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Sweat Punch
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Yokoo's 3 Animation Films
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Visually distinct shorts with zero traditional exposition or storytelling, they convey most meaning through absurdism
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Texhnolyze
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Malice@Doll
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Similarly experimental and creepy, they both also share themes of finding God in the machine and what it means to exist as a conscious being, the nature of wants and needs
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Tezuka Osamu no Don Dracula
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Ninja Batman
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Iconic and famous stories retold in a new medium with plenty of style and character while still staying relatively true and respectful to their origin
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Ashita no Joe
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One Outs
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Relatively unassuming unstoppable geniuses in their fields constantly battling immovable objects in an attempt to become their respective ideas of The Best
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Tonari no Totoro
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Panda Kopanda
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Big, fat, fluffy creatures simply enjoying their lives, Panda Kopanda almost reads as a primitive blueprint for Totoro and they're both wonderful family friendly watches
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Plastic Neesan
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Teekyuu
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Balls-to-the-wall comedies with no rhyme or reason other than to make you laugh, sometimes in confusion
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Sweat Punch
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Malice@Doll
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Forward thinking experiments in animation and visual storytelling made by auteurs in the anime medium
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The Chocolate Panic Picture Show
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The Flying Luna Clipper
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Nearly incomprehensible absurdist experimental OVA's making use of innovative animation techniques and at times uncomfortable visuals
If you liked
Mind Game
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The Flying Luna Clipper
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Some of the most absurd and off-kilter visuals you will ever find in anime, but both are strangely beautiful and mesmerizing
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Tokyo Marble Chocolate
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Honobono Log
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Cutesy, super short, and sugar sweet relationship stories perfect for lovers of sappy yet genuine romances
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Hotaru no Haka
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Hadashi no Gen
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Gorgeous visuals telling the distressing story of the bombings of Japan during the second world war as we follow those who suffer the most, make sense of the world they now live in
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Hotaru no Haka
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
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Terrifying and uncomfortable stories about real disasters befalling Japan, and how it affects the children of the country especially
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Tenshi no Tamago
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Tori no Uta
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Very artsy and very unconventional anime both with extremely distinct visual styles, slow-cinema in anime form
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Teekyuu
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Uchuu Patrol Luluco
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Short silly series' that rarely ever give you time to reflect on the stories as you get hit with an onslaught of jokes and gags at every turn
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Malice@Doll
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Uzumaki
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Nightmarish CGI ventures (for better and for worse) about alternative apocalypses befalling mankind, both find themselves experimenting with strange structure and pacing
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Wild 7
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Mad★Bull 34
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Completely absurd and over the top stories about cops indiscriminately killing whoever stands in their way, but with a healthy dash of comedic elements
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Youjuu Toshi
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Psycho Diver: Mashou Bosatsu
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Strange, disturbing, and violent tales of the supernatural haunting the nightlife of Japan, both are also perfect examples of the stereotypic cel-animation aesthetic of anime in the 80's
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FLCL
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Alien 9
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Kinds and adolescents finding their place in the world told almost entirely through metaphors and crazy visuals
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Ace wo Nerae!
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Ashita no Joe
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Pivotal sports classics that would set the standard for the genre, both on the shonen and shojo sides of the spectrum
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Mind Game
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Dead Leaves
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Similarly abstract and absurd, sometimes hard to follow as both movies are highly experimental both in visual and narrative style
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FLCL
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Mind Game
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Absolutely crazy storytelling and visual style with similar themes of coming of age along with a more meta attitude toward anime creation
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Trava: Fist Planet
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Mecha-ude
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Charming short science-fiction passion projects that ended up being developed further into a full release, invokes plenty of mystery and intrigue about the universe they take place in as well
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Chika Gentou Gekiga: Shoujo Tsubaki
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Nido to Mezamenu Komoriuta
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Absurdly abstract, disturbing and violent tales of the suffering of a young protagonist both with an off-kilter art-style and editing
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Bartender
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Death Parade
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We follow a small recurring cast and their dealings with a rotating cast of unfortunate people in need of the expertise of our main character/characters
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Roujin Z
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Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
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Self contained, beautifully stylistic mecha OVA's from the golden era of the genre, plenty of charming clichés to be found in both along with interesting mechanical design
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Perfect Blue
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Sennen Joyuu
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Experimental character studies of deeply troubled individuals in the entertainment business, both got similar visual styles and gorgeous animation along with a similar abstract manner of storytelling
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Joshiraku
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Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san
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Silly and often absurdist referential humor conveyed in the form of cute girls doing a mix of cute and crazy things
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Texhnolyze
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Shigurui
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Highly experimental and brooding anime heavily focused on building a feeling and atmosphere and strays far from the usual trends and gimmicks of their respective genres, the highly psychological nature of both can either make it or break it for the viewer
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Death Note
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One Outs
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Mind games upon mind games, in both series we follow a narcissistic, genius, and often psychopathic main character being put in situations that from the viewers perspective seem impossible to wriggle yourself out of, and we follow the spectacle as the characters are forced to outwit each other in increasingly elaborate ways
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Shigurui
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Miyamoto Musashi: Souken ni Haseru Yume
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Very in-depth in terms of swordplay along with the lives and tribulations of samurai in the Edo period of Japan