| Want something on the list for either anime or manga? Let me know here and we can think about putting it on there. If there is ever anything on the list that you don't feel belongs there bring it up here and, again, we'll talk about it being on it. |
| Got quite a few unknown titles I've read in my day. Here are the better ones (some others are just unpopular because they suck): All Manga: STONe: Rough art style, plotline about pirates in a post-apocalypse, actually rather similar to Skies of Arcadia. Iron Wok Jan: Story of a 16-year-old Chinese Cuisene chef, Jan Akiyama, who is both a genius and a total jerk. Like, a jackass. Very refreshing twist on cooking manga dynamics. Dead End: The protagonist, Shiro, meets a girl named Lucy after she falls from the sky and changes his life. The resulting events lead Shiro to a quest of self-identity that ultimately ends in failure. One of my top ten manga, easy. War Front Spike Hills: A teen pickpocket gets caught up in a classmate's scheme to cheat on a university entrance exam, interesting characters. Never got scanlated past chapter 3. |
TorisunanohokoriJul 24, 2008 5:22 AM
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| Woot. We have manga on the list now. I'll have to read some of those. The one about pirates sounds fund. I didn't add Iron Wok Jan because it isn't in the manga database and I'm not up to adding it right now. >.< |
| IWJ's database entry is right here: http://myanimelist.net/manga.php?id=1773 |
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| How strange. When I tried to add it and when I looked for it didn't come up. Maybe I was typing the title wrong. >.< |
| Both of them have been added. I'll have to watch those myself, especially 1001 Nights. I'm quite fond of Yoshitaka Amano's art. |
| Perhaps Shinkai Makoto's She and her Cat would go well here |
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| Everything has been added up to this point. |
| I'll think about that. While compared to other series, there aren't that many people who have seen it there is still a good number of people who have. |
| well, it has almost the same amount of Tenshi no Tamago (Angel's Egg), less than Cat Soup and ~half the same as kigeki, so i tought the serie would enter in the list :D even if its licensed out of the japan i think |
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| That's true. I suppose it could be added to the list, and if anyone has objections they can bring it up in the thread. |
| Gosenzosama Banbanzai! is a very strange(in a good way) and definitely obscure. I hope it will get subbed till the end though. |
| [Old School Anime Club] |
| o0kamichan0o suggested She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai, but I see it hasn't been added. There is also Tooi Sekai by the same author. |
| Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. The Schrodinger method: At every instant there is a non-zero probability of the lion being in the cage. Sit and wait. |
| I think that Tamala 2010 - a punk cat in space is obscure enough to be added here. |
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| One that should be definitely put up there is: http://myanimelist.net/anime/4095/The_Restaurant_of_Many_Orders |
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| Added. I'll definitely have to find that and watch it. |
| I'm new around, so I'll throw in my 10 cents. Both Mononoke and Shigurui belongs here in terms of style and plot logic. |
| In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. |
Insania said: The club description said: This club is for the discussion of those series you don't ever hear about. The series you have to go digging for. So, no. Ah sorry, forgot about that. But what's the basis for it? I haven't heard both until last week I went digging for them. Here's a quick statistics : scored by X users Mononoke 3387 Shigurui 2563 and from the present list Cat Soup 3197 Kigeki 5316 Pale Cocoon 4156 So shorts get special treatment because they are harder to come by? |
SpunkieAug 22, 2009 2:34 PM
| In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. |
Insania said: There was a little discussion earlier on what is the basis for this club. Of course, there is no right or wrong answer. That's the whole point about literary analysis; it's a gray area. I even posted a brief statement about that a while ago. (For your convenience.) I said: This was something I took into consideration as well. Obscurity would be measured if any of these works were to be properly identified as "anime." None of these works do not fit within the typical conventions neither are they commercial products such as those of Masaaki Yuasa. These are purely the works of animators. All art is meant to be bought and sold, but these are works that were made from pure talent with much thought and insight. Second, statistics are never accurate in the measurement of what is meant to be obscure. What you presented is based on the number of users on this little corner of the Internet. MAL =/= everyone. There is no real meaning behind them. Mononoke and Shigurui, despite having used experimental techniques in both visuals and storytelling, were first and foremost commercial products. I think Mononoke is a visual masterpiece, but I'd be hard pressed to identify that as obscure. As SyneNomine said, there is no clear definition for "obscure" as this club is a collection of Japanese animation far outside the typical conventions of anime. Feel free to engage in discourse, but do not use statistics as a criteria for what is obscure. This isn't a computer engineering or research club. I'm new to this, so bear with me. I'm not trying to push anything in, just wanted to present some options I liked hoping that they may get watched by a few extra people doing so. I didn't use statistics to present a basis for what's obscure. It's purely my own belief that Mon. and Shi. can be considered obscure. They are not completely out of the realm of anime, still they twist the usuals of the medium to hardly recognizable. But I get what you are looking for, Atama Yama and Yamamura's other work are good examples. I'll post if I come across something in the same vein. |
| In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. |
| Fair amount of skepticism comes with talking on internet. I've done administrative duties on different communities, so I symphatize with that. I would have properly introduced myself in the first place. English is not my mother's tongue, I have to tackle to make a point. Besides experience tells me best intellectual discourse starts a bit rough, I'm not offended ;). I'm a physics graduate, so my unconscious mind looks for numbers, similarities and what not to draw from, it's almost criminal but unavoidable. Obscurely speaking obscure is too obscure to unobscurate. I noticed I only watched %25 of what's on the club list, so I'll slow down and take my time gulping them. Now I'm confident this is a carefully chosen list. Enough with off-topic already. |
SpunkieAug 23, 2009 12:33 AM
| In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. |
| Human Zoo http://myanimelist.net/anime/6953/Human_Zoo |
| In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. |
| Jumping http://myanimelist.net/anime/2211/Jumping I know Tezuka is pretty popular, he's the inventor of the thing for god's sake :). This is one of his experimentals. |
| In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. |
| Another Tezuka anime that should be added is Pictures at an Exhibition. Probably my favourite of his experimental work I have seen so far. |
| Current FAL Ranking + Previous best:: [ |
| What's your take on 4C shorts anthologies like "amazing nuts" or "genius party"? I think that's a good&interesting material for the club. |
| [Old School Anime Club] |
| Ya know, having gone through the relations of the club I can agree with most of them [some I'm wavering on], but I'm not sure about them. I really have no justification for feeling they shouldn't be in the relations either. I'll go ahead and add them, they do fit, my brain is just not cooperative sometimes. |
| Since I haven't watched it, if you feel it doesn't fit in with the rest of the series listed we can remove it. Perhaps we should try having some sort of review thread to discuss certain series and whether they really do qualify... though that could just be done in this thread I suppose. |
| Genius Party has a sequel "G.P. Beyond"l(there's a link on G.P. page). Insania said: Well, the same could be said about "Angel's Egg" or "Twilight Q". They are all quite mainstream works if you compare them to "Winter Days" or GAnime series.Don't mean to play train robber here, Edgey. This is relevant to your point about the relations. I just watched the first two episodes of Gosenzosama Banbanzai. Despite some fairly clever touches such as the theater-inspired touches. It's still fairly conventional in its storytelling and is really a product of the 80's OAV boom than as an obscure work. I personally think they should be included cause they represent some kind of artistic aproach in "typical anime" so to say. |
ArdeurOct 26, 2009 6:04 AM
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| Add Kizu. It's a decent short story that is only read by around 700 members. |
| I'll admit I'm not 100% clear on the adding methodology - which is probably the proper order of things when dealing with unusual things, but Hundred Stories/100 Stories seems kind of out of place on the list. From what I can tell the art is pretty mediocre and a fair number of people have seen it. Perhaps this is beside the point since the club is slightly dead, but I have a possible suggestion. I didn't enjoy this anime particularly but I think Eternal Family might me worth adding. |
| Hi, new to club. Here are some: Gankutsuou http://myanimelist.net/anime/239/Gankutsuou Colorful (Movie) http://myanimelist.net/anime/8142/Colorful_%28Movie%29 Eve no Jikan http://myanimelist.net/anime/3167/Eve_no_Jikan Kino no Tabi http://myanimelist.net/anime/486/Kino_no_Tabi:_The_Beautiful_World Higashi no Eden (not sure if this is not known enough) http://myanimelist.net/anime/5630/Higashi_no_Eden Mushishi http://myanimelist.net/anime/457/Mushishi Katanagatari (not sure if this is not known enough) http://myanimelist.net/anime/6594/Katanagatari Kuuchuu Buranko http://myanimelist.net/anime/6774/Kuuchuu_Buranko Mononoke http://myanimelist.net/anime/2246/Mononoke Ristorante Paradiso http://myanimelist.net/anime/5984/Ristorante_Paradiso Saraiya Goyou http://myanimelist.net/anime/7588/Saraiya_Goyou Tekkon Kinkreet http://myanimelist.net/anime/2154/Tekkon_Kinkreet |
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| Two come to mind: Cinderella Boy, by Monkey Punch http://myanimelist.net/anime/301/Cinderella_Boy And TO-Y: http://myanimelist.net/anime/2103/TO-Y |
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LongLivePF said: Hello to the community! I'm new here. I'm looking for surreal-psychedelic manga.I'd prefer that these 2 elements are combined both in plot and in the art style.(something like Kami no Kodomo- a.k.a God's Child or Journey to the End of the World - a.k.a Kono Sekai no Owari e no Tabi). If any of you guys have any recommendations to make I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance! Hey I was here to recommand it too =) This club needs to add all works by Kyoudai Nishioka Otherwise, I don't know if it can help you but I think Clover and Plastic Girl could be interested for you... |
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