Apollo of the Slope

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Anime based on a manga that will be broadcast in spring 2012.
Set in Sasebo, Nagasaki in the 1960s, it is a story of high school boys and girls who are united by jazz music and enjoy their youth.

Although it is based on a girl’s manga, it is a masterpiece that is supported by men as well, with a style that gives off a hint of earthiness.
As far as the anime is concerned, it may have more fans among men.

Twilight Maiden x Amnesia

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It is an anime based on a manga that will be aired in the spring of 2012, and it is a work that has horror and school romantic comedy together.
It is a story about the main character, Niya Teiichi, and a beautiful girl, Kanoe Yuko, who is a ghost, establishes a mysterious investigation club and solves the strange phenomena in the school.

Horror and romantic comedy are both popular genres, but they don’t coexist very well together, so I got the impression that both horror and romantic comedy lovers were put off by this story.
However, those who are into it are quite into it, and it’s a highly regarded work.

UN-GO

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It is an original anime produced by BONES and aired in the fall of 2011 on the Noitamina slot that has produced many masterpieces and stray works.
It is a story based on “Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonocho” by Mr. Ango Sakaguchi and arranged in a modern way.
With its unique atmosphere and stylish style, it has gained a core fan base and is still very popular.

Croise in the Exotic Maze The Animation

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An anime based on a manga that aired in the summer of 2011.
Set in the latter half of the 19th century, it is an exotic exchange story about a young girl, Yune, who travels to Paris from Nagasaki to work at the Roar’s Signboard Shop, an ironwork shop.
Yune’s directness struck a chord with anime fans and earned her high praise.

Unfortunately, it was never completed because the original creator, Hinata Takeda, has passed away, but it is believed that there are many fans who still love this work today.

Goddolls

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This is a film adaptation of a popular manga by Hajime Yamamura sensei, which was broadcast in the summer of 2011.
This is a story of a young man Kuga Kyohei, who is a user of ‘Jun’, and his sister Utao, who is involved in various hatreds and speculations over a remote-controlled karakuri doll ‘Scarecrow’ which is called as ‘God’s Shell’ and is capable of fighting.
Many viewers became melodramatic with Shio’s cuteness, and although it was not a major show, it gained a certain level of popularity.

fairy tale tale

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It is an anime based on a manga that was broadcast in the fall of 2010.
It is set in Japan where humans and yokai (half-demon) cooperate with each other to solve cases and fall in love.
The director Chiaki Kon, who has worked on everything from the “Higurashi no Nakukoroni” series to BL works, and Marie, Okada Mari, who is the most famous anime scriptwriter, are working together to make this work even more powerful than the original.

Sarasaiya Goyo

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An anime adaptation of one of the best known works by Ono Natsume, known for “Ristorante Paradiso” and “ACCA District 13 Inspection Division”.
It was broadcasted in the spring of 2010.
It is a period drama with a stylish and aesthetic view of the world.

Hanamaru Kindergarten

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Aired in the winter of 2010, it is an anime based on a manga about the daily life of three unique kindergarten children and their teacher.
The deformed depiction of the kindergarten children with their mascot-like cuteness gives them a sense of comfort.

One of the children, Koume, who is not very good at sports, trains hard for the kakkekko competition, but in spite of that, he falters on the race day.
There are some heartening moments from an educational perspective as well, and this is one of the attractions of the film.

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION

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As a new series of Grisaia, the game version was released in 2017, and the anime adaptation development began in 2019.
However, it was not initially broadcast on terrestrial television, with an announcement of one or two episodes in theaters and online distribution, followed by a terrestrial broadcast.
Crowdfunding has raised over 16 million yen in support.

Since it is an OVA development, it tends to be less well known, but the quality is not at all comparable to the previous series.
The crowdfunding for the third episode has raised an even higher amount of 23 million yen, which shows the high level of centripetal force of the series.

planetarian

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This one is also based on a game, and is an adaptation of Key’s kinetic novel “Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume”.
Set in the devastated near future, this is a science fiction fantasy in which a young man who makes his living as a scrap dealer meets a girl robot who has been left behind and spends some time with her.
Rather than broadcast on terrestrial television, it was distributed and developed into an anime in the film Planetarian: The People of the Stars.

Anime adaptations of Key’s works have always been spectacular, but this one was a film adaptation project that was hard to reach for late-night anime viewers, so it has a much lower profile.
However, the content is not inferior to the original, and when a crowd-funding campaign was launched to raise 78 million yen for the 15th anniversary OVA project, it showed the popularity of the series.

summary

Famous and popular works are talked about by a lot of people, and even minor works have a lot of opportunities to be talked about in depth with other people who like them, so they can be surprisingly well known, but there are some minor anime that are buried under the ground because they don’t get a chance to be mentioned after the show.
There’s a lot of good anime in those works, so try to discover them!