The Weirdest Anime you have ever seen?

[Weslebear]

Hey Escapist!! I have a question I'd love to hear some your answers for;

What is the weirdest anime you all have ever seen. When I mean weird, I mean out of the ordinary and just plane messed up.

Me? Oh is this an easy question...

FLCL. The story is weird, the characters are messed up, and the ending song is just plane weird.

But, I love it. It's amazing and so freakin random. One of my favorite animes of all time.

What about yours escapist? Your weirdest anime?

I never got this, people always say it's so random and just weird but it the entire thing is such a damn obvious metaphor, the oddness of it all lends to it being an, albeit very Japanese take, on the confusion of puberty and how fucked up it is when you're young and have no idea what's going on yet.

Don't get me wrong it's a fantastic anime that I see as being one of my favourites but the randomness definitely belies a message and isn't just weird for being weird's sake.


My choice though? Excel Saga. The anime producers got it in writing from the original manga creator that they had licence to do whatever they wanted with the show. It's 25 episodes of whimsical humour, pop culture references and not a single second has any semblance of continuity or relevance and it's hilarious, in fact there is a special 26th episode that wasn't allowed to be aired on Japanese TV which was the best of them all and just so quintessentially Japanese.

 

[THE_NAMSU]

Have not really seen animes beyong the common ones, but I did see one, "Nagaserete Airantou."
Pretty weird yet funny at the same time, only had 26 episodes though.
EDIT: Just remembered my favourite anime of all time,
Bobobo-bo bo-bobo.
That is the main character's name by the way, it gives weird a whole new level, and it even had an english dub!
Show got cancelled though so no more episodes after 76.

 

[Zhadramekel]

Kampfer or Trigun

Really, Trigun? You, my friend, are severely unerexposed to the wonders of Japanese animation if Trigun is the oddest show you've seen.

Try watching Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. In fact, I wish to change my answer to Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. And while I'm at it, I think I would like to state that Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt is now one of my favorite shows.

I will admit to being underexposed to anime. I haven't even seen ten different anime series'.