| It could be culturally inaccessible, as in the anime is so culturally specific that you might need to Google the terms used. Or it could be literally inaccessible, like it was difficult finding that specific anime you wanted to watch for so long, etc. |
| https://myanimelist.net/anime/2406/Sazae-san (the most popular anime in Japan) |
No, this isn't my signature. |
| Azuki-chan I watched it as a kid on local TV channel, but I couldn't find it anymore now besides the movie. |
Probably Yadamon. The torrents for it are really dead, and the sub-work is incomplete. It was a nightmare to reassemble the torrent's contents from random clearweb matches, then validate it. |
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| That's me with "Onna no Sono no Hoshi." There's an episode of it somewhere out there, but who knows if it'll ever get uploaded online with an English translation? |
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That's me with "Onna no Sono no Hoshi." There's an episode of it somewhere out there, but who knows if it'll ever get uploaded online with an English translation?
| @bucciest Looked it up, and it seems interesting and fun enough for me to try and make AI generated subs for. Already 12% done with the torrent of the raws, which weren't too hard to find on Nyaa. (From the group IrizaRaws) |
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| Probably any form of anime thats been banned in countries or removed on hanime. |
| I've looked to make a real anime waifu, Too spin my world around like a typhoon, Why do people keep calling me a raccoon, Maybe because I keep stealing anime girls hearts like gru steals the moon. |
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That's me with "Onna no Sono no Hoshi." There's an episode of it somewhere out there, but who knows if it'll ever get uploaded online with an English translation?
@bucciest So I just finished watching it, and yeah. It was a pretty fun and laid-back workplace comedy anime. I'd probably watch more if there was a full TV anime adaptation. It was an 8.4/10 watch. |
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| Kochikame is like the Holy Grail of anime—so culturally specific to Tokyo’s wards and historical shopping streets that you practically need a PhD in local trivia just to keep up. And finding the whole series with English subs? Ha! It's like embarking on an Indiana Jones-style adventure. Thankfully, I speak multiple languages, so I ninja-ed my way through VPNs and managed to watched every episode in mostly Japanese on Fuji TV and in Spanish canal TV. But seriously, everyone needs to experience this legendary series. It’s an anime treasure chest with over 370 episodes of pure gold! My dream? A remake, of course! If my favorites 80s comedies like "Ranma," "Urusei Yatsura," "Osomatsu-san," get remakes anime series and City Hunter get fresh new movies versions, then "Kochikame" deserves its time in the spotlight again as a cultural symbol of Tokyo Never give up, never lose hope. Kochikame forever! |
| Some manga are literally impossible to buy if they were only released digitally but are no longer sold. The most culturally inaccessible I've read is Ayako. Somehow it's been licensed and it has a score above 7. https://myanimelist.net/manga/5401/Ayako |
| その目だれの目？ |
| So far it has been the 12 kingdoms, i couldnt find it anywhere, had to check multiple sites and found it only in dub, finally i ws only able to found only 1 site where i could watch it in sub, however i havent checked to see if that site still exists after the purge that happen a while back :v |
| Some pretty obscure things I've seen are: Darkness of the Sea, Shadow of the Moon Starlight Mutiny Homeroom Affairs Found most of these at a rummage sale back in the VHS days, the first one wasn't subbed so I had to guess at the plot. The second one was bad but in a hilarious way, the 3rd was a hidden gem. I can't watch any of them again because it was VHS and it did what magnetic storage devices do best, degrade into unplayability. |
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| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| I don't know what is THE most inaccessible anime I have watched so far. Anyway, Ginga Patrol PJ came to my mind first. It's difficult to find for sure. |
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| Probably for me it was Idaten Jump. I found a few dubbed and subbed episodes as well as some hindi dubs and the complete series in raw but not anything completely subbed. I know some youtube channels had some of them up at one time but they are long gone by now. |
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Probably for me it was Idaten Jump. I found a few dubbed and subbed episodes as well as some hindi dubs and the complete series in raw but not anything completely subbed. I know some youtube channels had some of them up at one time but they are long gone by now.
| @Seven That's a bummer, Idaten Jump is one of my favorite childhood animes and I plan to watch some time in the future... |
| "Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful." ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib |
| I never watch inaccessible anime. The only anime I watch are easily accessible anime. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| It's either Kamen no Maid Guy or Nihon Animator Mihonichi. |
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| I think Angel's Egg qualifies on both counts. |
| All anime is extremely easily accessible. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| I'd make the argument that some very long running anime can be pretty inaccessible simply because of... how long they are. Anime like Bleach, with 366 episodes BEFORE the current arc of the new anime began airing. It isn't inaccessible because it's hard to find or hard to watch necessarily, but the sheer length of it can turn off a lot of people who might want to try and experience it for the first time. In order to understand what's going on in the current Thousand Year Blood War story arc, you'd had to have sat through almost 400 episodes prior to this. That can easily kill a lot of people's drives to get into a series. Then there's Naruto, with 220 episodes, which sounds like a better and shorter watch experience compared to Bleach, right? Wrong. Naruto Shippuden has a flat 500 episodes, making the entire series a collective 720 episodes. That's ALMOST double the length of the original run of Bleach. And THEN you could try (but I don't recommend) watching the third part of the Naruto story - Boruto, which is 293 episodes, bringing the grand total length of Naruto's collective universe to 1,013 episodes. For comparison, right now as of writing this, One Piece is sitting at 1,122 episodes. You're dedicating very close to the same length of time it would probably take you to sit through the major bulk of One Piece. Now, speaking of One Piece... this is definitely one of the biggest labors of love as far as most anime goes; however I think with the somewhat recently announced series remake and also the live action Netflix series (say what you will about it, I enjoyed it), One Piece has somehow made itself to be MORE accessible than it's peers in the Big 3. To end this whole "inaccessible" rant of mine, I'd like to acknowledge that YES I know filler guides exist for these very long running series, and YES I think everyone should use them because the filler in Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece absolutely suck (with the pure exception for the G-8 filler arc in One Piece, which is absolute cinema). I would also like to make the argument, however, that the current sphere of anime watchers are a bit spoiled by not having to deal with any filler. I think another aspect of this inaccessibility is the fact that you have to KNOW about the filler in the first place, and how could you know unless you've already been reading the manga (unlikely) or if someone hasn't told you beforehand? And if you're getting into one of these series, with absolutely no prior knowledge to them, I cannot imagine how daunting it must be to look at the list of these episodes and think about the sheer time sink of it all. So, I think inaccessibility can be more commonly measured by how hard something is to find (legally or illegally) or even by having a specific cultural aspect to it that doesn't translate well to overseas viewers, but I also think that we should take off our blinders to some of the more popular (or formerly popular) anime that came out in the early 2000s. These aren't accessible series that you can just get into anymore. Especially not when the vast majority of new anime watchers have probably not watched a single series that's longer than 24 episodes, and then had to wait a year or two for another 24 episodes, and still never had to deal with any of the filler. That's a much more ideal route to take than it is to slog through hundreds of episodes of something you might not know anything about outside of the current hype. |
✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 素敵な 朝をもう一度 君と過ごせたら 小さなそんな希望さえ 想うだけの奇跡 ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ |
| I started Inazuma Eleven a lot time ago but now it's extremely hard to find now so I can properly finish it. |
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| All anime is easily accessible...with the right search terms. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| was kind of hard to find all uncut violence jack, well more like it was hard to pinpoint was was cut from each release and what was intended. Fortunately I experienced it in its full uncut glory and what a sight it was |
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| Unofficially, its almost impossible to not find an anime you wanna watch. Officially....well, even some of the most popular stuff is hard to find cause legal rights for streaming distribution change and the anime are no longer legally able to be viewed, unless you bought some of the ultra expensive VHS/DVDs/Blue Rays when they popped out. |
 "Don't let your memes be dreams."- Ancient Japanese proverb, probably |
| Maybe this one: https://myanimelist.net/anime/514/Cossette_no_Shouzou extreme artsy fartsy nonsense |
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| Sailor Moon special episodes/recaps, Kakyuusei, and Major (can't watch these without pirating them). |
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| definitely uta koi... 1) not well known 2) unavailable on almost all platforms, including extensive pirating sites. took me forever to find access to it. |
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| Some minna no Uta music videos can only be seen by watching a video of someone recording their TV. For tv shows I had a lot of trouble finding Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai and Minami no Niji no Lucy and could only find them in Spanish dub. |
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