Thread: Less known animes that you liked

Originally Posted by Tbaism

If anyone has Tech TV than you can find some descent anime on the anime midnight specials and such everyday of the week. I would prefer anime network but if you want to fill your nights with some anime check out adult swim and Tech Tv.

R.O.D. seemed to be a pretty big hit, along with Samurai 7. They come out with lesser knowns maybe, or the not so brilliant anime, but they bring something and thats good. I don't have Tech anymore, so my looks at the new games, technology, and anime, has...well lets say I am missing a piece of my soul now.

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I wanna check out samurai 7 because i heard it's pretty good. Techtv is now g4tv, and i dont think they show anime anymore. I'll have to take a look see.

Iczelion... cool anime. Only like 4 episodes though.

Dazzle... don't know if this is popular or not, but none of my friends knew what it was. Awesome manga though.

I enjoy anthology/ensemble piece anime such as Memories and Neo Tokyo, both of which have R1 and R2 dvd releases, but there are two I feel don't get enough attention these days: Robot Carnival and The Cockpit.

Robot Carnival is a nine segment anime with a different animator contributing to each piece, the premise being based around robotics (hence title). While sometimes uneven, there isn't a single segment completely lacking value, and there are a few stand-outs that make me wonder why it isn't more renowned.

The Cockpit is probably the lesser mentioned of the two (I think the only reason Robot Carnival isn't as popular as it should be is that it currently lacks a R1 DVD release, but it had a pretty nice R2 release a few years back). In the Cockpit (originally a manga by Leiji Matsumoto), three different stories are told (again, with three different directors, the first segment is by Yoshiaki Kawajiri) about WW2 as seen through the eyes of the "enemy", but it is not a glorification of war . I guess many could dismiss it as propaganda, but any work dealing with war is suspectible to that fate, even the most humanistic of approaches (albeit unfairly).

Both Robot Carnival and The Cockpit are on subtitled VHS. I don't know if any R1 DVD releases are planned.

Geneshaft, Betterman, Nazca, Jin-Roh, El Hazard, just to name a few. These animes were cheap when I bought them. Who would of thought I'd enjoy them? Good stuff.

a good one is marmalade boy and bleach(wait is bleach less known) i dunno but there good

Originally Posted by Heartless_mage

is desert punk a less known anime...........................i am not sure but i loved it

I've seen Desert Punk around in some stores, but I haven't picked it up yet; it looks really good though.

Originally Posted by tupacs_wifey

a good one is marmalade boy and bleach(wait is bleach less known) i dunno but there good

Bleach is not less know anime

Most of the anime i have seen are know