I have been an anime fan since I first learned how to put my older brother's and father's video cassets into our VCR, and have seen quite a few anime since. Some were great, some, awful. But there are a few fantastic shows out there that no one seems to talk about for whatever reason. Please post yours here. These are mine:

1. Serial Experiments Lain: This is a creepy philosophical thriller about a girl who discovers a new world hidden from our view. After the suicide of a classmate, the same classmate sends Lain an email. Curious, Lain does research into this new thing we call the internet, only to find horrors we though unimaginable.


2. Texhnolyze: In the underground city of Lux, an underground street fighter named Ichise is wounded, and is forced to get a kind of prosthetic limb known as a Texhnolyzed limb, a superior limb that runs on a chemical excreated from dead bodies. However, as political tensions reach their breaking point in Lux, Ichise is forced into a war he doesn't want to be a part of.



Those are my two, what are yours?

Battle Angel (Alita)

Texhnolyze Never heard of it before.

Noein, don't see many people talking about it but it was one of my favorites years ago before I stopped watching anime for a while.

Oh I love this series too.. takes me back... actually this was one of 3 manga's I encountered the first time I learned about manga the other 2 was Black Jack and Gon the little dinosaur.

I would have to say I really liked Pilot for Candidate and Princess Rouge when I was really young they both ended to quickly. Now I would have to say Natsume Yuujinchou... and many others...

Oh yeah I liked that one.

I am gonna put a vote in for Martian Successor Nadesico.
Basically a 90s mecha series that parodies mecha series.

Ones I've finished fairly recently could fit in the category of 'hidden gems'. Those being:

Mouryou no Hako
FLAG
Uta Koi

Dragon Crisis - I know it hasnt been getting great views and I wouldnt say Ive got a bad taste in anime, but for some reason I've got a soft spot for this anime that I don't really get anime more.
Probably because I saw this years ago and have seen many more series since then, but I've never been able to attain a feeling similar to the one I got after finishing this. Its hard to put it into words, but a nostalgic bliss laced with a reflective sense of desired flare is probably the closest I can get to it.
This will most likley not make sense to anyone else but this is just my opinion...

Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
Broken Blade
[C]: Control - The Money of Soul and Possibility
Idolmaster Xenoglossia
Sumomomo Momomo
Noein
Tower of Druaga
Eden's Bowy
Martian Successor Nadesico

X/1999 (series not the movie). A hidden gem from clamp

- Elf Princess Raine (one shot DVD)
- Magic User's Club OVAs (great six episodes)
- Hyper Police (old series with humans, catgirls, foxgirls, dogboys, and short fat demons)

- Puppet Princess (odd story with gratuitous violence, gore, and some nudity)
- Ruin Explorers (four episodes, good cast, tons of fun)

I think I know what you mean. This show and Chrno Crusade both give me that feeling.

School days.