What are some anime or manga you enjoy that may be considered obscure compared to other anime/manga?
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Most of the shows on my favorite anime lists are generally pretty popular ones, and are frequently on other people's top favorite anime lists. Most of the others are one most people who know a bit about anime have at least seen a gif or two from it.
Kaiba is the only one on my list that seems to have fallen into obscurity. Granted, it did come out ten years ago this year, and I didn't see it until about 2013-ish so maybe it was bigger back in the day and I just didn't know about it.
The animation style is very different, and looks like it was more american kid's animation than most anime due to cartoony proportions and colors. Of course the show is much more adult oriented and bizarre, dealing with post humanist themes that seem to fit in more with Ghost in the Shell, all while in a universe that looks like a five year old dreamed it up. While it does have some things that do make it difficult to recommend to everyone (example: a minor character lives out their fetish [which KYM has entry one] in the second episode which proves to be fatal) of all the "obscure-ish" anime I've seen, I would recommend it far more than any of the others.
There isn't many harem series where the main character is actually their own unique and funny character rather than a bland placeholder. This is one of them. I would say that the main character Hachibei is actually one of the best characters in the whole series, some of the girls are generic compared to him.
The art is kind of hard to look at (at first), but it's a hilarious series that really hammers home the concept of not judging a book by its cover. It's the first series that the creator of Claymore did, which is interesting considering it's more light hearted and funny than the extremely serious tone of his other series.