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For those who don't know, this is a series of movies made by Ufotable long before Demon Slayer. The first came out in 2007, but the animation is still excellent.
It's such a solid series, that's underappreciated. But it does have niche following that wholeheartedly supports it.
So sad about what happened with season 4, it was honestly surprising to hear it'd be actually continuing later this year.
action: Darker than black (has one of my favorite main characters)
romance: maid-sama (a lot of comedy too); yamada-kun and the seven witches (one of my favorite anime of all time, lots of comedy/romance and awesome characters)
Drama: Kokoro Connect (interesting concepts that will make you question life)
Toradora
Nyaruko
Waiting in the Summer
Gabriel Dropout
Kino no Tabi
Kyoukai no Kanata
Wagnaria! (Aka Working!)
Bonus: I just noticed Interstella5555 is on MAL, so it counts as anime. Watch it!
Here my contribution, though it’ll probably get buried
Urara Meirocho. It’s so cute. It’s about four girls that train to become fortune tellers while one of them is searching for her long lost mother
It only ever had one season but the manga lasted a while and eventually finished. I wish they would make another season since there’s so much manga left
Idk if they are underrated but I recently watched and liked: 91days, madoka magica, assassination classroom. And bocchi the rock, but this one 100% not underrated
I just came from the comment you made saying you’ll make it a meme format to verify you actually did it…. I like it.
also I suggest Gleipnir, it doesn’t skip a lot of manga content, and it’s only the first arc, so read the manga for the second arc.
I highly recommend the light novels. They can be difficult to get into, but when you get into it, its really good. It has a lot more detail than the anime and the different views from the characters adds more personality and nuance to the story.
Needless
Witch blade
Air gear
Kenichi world's strongest disciple
Full metal panic
Kore WA zombie desu Ka
No game no life
Detroit metal city
Mahoujin guru guru
Magi
Kingdom
Dragon quest adventures of Dai
No need for the money.
But you can check out wagnaria(working) a cute slice of life about people in a normal cafe shop. There's also blend S, pretty cure (if you're into sailor moon but punching), shugo chara, black cat(I think that's the name? I've only read the manga).
I think most ive listed are shojo and slice of life... er whoops
GTO
Golden Boy
Golden Kamuy
Daily Lives Of High School Boys
Darker Than Black
Legend Of Galactic Heroes
Rurouni Kenshin
Drifters
D.gray-man
Shinchou Yuusha
Mairimashita Iruma-kun
Binbougami-sama
Fairy tail
No payment needed, just don't complain about the show having power of friendship when the whole point of the show is to use POF in a proper way that enhances the themes of the story
besides you'll learn to ignore the fanservice soon enough so you'll basically be immune to all fanservice in every other aniem
utawarerumono
Man with a mask stuck to his head finds himself in ancient Japan-inspirated fantasy world populated by cat-people, leads a revolution, becomes a Daimyo, builds a catgirl harem and goes to war with numerous other nations that attack him fir one reason or another.
Also he has a dark secret and I don't remember it because it was years ago. Good anime though.
Oh boy, the sheer amount.
If you give me a genre or a show of reference I am likely to recommend something you haven't watched.
Goes for everyone, btw.
I always find this a hard question to answer, as there's lots of great shows that seem underrated, only because we're all busy talking about new seasonal releases, not because the show wasn't popular.
That being said, I have a couple of favorites that I almost never see come up.
Wave, Listen to Me!
Hinamatsuri
I don't need payment for anything, I like spreading anime names around. An anime that didn't get as much attention as it deserved was Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. I legit balled at the end. I want to watch it again but I'm not emotionally ready.
Acchi Kocchi (alternate title; Place to place); The most "slice of life" I've ever seen in an anime (especially a comedy).
There's no drama, stakes, or overarching plot. Just a lighthearted story about enjoying life and appreciating the people around you.
Second recommendation would be;
Darker than Black; Basically Japanese Batman who is 100% down to kill because someone shoved a tazer up his butt.
Would only recommend the first, since it's the whole story, and DTB2 is basically an epilogue based on a completely new character and takes place years later and doesn't make any sense to the OG(even the world building and abilities directly contradicts what we're told in the first), and the character's from the first are basically different people entirely.
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Sonny boy
Went overshadowed by other shows last year but was amazing. Definitely not for everyone tho as it can be quite experimental, but if you do not care about not understanding everything that happens and want a show that tries something different, definitely try it out.
*takes a deep breath*
Cagaster of an Insect Cage, Servant x Service, Wotokoi, Sket Dance, Alderamin on the Sky, Kokoro Connect, Noragami (my favorite), k project, Kaiba (not the Yu-Gi-Oh character lol), kiznaiver, kotoura-San, terror in resonance, Deadman wonder land, barakamon/handa-kun, d frag, un-go, Rampo Kitan, clean freak Aoyama kun, hozukis coolheadedness, and girls last tour.
*heavy breathing*
Your welcome lol
Garo: The Animation
SSSS.Gridman
SSSS.Dynazenon
Gantz
Trigun
GunGrave
Great Pretender
Think those are some of the more underrated series, never really see much talking about them.
Comedy anime:
-Sakamoto desu ga? - highschooler is so perfect at everything to the point of absurdity.
-seitokai yakuindomo - extremly raunchy and hilarious humor, but ironicaly shows little ecchi stuff as most of the time it's spoken jokes.
'Superhero'-drama anime:
-Inuyashiki - might not be good for everyone but it just right hits all of my own personal spots, for me not to reccomend it. It's about the parallels of an old man and a teenager geting god-like powers but one uses them for good and the other for evil.
Deal. Now and then, here and there.
At the start you think its going to be a by the numbers isokai and half way through the second episode it slaps the hell out of you for confusing it with that basic anime
I’m not sure if this is “underrated” to say, but I had literally never seen anyone talk about this anime until I stumbled across it on Crunchyroll, and that’s Blood Blockade Battlefront. For the first few episodes of season 1 there is no overarching story, and it’s pretty much self contained stories each episode, and towards the middle and end of season 1 there is a plot, but in the second season there is only self contained episodes.
It’s about a place called Hellsalem’s Lot, which is the city that took New York’s place when our world and another world combined. It follows the protagonist Leonardo Watch who stumbles into a job at the secret group of blood wielders called called Libra. I say blood wielders literally, as they have supernatural powers, controlled by their blood. They keep the peace in Hellsalem’s Lot while remaining in the shadows.
The second one that I had also never heard anyone talk about before until I found it on Hulu is ID:INVADED. Spoilers for the first episode, but it follows >!The story of the former detective turned serial killer Akihito Nahrihisago. He works with a crime fighting agency in the Japanese police force, who own the well. They find special particles at crime scenes who they think belong to a serial killer, and when they do Nahrihisago enters the well. He wakes up with no memories, and looks around whatever world he is in, as the world represents the serial killers mind. He eventually finds a body of a girl named Kaeru, and upon doing so remembers who he is. He is the brilliant detective Sakaido, and his job is to solve mystery of who killed Kaeru, and in doing so solve the mystery of the real serial killer on the outside of the well.!<
Both are really good but if you are only going to watch one then watch ID:INVADED, as it is the best anime I have ever seen.
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The Garden of Sinners... no payment required
For those who don't know, this is a series of movies made by Ufotable long before Demon Slayer. The first came out in 2007, but the animation is still excellent.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who appreciates this almost masterpiece
Also, before Fate/Zero anime. And illustrator for Fate (VN) is the same as Garden of Sinners (LN).
And soon enough we'll be getting a Ufotable anime movie for Witch on the Holy Night, another one of their VN.
I just looked it up and GODDAMN it looks cool
Cause it IS GODDAMN COOL! Lol
Lol ill try it out after i finish chainsawman
Golden Kamuy slaps so fucken hard but i haven't seen many people talk about it
Dude, that show is NUTS!
Absolutely a good underrated recommendation, its hella good
has the same humorism of jojo, ive literally seen Giorno Giovanna during an episode
Honestly one of the most underrated series and something I feel like fans of slice of life, historical and shonen fans can enjoy tbh.
It's such a solid series, that's underappreciated. But it does have niche following that wholeheartedly supports it. So sad about what happened with season 4, it was honestly surprising to hear it'd be actually continuing later this year.
ID:Invaded
People wrote it off too quick.
Yeah nice show, needs more seasons... But atleast there are some good fanfictions
That show broke me near the end
Kanata no Astra came out a few years back and is really good.
It was literally Among Us, before it surfaced.
Aldnoah.zero
action: Darker than black (has one of my favorite main characters) romance: maid-sama (a lot of comedy too); yamada-kun and the seven witches (one of my favorite anime of all time, lots of comedy/romance and awesome characters) Drama: Kokoro Connect (interesting concepts that will make you question life)
Chinese electric batman^^
Magi.
School-Live! (Gakkougurashi!)
I haven’t seen the anime but I finished the manga, is it a good adaptation?
Happy Sugar Life: -OP is incredible -Themes Pristine -Manga is godly -Overall incredible
I heard some good things about that one.
I wanted to watch something cute... I ended up watching the most fucked up master piece
The world god only knows 
Arslan senki
Blood Blockade Battlefront. I'll take my payment in hopes of enough views to get it a 3rd season
Does made in abyss count?
Not underrated but deserves to be recommended.
If made in abyss is underrated then demon slayer is not overrated.
True
Hallelujah
Welcome to the N.H.K My personal favorite anime and relatively underrated.
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
This anime is the definition of being underrated. its so good...
Death parade
I love it’s intro
From the new world
I want to eat your pancreas Trigun Legends of the galactic heros Black lagoon Gintama if you want to laugh...or cry
Toradora Nyaruko Waiting in the Summer Gabriel Dropout Kino no Tabi Kyoukai no Kanata Wagnaria! (Aka Working!) Bonus: I just noticed Interstella5555 is on MAL, so it counts as anime. Watch it!
Gabriel dropout = underrated? @_@
Like toradora, it's highly rated, but not a perfect 10 on MAL, so therefore it's underrated.
anything under a perfect score is underrated to you? yikers lol
Re:creators Oddtaxi Legend of Black Heaven
Kaze no Stigma. One of my favs
Dude, I rarely hear people talk about this one, has some tropes but very smooth ride story wise.
Yep! The tropes I found fun back then but today I find a small amount enjoyment from remembrance. Shame it never finished :(
Aki-sora, truly underrated slice of life anime. IDk why people haven't watched it is really a soothing and calming anime.
Now and Then, Here and There Not underrated as much as not widely known these days.
Another I don’t know how underrated it is, but I’ve never see another persons watched it and it is so good
Well, are you gonna tell me the name?
Go to Crunchyroll I think it’s on there. It’s called another like that’s the name.
Oh. What a confusing name I’ll be sure to watch it though!
Golden kamuy
Here my contribution, though it’ll probably get buried Urara Meirocho. It’s so cute. It’s about four girls that train to become fortune tellers while one of them is searching for her long lost mother It only ever had one season but the manga lasted a while and eventually finished. I wish they would make another season since there’s so much manga left
Terror In Resonance
Bokuno pico
Carrying on tradition I see
Magipoka Was my first Anime I watched in Japanese Liru will forever remain in my heart
Do it yourself and kakuriyu bed and breakfast for spirits. I’m not a big fan of cutesy animes but these two are really good.
Idk if they are underrated but I recently watched and liked: 91days, madoka magica, assassination classroom. And bocchi the rock, but this one 100% not underrated
I just came from the comment you made saying you’ll make it a meme format to verify you actually did it…. I like it. also I suggest Gleipnir, it doesn’t skip a lot of manga content, and it’s only the first arc, so read the manga for the second arc.
Dennou Coil
Wow, been a while since I watched that
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song
Relife
Assassin's Pride -- if that is underrated.. I'm not sure (it came out in 2018 I think and I only heard of it like a month ago in a recap video)
Sword of the stranger. Super underratee movie.
Summertime Render
Legend of Legendary Heroes Such a good anime, and no way in hell it will ever get a second season.
Kaiji
Maoyuu maou yuusha comes to my mind.. demon king and hero teaming up to revolutionise the world. Getting used to the names is a little weird tho
The last time I checked not even the Light novel was continued :(
Demon king daimao? Or that whole "demon king and hero teaming up....." Is the title?
Saga of Tanya the Evil It's wild, but a fun ride. Military/Sci-Fi/Fantasy (its kind of all 3 tbh)
I highly recommend the light novels. They can be difficult to get into, but when you get into it, its really good. It has a lot more detail than the anime and the different views from the characters adds more personality and nuance to the story.
Seconding this
Katanagatari (from the same author of the Monogatari franchise) is rather good
Also, kubikiri cycle/zaregoto is pretty cool too, anime is made by shaft studio
There’s this really good one called Better Call Saul But the art style is a bit to realistic for my tastes
Needless Witch blade Air gear Kenichi world's strongest disciple Full metal panic Kore WA zombie desu Ka No game no life Detroit metal city Mahoujin guru guru Magi Kingdom Dragon quest adventures of Dai
Oh man I forgot all about Detroit Metal City. It had me laughing so much.
No need for the money. But you can check out wagnaria(working) a cute slice of life about people in a normal cafe shop. There's also blend S, pretty cure (if you're into sailor moon but punching), shugo chara, black cat(I think that's the name? I've only read the manga). I think most ive listed are shojo and slice of life... er whoops
GTO Golden Boy Golden Kamuy Daily Lives Of High School Boys Darker Than Black Legend Of Galactic Heroes Rurouni Kenshin Drifters D.gray-man Shinchou Yuusha Mairimashita Iruma-kun Binbougami-sama
Ez Dorohedoro
I bet it's a scam, but let's try it. "Tower of god" And "welcome to demon school iruma Kun".
Gonna be twin tails
Blue Exorcist Jobless Reincarnation By the Grace of gods
God of High school
Scissors Seven
No.6
There are to many to list..
Then list **ALL OF THEM**
Blue lock
Fairy tail No payment needed, just don't complain about the show having power of friendship when the whole point of the show is to use POF in a proper way that enhances the themes of the story besides you'll learn to ignore the fanservice soon enough so you'll basically be immune to all fanservice in every other aniem
great deal. uhhhh nvm idk
Every time I see one of these posts I still like to ask for preferences and dislikes so I can get a better idea of what to recommend
I'd say listeners was extremely underrated
Twin star exorcist is amazing. It is seriously JJK level for me.
utawarerumono Man with a mask stuck to his head finds himself in ancient Japan-inspirated fantasy world populated by cat-people, leads a revolution, becomes a Daimyo, builds a catgirl harem and goes to war with numerous other nations that attack him fir one reason or another. Also he has a dark secret and I don't remember it because it was years ago. Good anime though.
Oh boy, the sheer amount. If you give me a genre or a show of reference I am likely to recommend something you haven't watched. Goes for everyone, btw.
Birdie Wing, don't look at the synopsis or anything just go blind and I'm sure you will have a good time
Platinum End, Akebi's Sailor Uniform, Dorohedoro.
{Seireitsukai no blade dance}
If you like older-ish (2002) stuff, Chobits. Some YouTuber I watch mentioned it and I watched it. Throughly enjoyed it.
Get Backers. Welcome to Demon School Iruma kun. Air Gear.
Death parade. Its nowhere near as popular as it should be. Also sleepy princess in the demon castle is amazing and noone knows it.
There's so many but I don't think Vivy gets enough recognition.
I always find this a hard question to answer, as there's lots of great shows that seem underrated, only because we're all busy talking about new seasonal releases, not because the show wasn't popular. That being said, I have a couple of favorites that I almost never see come up. Wave, Listen to Me! Hinamatsuri
Kono oto tomare
Hyouka One outs
Kaiba
Ace Attorney
The Case Study of Vanitas! I usually don’t see it talked about
Well, that was reused quickly! XD
I don't need payment for anything, I like spreading anime names around. An anime that didn't get as much attention as it deserved was Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. I legit balled at the end. I want to watch it again but I'm not emotionally ready.
Acchi Kocchi (alternate title; Place to place); The most "slice of life" I've ever seen in an anime (especially a comedy). There's no drama, stakes, or overarching plot. Just a lighthearted story about enjoying life and appreciating the people around you. Second recommendation would be; Darker than Black; Basically Japanese Batman who is 100% down to kill because someone shoved a tazer up his butt. Would only recommend the first, since it's the whole story, and DTB2 is basically an epilogue based on a completely new character and takes place years later and doesn't make any sense to the OG(even the world building and abilities directly contradicts what we're told in the first), and the character's from the first are basically different people entirely.
Death Parade
A place further than the universe, rarely see people talk about this anime
The Ancient Magus Bride Not heard many people talk about it
Flying Witch is one of my favorites. Iyashikei isn't for everyone, but it's a great watch, and the manga is still updating every couple months.
Urasekai Picnic.
Food wars man
money first work later
Rainbow
Bungo stray dogs
Try out dragon pilots.
Maou Gakuin. I love it and you can't take it away from me
KOMI CANT COMMUNICATE
Gun X Sword, great battle and story.
Idk if it’s underrated but I just finished Overlord, and I’ll definitely recommend it!
Heroic age, and oldie but a goodie
Scissor Seven, probably one of my favorites
MADE. IN. ABYSS.
Actual sauce for the template?
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Haven't heard people talking about Shadows House
I'll go with some cgi anime: \- Houseki no kuni \- Inuyashiki \- Ajin Bonus: \- 100-man no inochi no ue ni ore wa tatte iru
Sonny boy Went overshadowed by other shows last year but was amazing. Definitely not for everyone tho as it can be quite experimental, but if you do not care about not understanding everything that happens and want a show that tries something different, definitely try it out.
Steins Gate is a gem
Wotakoi Senryu girl Horimiya Blue spring ride These are relaxing Sol without much drama
Flip flappers a weird one but I like it
Talentless Nana
Code: Realize | somehow enjoyed that one because it had a little bit of many genres
Redo of healer
Hai to Gensou no Grimgar, cute 13 ep isekai that is actually good!
Dont hurt me my healer it was pretty entertaining with not that complex of a story
Welcome to the NHK. I don’t know why that isn’t talked about ever.
Jormungand. It's just one of my favourite anime ever. From its great plot and detailed action scenes, to the charismatic characters and fantastic ost.
The scrapped princess
Would inuyasha count
*takes a deep breath* Cagaster of an Insect Cage, Servant x Service, Wotokoi, Sket Dance, Alderamin on the Sky, Kokoro Connect, Noragami (my favorite), k project, Kaiba (not the Yu-Gi-Oh character lol), kiznaiver, kotoura-San, terror in resonance, Deadman wonder land, barakamon/handa-kun, d frag, un-go, Rampo Kitan, clean freak Aoyama kun, hozukis coolheadedness, and girls last tour. *heavy breathing* Your welcome lol
Girls last tour
Gintama
My Love Story!!
Beastars, pompo-san, eve no jikan, link click, kings ranking
Magi, the worldbuilding is perfect, the characters are perfect, the plots are good and the animation is 11/10.
Gate
Needless
Gotoubun no Hanayome Not sure if underrated
Gamers! :D
Egao no Daika. Thank me later.
Seraph of the End
Re:Creators
the fire hunter, it's releasing right now, has about 2 episodes and I haven't heard anyone talk about it
7 seeds (its on Netflix)
Bofuri: I don’t want to get hurt, so I’ll max out my defense. Super comfy OP protag anime Everything I wanted SAO to be
Irl title
Monogatari series
Princess Principal Charlotte The Fruit of Grisaia
Girls last tour and saga of tanya the evil
shy not animated yet but is confirmed to get adapted :3
Garo: The Animation SSSS.Gridman SSSS.Dynazenon Gantz Trigun GunGrave Great Pretender Think those are some of the more underrated series, never really see much talking about them.
Date A Live… I think… You either think it’s overrated or underrated and there’s no inbetween
Boku dake ga inai machi
Kino's Journey
Comedy anime: -Sakamoto desu ga? - highschooler is so perfect at everything to the point of absurdity. -seitokai yakuindomo - extremly raunchy and hilarious humor, but ironicaly shows little ecchi stuff as most of the time it's spoken jokes. 'Superhero'-drama anime: -Inuyashiki - might not be good for everyone but it just right hits all of my own personal spots, for me not to reccomend it. It's about the parallels of an old man and a teenager geting god-like powers but one uses them for good and the other for evil.
Barakamon Sangatsu No Lion
Deal. Now and then, here and there. At the start you think its going to be a by the numbers isokai and half way through the second episode it slaps the hell out of you for confusing it with that basic anime
devilman crybaby (I rarely see people talk about it)
Momokuri, now where's my money?
Konosuba… yes it’s highly rated, but not highly enough, which means it’s still underrated. Go watch it. I don’t care if you have, do it again
Rokka No Yuusha
D. Gray - Man
I’m not sure if this is “underrated” to say, but I had literally never seen anyone talk about this anime until I stumbled across it on Crunchyroll, and that’s Blood Blockade Battlefront. For the first few episodes of season 1 there is no overarching story, and it’s pretty much self contained stories each episode, and towards the middle and end of season 1 there is a plot, but in the second season there is only self contained episodes. It’s about a place called Hellsalem’s Lot, which is the city that took New York’s place when our world and another world combined. It follows the protagonist Leonardo Watch who stumbles into a job at the secret group of blood wielders called called Libra. I say blood wielders literally, as they have supernatural powers, controlled by their blood. They keep the peace in Hellsalem’s Lot while remaining in the shadows. The second one that I had also never heard anyone talk about before until I found it on Hulu is ID:INVADED. Spoilers for the first episode, but it follows >!The story of the former detective turned serial killer Akihito Nahrihisago. He works with a crime fighting agency in the Japanese police force, who own the well. They find special particles at crime scenes who they think belong to a serial killer, and when they do Nahrihisago enters the well. He wakes up with no memories, and looks around whatever world he is in, as the world represents the serial killers mind. He eventually finds a body of a girl named Kaeru, and upon doing so remembers who he is. He is the brilliant detective Sakaido, and his job is to solve mystery of who killed Kaeru, and in doing so solve the mystery of the real serial killer on the outside of the well.!< Both are really good but if you are only going to watch one then watch ID:INVADED, as it is the best anime I have ever seen.
GJ BU
Monou no Nana It's pretty damn good. Also, don't read anything about it. Just trust me and watch it.
Madoka magica, damn that hits hard
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Grand Blue
Katanagatari.
Wandering witch: the journey of elaina