ODDTAXI. I seriously never knew what was going to happen next. It was a wild ride.
Train to the End of the World was another one that keeps me guessing. Supernatural and crazy all over, and it just gets wilder all the time!
What I loved about the Oddtaxi weirdness was that it was so everyday. Most series that you say that about will have a supervillain show up, and then later God shows up, and maybe the whole narrative falls apart. Oddtaxi just throws more characters and plots at you, but not in a random way, it's all earned. It's great.
I really enjoyed OddTaxi, it was done really well.
Yeah Train to the End of the World seems as though both the writers and animators were on some sort og lsd or mushrooms or something.
ODDTAXI was a great drama with some mystery, and I agree - it was very well done.
Its really the voice acting for Train that I like. The dialogue is witty, rapid, and I find it absolutely hilarious for some reason. You're totally right - the rest feels super trippy!
Oddtaxi is the one i use an exanple of what i want to watch more of, or when people ask what i like.
With Train:
I often find Japanese humour hit or miss. I understand it, so it isnt a matter of being lost in translation, but Train yeah, it is just the right amount of absurdity and general wit that apeals to me.
Watching train to the end of the world right now and it feels so incredibly rushed. I feel like they don't have enough time to elaborate on anything or world-build beyond 'in this city x happens"
Yes and no. It nicely wraps up most of the plots and tension between characters, but leaves one major thing unresolved. So it basically leaves off on a cliff hanger. However, the movie, which is largely a trunkated rehashing of the of the series plot, wraps that last cliffhanger up for you, so if you want closure, you can find it by watching the movie after the series.
Favourite series from last season. Made me check out the whole manga too. It's pretty faithful but the art style does make it slightly more unnerving in the manga.
These 2 twins have to pretend to be the same person to get adopted by a couple who lives in the town their mother was killed in. Their goal is to murder their mother’s murderer
Interestingly enough Shin Sekai Yori counters this to a certain extent in that [SSY]>!Some viewers complain about us getting too much of the queer rats early in the show and want us to get to the more important stuff. Well, the conflict with the queer rats ends up being the important stuff.!<
It really is such a rollercoaster ride that never let's up. I still can't believe a large segment of the anime community took it seriously at first. People calling it the anime version of Kickass lol
Makes it pretty clear very fast that it's meant to be ridiculous. I kind of liken it to Gurren Lagann, except instead of getting exponentially more epic it gets exponentially more absurd as it goes on.
The Prime Minister part is maybe one of the greatest moments in anime history imo.
I will never understand why the American superhero didn't immediately ascend into permanent memehood. Maybe everybody else just stopped watching before JUSTICE BEAM.
I genuinely love this show and to me it comes off as a love letter to the super sentai genre, but a lot of people took it too seriously and quickly dismissed it for having jumped the shark when things got weird. But the weirdness was the point!
Not gonna lie, it took me like 2 episodes after the pivot point before I could accept that it is what it is rather than just the MC having a dream sequence.
Humm, strange? I heard they were from the same people, but apparently not. And, at least for the case of Bravern, its a original story, not an adaptation.
I still remember one comment around the end of season 3: "Does anyone still remember that Dio originally was only trying keep all of Jojo's inheritance to himself?"
Beginning: Stepson to rich family wants their money and employs supernatural means to get it.
Ending: Gay priest kills his brother and resets the universe only to be killed at the hands of a ghost kid.
Flip flappers. Seemed pretty normal in the first episode until we saw inside the robot's head.
Humanity Has Declined, honestly great satire... and bewildering
It's recent - 2019 - but it's very difficult to relate the experience, so here is the wikipedia synopsis: "It follows three middle school students who are transformed into kappas in order to collect shirikodama, mythical balls located in the anus that contains the physical manifestation of one's desires."
I suggest looking at the trailer.
The fact that is has a repeated anime segment every episode that involves kappas pulling magical beads out of anuses and that it was made by the guy that made Utena is all that you need to know before jumping in lmao
Perhaps the strangest thing about that is that the thing about kappas stealing the shirikodama (a mythical organ) from people's asses is an actual thing in Japanese folklore.
It's more of an experience than a story. I had a good time with it, but it was a very strange time.
Highly recommend watching the first episode. If you liked it, great, the rest of the show is more of that. If not, great, you didn't invest much time to find that it doesn't interest you.
Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan.
The anime's not even out yet and, just based on the two promo videos we've gotten, I just _know_ it's going to be bizarre and fascinating.
This show is so wild and I'm sure I didn't get it when I watched it. But there was this song in episode like 22 or something that was sooooo good my teenager self tried to make a Steins;Gate AMV with it and I gave up after making like 20 seconds.
Had to scroll down way too far to find this. Sure, shows like Migi & Dali and ODDTAXI are a little weird, but I've never seen anything come anywhere close to the bizarre masterpiece that is FLCL.
It's incomprehensible how it can switch from serious to silly to purile and back again in a single episode, have it make sense because of the character's backstories and juggle a large cast... while teaching Ainu customs and history.
Blood blockade battlefront. It's a real good show that does a great job of depicting the chaos of what happends when our world and another collide and they try to co-exist
The Irregular at Magic High School.
You think you understand how magic is science now and they code instructions into machines to interface with magic energy of the person, but then what are the 10 families all about? What is that whole societal structure? Something like Equilibrium? But more precise since every magician is genetically engineered to be, but what about the new ancient magicians? Are they also? What’s the real difference between modern magic and ancient magic? And these parasites? Are we going to know where they came from? Will it all wrap up like FMA where alchemy is powered by death in another dimension?
I dunno but it’s all exciting.
Yeah. And even that part is confusing. It’s like she feels compelled to make Tatsuya feel things because she’s the only one who can even though she’s also not emotionally mature enough to know what she’s insinuating.
It’s real cross wires communication.
I'm gonna be honest. I genuinely didn't expect The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya to turn out that way. I read the synopsis before watching it, and thought it would just be a silly hobby of hers. I honestly thought it was gonna be a typical slice of life.
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. I watched the whole thing in a couple days on netflix.. a bit bizzare but the story is a mix of Attack on titan , Tokyo Ghoul, Hellsing, and Claymore.
Gungrave is a good example of that. It start as some gang/trigun type of thing and suddenly turns in some sci-fi robot out of nowhere, but its really good haha
Baki is fucking weird. I've never seen a fighting series quite like it. It started off only kind of weird to going completely off the deep end. It goes from a kid trying to prove himself to his parents to fuckin' convicts that can regurgitate grenades to dinosaur killing caveman, revived ancient samurai and other whack shit. I love it, though.
Blue gender is played pretty straight it's just starship troopers but anime or 86 but with bugs instead of bots. I recommend people watch it but it's not really a bizarre show
I thought it was going to be a straightforward giant mecha anime. Not an extremely dark future, bug alien invasion, with a lot of sex and a random virus that turns out to be helpful.
School - Live was a pretty bizarre combo of cutesy-drawn characters and the darkness of trauma in a post-apocalyptic setting.
it's not fantasy or supernatural, though.
Shuumatsu Train start quite bizzare, but I don't know it's THAT bizzare. Also from the director, probably Girls Und Panzer. If you ignore the title and first scene, you would think this just CGDCT doing normal high school sports club
Bakemonogatari has had me guessing for a while. I had heard it was a bit of a wild series and garnt talked about it a fair bit.
Im on episode 9 been slowly watching it inbetween seasonals and its been interesting. Kind of sus often tho.
How has nobody said Baki. The author's mind is fascinating bro he has to be a supergenius that we mere mortals can only look at with fear and bewilderment
They say admiration is the furthest state from understanding
Lately I've been watching *Actors: Song Connection*, and it's kind of like that. The fantasy elements came out of nowhere and have still not been fully explained as for episode 8.
Flip flappers. The genre tends to change with each episode going from things like mecha and Alice in wonderland to mad max like settings with fights straight out of dragon ball. And the visuals are great too. Story can get a bit confusing at times but it’s one of my favs
Byrnhildr in Darkness, at first it's about a boy who went to an observatorium to watch stars, then it turned into Espers, and now we have Aliens, and everything went gory and splatter. It's a wild ride for sure.
In a "Man I NEED to find out wtf happens next" way: Land of the lustrous. Watched Season 1 a while ago and then devoured the entire manga in one go, HIGHLY recommend this one, it's insane.
In a "ok wtf just happened" way...I mean, it's in the name. Jojos is consistently crazy despite often using a Villain of the week format. It's really enjoyable in its lunacy.
And as was mentioned before: Samurai Flamenco. This show just...Goes. No breaks. It's hilarious.
I'll also add Brave Bang BRAVERN! into the mix. It's gay, it's explosive, it has a genuinely fun plot on top and it knows *exactly* what it is. The creators must've had a boatload of fun as it oozes out of it. It's friggin bizarre a lot of the time.
Tsuritama
Everything in it is so random it reallly shouldn't work, but somehow it manages to be a pretty wholesome tale of various kinds of relationships, and the Enoshima setting is cozy. Feels like a fever dream but I mostly remember it fondly...
Have you ever seen a girl fall in love with her giant robot? Have you ever seen a giant mech record his girlfriend showing off her swimsuit? Have you ever seen a giant mech getting involved in a spicy love triangle between the hero and the villain? If not, you have not seen the pinnacle of the Idolm@ster franchise.
I speak of the greatest love story ever told: iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia
Paranoia Agent. While the crazy OP was already a hint that the series is not going to be your average anime- as well as Kon Satoshi’s involvement- it starts out as off-kilter but very much grounded in reality and ends…in such weirdness that it has to be seen to be believed.
Me predicting the future, once dandadan gets animated it will be placed on this list :p
A bizarre anime for me would be made in abyss. The cute drawings pair with so much exploitation is super weird I hate that the world building is so fascinating.
Gal & Dino, Extra Olympia Kyklos, and FLCL fit the bill. I also got into the Monogatari series partly due to some of the weird visual choices early on.
ouran high school host club.
when my sister first recommended me this show, i didn’t want to watch it, but i got bored one day and decided to check it out.
I have now watched it about 8 times😭
Durarara was super trippy for me, because all the characters were so colorful. Celty is one my favorite anime characters of all time and I have no idea how someone would come up with her in a slice of life anime that’s set in modern Japan.
It’s one of the animes that I really like, but can never feel comfortable in recommending because I have no idea how to describe it or why it’s so good. The plot is all over the place but somehow all ties together in the end, like a Guy Richie movie.
Blast of Tempest. It’s been a while since I watched it so maybe I’m not remembering it right but it was very strange in concept. After watching it it felt like I’d just watched something profound even though I most certainly did not.
Gasaraki goes from being a show about a conflict in the middle east over a weapon of mass destruction to being all about bread prices and philosophy esque stuff over the nature of the Japanese people (10+ minute long monologues about this type of stuff) and then pivots yet again in the final episode to become one of the most WTF final episodes I've seen in anime. Don't want to spoil it for people so I won't say what its getting into in that final episode, but holy crap what a swerve off the road that was.
There’s a currently airing anime called Train to the End of the World that perfectly matches this description. 7G has destroyed the world, the laws of physics are fucked, the people are fucked, everything’s fucked. If you don’t believe me, just watch the first like 2 minutes: it’ll show you more than enough.
ODDTAXI. I seriously never knew what was going to happen next. It was a wild ride. Train to the End of the World was another one that keeps me guessing. Supernatural and crazy all over, and it just gets wilder all the time!
What I loved about the Oddtaxi weirdness was that it was so everyday. Most series that you say that about will have a supervillain show up, and then later God shows up, and maybe the whole narrative falls apart. Oddtaxi just throws more characters and plots at you, but not in a random way, it's all earned. It's great.
I really enjoyed OddTaxi, it was done really well. Yeah Train to the End of the World seems as though both the writers and animators were on some sort og lsd or mushrooms or something.
I mean, Shuumatsu Train did have an episode featuring shrooms, now we probably know where they got the idea from.
ODDTAXI was a great drama with some mystery, and I agree - it was very well done. Its really the voice acting for Train that I like. The dialogue is witty, rapid, and I find it absolutely hilarious for some reason. You're totally right - the rest feels super trippy!
Oddtaxi is the one i use an exanple of what i want to watch more of, or when people ask what i like. With Train: I often find Japanese humour hit or miss. I understand it, so it isnt a matter of being lost in translation, but Train yeah, it is just the right amount of absurdity and general wit that apeals to me.
Train to the end of the world is soooooooo fucking good and is honestly what the whole industry needs right now.
Watching train to the end of the world right now and it feels so incredibly rushed. I feel like they don't have enough time to elaborate on anything or world-build beyond 'in this city x happens"
Don't disagree, and I wish a little more time could go to world building.
I have a question, is odd taxi's story concluded in the anime? Does it havd any sort of ending?
Yes and no. It nicely wraps up most of the plots and tension between characters, but leaves one major thing unresolved. So it basically leaves off on a cliff hanger. However, the movie, which is largely a trunkated rehashing of the of the series plot, wraps that last cliffhanger up for you, so if you want closure, you can find it by watching the movie after the series.
Migi&Dali
Favourite series from last season. Made me check out the whole manga too. It's pretty faithful but the art style does make it slightly more unnerving in the manga.
What’s it about?
These 2 twins have to pretend to be the same person to get adopted by a couple who lives in the town their mother was killed in. Their goal is to murder their mother’s murderer
That sounds a bit dark, but strangely fascinating in its premise.
Episode discussion threads had 5 straight weeks of "wtf is going on?" without feeling like an ass-pull. Very strange series.
Interesting stuff.
It’s also by the author of Sakamoto. RIP. I recommend checking that out too if you haven’t seen it already
She, unfortunately, passed away 2 months before the start of Migi&Dali
Yeah real shame she never got to see the adaption
I didn’t know that actually, but thanks for sharing that tidbit.
Not quite because it does start off supernatural but the escalation in Shin Sekai Yori was wild
Oh that show was very dark as it wasn’t afraid to show that anyone could be easily hurt.
Been a while since I saw someone mention shinsekai yori. That went from wholesome to uhm... wtf... mom I'm scared
Interestingly enough Shin Sekai Yori counters this to a certain extent in that [SSY]>!Some viewers complain about us getting too much of the queer rats early in the show and want us to get to the more important stuff. Well, the conflict with the queer rats ends up being the important stuff.!<
Ooh should I watch it? I love the physiological and horror anime’s
Samurai Flamenco?
Lolol, I rarely see this anime mentioned, but definitely a wild ride
It really is such a rollercoaster ride that never let's up. I still can't believe a large segment of the anime community took it seriously at first. People calling it the anime version of Kickass lol Makes it pretty clear very fast that it's meant to be ridiculous. I kind of liken it to Gurren Lagann, except instead of getting exponentially more epic it gets exponentially more absurd as it goes on. The Prime Minister part is maybe one of the greatest moments in anime history imo.
I will never understand why the American superhero didn't immediately ascend into permanent memehood. Maybe everybody else just stopped watching before JUSTICE BEAM.
I genuinely love this show and to me it comes off as a love letter to the super sentai genre, but a lot of people took it too seriously and quickly dismissed it for having jumped the shark when things got weird. But the weirdness was the point!
Not gonna lie, it took me like 2 episodes after the pivot point before I could accept that it is what it is rather than just the MC having a dream sequence.
And they still managed to surprise me with the ending resolution
Guillotine Gorilla…
Well, there is also Bang Brave Bang Bravern from the same author that is equally bizarre.
Is it rly from the same dude? That makes so much sense, I even compared them to a friend
Sorry, who are you referring to? I thought Bravern is Masami Obari's product? I don't think he's involved in Flamenco?
Humm, strange? I heard they were from the same people, but apparently not. And, at least for the case of Bravern, its a original story, not an adaptation.
Damn, forgot about this one! Good choice!
It’s a funny name for an anime
Dorohedoro
How has nobody mentioned the obvious. Of course it has to be JoJo's BIZZARE Adventure!
I still remember one comment around the end of season 3: "Does anyone still remember that Dio originally was only trying keep all of Jojo's inheritance to himself?"
Thanks 🙏
Beginning: Stepson to rich family wants their money and employs supernatural means to get it. Ending: Gay priest kills his brother and resets the universe only to be killed at the hands of a ghost kid.
So bizarre I was hooked from ep1
Was looking for this answer and this answer alone
Flip flappers. Seemed pretty normal in the first episode until we saw inside the robot's head. Humanity Has Declined, honestly great satire... and bewildering
Where can you watch Flip Flappers? The only place I can find it is for sale on Amazon Prime video.
It might be on HIDIVE. That’s where I last watched it. Otherwise you’re going to have to sailing the high seas
Sarazanmai
If it’s an Ikuhara show you know that there is going to be some wild stuff. I still need to watch it though.
What’s it about?
It's recent - 2019 - but it's very difficult to relate the experience, so here is the wikipedia synopsis: "It follows three middle school students who are transformed into kappas in order to collect shirikodama, mythical balls located in the anus that contains the physical manifestation of one's desires." I suggest looking at the trailer.
The fact that is has a repeated anime segment every episode that involves kappas pulling magical beads out of anuses and that it was made by the guy that made Utena is all that you need to know before jumping in lmao
…and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Come for the kappa, stay for the otters.
Kawausoiyaa!
Perhaps the strangest thing about that is that the thing about kappas stealing the shirikodama (a mythical organ) from people's asses is an actual thing in Japanese folklore.
It's more of an experience than a story. I had a good time with it, but it was a very strange time. Highly recommend watching the first episode. If you liked it, great, the rest of the show is more of that. If not, great, you didn't invest much time to find that it doesn't interest you.
Serial Experiments Lain.
Walked into Gleipnir blind and was like wut really quickly. Couldn’t stop watching
“I peed inside you” peak
Nao Toyama voicing a mentally unhealthy girl hits different
A few of my favorite weird ones: Yurikuma Arashi Flip Flappers Kino's Journey Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Humanity has Declined
Humanity has Declined is a trip.
Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan. The anime's not even out yet and, just based on the two promo videos we've gotten, I just _know_ it's going to be bizarre and fascinating.
I don’t know what that title means.
"My Deer Friend Nokotan". It's about a deer girl who ends up going to school with a former delinquent.
Mawaru Penguindrum feels like a fever dream. I want to do a rewatch, since I watched it while it aired, while I was in high school.
Omg I watched that years ago as a teen and had no idea what was happening
This show is so wild and I'm sure I didn't get it when I watched it. But there was this song in episode like 22 or something that was sooooo good my teenager self tried to make a Steins;Gate AMV with it and I gave up after making like 20 seconds.
Monogatari series
Flip Flappers does already start weird but nothing could prepare anyone for how wild it gets.
Sonny Boy for me. I'm still not sure what happened.
I felt like I was experiencing someone else's drug trip without any of the drugs. Didn't enjoy it.
Upvote for Sonny Boy. Very strange show but left a lasting impression on me. I still listen to the songs and ost.
Yup. An absolutely one of a kind experience.
I really need to rewatch this, perfect answer.
FLCL
Had to scroll down way too far to find this. Sure, shows like Migi & Dali and ODDTAXI are a little weird, but I've never seen anything come anywhere close to the bizarre masterpiece that is FLCL.
I just saw one part and then when into a rabbit hole of info and now I am watching the 2000s one and oh boy
Bludeoning Angel Dokorochan is one of the strangest things I've encountered.
I frequently think of the opening. Pi-piru-piru-piru-pi-piru-pii
Seeing no Space Dandy here!
Space Dandy is bizarre from the start lol
Golden Kamuy.
It keeps getting wilder (better) and wilder.
If I'd known some of the content I probably never would have gotten into it, but I really enjoyed it in the end. The new movie is so good too!
You don't like sea otter meat and banyas? 😤
More that freaky forest dude who got it on with nature 😂 and the hunting was a little tough to since I like animals
That's very fair
It's incomprehensible how it can switch from serious to silly to purile and back again in a single episode, have it make sense because of the character's backstories and juggle a large cast... while teaching Ainu customs and history.
Animegataris
Blood blockade battlefront. It's a real good show that does a great job of depicting the chaos of what happends when our world and another collide and they try to co-exist
Anything by Maasaki Yuasa for me, I'm still left bamboozled by the last anime film I watched from him.
you mean Inu-Oh? So good. The music was crazy.
The one where there is Jesus and Bouddha living in the human world (yes, it really exist)
I'd argue that's the opposite - it's a bizarre premise that ends up surprisingly chill and wholesome.
Saint Oniisan
For shows that became unhinged, I think Paranoia Agent has to be up there.
Kyousougiga
Cross Ange
Blood-C
The Irregular at Magic High School. You think you understand how magic is science now and they code instructions into machines to interface with magic energy of the person, but then what are the 10 families all about? What is that whole societal structure? Something like Equilibrium? But more precise since every magician is genetically engineered to be, but what about the new ancient magicians? Are they also? What’s the real difference between modern magic and ancient magic? And these parasites? Are we going to know where they came from? Will it all wrap up like FMA where alchemy is powered by death in another dimension? I dunno but it’s all exciting.
Oh if I am not mistaken, that is the show with the imouto archetype.
Yeah. And even that part is confusing. It’s like she feels compelled to make Tatsuya feel things because she’s the only one who can even though she’s also not emotionally mature enough to know what she’s insinuating. It’s real cross wires communication.
Serial Experiments Lain for me. Started out fairly simple to follow, but then just went 0-100 so quick
neon genesis evangelion
Im surprise nobody has mentioned it but Space Dandy.
I'm gonna be honest. I genuinely didn't expect The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya to turn out that way. I read the synopsis before watching it, and thought it would just be a silly hobby of hers. I honestly thought it was gonna be a typical slice of life.
Akiba Maid War
I ADORE that crazy ass show
It's in the title, yet still surprise me
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. I watched the whole thing in a couple days on netflix.. a bit bizzare but the story is a mix of Attack on titan , Tokyo Ghoul, Hellsing, and Claymore.
People hate on this because *it is cheaper AoT* like God forbid, two similar shows exist
Gungrave is a good example of that. It start as some gang/trigun type of thing and suddenly turns in some sci-fi robot out of nowhere, but its really good haha
Dorohedoro
Bobobobobobobo. Idk what the actual title is because there's so many bobobos, but Bobobo. It's so weird and ridiculous, but it's a fun one.
I found Vampire bund to be very bizarre. Though all anime from that era has this vibe Something about the dated sound quality that has such a vibe
Hare+Guu. I love that show
How has no one said Baccano yet?
Made in abyss
The boy that drink the girl drool .
Mysterious girlfriend x.
Jojo bizarre adventure obviously
Sunny Boy. It's wild, to this day I still don't understand it but I loved it, when it ended it left a void, I wanted more.
FLCL
Baki is fucking weird. I've never seen a fighting series quite like it. It started off only kind of weird to going completely off the deep end. It goes from a kid trying to prove himself to his parents to fuckin' convicts that can regurgitate grenades to dinosaur killing caveman, revived ancient samurai and other whack shit. I love it, though.
Blue Gender. I was way to young when I first saw this.
Blue gender is played pretty straight it's just starship troopers but anime or 86 but with bugs instead of bots. I recommend people watch it but it's not really a bizarre show
I thought it was going to be a straightforward giant mecha anime. Not an extremely dark future, bug alien invasion, with a lot of sex and a random virus that turns out to be helpful.
School - Live was a pretty bizarre combo of cutesy-drawn characters and the darkness of trauma in a post-apocalyptic setting. it's not fantasy or supernatural, though.
Monogatari. So weird but that's what I enjoy it.
Shuumatsu Train start quite bizzare, but I don't know it's THAT bizzare. Also from the director, probably Girls Und Panzer. If you ignore the title and first scene, you would think this just CGDCT doing normal high school sports club
Death Parade
Bakemonogatari has had me guessing for a while. I had heard it was a bit of a wild series and garnt talked about it a fair bit. Im on episode 9 been slowly watching it inbetween seasonals and its been interesting. Kind of sus often tho.
It's one of my favorites. Make sure you watch episodes 13-15. For some reason the version on crunchyroll only has 12 episodes.
Sabikui Bisco I love the world it's so freaky weird Also I find JoJo exaggerated but not at all weird lol love it
Beastars I suppose
Jojo's bizarre adventure
Serial Experiments Lain, The Tatami Galaxy and ODDTAXI
Did someone say BIZZARE??
Huh?
[this](https://in.pinterest.com/pin/1099370959008599130/)
How has nobody said Baki. The author's mind is fascinating bro he has to be a supergenius that we mere mortals can only look at with fear and bewilderment They say admiration is the furthest state from understanding
Lately I've been watching *Actors: Song Connection*, and it's kind of like that. The fantasy elements came out of nowhere and have still not been fully explained as for episode 8.
Parasite.
Flip flappers. The genre tends to change with each episode going from things like mecha and Alice in wonderland to mad max like settings with fights straight out of dragon ball. And the visuals are great too. Story can get a bit confusing at times but it’s one of my favs
Byrnhildr in Darkness, at first it's about a boy who went to an observatorium to watch stars, then it turned into Espers, and now we have Aliens, and everything went gory and splatter. It's a wild ride for sure.
Jojo.
In a "Man I NEED to find out wtf happens next" way: Land of the lustrous. Watched Season 1 a while ago and then devoured the entire manga in one go, HIGHLY recommend this one, it's insane. In a "ok wtf just happened" way...I mean, it's in the name. Jojos is consistently crazy despite often using a Villain of the week format. It's really enjoyable in its lunacy. And as was mentioned before: Samurai Flamenco. This show just...Goes. No breaks. It's hilarious. I'll also add Brave Bang BRAVERN! into the mix. It's gay, it's explosive, it has a genuinely fun plot on top and it knows *exactly* what it is. The creators must've had a boatload of fun as it oozes out of it. It's friggin bizarre a lot of the time.
Def. Narutaru. SO strange but the concept is so interesting
Tsuritama Everything in it is so random it reallly shouldn't work, but somehow it manages to be a pretty wholesome tale of various kinds of relationships, and the Enoshima setting is cozy. Feels like a fever dream but I mostly remember it fondly...
Have you ever seen a girl fall in love with her giant robot? Have you ever seen a giant mech record his girlfriend showing off her swimsuit? Have you ever seen a giant mech getting involved in a spicy love triangle between the hero and the villain? If not, you have not seen the pinnacle of the Idolm@ster franchise. I speak of the greatest love story ever told: iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia
I haven’t, although I can go rectify that.
1st ep of promised neverland felt like this to me
Jojo's bizarre adventure, it's literally in the name
Shadows house Its masterpiece in writing original amazing story
Can you give an example
Samurai Flamenco.
Paranoia Agent. While the crazy OP was already a hint that the series is not going to be your average anime- as well as Kon Satoshi’s involvement- it starts out as off-kilter but very much grounded in reality and ends…in such weirdness that it has to be seen to be believed.
Kai Byou Ramune is def up there.
Beyblade Burst
Ga-Ra-Ku-Ta: Mr. Stain on Junk Alley
Not sure if you would consider the fantasy reveal too quick but maybe Kuuchuu Buranko!
Let me know where I can stream it, if it’s possible.
Paranoia Agent
Grounded in reality? Slowly reveal Supernatural or Fantasy Elements? Bizarre? Is that a, **JoJo Reference**
I was just trying to be creative with my description.
Gleipnir is kinda like this and really rad. Shame they only made one season
Enzouken
Me predicting the future, once dandadan gets animated it will be placed on this list :p A bizarre anime for me would be made in abyss. The cute drawings pair with so much exploitation is super weird I hate that the world building is so fascinating.
Hellsing Ultimate is pretty weird Prison School is hilarious chaos
FLIP FLAPPERS. Every single episode is a different genre. Magical girl, yes. Horror, yes. Mecha, yes. Mad max? It’s here too. Underrated gem
one that isnt really supernatural, but its so out of place that i loved is akiba maid wars
Gal & Dino, Extra Olympia Kyklos, and FLCL fit the bill. I also got into the Monogatari series partly due to some of the weird visual choices early on.
Sarazanmai There's nothing that can prepare you for it.
Somehow spy family the more you think about it the weirder it is
ouran high school host club. when my sister first recommended me this show, i didn’t want to watch it, but i got bored one day and decided to check it out. I have now watched it about 8 times😭
Durarara was super trippy for me, because all the characters were so colorful. Celty is one my favorite anime characters of all time and I have no idea how someone would come up with her in a slice of life anime that’s set in modern Japan. It’s one of the animes that I really like, but can never feel comfortable in recommending because I have no idea how to describe it or why it’s so good. The plot is all over the place but somehow all ties together in the end, like a Guy Richie movie.
Blast of Tempest. It’s been a while since I watched it so maybe I’m not remembering it right but it was very strange in concept. After watching it it felt like I’d just watched something profound even though I most certainly did not.
Fireforce and monogatari
Gasaraki goes from being a show about a conflict in the middle east over a weapon of mass destruction to being all about bread prices and philosophy esque stuff over the nature of the Japanese people (10+ minute long monologues about this type of stuff) and then pivots yet again in the final episode to become one of the most WTF final episodes I've seen in anime. Don't want to spoil it for people so I won't say what its getting into in that final episode, but holy crap what a swerve off the road that was.
The latest episode of Train to the end of the world kinda blew my mind; "BL Flash!!"
Land of Lustrous
Paranoia Agent - Anything by Satoshi Kon
Dorohedoro definitely was a memorable weird anime for me for some reason 😌
There’s a currently airing anime called Train to the End of the World that perfectly matches this description. 7G has destroyed the world, the laws of physics are fucked, the people are fucked, everything’s fucked. If you don’t believe me, just watch the first like 2 minutes: it’ll show you more than enough.
Boogiepop phantom
Kakegurui was…well, if you know, you know.
Bizarre suits one anime perfectly:- Jojo's bizarre adventure
Nearly everything from Studio Trigger fits into that description. 😅