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MBS's late night anime programming block which currently airs on Saturdays from 1:55-2:55.

These anime have bizarrely unique, wildly niche, or oddly specific concepts. From sentient clothes, to vampires in space, to undead idols, some of these anime may leave you wondering, "who even came up with this idea?..."

For the inner masochist in you! The 40 lowest rated, completed, full-length anime on MAL of at least 10+ episodes, updated at the end of every season. Minarai Dive is considered a + because of it's borderline anime status and odd length episodes, and Dimension high School is a + for being partially not anime.

Do you create art, literature, music, food, or physical goods? You will probably relate to the people in these shows!

Everything in this stack has a plot or themes about creators and their relationships to the things they create. The creators don't always have to be the main character, but in most cases, they will be.

Not all entries from each franchise will be included, to give me more space to add different shows. The theme doesn't necessarily need to be about art, but that was where this interest stack was originally meant to go. (Some of these shows will be "sports" anime with the sports in question being particularly artsy.)

If you have any shows you think would fit in here that I didn't include, it's either because I haven't watched it yet or because I ran out of space in the stack. Drop by my profile and leave a comment, and I will be updating this stack as I watch more shows, and maybe a sequel stack will be somewhere down the road.

Anime containing either magical Girls, Singing, Idols, Yuri, Sc-fi, musical, Tokusatsu or Mecha elements.

-and may also share similar characters, designs, VA's and story beats.

This stack is for anime with a strong urban culture, usually expressed in copious urban jungle or "big anthill" aesthetics, contemporary youth art genres such as street graffiti or alternative music (street hip-hop, alternative rock or electronic dance music), various today subcultures, modern street fashion in clothes, accessories and hairstyleg of the characters and the stereotypical urban themes such as street gangs, young artists, and life of modern youth in large cities in general.

Given the rapid development of such trends, I tried to select mostly new or relatively new shows, but you can also find anime from the 00s here due to the extreme popularity of such topics in shows of that time. Also, I tried not to include a cyberpunk show, since this is still a rather specific separate genre, which is easier to single out into some separate stack. Although it has large doses of grim urban culture, yes.

P.S. I don't watch shows like this that often, so don't be afraid to tell me which shows I can add or remove from this stack. Of course, regardless of genre or target audience.

This stack is for forgotten or obscure original anime that somehow fit the following criteria:

* Lack of contemporary interest, even if the show had some hype during its time on air.
* As far as possible, a completely finished story within one or two seasons.
* Relatively recent shows are allowed if their talk has already died after a few seasons.
* Have at least some value or interest, and not just be forgotten anime without a source.

The purpose of this stack is to introduce people to perhaps little-known, but interesting for at least one viewing of the original anime. Especially if I personally, the author of the stack, consider them interesting at least at the premise level or some moments. Therefore, I also tried to leave comments next to each anime, expressing my thoughts about the possible pros, cons, and reasons for the loss of attention to the show.