/cel/ - Retro Anime & Manga

>>2586

> comes to imageboard
> starts complex thread
> doesnt even post image

Come on now.

>>2587
Is the short film The Death Lullaby obscure? I don't know much about anime but saw that one years ago. I admire how miserable and depressing it is.

>>2586
Some Soviet-Armenian animation about Cold War politics called "Все хорошо!".

>>2589
Wait, can we post Soviet animation in here? I'm like 60% sure the animators that worked on this ended up working on the Zelda CD-i games.

There are no obscure anime tho

If we're talking Soviet animation, is this one well known in that part of the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jgrUVNhWY
I came across it years ago and ended up saving it so I could come back and watch it again without trying to remember the name.

Chouetsu Sekai is a 10 episode OVA made by the Aum cult that carried out the Tokyo sarin attack. They had a manga and anime studio, probably for recruitment. I've been trying to find out what else they produced but I can't find much info in English. It looks pretty terrible but you do get an insight into how these people saw themselves, or at least what they wanted the world to know about them. Pretty shocking that the same guys who could make an anime this bad were homebrewing WMDs.

Outside of Japan, a post on an Al-Qaeda forum claimed they had an anime series in the works and shared a couple stills. I haven't seen anything since. There are rumors the guys making it were assassinated but I can't confirm.

>>2601
Same anon as 2592, I completely forgot about this post. It's definitely in the obscurer category of Soviet animation, especially since it came out really late when the state collapsed and it wasn't aired often.

>>2617
Interesting. Thanks for the information.

Using lesser popularity as a criterion for obscurity, according to myanimelist it's Pochi Hana, a short animation that was the animator's graduation project as a student. According to letterboxd, for all animation it's the Korean Olympus Guardian, for Japanese it's the short Right Places (though it's directed by a Polish artist), and fully Japanese the Violinist of Hamelin movie, which feels a little weird since the manga is a long-lasting classic. It's common for letterboxd users to bingewatch shorts, so a lot of them end getting further up the popularity list. I think MAL more reasonably reflects an anime's obscurity.

>>2625
What about only in the context of image board discussions? Would you say that the things which are obscure in a general sense remain so when only considering that forum of discourse? I wonder how it would affect things.

>>2627
I think the larger the imageboard the more it will have in common with the general perception of obscurity. Otherwise it may differ from community to community. Even outside of imageboards, that's the case for experimental shorts having a higher degree of popularity in letterboxd. I don't keep lists on imdb, but their indication of popularity would probably be even closer to an universal one.

>>2586
I don't really know if it is obscure but Nekohiki no Oruorane Is a nice ova about an old man using cats as instruments

>>2586
Maybe Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru, a 1968 film that has no home video release and gets sporadic screenings in Japan. There are some lost 60s TV anime as well covered here.

https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/lost-tv-anime/

>>2586

Never seen anybody mention Madura before.

Excluding crowdfunded independent animation that haven't been sold outside of limited releases in Japan, I guess some 40s-era shorts by Masaoka and Ofuji that never got digital transfers and only have low-res thumbnails on the Internet, not particularly obscure in terms of not being catalogued but I don't know anyone who's seen them.

>>2681

Do you have any examples of the crowdfunded stuff? That sounds really interesting.

>>2641
Thank you for the discovery, anon, I genuinely needed to see this.