Blog Talkback: Toons of the 2000s: Anime That Still Haven't Made It To America

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Karl Olson, with the help of the rabroad crew, guides us through the best of the best currently unlicensed anime series of the decade in Toons of the 2000s: Anime That Still Haven't Made It To America.
 
Ive got to say, aside from Michiko to Hatchin, which i loved and it totally deserves to be on this list (how is this not liscenced!?), i have never even heard of any of those other series until reading that, but thats probably because of my own ignorance (i hadnt heard of most of the series in the "shows we hope never come to america" thing before until you put that out either).
 
Good list. The one anime I want licensed really bad, though, is Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. I don't know how many people like anime with religious tones, but it is a good series.
 
My support went to Daughter of Twenty Faces for this, but alas, it only ended up with an honorable mention I haven't seen any of the other series, so couldn't comment. I'm curious about Twin Spica after this, though.

And I like New Moon, thanks very much ;-)
 
Jeanne should have been licensed a long time ago.

Funny, I've actually heard of all these shows but the only one I've legitamitely seen is Michiko+Hatchin. I really want to see Dennou Coil though.
 
And here I was somewhat expecting this to touch on series like Doraemon. Technically it did get a new series or sorts in that decade and it's still not airing in America.
 
Side note: 4 of the shows we list in this top 5 feature schoolgirls as main characters, and the one that doesn't is more vastly more sexual and easily as violent than anything on our bottom 5. Let that stand as proof that it isn't the content, it's the direction and story.
 
I would have chose Kaiba over Kemonozume for the list personally. Kemonozume is still a very good show in it's own right though. Both shows so need to be licensed especially Kaiba which is my absolute top want right now.

I was surprised to see Windy Tales on the list since it seems to be largely ignored. Both it and Dennou Coil desperately need to be licensed.

I'm not familiar at all with Twin Spica but it sounRAB interesting though.
 
Wow, no mention of either Gegege no Kitaro or even Hakaba no Kitaro?

Despite how popular the Kitaro series have been in Japan for the past 40 years, it always gets overlooked by the western world...
 
I'm not that into anime and even I'd take a look at those. They sound really good and original, not confusing and/or awkward.

I've never understood why a niche eventually settles into an even SMALLER niche. I'd take that stuff over saucer-eyed hyperactive chibis with magical panties any day.
 
Keep in mind that this is part of the "Toons of the 2000s" series, and though there has been some new GeGeGe made in the last 10 years, I would rather see entirely new work. But I am a fan of walking eyeballs too.



There was debate over which to include. I think we ultimately decided to choose one for the top 5 so that we wouldn't have two Yuasa entries. So yes, Kaiba is amazing.
 
Yes, Kaiba was close, oh so very close. There was, however, only so much room. Heck, if we'd included OVAs, there would have been at least three things by Masaaki Yuasa vying for inclusion; that's a lot for one director and a mere Top 5. If Kaiba's ever licensed, we'll give it plenty of attention.

--Romey
 
Pretty decent list, despite not watching any of what was featured.

I was kinda rooting for Nodame Cantabile to be on the list though. Such a charming show that probably would have been brought here during the high times of the multi-company anime industry.
 
While Twin Spica is pretty much the only one I've seen (I'm definitely looking forward to the manga), there's already enough good buzz and critical commentary about the rest to justify their inclusion. That doesn't mean many other titles wouldn't qualify though.
 
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