Top 5 Underrated Anime

Wow, and I mean wow, this list was difficult because these are 5 of my favorite anime underrated or not.

5. Higurashi

Ok this isn't as underrated as everything else on this list because so many people know of it as "that anime with the creepy torture scenes" but believe me that's not all Higurashi is about, if it was then I might as just rewatch the last episode of School Days instead, at least I can find that Legally on Crunchy Roll... anyway, Higurashi starts out with a scene of the main character beating someone to death with a baseball bat, then transitions over to his happy school life =), now just like so many other anime Higurashi likes to show you small bits of stuff happening later on and sometimes doesn't even explain that stuff til you forget all about it 4 arcs later, oh and did I mention *slight spoiler* that the main character DIES in episode 4, only to come back in episode 5 as if nothing happens because different arcs are different scenario's basically, you get used to it after a while but the first time it's just really confusing. All in all if you like slow painful gory torture mixed with happy fun school anime goodness, then try to check out Higurashi, especially since a new series box set comes out next week.

4. .Hack (all series)

Well, I guarantee that most of the people who know what .hack is probably know it because of the games (which by the way are awesome) but there were anime series too, like sign, roots, legend of the twilight, and not to mention some of the manga series like, XXXX (aka X-fourth), G.U. +, and the extra stuff like .hack 4koma and .hack gift. So basically despite how unpopular the series is in america I'm pretty sure it's huge in Japan. Well there is alot to talk about as you could read so much that I could spend hours talking about each series, but sadly I have other things on the list and must end this one with a simple recomendation that you at least check out one series.

3. Desert Punk

Well a friend of mine has Netflix and watched this series from there (yes Netflix users you can check this anime out without having to buy anything) and so because he recommended it I bought the series box set and wow, it was great, it was really funny as a comedy, it always had you wonder what ingenious trick Desert Punk has up his sleeve, but surprisingly it was very good at being serious, the last episode felt entertaining even though there was nothing funny in the entire episode, which is hard to pull of in a comedy anime because usually in a comedy anime, you hate it when it gets serious (like that crappy anime adaptation of Rosario Vampire) but Desert Punk seems to pull it off just fine.

2. Gankutsuou

Ok I'm gonna be honest, I haven't finished this anime yet, but from what I have seen it's kind of like Code Geass and Blood+, there's always a twist at the end of each episode, this is one of the anime Funimation got the rights to from Gonzo, which means that a new box set came out, making this one easier to find, it is also on Netflix like Desert Punk. Now this one is so underrated that I bet most of the people who watch it today only know of it because of TeamDN's (formerly TeamDattebayo) Death Note the Abridged series, infact, that's how I found out about this series. Believe me this is a good anime with alot of funny moments.

1. Gantz

Ok I DO NOT recommend this one for kids, Higurashi's brutal gory violence may scar you but trust me all of the bad words, violence, and sex in this series make it so explicit that the manga volumes have to be covered in plastic. Just like me alot of people found out about Gantz from the hit internet series Gantz Abridged by hbi2k. Even though there are alot of things in the anime that really didn't need to be there (like that old lady from episode 1 coming back over and over and over again) and the anime only made to mission 3 (not including the filler mission) whereas the anime had at least 10 missions, the anime is also very slow paced, something that could have happened in 1 episode usually takes about 4 (not an overegzageration) however if you have the whole series (either the box set or the "perfect score collection" that comes in a little gantz ball) then it's not that big of a problem. So to sum it up I REALLY recomend Gantz and the good thing for americans is that it's not too hard to find the DVDs and the manga is apperantly going strong over here, so if you can I really recomend the manga more than the anime because it goes on for alot longer and isn't even over in japan yet (final chapters begin this October).

So that was my list of good underrated anime, try to check all of these out if you can and remember to support the official release by buying the dvds or manga, and remember I update every other day so check real soon for more.