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submitted 9 hours ago by amnesiaftw@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

So recently I had an anime watch party and we were browsing anime to watch and I came across Pluto. Admittedly I’m only 2 episodes in but so far it’s SO solid. And I’m just surprised I had never heard of it and it came out 3 years ago. Especially since it’s a reimagining of Astroboy and everyone’s heard of that…

Another one I had surprisingly never heard of but so far seems solid is Level E written by Yoshihiro Togashi. My favorite anime is YYH and I loved HxH so how come I hadn’t heard of Level E until now? Again, only 2 episodes in but seems legitimately good and it’s by a wildly successful creator.

What’s an anime you didn’t expect much of because it seems lesser known, but turns out to be very good? I mean like, not only do u like it but ur surprised the general public - casual anime fans aren’t aware of it.

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[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Shoutout for Pluto!

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

inuyasha seems wierdly geared towards night audiences,. evangelion. its not as popular as bleach, naruto, onepiece, brotherhood/or og alchemist.(im guessing the latter 2 are too short of a series and the time between final season, or series is staggeringly long. rather than having season by season each year. inuyasha had a horrendous amount of time between the official last season to final act which showed signs it was clearly rushed for just one final season, like 4-5years, AOT level of ridiculousness.

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

I thought YuYu Hakusho was way more popular than it actually was.

[-] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago

Pluto was great! Have fun watching it and enjoy the plot unfolding and twisting :)

[-] bort@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION

This and Pluto are the best scifi anime we had in recent years.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Angel Beats was great but apparently not good enough to go mainstream. Only single season of like 13 episodes. I've watched it a few times. It's funny and I recommend.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

It was mainstream for its time. But yeah, great stuff!

[-] severalkittens@ani.social 5 points 6 hours ago
[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm still reeling from that twist.

[-] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago
[-] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 9 points 8 hours ago

I read Pluto and really enjoyed it, will try to watch it in the near future for sure. It's kind of stupid but "I parry everything" was excellent if you can get past the gag that the MC is just clueless.

[-] kowanatsi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Freedom (2006)

Wave, Listen to Me! (2020)

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