underrated animes

Den-noh Coil, Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape. Den-noh Coil, in development for over a decade, is the series director debut of Japanese animator Mitsuo Iso. It premiered on NHK Educational TV on May 12, 2007. Due to the animators involved in its production and its unusually high-profile television broadcast time slot, Den-noh Coil was highly anticipated.

A Happy alien, Takopi, lands on Earth with one mission: to spread happiness! When he meets Shizuka, a lonely fourth grader, he vows to bring back her smile using his magical Happy Gadgets. But as he uncovers the pain in her life, Takopi learns that true happiness may require more than gadgets.

The students of Class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?

Anzu Hoshino est une lycéenne menant la belle vie. Chaque jour, elle passe son temps à jouer aux jeux vidéo, à manger des collations et à caresser son chat. Cependant, son quotidien change radicalement lorsqu'une créature magique la transporte dans un monde dépourvu des choses qu'elle adore. À la place, elle se retrouve coincée dans un monde peuplé de beaux garçons.

Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. This show follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.

One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.

Mitsuha est une lycéenne, la fille du maire d'une petite ville nichée entre les montagnes. Vivant avec sa petite sœur et sa grand-mère, c'est une demoiselle franche qui n'hésite pas à dire qu'elle n'a pas envie de participer aux rituels shinto, ou d'aider son père dans ses campagnes électorales. En fait, elle rêve de pouvoir quitter cette ville où elle s'ennuie, pour partir tenter sa chance à la capitale. Taki est un lycéen, un tokyoïte qui travaille à mi-temps dans un restaurant italien, tout en aspirant à des études d'architecture ou dans les Beaux-Arts. Chaque nuit, il fait un rêve étrange, où il devient… une lycéenne campagnarde, vivant dans une petite ville entre les montagnes. Quel secret se cache derrière ces rêves mutuels, qui unissent ces deux êtres qui ne se sont jamais rencontrés ?

The three worlds of humans, gods, and demons are balanced by energy. But in the 21st century, due to the rapid development of human society, the balance is lost.

Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Aka." Spinning the gacha at their urging, she acquires a "Wonder Egg," and from that moment, her fate begins to change...

Une collégienne se transforme en chat pour attirer l'attention d'un garçon, sans se rendre compte que la frontière entre l'humain et l'animal s'estompe peu à peu.

Suzume, una joven chica de diecisiete años que vive en un pueblo tranquilo en la región de Kyushu, en el suroeste de Japón. La historia comienza cuando Suzume conoce a un misterioso joven que busca una 'puerta'. Los dos viajan juntos y encuentran una puerta vieja en una casa abandonada en las montañas. Como si algo tirara de ella, Suzume extiende su mano hacia la puerta, lo que comienza una serie de eventos desafortunados en todo Japón.

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.