I feel like the article is extremely subjective, so I figured it’d be more fun to post your own top 10 good/bads.
I’ll start with mine.
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Dark Gathering
- Ya Boy Kongming!
- Great Pretender
- Summertime Rendering
- Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost
- Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
- Uncle from Another World
- Digimon Adventures (2020)
- Muteking the Dancing Hero
I tried thinking of anime that I’d suggest to friends who are already fairly active watchers, but for some reason or another had them slip through the cracks.
- Supercub
- Cestvs
- Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated
- Aharen Is Indecipherable
- The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
- Do It Yourself
- Tomo-chan Is a Girl
- Trigun Stampede
- Insomniacs After School (read it but havent watched the anime)
- Love/Hate: Farming Life in Another World
I’ll agree with OP on Summertime Render and Days at the Breakwater as well!
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If we’re counting continued in the 20s:
- Golden Kamuy
- Ancient Magus Bride . .
+1 for Supercub
Ikuta no kita - underratted because it’s avan-garde and my experience watching it was great. 6.39 vs my 9/10
As I have watched a bit more avan-gerde films like “mad god” and “Tetsuo: the iron man” I would not grade it the same.
So far it’s been the following:
- Bang Brave Bang Bravern - Big gay robots. Hilarious show.
- Skip and Loafer - Succeeds more than any anime I’ve seen at making the characters feel like people.
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken - Fun story about making anime.
- Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- - The only “robots rebel against humanity” anime I’ve ever liked.
- ODDTAXI - An excellent story about a guy who gets wrapped up in some shady dealings he’d rather avoid.
There’s been some other great stuff too of course but I wouldn’t say that anything else I’ve seen that’s been released since 2020 has been
overratedunderrated.As for worst it’s gonna be hard to beat The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War and Ex-Arm.
I’ve only seen oddtaxi from your list. I look forward to checking out the others.
As for worst… I have one in mind but the name escapes me at this very moment. Oh right. Gibiate.
As for worst… I have one in mind but the name escapes me at this very moment. Oh right. Gibiate.
Oh, $DEITY, that thing was such a train wreck! I watched it to the end thinking that it couldn’t possibly get any worse.
It did.
Based on the difference between average score and my rating on AniList, some of my favourite underrated anime of 2020s are (sorted from largest to smallest delta):
number title year average score my rating delta 1 Cells at Work!! Season 2 2021 7.2 10 2.8 2 BELLE 2021 7.3 10 2.7 3 BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. 2020 7.4 10 2.6 4 Gushing Over Magical Girls 2024 7.4 10 2.6 5 Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 2024 7.4 10 2.6 6 The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You 2023 7.7 10 2.3 7 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 1 2022 7.8 10 2.2 8 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2 2023 7.8 10 2.2 9 The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2 2022 7.8 10 2.2 10 TERMINATOR ZERO 2024 7.1 9 1.9 From what I observed, the higher the rating for a show, the more likely I am to like it (and give it a high score)
Not sure how to take popularity into account. How do we judge if a show is underwatched anyway?
Bofuri is a good answer. That show was such goofy fun. Also, I am not surprised to see 100GF there. So many people will write off shows just for having a harem tag. So, when a show comes along that is the harem-iest of harems, they don’t even give it a chance.
I tried to read the nanga, I tried to watch the anine. I just don’t like 100GF.
