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What have your favorite underrated anime of the 2020's been so far? (collider.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like the article is extremely subjective, so I figured it'd be more fun to post your own top 10 good/bads.

I'll start with mine.

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
Dark Gathering
Ya Boy Kongming!
Great Pretender
Summertime Rendering
Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost
Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
Uncle from Another World
Digimon Adventures (2020)
Muteking the Dancing Hero

I tried thinking of anime that I'd suggest to friends who are already fairly active watchers, but for some reason or another had them slip through the cracks.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Supercub
Cestvs
Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated
Aharen Is Indecipherable
The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting
Do It Yourself
Tomo-chan Is a Girl
Trigun Stampede
Insomniacs After School (read it but havent watched the anime)
Love/Hate: Farming Life in Another World
I'll agree with OP on Summertime Render and Days at the Breakwater as well!

If we're counting continued in the 20s:

Golden Kamuy
Ancient Magus Bride . .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

+1 for Supercub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried to split my list genres so there'd be a bit of everything, but I definitely agree with most of yours. My only gripe is trigun.

I understand how they took the source material and completely warped it to attempt to fit a new story and give it a whole new life of its own, and minute to minute the show is fine, it's when you look at the whole story being told at once that things start falling apart and giant plot holes start showing up. Particularly in the first half of the season. The makers wanted a spectacle more than anything else and they delivered on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't read the manga, which my understanding is what the reboot was following. I watched it now out of curiosity, due to the original anime being one of my main gateways to anime as a whole.

If I hadn't seen the original multiple times, I probably would have been lost at multiple points in the reboot. Characters seemed to pop up out of nowhere for unknown reasons.

My girlfriend had never seen the original, and she originally wasn't paying attention as I watched this on my own, but after a few episodes she got pulled into it as well, so it seemed to make enough sense to someone unfamiliar that they'd at least be curious.

I enjoyed it mainly because it got me to think so many new things about one of my early favorite anime universes. It filled in a few gaps I had, such as I liked how we got to spend more time with Project Seeds and learned more about the Plants species and Knives' overall goals.

It made my list because it exceeded my expectations as I was not looking forward to CGI animation and I was concerned about them "ruining" the story I had in my head, but the animation was beautiful, VA was great, and I think about the universe of the story more than I have in years.

It's totally subjective what anyone else will take away, but everything else on the list I went into blind, with no expectations. Trigun I came into very biased due to my love for the original, and expected eww to meh, but as a whole, it gave me a great time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It definitely set out and met what it was attempting to do. I can't fault it for that. Watching it one episode spaced a week apart it is a glorious reboot. They definitely did more work on the world building aspects. It feels much more like a place that is alive more than the original which was more or less just barren wastes unless plot device.