Ryuu no Haisha

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Broderick, Michael. “Superflat Eschatology: Renewal and Religion in anime.” Animation Studies: Animated Dialogues. 2007. 29-36.
Napier, Susan J. “Waiting for the End of the World: Apocalypctic Identity.” Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 249-263.
Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypticism in Postwar Japanese Fiction." 2011. University of British Columbia, PhD thesis. 16-33.

Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji Movie should be included here, but is tagged as hentai on MAL, so otherwise this list couldn't be public.

The "Scotland Loves Anime" film festival takes place annually in Glasgow and Edinburgh. It was started in 2010 and includes the "Golden Partridge" jury award and audience-voted awards.

The past winners of the Golden Partridge Award are as follows.

2016: Kimi no Na wa.
2017: Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta
2018: Penguin Highway
2019: Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara
2020: n/a

In 2017, the live action Tokyo Ghoul film had its UK premiere at SLA.

In 2019, Isora Iwakiri's film The Sacrament had its UK premiere at SLA.

In 2020, the festival was hosted online. It also included Penguin Highway, Production I.G.'s short film collection and Weathering With You.

Titles in which the characters are piloting flying devices (planes, brooms, etc) within the atmosphere. The characters being pilots is relevant to the plot, and during a big part of screen time there is action in the air.

Added one title per franchise.

When I first started watching anime, I thought anime was basically a kind of animation with a unique art style. But now I am seeing that most anime comes with a lot of tropes, and a lot of people see these tropes as part of anime. I am not a fan of these tropes, so I am making a list of anime that I like, and I feel have a relatively low amount of tropes, at least compared to most other anime. I still haven't watched a lot of anime, for example - Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. But I will add more anime as I watch them.

Link to part 2 -
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/22994

Dragons in dragon form that play an important role in their respective anime.

Series that I consider to be more than just a dumb animation.
(I could forget many series, especially the old ones)

This is a list of the Most Unique Anime at least for the time it came out. Anime that tells a story in a completely new way or popularizes a gene or theme are more likely to be featured. This list has an extra preference for anime with strange plot and unsettling elements, including anything considered edgie. Plot and Message are valued highly, especially is expressed in a completely new way. Anime that is commentary on a gene or trope are also preferred on list. Commonly features stories that are dark or cruel in nature, but there are plenty of anime on the list that are not.

List is ordered with a balance between uniqueness and user score.

I plan on keeping this up to date. Please reach out if you feel an anime should be added/removed and why. Thank you :)

Anime with a significant amount of dragons or dragon premise.

Things that have dragons such as Pokemon is not worth adding because the anime is not based on dragons by itself.

DM to add any, because it's hard to find these.

Newly released & mentionable titles aired in 2017. Sequels, spin-offs, OVAs, and related movies are not included.

On May 29,2024 anime studio Gainax filed for bankruptcy, and thus became the final nail in the coffin of the once great titan of the anime industry. To many this came as no surprise. Decades of bad business decisions had finally caught up to them. But still it was sad to see them go. However, rather than dwell on the depressing aspects of Gainax fall from grace, I would rather look back on the legacy they built.
The studio was formed in the early 1980s as Daicon Film by university students Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Hiroyuki Yamaga, Takami Akai, Toshio Okada, Yasuhiro Takeda and Shinji Higuchi. After the success of their first two anime shorts for the conventions of Daicon III and IV, they firmly established themselves as a talented new anime studio. They would later change their name to Gainax in 1985, basing the term "Gainax" on an obscure Tottori Prefecture term for "giant", with the English suffix -x added because it sounded "good and was international"
Gainax presented themselves as a “by fans, for fans” studio and through it’s ups and downs Gainax lived up to that phrase, for better and for worst. Though the studio is now gone, it’s legacy will live on through both studio Trigger and studio Khara. Here is the list of from the house that Gainax built.

Notes: With a few exception, sequel seasons and/or movies will not be included on the list so that there is room for everthing.
Notes: Even though only the last Rebuild of EVA film is on this list you should watch all of them.
Honorable mentions: There are two anime at the end of the list that warrant being a part of the Gainax legacy. Punch Line was directed by Yutaka Uemura, who also directed Dantalian no Shoka, has a style and story that would be right at home with other Gainax shows. Finally, Grendizer U, produced at studio Gaina, formerly Fukushima Gainax, honors old Gainax’s fandom roots.

All OVAS,ONA,Special, TV Special with Opening for AMQ, Famous or not!

(Openings being single, not part from TV series)