What is the weirdest anime you have ever seen?

[J-N-K]

No Revolutionary Girl Utena yet?

"If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. If the world's shell does not break, we will die without being born. Break the world's shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!"

At least NGE's Christian symbolism is vaguely familiar to the rest of the world, even if it'd be obscure in Japan. RGU went for Gnosticism, which gives the world equal WTF-ery. Also Ikuhara, the director, is singularly unhelpful:

Why does Miki keep timing things?
Because his watch holds the secrets of the universe

What's the meaning behind Utena turning into a car at the end of the movie?
I wanted to have a cute girl turn into a car.

I dread the day when Ikuhara gets his dreamed-of co-operation with David Lynch.

 

[toastmaster2k8]

I forget the name but it had something to do with choclate being worse than cocain and heroine. and they would go blow up buildings because people had choclate bars and it was only 3 minutes into the anime.

 

[OceanRunner]

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is all about the randomness. Other examples would be Pani Poni Dash, Excell Saga and FLCL.

 

[Aisaku]

FLCL was the most insane anime i've ever seen.

FLCL is insanely AWESOME!!!


Hmm but if you want different sorts weird, there's:


Weird/intellectual: Paranoia Agent, Paprika.

Weird/funny: Hare nochi guu, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.

Weird/ecchi: Puni Puni Poemi, Colorful.

Weird/geeky/crazy: Welcome to NHK!

 

[Therumancer]

No Revolutionary Girl Utena yet?

"If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. If the world's shell does not break, we will die without being born. Break the world's shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!"

At least NGE's Christian symbolism is vaguely familiar to the rest of the world, even if it'd be obscure in Japan. RGU went for Gnosticism, which gives the world equal WTF-ery. Also Ikuhara, the director, is singularly unhelpful:

Why does Miki keep timing things?
Because his watch holds the secrets of the universe

What's the meaning behind Utena turning into a car at the end of the movie?
I wanted to have a cute girl turn into a car.

I dread the day when Ikuhara gets his dreamed-of co-operation with David Lynch.

Utena is a decent work of metaphorical and surrealistic storytelling, through I felt the ending of the TV series kind of ruined it. The movie was a bit more straightforward, the car transformation is simply part of the overall escape metaphor and to give a referance to the events involving a certain car in the TV series.

If I had to pick the wierdest it would probably be "Boogiepop Phantom" which I did enough seperate research on (after checking the special features) to gain a pretty solid understanding of, above and beyond the anime which was mostly made for fans of the original works. It's sort of like the X-men reinterpeted into a horror concept (in brief). I suspect it was the inspiration for taking Steven King's "Colorado Kid" and making it into a TV series to be honest.

 

[Palademon]

Excel Saga is weird...weirdly AWESOME

 

[Jazoni89]

Paranoia Agent is very wierd. The storyline seems simple to follow at first but it soon slides into a wierd pschological thriller (reminiscent of Perfect Blue which ironically was made by the same guy) that of which makes you think, what the fuck is going on!

I wouldn't say evangelion is wierd especially compared to the movies, those of which are a entirely different beast altogether. I got more Wtf's from the first minute of watching the end of evangelion than the whole series.

This is the scene


Now that's messed up (don't worry its safe for the most part).

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan, hands down. And there is two series' of this!

Calumon: There was this one about a boy who walks and walks and stops to pretend to fight with a blue haired man and a red haired woman every episode and ends up getting no where. I forgot it's name.

Really?

Dai Mahou Touge is just as messed up...and 2x as funny.

Most messed Up? it's a tied between Gantz and Narutaru.

 

[Abe_Z]

My vote would have to go to Perfect Blue. That anime is probably the creepiest, yet mind-blowing one I've ever seen. It's actually a disturbing film... Totally rocks, though!

 

[kickyourass]

Fooly cooly, fuck that shit, I have never seen anything so fucking insane in my life it actually made me want to run out of the room screaming, do not watch unless you have a VERY strong tolorence for insanity.

 

[Jamiemitsu]

"snip"

Holy shit, now I'm not so sure I wanna watch the movie...

OT: I just started watching the series... So, yeah, that...

 

[Betancore]

FLCL. The first time I watched it, I just sat there staring as random stuff just exploded out of nowhere and started happening. I didn't actually 'get' what the story was until I actually watched it again. But it is also the most insanely awesome anime I've ever watched. Amazing the kind of stuff you can get packed into just six episodes.

 

[Decabo]

Girls Bravo. It's on Youtube. It's hilariously perverted, although it does have a heart, too. I watched all 24 episodes, and loved it.

 

[Hosker]

I was going to say cromartie high school, but reading an earlier post reminded me of school days. That gets the vote definitely, but its still awesome

 

[carpathic]

I have to go with all of it.

Strange stories, odd graphical styles. I just don't get it at all!

 

[TheKagestar]

Excel saga was a very strange one indeed. O_O

 

[Enemy Of The State]

I haven't seen much of the weird stuff but I'll say Girls Bravo.
It's amazing how it manages to stay clean(ish) given the plot idea...

EDIT: Ninja'd, dammit!

 

[Marik2]

Girls Bravo. It's on Youtube. It's hilariously perverted, although it does have a heart, too. I watched all 24 episodes, and loved it.

I haven't seen much of the weird stuff but I'll say Girls Bravo.
It's amazing how it manages to stay clean(ish) given the plot idea...

LOL yeah girls bravo was a hilarious dumb anime XD

And yes sometimes I also wondered how it didnt turn into a porno