To all the anime fans out there: What's the most obscure anime you've ever seen?

[Rogue 9]

I've surprised myself with how many anime series I've recognised from this thread. Not that I've seen all the series whose names I'm familiar with, but I do seem to be aware of a fair few series people consider obscure. Maybe I should renew my otaku membership card >.>

As to the most obscure series that I've seen, ranking up there would be Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, an anime series adapting a bunch of classic Agatha Christie mysteries. Another would be FLAG, a series I only ever saw four fansubbed episodes of, which I consider one of the best/most interesting series I've ever seen. It's told mostly from the point of a war correspondent following a UN peacekeeper unit in a country that's just undergone a revolution, and a lot of the series is shown through a camera's viewfinder - a really interesting stylistic choice.

Bleh, this is getting a bit tl;dr, so I'll just add Tactical Roar, Soukou no Strain and Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula as other really good series I've seen that are a bit off the mainstream track.

 

[Ph33nix]

edit: Gigantor seems to be a lost classic seeing as no one i know has ever heard of it and it is a close to the genesis of anime as you can get on youtube seeing as how it was made in the 1940s/50s.

I recall that was one of the first anime I ever saw, aired on Sci-Fi channel weekday mornings before school. Also Adult Swim was showing it on regular rotation maybe a year or two ago. Despite this, I think it would be fair to say most people don't know that show; it's certainly less known that Astro Boy, an even earlier pioneer. Although there was a game released for the PS2 a while ago called R.A.D. (Robot Alchemic Drive) that was basically the same thing: kids with remote controls use giant robots to save the world.

Don't know why I singled this post out to respond to; just procrastinating on school work I suppose.

EDIT FOR AWESOME:

Ginga Nagareboshi Gin. It's about dogs who fight bears

dogs

fighting

bears.

BEARS!

Holy crap. Downloading this right now.

I had forgotten about astroboy. but yeah Gigantor was great.

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oruchuban_Ebichu

Basically... awesome.

 

[ikrit]

Serial Experiments Lain is, I gather, rather obscure but also quite, quite good.

 

[Marik2]

Kiss x Sis I guess?

The newest episode was very uncomfortable. I swear, I almost stopped watching it got so weird. But I'd call it pretty obscure, yes.

OT: Possibly Monster. I'm not sure how well-known it is.

PS: If you haven't seen Monster, you'd better fix that.

I heard about Monster through this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcX-Xdc6mE
And yeah I knew that Kiss x Sis was going to be really perverted; but not borderline porn!!!
I felt REALLY DIRTY when I saw that episode and had to take a shower.

 

[C117]

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan. At least I think think it's pretty wierd...

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Valkyria chronicles is a fantastic anime, and a perfect adaption of the game. It deserves to be watch at least three times. It's that good.

 

[InvisibleSeal]

melancoly of something I can't remember the title properly...

The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Probably the most obscure anime I've ever seen, in terms of what few other people have watched, would be sayonara zetsubo sensei - it's such a hilarious anime, it's odd more people haven't watched it!
In terms of something hard to understand, I'd agree with a load of people here saying serial experiments lain.

 

[Huupertti]

melancoly of something I can't remember the title properly...

The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Probably the most obscure anime I've ever seen, in terms of what few other people have watched, would be sayonara zetsubo sensei - it's such a hilarious anime, it's odd more people haven't watched it!
In terms of something hard to understand, I'd agree with a load of people here saying serial experiments lain.

Yep I watched The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It was wierd but fun to watch..

 

[Pyotr Romanov]

Huh... I guess I should check the definition of obscure...

Anyways, I think Kurozuka, which I'm watching ATM is pretty obscure.
And Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei might be obscure in some ways, though it's too funny to be REALLY obscure.

EDIT:

Valkyria chronicles is a fantastic anime, and a perfect adaption of the game. It deserves to be watch at least three times. It's that good.

It's got an anime? Huh, didn't know that... Okay, I'm off to watch it.

 

[Casual Shinji]

a Tree of Palme

Weird, very weird.

 

[Ph33nix]

if anyone has seen it Kampfer its obscure because its only on ep 11 and they only released the first ep in October or November in Japan. zomganime.com has it. it is strange but has decent characters and decent animation.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Elfen Lied: Yeah I dont watch alot of anime.

So much blood....

Agreed.

 

[Stormz]

K-ON!.It's obscure and i love it.

K-ON isn't really obscure, On the anime site I go to it's extremely popular.

I'd have to go with Lain. Good, but confusing. I still haven't finished it.

 

[Ph33nix]

seriously has anyone watched kampfer