15 Good Anime Series That We All Promptly Forgot About

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There are so few good cyberpunk series that you’ll probably kick yourself for not choosing this one. Not only is it a psychological cyberpunk thriller, but it is kind of brutal too. It’s also an excellent watch for another rare genre – crime politics. It follows a four-way war for the city and one ex-prize fighter that is caught in the middle of it. Throw in artificial limbs and augmentations, and that creates some very unique situations.

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

This series was bright, imaginative, and innately something that every anime fan could love. Despite being a short little one-off, it packed quite a punch. While it is tied together with a relatively flimsy overall plot, you don’t watch it for the plot. Instead, you watch it because each episode is a parody of something. It could be old martial arts movies and anime, noir crime drama, mecha, and of course there is an RPG parody too. Each episode, save for the first and the last is a different world and a different parody. While it is an older series, the parody is mainstream enough that it makes the comedy timeless.

Azumanga Daioh

There was a time where everybody into anime was all about Azumanga Daioh. This is a series made before girls were overly moe-ified so in this moe age, they aren’t as cute, but this is still a cute girls doing cute things series. However, the real reason it was so popular is because it was so random and so funny. It is the Nichijou before Nichijou existed. Unfortunately, it is just one of those series that people loved at the time, but just kind of forget about as it gets older.

Dennou Coil

Dennou Coil is proof that you don’t need to do sci-fi in such a way that is confusing or occasionally really boring like Ghost in the Shell of Serial Experiments Lain. Instead, it can be fun and colorful with characters that you can actually relate to. Furthermore, it doesn’t need to be straight mecha either. Instead, Dennou Coil combines technology and sci-fi with more of a childhood mystery sort of tale.

We’d like to know if you have any anime series that you thought was really good and the world seems to have forgotten about. So, providing you haven’t forgotten about it yourself, why not tell us in the comments section below.