I feel like the article is extremely subjective, so I figured it’d be more fun to post your own top 10 good/bads.
I’ll start with mine.
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Dark Gathering
- Ya Boy Kongming!
- Great Pretender
- Summertime Rendering
- Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost
- Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
- Uncle from Another World
- Digimon Adventures (2020)
- Muteking the Dancing Hero
I tried thinking of anime that I’d suggest to friends who are already fairly active watchers, but for some reason or another had them slip through the cracks.
- Supercub
- Cestvs
- Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated
- Aharen Is Indecipherable
- The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
- Do It Yourself
- Tomo-chan Is a Girl
- Trigun Stampede
- Insomniacs After School (read it but havent watched the anime)
- Love/Hate: Farming Life in Another World
I’ll agree with OP on Summertime Render and Days at the Breakwater as well!
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If we’re counting continued in the 20s:
- Golden Kamuy
- Ancient Magus Bride . .
I tried to split my list genres so there’d be a bit of everything, but I definitely agree with most of yours. My only gripe is trigun.
I understand how they took the source material and completely warped it to attempt to fit a new story and give it a whole new life of its own, and minute to minute the show is fine, it’s when you look at the whole story being told at once that things start falling apart and giant plot holes start showing up. Particularly in the first half of the season. The makers wanted a spectacle more than anything else and they delivered on that.
I haven’t read the manga, which my understanding is what the reboot was following. I watched it now out of curiosity, due to the original anime being one of my main gateways to anime as a whole.
If I hadn’t seen the original multiple times, I probably would have been lost at multiple points in the reboot. Characters seemed to pop up out of nowhere for unknown reasons.
My girlfriend had never seen the original, and she originally wasn’t paying attention as I watched this on my own, but after a few episodes she got pulled into it as well, so it seemed to make enough sense to someone unfamiliar that they’d at least be curious.
I enjoyed it mainly because it got me to think so many new things about one of my early favorite anime universes. It filled in a few gaps I had, such as I liked how we got to spend more time with Project Seeds and learned more about the Plants species and Knives’ overall goals.
It made my list because it exceeded my expectations as I was not looking forward to CGI animation and I was concerned about them “ruining” the story I had in my head, but the animation was beautiful, VA was great, and I think about the universe of the story more than I have in years.
It’s totally subjective what anyone else will take away, but everything else on the list I went into blind, with no expectations. Trigun I came into very biased due to my love for the original, and expected eww to meh, but as a whole, it gave me a great time.
It definitely set out and met what it was attempting to do. I can’t fault it for that. Watching it one episode spaced a week apart it is a glorious reboot. They definitely did more work on the world building aspects. It feels much more like a place that is alive more than the original which was more or less just barren wastes unless plot device.
Ikuta no kita - underratted because it’s avan-garde and my experience watching it was great. 6.39 vs my 9/10
As I have watched a bit more avan-gerde films like “mad god” and “Tetsuo: the iron man” I would not grade it the same.
So far it’s been the following:
- Bang Brave Bang Bravern - Big gay robots. Hilarious show.
- Skip and Loafer - Succeeds more than any anime I’ve seen at making the characters feel like people.
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken - Fun story about making anime.
- Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- - The only “robots rebel against humanity” anime I’ve ever liked.
- ODDTAXI - An excellent story about a guy who gets wrapped up in some shady dealings he’d rather avoid.
There’s been some other great stuff too of course but I wouldn’t say that anything else I’ve seen that’s been released since 2020 has been overrated underrated.
As for worst it’s gonna be hard to beat The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War and Ex-Arm.
I’ve only seen oddtaxi from your list. I look forward to checking out the others.
As for worst… I have one in mind but the name escapes me at this very moment. Oh right. Gibiate.
As for worst… I have one in mind but the name escapes me at this very moment. Oh right. Gibiate.
Oh, $DEITY, that thing was such a train wreck! I watched it to the end thinking that it couldn’t possibly get any worse.
It did.
Bravern is top of my list as well. Hell, Mother’s Basement made a whole video about how everybody slept on Bravern despite how much ass it kicked.
Is ODDTAXI underrated? If so, then that definitely. It’s just quality all the way through.
And Estab-Life: Great Escape. Yeah - it’s sort of contrived, but it has so much heart and tells a satisfying story. And Equa is wonderful.
Is **ODDTAXI** underrated?
IMO it is rated.
It’s got a good rating, which it deserves. Perhaps it is underwatched though.
Not sure if its underrated but Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- was one that I didn’t hear a whole lot of buzz about but is one of my favorites in the last few years!
