Recommendations Your top 5 most criminally underrated anime series

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  1. Kutaifa

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    I don't really watch anime anymore and I don't know if these series have suddenly become popular. But back when I had just started watching anime, I felt that these shows seriously deserved more love.
    So, what are some series that you think deserve some more love?

    My top five are:
    Casshern Sins
    Towards Terra
    The Twelve Kingdoms
    Noein
    And the GOAT!
    Erin

    Extra:
    Birdy the mighty: S1 & 2
    And the best OP of all time Erin
     
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    Major
     
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    Oh, Noein. I own the DVDs and still forget it exists
     
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    I completely forgot about Major! Damn i used to love that show, IIRC the series(manga) now centers around his son
     
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    Heroic Age
    Xam'd: Lost Memories
    Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
    The Unlimited - Hyoubu Kyousuke
     
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    Terra Formars. (one of the greatest actions)

    It is so underrated that no one even complained about the shit of a live action it had.

    Soredemo Machi-wa Mawatteiru is also a penally underrated hidden gem. (Slice of life)
     
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    I was literally about to put Xam'd in, but went with Noein instead. I loved that show! That and Eureka 7 since it's made by the same people
    But with Heroic Age, i couldn't really get myself to like it. The first couple of episodes were great, but it really went down in quality for me quite fast
     
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    The first set of El Hazard OVA's need more love (and strangely enough I'll tell you to watch them dubbed in English not subbed)
    Seirei no Moribito I feel like needs more love
    and perhaps my favorite most underrated anime of all time: Level E
     
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    Claymore
    Galaxy Express 999
     
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    This one is pretty well known amongst the chinese fandom tho. A friend of mine, a milf, watched it in high school with her friends. They were and still are normies. It is a kind of childhood tv show for tons of them.
     
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    Back in the days when I was a little kid my mom and dad bought me dragon ball that got me into manga, later on my big sis bought me Spirited Away cause she thought I liked that kind of thing which got me into anime.

    I remember back then that at least in my country Spirited Away and anime overall was mostly unknown, now however it holds quite a bit of popularity.

    Spirited Away

    One of the very first animes I ever saw was Utawarerumono which is very good in my book though it is a bit aged, and honestly the army battles looks funny cause they used some weird animation when there were lots of characters on the screen at the same time back then. It was also very underrated back then from what I remember though it got popularity over time.

    Utawarerumono
     
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    If you think Casshern was underrated then you know nothing about anime or Japan.
    It is such a popular story that it got a blockbuster movie
    Fukatsu Eri was in it for Pete's sake...oops! It was Kumiko Aso.
    But 6 million budget back in 2004 wasn't peanuts

    https://www.genkijacs.com/blog/our-favorite-japanese-movie-casshern/


    Underrated is a word that has lost all meaning since any dude can call an anime underrated because his friends don't watch it even if it made millions in profits
     
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    Saiukoku Monogatari
    Fantastic Children
    Blood+
    Onmyou Taisenki
    Shounen Onmyouji
    Real Drive Sennou Chosashitsu
    Darker Than Black
    Ghost Hunt
    Kekkaishi
    Nodame Cantabile
    Damekko Doubutsu
    Kamichama Karin
    Koutetsu Sangokushi
    Haibane Renmei
    Ayakashi
    Mushishi
    Bokurano
    (I didn’t think “The Snow Queen” was great, but the song is one of my favorite love songs of all time. I tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to convince my hubby to play it at our wedding.)
    I also agree with some of upstairs’ choices, I just chose not to repeat them.
    My list was originally much longer, but I tried to chop out all the ones that didn’t give me an emotional response even now, years later.
     
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    @Kutaifa
    I dunno if any of these is underrated, but i dont see people talking much about these anime:

    Mitsuboshi Colors (best cgdct anime)
    Uchuu kyoudai (most inspiring anime)
    Chio chan no Tsuugakuro (top tier comedy anime)
    Omae Umasou Da Na (best touching/emotional movie)
    Sword of the Strangers (best action movie)
     
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    I've only ever head of the Sword of the Stranger and Uchuu Kyoudai. The rest I don't know. But if they are in the same category as them, then they must be good!
     
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    I didn't know that it was that popular. But I was talked about the 2008 tv-series, not the film. Nevertheless, if that was popular, then the show must have been also.
    And I don't know who she is.
     
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    Nurarihyon no Mago
    Boogiepop
     
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    My point is that the anime popular in Japan are not necessarily popular outside Japan.
    Doesn't make them underrated.
    6 million dollars is around 600 million yen.
    The movie was a really big deal.

    Manny of the anime listed in this thread were tie ins to expensive video games and when spurned franchises.

    The word underrated is simply overused.
    It is a cultural thing and this is not an academic setting but my point is that these anime are probably a lot more popular than you guys think.

    I recommend Moteki

    And this

    http://asianwiki.com/Real_Girl

    I am sure both are underrated
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    Well they are as good as those two in their own respective genre. Mitsuboshi Colors is as good as K-On! and Gochiusa in CGDCT genre, Omae Umasou Da Na is as good as Usagi Drop in sad emotional genre, and Chio chan no Tsuugakuro is as good as all top tier comedy anime such as Nichijou, Saiki Kusuo, Danshi Koukousei, and Gintama..