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CorneredAngel
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One word - Panty and Stocking
Also...Legend of the Blue Wolves. |
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tintor2
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I was expecting Samurai Flamenco
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Emerje
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Poll results are missing.
Also, where's Mysterious Girlfriend X? Emerje |
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chrisc1978
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Thanks For pointing out Shimoneta I'm going to watch it now. Episode 4 has a big WTF! scene.
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Takkun4343
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If anything, this article proves that the phrase "Widget Series" (shorthand for "Weird Japanese Thing") has either died out or is used nowhere outside of TV Tropes.
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Gina Szanboti
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As it's straight-up porn, the only really wtf thing about that is that somehow along the licensing path the English title got changed to Hot Space Cowboys. 
I know 2020 has been messing with our sense of time, but I assure you Aug 2 wasn't last week. 
Poll results here for those who don't like being coerced into watching a YT video. I almost added Osomatsu-san to the poll but decided since Takahiro Sakurai was the lead for 2 of the 5 WTF anime already, I'd let him rest. I don't think I've ever watched all of Cromartie before, just bits and pieces. I think I'll do that now. Last edited by Gina Szanboti on Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:31 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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MarshalBanana
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Azazel-san was really WTF.
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Arale Kurashiki
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Wacky and/or obscene comedies, truly the height of weirdness in entertainment. This is kind of disappointing for this site.
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R. Kasahara
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If this was a list from twenty years ago, it would be mostly Gainax works and Utena. Our definition of WTF in terms of anime has come a long way!
I added Mind Game to the poll, since it more than belongs (it's also one of my all-time favorites). Kudos to whoever added Detroit Metal City as well. |
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Triltaison
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Eh, I'll grant you School Days since it appeared to be one kind of show and then did a sharp turn into an entirely different genre. But the others just struck as me as weird and didn't warrant a WTF in my book. Cromartie is great, but it's just one of the great weird comedies from the time like Excel Saga or Hare + Guu. They can live happily with the more modern Teekyu and Pop Team Epic. For me, a WTF show is one where the whole concept is a bizarre mashup of parts that don't generally go together or when a show pulls the rug out and becomes a different show that is incongruous with the other one. Weird concept alone doesn't make necessarily do it for me (although Mysterious Girlfriend X would certainly be a contender for that). I aim for things that make me ask "WTF did I just watch?" for my selections.
So for me, I'd pick: -Penguin Memories: It's a totally serious war movie like The Deer Hunter told with cartoon penguins who are also real-life beer mascots. I cannot wrap my head around a beer company sponsoring a movie where their mascots shoot each other to death and give our main character PTSD. It's also a musical. -Apocalypse Meow (Better known by a title I can't write here): CG cute bunnies in wartime. -Doggie Poo: The touching story of a dog turd. -Catnapped!: Kids follow their dog to the world of cat people. Dog turns into a giant cartoon monster and the villain turns people into balloons when she scratches them with her claws. -Cat Soup: Surrealism at its finest. I love this movie, but it's very much a WTF sort of thing. |
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harminia
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That's ok, I added it  No rest for the wicked.
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Spastic Minnow
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Favorite WTF thing is Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space. I really wanted the planned trilogy to go through. Cute, Post-modern, violent.
Cat Soup is up there but honestly makes me sleepy. Alien 9 is another one that had promise and just fizzled out in anime and manga. Too bad. The one I thought "they'll certainly say..." was Arakawa Under The Bridge The first anime that made me think "This is Crazy, I Love It!" was Excel Saga. although... before I was any sort of real fan, you know what made me think anime was strange? Ranma 1/2 OH! The WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? anime... Eiken 
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yeehaw
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Samurai Flamenco. Episode 8. Obviously
That episode of Vatican Miracle Examiners where they just told a one-off story about a kid who's entire family was murdered by santa with an axe. Episode 12 of Fire Force, which I watched today, featured a scene that probably shouldn't be in the same show as talking moles and magically disappearing clothing. Also should probably put a trigger warning in front of it like that one ep of SAO Alicization. That scene in Fuuka, were Fuuka is about to get hit by a car but then the car stops and she's fine. I was like "Huh. Weird" and my cousin who I was talking to on skype asked if I wanted to know how that scene played out in the manga and that threw me for a loop! Speaking of trucks, the one in Zombieland Saga And finally, the reveal about Itachi in Naruto |
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Gina Szanboti
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Fair enough.
I said I was going to watch me some Cromartie and I did. I about choked on my soda when in Episode 7 they're watching a tv show called "Pootan" and it reminded me that Sakurai is also in Butt Detective (there's the WTF tie-in to keep OT) playing this character. Seriously, no dignity for the wicked. 
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me_barron
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School Days had the best possible ending for a shit character.
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