Nominations for the most bizarre anime

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:14 pm

It strikes me that there's a lot of really, really weird anime out there. Some of it I've found I like, some of it not. Ah me, the days when I thought Excel Saga was as weird as it got. That was before I saw FLCL or Jungle Guu, though.

Nevertheless, if I had to nominate one anime for being the strangest, I think I would hands down have to give it to Cat Soup. Man, that was creepy.

Anyone going to try to top it?

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:51 pm

I dunno... weirdest thing I've seen is Akira... ^_^'
that looks like it tops it, though.

Weirdest thing in Akira is what, people melting?

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:53 pm

Maaaan, I want my own giant milk-bleeding teddy bear. I wonder where you can get them...

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:20 pm

Weirdest thing I ever saw was Perfect Blue, and that's not weird at all, by anime standards.

Meh.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:48 pm

Off the top of my head, I'm gonna have to say "Digital Juice" (a collection of Studio 4C shorts). Maaan, some of that stuff was really freaking weird. There was one short - "In the Evening of a Moonlit Night" - that started out fairly normal, but then there was the girl chained to the chair with the guy licking her feet...

Actually, just about everything by that studio is strange - though I liked "Comedy"...

Wp · Post by Wp » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:09 pm

ManyWorlds wrote:I dunno... weirdest thing I've seen is Akira... ^_^'
that looks like it tops it, though.

Weirdest thing in Akira is what, people melting?

Yeah, Akira is less weird and more stupid than anything else. The anime, I mean. I hear the manga is a masterpiece.

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:49 pm

*has both the movie and volume one of the Akira manga*

The movie would've been better if they'd broken it up into a couple movies. Gotten more of the exposition and background from the manga in.

And the NeoTokyo Empire!

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:13 am

I've ... uh, never read or seen Akira. Guess I'm missing out... ;>>

Wp · Post by Wp » Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:49 pm

I personally would not suggest watching Akira the anime. I think it sucks. Besides, if you're not into bleak sci-fi settings, I doubt you'd like it anyway.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:55 am

Nothing compares to Bobobo bobo bobobobo (I might have added an extra bo i'm not sure) now that is insane. A black man with a golden afro who battles the evil hair cutting gang with his nostril hairs...

Next up is Club to death angel Dokuro Chan! The most bizzare thing I have ever watched. From it I learned that if you remove an angel's halo they end up having explosive diarrhea.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:01 pm

Legend of Black Heaven

Middle aged salary man defeats intergalactic alien space armada with the power of hard rock music.

It's also got a closing sequence with three naked girls in bed together and lyrics that inculde the phrases On my Knees, Ptooey Salty!, Love is an Insect, I Throw Out my Legs, Ugh So Tight!, Submerged like a Sea Slug and Where is the Pepsi Cola?

I need to finish watching this...

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:07 pm

K-Dawg wrote:Nothing compares to Bobobo bobo bobobobo (I might have added an extra bo i'm not sure) now that is insane. A black man with a golden afro who battles the evil hair cutting gang with his nostril hairs...

Haven't seen the anime (thank God) but I saw the manga preview in Shonen Jump.
That was enough.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:10 am

Pillywiggin wrote:Legend of Black Heaven

Middle aged salary man defeats intergalactic alien space armada with the power of hard rock music.

Ooo. SOunds a bit like Shinesman...which was a great anime, btw.

Let's see, what is Cat Soup about? It's about a little kitten who tries to find his catatonic (heh) sister's soul. Or, the half that got torn off when he played tug of war with death. It involves a circus where the acrobats get chopped up into pieces (with blood spraying the audience....happily?), an elephant made of water traversing the desert, flowers made of steel blades, and, oh yes, God eating the Earth.

Jungle Guu (not it's full title) is about a boy on an idyllic tropical island and his adventures with a girl who eats everything. And I mean everything. She ate his entire class once. She's got a whole world inside of her. In one of the earlier episodes, the kid looked into her eyes and saw people waving back at him.

Both of them are done in a cute chibi style, although Cat Soup is in duller tones.....and is much more creepy.

Ladyshiva · Post by **Ladyshiva** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:37 pm

Lets see...I watched this really odd anime a few years back called "I want to be an angel" (or something like that) about a boy who stumbles upon this mysterious halo'd girl in the woods and accidently kisses her(I think he falls on her) and is then told he has to marry her. Its a very silly anime that makes very little sense.

Wp · Post by Wp » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:21 pm

Sounds like half of all romantic comedy anime ever created. I mean, honestly, how many times have we seen a blundering protagonist fall on a girl "by accident?" I think that they've all found the secret to capturing a Japanese girl's heart and are just pretending not to know.

Amazon King · Post by **Amazon King** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:59 am

Pillywiggin wrote:Legend of Black Heaven

Middle aged salary man defeats intergalactic alien space armada with the power of hard rock music.

Legend of Black Heaven rocks! ...no pun intended.

I have to go with Bobo-bo-bo skippitidy-beebop-a-rop-pop or whatever the hell it's supposed to be. Fighting enemies with your nose hairs as defense against an empire that wants everyone bald... I read the two comics in Shonen Jump. It makes less sense than Digicharat and Excel Saga put together, and that's saying something.

DancingChaos · Post by **DancingChaos** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:37 pm

Amazon King wrote:
Pillywiggin wrote:Legend of Black Heaven

Middle aged salary man defeats intergalactic alien space armada with the power of hard rock music.
Legend of Black Heaven rocks! ...no pun intended.

I have to go with Bobo-bo-bo skippitidy-beebop-a-rop-pop or whatever the hell it's supposed to be. Fighting enemies with your nose hairs as defense against an empire that wants everyone bald... I read the two comics in Shonen Jump. It makes less sense than Digicharat and Excel Saga put together, and that's saying something.

BoBoBo Bo Bo BoBo has probably scarred me for life. Donpatch cannot choose a gender/species.

Yeah... Anime can be pretty bizzare at times. Oh well. *shrugs* I guess that's why we like it.

Skylark King · Post by **Skylark King** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:43 pm

What? no mention of Sexy Commando Masaru? THat's really messed up

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:33 pm

Skylark_King wrote:What? no mention of Sexy Commando Masaru? THat's really messed up

Are you talking about this...?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... do&pl=true

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:52 pm

I'm afraid the only anime I know is the stuff on cartoon network/ adult swim.

from that, I'd have to nominate aforementioned animes FLCL and Bobo-bobobobo as well as Paranoia Agent and Super Milkchan.