Yes . Its why the anime community has been invaded by shitty tourists and is no longer what it once was anymore
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I think we should vet anime fans by making them rattle off the weirdest shows they've watched to completion.
Wierd is too easy, you will just end up with gag series that everyone watched. Pop Team Epic or Lucky Star types.
You need to vet using extremely mid shows that you not only would not have heard of when they were actually airing, but you might be the only person that still remembers their existence.
Buso Renkin is my choice. Jiken Jaken is my manga choice (which contains the meme worthy line of "How do you make a boy notice you?" "By having white skin.")
I wouldn't call Buso Renkin mid - it was pretty cool. It played around usual shounen tropes rather intricately, making it actually interesting to watch - much better than something like, I dunno, Kaiba from that same era, which was just a shorter naruto or whatever. Papillon and Bravo were also some of the greatest side characters ever.
I call it mid because while its got a lot of strong elements, its not amazing enough to be gushed about and recommended heavily. Its got a lot of great characters and some really solid moments, but its background lore is boring and its final arc is fucking terrible. And for a single season show, losing a solid like 20% of your runtime to an arc that bad is a huge deal.
I still remember how annoyed I was that our main girl, who was a tough, serious character for most of the run time, spent a solid like two episodes just crying Kazuki over and over at the end like a sobbing wreck. All while the stupidest plots are happening around us every few seconds.
Its a real 7/10 series, with some 10/10 moments and bits but then some 3-5/10 parts too. I think it deserves to be recommended more, but not before some actual masterpieces out there.
You may be right, or I may be biased because I remember Buso Renkin.
Buso Renkin is one of the few shows that took the effeminate faggy character type and made him not only a good character, but an actual top tier one in general.
Also Captain Bravo would get cancelled if it came out today, I loved that bastard.
However, the ending sucked complete ass and dragged down the last few episodes of the show, probably because it was original as the manga was axed before getting that far.
Nah. Still going with Akikan! because, "which soda can is the best waifu," is still a special kind of special.
It's a proper weeb litmus test. Anyone who's watched it is definitely all the way down the rabbit hole because they not only discovered its existence, they then went out of their way to watch it and are also willing to admit that.
I've read the Buso Renkin manga whilst you've watched the anime, which makes me more "Otaku elite" than you, newfag.
The manga that got cancelled for being boring and lackluster and thereby doesn't even finish the story? Sure showed me bruh, that's some elite cred you got.
How much does Serial Experiments Lain rate these days?
Literally the most popular show among trannies who talk about it constantly. Its not niche or cult anymore in the slightest, to the point that "I can hear the powerlines buzzing!" become such a common line that its now a meme used to mock zoomers larping as 90s kids.
Damn, then I'm screwed, I tend to read more than watch, Is Apartment for rent also consider mainstream?
I'm also almost entirely a reader. The three series I watched this winter to spend time with my wife was the first anime I've seen since Soul Eater was airing, whenever that was.
I don't know about Apartment for Rent, so I can't speak to it. Lain is just a special case because of how adopted it got by trannies and spammed until everyone turned on it.
Far enough away from mainstream to pass inspection I'd say. Still haven't seen that one myself, so I'm unsure of how far into "weird" territory it actually is. My own barometer for weird is still set by stuff like Angel's Egg, Akikan, Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro(in which a parrot headed demon devours mysteries) and Kamen no Maid Guy.
Any series with the girl as the slapstick loser constantly getting fucked with is a white whale and the most hilarious thing possible.
I need to get back to this one. I read like 7 volumes way back in the day and then fell out of weebery entirely.
Hugely! It really holds up over time.
Also: https://myanimelist.net/anime/387/Haibane_Renmei of course.
Not seen this before, seems interesting, will look into it.
Or require that Kodomo no Jikan get at least an 8 on their MAL...