Yousei Hime Ren

Welcome to my Obscurity series, which I hope will help you delve deeper into the depths of anime, particularly the classics.

The criteria here is simple: Anime released in 2001 or earlier, with under 35,000 MAL Members, and which I've rated a 7 or higher.

I'm also not including anything that I've already included on my Good Stuff list: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9517

It is perhaps worth noting that I rate things entirely on gut feeling. It's just, "I like that, that was good, it gets a 7.", that's the whole process. I can also find enjoyment in just about anything and there's very little that bothers me.

Ascend: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9834
Descend: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9615

Tags: Old, Obscure, Oldtaku, Retro, Underrated, Hidden Gems

Artists who have numerous roles in visual novels. (wip; suggestions & corrections are always welcome~)


Loose criteria (so the list doesn't cap out too fast):
* First vocal appearances unless specified (as far as is documented online)
* Likely female artists only (my otome knowledge is limited to maybe FukuJun & KENN lol)
* Likely excluding VAs more active/popular in anime (e.g. Yui Horie, Nagi Yanagi)
* 5+ VN roles unless their only anime roles are VN adapts
* No hanime since it'll hide the stack :')
* No artists already in my utaite/dojin stacks (since it'll be the same entry)
I'll try to drop a mention to artists who don't make it to the list either here or in the entry of another artist.

Entries adapted as hanime:
Choukou Tenshi Escalayer --> Over Beat: Ashita e no Escalation - E-mi (Same as VN OP) https://youtu.be/s3PzpPlfbK8
Izumo (2003) --> Promised Land - Candy (Same as VN OP) https://youtu.be/5jcFYafeh8E

Plan to add: Amaoto Junka, AiRI, Chata, Ceui, Coorie, Haruko Momoi, Kanako Itou, Miyuki Hashimoto, Rena Ueharu, Suara, that va with like 50 aliases who I don’t remember the name of, other I've Sound singers, everyone else in the dog anime OP
Borderline as popular/active in anime: Annabel, Faylan, Hitomi Harada, Sasaki Sayaka
Utaites: Amatsuki, Hanatan, yuiko
In other stack: Mitsuki Nakae
Composer/no vocal roles: Angel Note (Da Capo, Girls Bravo, Tenshi no 3P), Barbarian On The Groove (comp./arr. for IKU Index II IN)

*EN*

All the anime that our dear Sahgo has listed in the series of videos he has made. As I myself am on a similar project of watching old anime, I decided to put together this list to help me organize myself.

Below is the playlist where he comments a little about each anime listed. Watch it!

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*PT-BR*

Todos os animes que o nosso querido Sahgo listou na série de vídeos que ele tem feito. Como eu mesmo estou em um projeto parecido de ficar vendo anime velho resolvi montar essa lista pra me ajudar a me organizar.

Aqui embaixo vai a playlist que ele comenta um pouco sobre cada anime listado. Assistam!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJ3-5JnRkgnbyl3FxczBP-QmCoP2GqGP

Short form anime series on this site can often be underappreciated. In the same way poetry is radically different from fiction novels, which are radically different from screenplays and so forth, I view shorter series, typically OVAs, in the same way. Too frequently they're compared to TV series, and there will be many comparative allusions roughly paraphrasing, "You can't expect much from the story/characters because of how short it is", or other similar comments. The value of the efficacy of the presentation in both shorter and longer series are for the most part incomparable to each other. They both strive to do very different things through very different means despite the shared medium of "anime". Of course, what constitutes the differences or goals of a creator is quite vast, but the point is that from my personal view, because the context of the existence of shows that would either be shorter in length or longer are so different and require much different means for communicating the information that they present, I think they should be judged by different standards. How a person judges them is up to themselves, but I do believe short series are worthy of the praise that many would only attribute to more lengthy series. What I want to do is give reverence for the fun-sized length series I have come across and enjoyed to some degree.

What constitutes a “short” series is something shorter in length than a standard minimum length TV series, which is 12 episodes in length. The focus is not on the number of episodes, but rather judging roughly the amount of time. So, if there is a series with 24 episodes, but they are only 3 minutes in length, for example, that would constitute a short series.