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Not an anime but rather a manga: My Broken Mariko is a very angry short manga about the impact suicide and abuse have in someone's relationships. I ugly cried a lot after reading it.
Actually just looked it up and apparently there's a live action adaptation that came out last year, I'll have to watch that sometime.
Mai hime. https://myanimelist.net/anime/98/Mai-HiME/
Been years since I watched it. It seems well liked enough, so I guess I'm not the only fan, but I've never seen anyone talk about it. IIRC, it's a spin on magical girl anime but the pets are mecha. I like mecha and strong female characters, so it worked for me.
I haven't watched much obscure stuff so I'm sure most people will have at least heard of these, but a few things none of my IRL friends have watched:
Ascendance of a Bookworm
yesssss this is one of the few manga i have read!
i really tried with princess jelly fish but the cross dressing trans panic gag bit was a bit too much
serial experiments lain, ergo proxy, full metal panic (yea its got cringe school hijinks but its got really cool cold war soviet mecha badguys sometimes), special armored battalion Dorvack (on the borderline of so bad its good imo, its like a cheaper knockoff gundam, reuses a lot of animation sequences but sometimes has cool power armor guys show up later in the show), gundam IBO (look ima be honest i dont meet many people and i can barely get my friends to sometimes watch the original gundam series let alone this sometimes cringe but sometimes based spinoff about gay child soldier mercenaries that pretty much all die and their friends in the harem fantasy space yakuza, but despite all that the ending still gets to me and i cared about/related to the characters more than most shows. idealist but anti-corporate politics)
I find the sheer amount of manga / anime to be really overwhelming so I usually just stick to like "best of" lists. I have seen most of the big important ones but I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of smaller stuff that is just as good.
I’m the opposite in that I always crave novelty. I bet the stuff on your list is all tested and true though. Mind dropping some stuff you consider top tier?
utena is the big one, but now i have irl friends who like it because i made them watch it. inu-oh i never even talk to people online about i just keep telling people to watch it. other big ones: hellsing ultimate, millenium actress, votoms, liz and the blue bird, vampire hunter d bloodlust, urusei yatsura: beautiful dreamer. all fantastic for different reasons that i will elaborate on later
::: spoiler this is later enough that no one is going to read this but still utena: my favorite show ever! surreal masterpiece that deals with gender roles, abuse, homophobia, and just incredibly sharp character writing. one of the gayest shows of all time
inu-oh: blind monks telling stories of ancient battles to appease spirits in medieval japan. new guy shows up with a dancer and starts telling them through the medium of hair metal. incredibly pretty movie
hellsing ultimate: vampires killing zombies and nazis and catholic priests. incredibly trashy, deeply horny, and ultraviolent -- the perfect show!
millenium actress: the life story of an actress mixed up with all the movies she's ever been in, with the filmmaking switching in style from movie to movie to her real life. just incredibly moving, just through the animation. iirc the last cel animated film ever
votoms: stock 80s action movie guy (think solid snake) goes through every action movie plot imaginable in a grim dark mecha future where the only robots are the shitty ones that blow up if you breath on them wrong.
liz and the blue bird: quiet yuri drama about a high school couple in band together. kyoani does stellar work here, just a gorgeous movie that i can't recommend enough
vampire hunter d bloodlust: like hellsing but gothic and brooding and not killing nazis
urusei yatsura beautiful dreamer: what if the cast of a wacky slapstick romcom got trapped in a lynchian nightmare? one of mamoru oshii's first directorial efforts, he knocks it out of the park
Malice@Doll, I doubt more than a dozen people on this site even know about this one, its just so bizarre and sometimes stomach churning
Sasaki and Miyano because I'd never admit to anyone I watched it and therefore have never met a fan of it
I don’t really watch much anime, but do people know Yokohama shopping log/quiet country cafe? I watched that a few years back and was kind of mesmerized. If any of you anime heads have seen it and can recommend something similar that’d be cool.
Yes! The OVAs are so good. The Manga is currently being released in English as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou if you want to check it out.
March comes in like a lion! My favorite anime!