Daily Obscure/Underrated Anime Recommendations Number Thirty-Six
Kimagure Orange Road
(Story: Kyōsuke Kasuga and his family had to move several times after being seen using their esper powers. Upon settling for the seventh time, Kyōsuke briefly meets a pretty girl who gives him her straw-hat and falls in love with her on sight. On the first day of school he learns this girl is his junior high classmate Madoka Ayukawa, who, contrary to his initial impression, is feared as a tough and no-nonsense delinquent. Their underclassman (and Madoka's best friend), Hikaru Hiyama, sees Kyōsuke use his powers to sink an impressive basketball shot and falls in love with him. Kyōsuke ends up dating Hikaru while constantly struggling with his feelings for Madoka due to his indecisiveness. Likewise, Madoka has feelings for Kyōsuke which she masks with her capricious nature for fear of hurting her friend Hikaru.)
(Genre: Romantic Comedy, Supernatural, Drama)
(Released 1987; 48 episodes plus 2 movies to officially wrap up and finish the story. Watch the movies too if you wanna know how it ends after watching the series)
(Notes: Certified hood classic lmao okay i digress, it's good. Madoka is obvious best girl duh (she's the black haired girl) and i like this more than most romantic anime also..that art style is sooooooo good. Produced by Toho; who also produced Your Name, Spirited Away, Another, Weathering with You, Akira, Beastars, Wolf Children, Ponyo, the second My Hero Academia movie, the Tatami Galaxy, most of the Naruto movies at least, Black Rock Shooter,etc. As for the animation studio? Pierrot. Pierrot also animated Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul, Naruto:Shippuden, the original Bleach anime, Black Clover, YuYu Hakusho, Yona of the Dawn, Great Teacher Onizuka, etc.
Kimagure Orange Road was a highly influential series, with sales of over 20 million copies in Japan alone. It is credited alongside Dragon Ball for introducing an entire generation of Europeans to anime and manga. It was also an archetypal shōnen romantic comedy, a genre which it had a major influence on, and the character Madoka is considered to be a root of the tsundere archetype. The anime's Christmas episode also featured an early use of the time loop plot device. So why is it here in the underrated list? because y'all dont talk about it and probably havent watched it dang it instead of rent a girlfriend watch this, its actually good and has not-annoying, not-flat characters and the songs in Kimagure Orange Road are bops, sorry, i dont make the rules and R.I.P to the creator of the Kimagure Orange Road manga Izumi Matsumoto)
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