I've never actually seen s-CRY-ed (maybe like one episode) but the intro is great.

I HAVE seen the other two, though.

This thread is very educational; seeing the original FMA, Gintama, Onizuka and Samurai Motherfucking "Sharp like an edge of a Samurai Sword" Champloo mentioned as lesser known is wild. But I guess if we are focusing on today's zeitgeist where the majority is only watching seasonals and even the most hyped shows stop being discussed in a year after they stop receiving new content, I guess it's true.

My two go to examples of criminally underrated, and I guess underwatched shows, which I love to death, are Re:Creators, and Suisei no Gargantia.
For on topic connections, the second has character designs by Naruko Hanaharu.

Human memory can be a funny thing; we often hold onto things from the past that we love but certain things that a group of people love are quickly forgotten by the mainstream. Like when the 2007 Transformers movie came out, a lot of people believed it was the first piece of TF media since the original cartoon ended, unaware that TF media has been made more or less constantly since 1996 when Beast Wars started.

Another example, the original Muppet Show was a massive hit against all expectations, it was very popular amongst every demographic and by its final season it was the number one show in the world, it only ended because Jim Henson felt 120 episodes was enough and wanted to move on with his fantasy films. Yet ever since the 90's the Muppets have mainly been considered kids stuff and both attempts to make new Muppet shows didn't last long (though Muppets Tonight and ABC's The Muppets were really great and underrated) and the 2011 movie was the only Muppets film since Henson's death that was particularly successful at the box office.

And Suisei no Gargantia is a great mention, while I've yet to see it I really want to get around to it because of the character designs...and the dancing bits.

Everybody and their mother loves Cowboy Bebop, but nobody ever talks about the movie 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' and that's a shame, because it's basically just another, longer episode.

nah, I'd go for the sub, far more superior in terms of the comedy gold, plus the leader frog's VA is the same person who did Klonoa's.

I actually went on a catch-up and binge watch of this series from the first episode , all the way to the end recently,which is a monstrous 350+ episodes long (and probably worth the time),and the specials,lest we forget.

I think it's fairly well remembered, Spike's line "I love a woman who can kick my ass." is immortal. The movie's apparently in legal limbo now due to distribution rights. In America Knockin' on Heaven's Door was distributed by Destination Films, a subsidiary of Sony, who are most well known for (and I'm not joking) butchering the Thomas the Tank Engine movie in post production to appease American moms who thought the original cut of the film that was test screened was too dark and the original voices too British. They went under a year later and got resurrected by Sony strictly as a distributor for movies Sony/Columbia/TriStar don't see making much money, like Cowboy Bebop The Movie, FF7: Advent Children, Steamboy, the Metropolis anime movie, stuff that gets limited theatrical releases like the Liam Neeson western Seraphim Falls and direct-to-video crud like the sequels to Sniper and John Carpenter's Vampires, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.

I was lucky enough to grab the DVD before the film became rare and just before Cowboy Bebop's blu-ray release.

Apparently the cancelled second season of the Netflix abomination was going to adapt the movie into its story line, another reason to thank God Netflix decided to have some common sense for a change and cancel that shit.

Well, if you've seen the dancing bits, you kinda spoiled the most cultured parts for yourself, but I can still recommend it, it is a genuinely great show I think. And since it is not an ecchi per se, that wasn't the focus anyway.

And as a complete coincidence, I guess I can add to this topic the thing I'm watching right now: Toji no Miko.
I'm only halfway through, but is so much better so far than I expected. And I've never heard of it before I've seen the gif that made me pick it up. I think in certain places it lowkey has the most realistic swordplay I've seen in anime.

Now, I don't know how well it holds up, since I saw it like well over a decade and a half ago, but I do recall Blue Gender being decent. In the future, mankind is pushed off world because of giant bugs.

From what I recall, it had some Starship Troopers vibes to it. But I do remember not being too pleased with the ending. Really should rewatch it...


Also, special mention to Beast King GoLion. "What, everybody knows Voltron! It's had new stuff released for years!"

Yeah, yeah, shut up. GoLion is a different animal to Voltron, even if it was used as the basis. Also obscure in Japan, what with the rights being sold completely. And even still obscure here in the west, because, well, Voltron has become a franchise, while GoLion itself has always been in the shadows of the abomination that World Events Productions has turned it into.

Speaking of Starship Troopers, there was an OVA series based on the original novels that predates the movies.

Trapped in a dating sim, is actually really good. The name prevents a lot of people from even looking into it. But its just PEAK, and not what youd expect from the name