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
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
Millenium Actress is moderately known just by beinga Kon joint. Tho unfortunately is maybe the lesser known of the 4 (and the best).
Liz and the blue bird has a bunch of following just through Kyoani having a bunch of following tho its not the most active online.
Votoms is weird. Like its super important and pretty amazing but the people who have heard it and talk about it are just people that like old Mechas cause its like 3rd/4th in line for most people when they started getting into that rabbithole. I have seen a bunch of people starting it on twitter but maybe pushing it as a MGS core influence would get more people to give it a try. people SHOULD watch it
Vampire Hunter D bloodlust is probably the better known of the bunch but mostly by US millenial audience. The physical releases sold very well and it was one of the best known “anime movies” of the 00s . But that crowd prob is just normal people that dont partake into online an ime discussions now
Beautiful Dreamer its probably the lesser known in the west. Despite it being Oshii and UY being such an important franchise. Its a hard sell when its attached to a 100+ ep 80s romcom no matter how good the latter is and even if you try to convince people to watch it standalone. Also thats not really true cause there is a ton of enjoyment and depth to be found when you are at least familiar with the characters and format of the show and how the movie handles them andbrings them upside down
yeah none of these are actually that obscure, it’s just that no one i talk to irl has ever seen them no matter how much of a weeb they consider themselves. that’s exactly why i watched votoms lmao
also lmao you responded right before i tried to do a quick elevator pitch for all of them and why i love them
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
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
Millenium Actress is moderately known just by beinga Kon joint. Tho unfortunately is maybe the lesser known of the 4 (and the best).
Liz and the blue bird has a bunch of following just through Kyoani having a bunch of following tho its not the most active online.
Votoms is weird. Like its super important and pretty amazing but the people who have heard it and talk about it are just people that like old Mechas cause its like 3rd/4th in line for most people when they started getting into that rabbithole. I have seen a bunch of people starting it on twitter but maybe pushing it as a MGS core influence would get more people to give it a try. people SHOULD watch it
Vampire Hunter D bloodlust is probably the better known of the bunch but mostly by US millenial audience. The physical releases sold very well and it was one of the best known “anime movies” of the 00s . But that crowd prob is just normal people that dont partake into online an ime discussions now
Beautiful Dreamer its probably the lesser known in the west. Despite it being Oshii and UY being such an important franchise. Its a hard sell when its attached to a 100+ ep 80s romcom no matter how good the latter is and even if you try to convince people to watch it standalone. Also thats not really true cause there is a ton of enjoyment and depth to be found when you are at least familiar with the characters and format of the show and how the movie handles them andbrings them upside down
yeah none of these are actually that obscure, it’s just that no one i talk to irl has ever seen them no matter how much of a weeb they consider themselves. that’s exactly why i watched votoms lmao
also lmao you responded right before i tried to do a quick elevator pitch for all of them and why i love them