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* If you liked ''[[Sakigake Cromartie Koukou]]'', you might like ''[[Double J]]'', too!
* ''Yellow Dragon ga Arawareta!'': A [[Mad Scientist]] tries to summon the dreaded Yellow Dragon. He was expecting a huge, fearsome beast, but gets a [[Little Miss Snarker]] instead. She's still the real thing, though! [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* From the author of ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]'' and ''[[Gundam Sousei]]'', ''Kidou Senshi Gundam-san'' is an ''absolutely hilarious'' take on the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Universal Century]]. It features, for example, Char as a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], Lalah as a [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|Tsukkomi to Char's Boke]], Amuro as a [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]], Sayla as a sadistic [[Doctor Jerk]] and [[Team Pet|Haro]] as actually being operated by some guy ''from the inside''. It also features the inspiring tale of [[
* [[Happy]], a tennis/poverty manga by [[Naoki Urasawa]] with amazingly well-rounded characters.
* ''[[Ciel: The Last Autumn Story]]'' is a Korean manhwa that takes place in a fantasy version of 18th/19th century Europe. The main character is a 15-year old girl named Yvienne Magnolia who is accepted into a government run school for witches and sorcerers. Though I say 'main character', she shares her screentime pretty equally with three others she befriends- [[The Ojou|Lariatte Kingdiamond]], [[The Wise Prince|January Lightsphere]], and [[Badass Long Hair|Daughter]]. It's a clever, engaging series that enjoys poking fun at and deconstructing the various cliches involved with the romance genre, and the growing relationships between the four main characters are entertaining and heartwarming. And if it sounds a little too light-hearted for you, it's quickly made clear that there are a lot of much darker elements brimming just under the surface, and eventually our heroes will have to deal with them.
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** Don't forget the great acting, respectful portrayal of a dwarfism sufferer, and the fetus-in-a-glass-jar.
* ''[[Miami Medical]]'', a realistic, medically accurate drama with good characters played by good actors. It managed to avoid most inter-doctor romances, the need for happy endings and only left the hospital setting for brief hops, yet still developed the characters without hitting you in the face with tragic backstory. Yet it got crammed into a crappy timeslot, had little to no advertising and was cancelled before its original 13 episodes had finished airing. And no one watched it.
* ''[[Blake's
** Let's elaborate a bit. It's a complex and detailed crapsack world with a realistic plot, where the good guys aren't nice and the nice guys often aren't good, and it's frequently hard to tell what's good anyway. Character interaction is everything, and the dialogue is a joy. It's dark and depressing and cynical, but its characters often come across as more sincere than the protagonists of the many "perfect future" shows around at the time. Despite a budget that would shame a student film, with poor SFX and lots of quarries, it earned itself a small, solid fanbase which is still going today, thirty years after it ended. At the time it was innovative, but while many people have heard of the shows it influenced -- like ''[[Firefly]]'', ''[[Farscape]]'' and ''[[Babylon 5]]'' -- ''Blake's 7'' remains obscure.
* To see it discussed by fans of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]], [[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' redefines [[So Bad It's Horrible]] and did nothing right, ever. But actually, it had a lot of interesting stories, inventive solutions to the problem of the week, and later on, hard, decisions having to be made in the moment. And the ratings were quite high ''throughout'' the first season, not just when it was shiny and new -- it didn't fall off until it ''started'' having TNG-like stories in the early second season. (If you watched it in the first season and jumped ship around "A Night In Sickbay," skip to "Canamar" or thereabouts. It gets back on track.) It's a good show, just... not for the people whose idea of adventure is Picard discussing Shakespeare or the intricacies of Klingon politics.
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* ''[[Gearheads]]'': A very obscure [[Lighter and Softer]] version of [[Archon]]. Two players with a collection of wind-up toys [[Better Than It Sounds|must send as many of those toys to the other side of the screen as possible.]] Each toy works differently: one serves as a tank to block other toys, a toy chicken hatches windup chicks, and yet another "scares" toys, flipping them around and basically converting them over to your side. There's 12 toys, but players can only use 3 types per game. Making things more challenging is that toys that are too slow eventually slow down and stop moving. This game is so obscure that the only the Mac version can be found online. You can download it [http://macintoshgarden.org/games/gearheads here.]
* The [[PlayStation 2]] [[Bullet Hell|game]] ''[[Fallen Angel|Homura]]'' is this in spades. And that despite having some [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|unique]] [[Spin to Deflect Stuff|gameplay]] [[Catch and Return|features]] and an awesome soundtrack and it does'nt even have a Wiki or TV-tropes page.
* The ''[[
** He's appearing in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' (and he's named Firebrand), and also the first game of the series is now a downloadable title for the [[Nintendo 3DS]], so maybe that will spark some interest in the series.
* You think it was ''[[Heroes Of Annihilated Empires]]'' (from the creators of ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'', by the way) who started the RTS+RPG trend? Yes?! Then you fail. ''Hanjuku Hero'' a.k.a. ''Hanjuku Eiyuu'' for the NES is an extremly rare [[Ur Example]] of a top-down real time strategy game which also successfully combines [[Role Playing Game]] elements {{spoiler|(if early ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' graphics may count as an RPG element as well, heeh)}}, [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|castle capturing elements]] and [[Rule of Funny]] in one blender. [[No Export for You|Sadly, nobody outside Japan even knows it.]]
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* ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'' is a surreal, hilarious show starring one of the world's most famous cartoon characters... and hardly anyone has heard of it.
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' was a surprisingly funny and awesome show that deserves more. [[Cartoon Network]] got rid of all the online episodes and stopped showing reruns the day after the finale aired. It has a pretty small fanbase, too. It's also worth pointing out that without this show, the likes of ''[[Adventure Time]]'' and ''[[Regular Show]]'' would have never got picked up.
* ''[[Chalk Zone]]'' has an extremely small cult following for its quirks, hilarity, music, and being the first of two shows about a kid being in a world of other kids' imaginary creations ([[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|the other came quite a bit later]]). It was eclipsed [[Rugrats|by]] [[SpongeBob SquarePants|pretty]] [[Fairly Oddparents|much]] [[
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is a recent Canadian animated series that's audience was severely limited by its distribution by Disney in the US and UK, [[Screwed by the Network|rarely promoting it and airing it at rather off hours]], likely due to even its mere existence and premise is [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] (though [[Values Dissonance]] between America and Canada is really to blame for that). Which is a shame, because it's an excellent, hilarious show with great characters, [[Ear Worm|extremely catchy music]] and some actually very nice [[Adobe Flash|Flash animation]].
* ''[[Spliced]]''. You can't even see it in the US unless you use [[YouTube]] or are one of the lucky few to get [[Qubo]]. And the network that airs it in its native Canada doesn't seem too fond of it either. It's funny, takes inspiration from [[The Island of Dr. Moreau]] for its interesting character designs (read: [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] you never would've thought of mixing in a million years) and it feels like something that would've aired on Nickelodeon in the mid-90s. Oh, and Peri is cute.
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