Forget all the mainstream crap that even the normies will rave about like it's the second coming. I want to know about the most obscure titles I've probably never heard of or are so old people don't even realise they exist but are actually all really good.
Three picks of mine that might have not made their way on peoples' radars.
https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/heavy-object
https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/jormungand
https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/tytania
I love serious sci-fi a lot or stuff that borders on it, bonus points if it's got good animation with proper battles, these three anime fit the bill for me. Jormungand is more of a military style anime but I often find these anime that fly under the radar often tend to be the better quality ones rather than the more heavily advertised mainstream titles and isekai trash.
Bokurano hits you like a fucking truck. It is a criminally underrated work. I would say more but I really want people to experience it for themselves.
Bokurano is a classic case of adaptation decay. Every one of these anime should first be checked for a manga version because adaptations are almost always worse - read the books.
If it's an original series made for anime it's typically a lot better than nearly every adapted show.
Nah, the OG manga's ending fucking sucked by comparison, the director did a much better job, otherwise it would've just been a meaningless nihilism/despair circlejerk.
I'll push back on that and say that there was one episode in particular that was handled far better in the anime than its counterpart in the manga, specifically the episode with the fat kid and how he handled himself.