection.What's your favorite obscure anime? Mine's, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi.
same hereCrap I love saiki kusuo
24 episode and genuinely laughed my ass.
hey he said obscureSteins;Gate
Honestly, it kinda feels like it is obscure. At least for people who aren't that deep into it.hey he said obscure
yeah I can understand that, as somebody who watched the entire thing, I still don't get a lot of stuffHonestly, it kinda feels like it is obscure. At least for people who aren't that deep into it.
This CGDCT looks wild.
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You can always check the magic book called dictionary, it gives the answers. When this is asked they mean not well known, it has nothing to do with being old. Steins;Gate was extremely popular and only the most casual ones (or half of the Gen Z kiddos) has not watched it yet. For instance, Candy Boy is obscure to non-yuri fans (well, even among yuri fans) or simply people who didn't watch anime around those years, but Grey: Digital Target is not well known because only those who dig deep get to know these kind of titles. In the case of the latter, being old has nothing to do, as Akira is mostly as old as it but everyone knows about it even nowadays normies because like Steins;Gate people keep recommending it. A Wind Called Amnesia (ironical) falls under the same category of Grey, but Galaxy Express 999 is not obscure at all, but not as popular as Akira. Megazone 23 could be argueable, since up to Gen Y people knew about it but Gen Z is alien to it. I could compare more old anime or anime from the 2000s and even later, but I think it's more than clear now.what does "obscure" even mean?
is it obscure because it is old? where is the cutoff?
some hardcore would define "obscure media" as media that is lost, no longer available, or you can no longer legally access,
which means to me, for anime , if it is at least not an OVA or OAD, then I think it is not really obscure,
and even then, nowadays you can watch OVAs legally on various streaming platforms
for OVA, I really like Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari, but I see that you can watch it on crunchyroll
so my second pick would be Macross Zero
(not that I watched many OVAs to begin with)
I think you are contradicting yourself thereYou can always check the magic book called dictionary, it gives the answers. When this is asked they mean not well known, it has nothing to do with being old. Steins;Gate was extremely popular and only the most casual ones (or half of the Gen Z kiddos) has not watched it yet. For instance, Candy Boy is obscure to non-yuri fans (well, even among yuri fans) or simply people who didn't watch anime around those years, but Grey: Digital Target is not well known because only those who dig deep get to know these kind of titles. In the case of the latter, being old has nothing to do, as Akira is mostly as old as it but everyone knows about it even nowadays normies because like Steins;Gate people keep recommending it. A Wind Called Amnesia (ironical) falls under the same category of Grey, but Galaxy Express 999 is not obscure at all, but not as popular as Akira. Megazone 23 could be argueable, since up to Gen Y people knew about it but Gen Z is alien to it. I could compare more old anime or anime from the 2000s and even later, but I think it's more than clear now.
PS: Macross saga is not obscure at all, even nowadays they keep releasing stuff. I don't know about your first pick, since I detest mecha so I completely avoid it unless there's something more.
vsobscure to non-yuri fans (well, even among yuri fans)
well then, I'd argue that Macross might be obscure to non Mecha fansMacross saga is not obscure at all,