3 of the Best Anime Series You've never Seen

I bet at least some of these will be new even to dedicated anime fans...and you'll be glad you found them.

3/3. Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin

There aren't many prison series that grabbed me like Rainbow. The series takes place in an "Institute for the Rehabilitation of Young Offenders" in Japan in the 1950s, an institution that makes Alcatraz feel like an amusement park. The Japan of that time is still picking up the pieces from World War II, and therefore it is a country with little patience for unruly teenagers. Rainbow is brutal not only because of the physical violence it shows, but also because of the mental abuse that the six young boys the story follows go through, each behind bars for different tragic reasons.

I would place the series No.1 on this list if it weren't for the second half, which slows down and turns Rainbow into a different series that is admittedly less violent and gloomy - but, at the same time, also less interesting.

2/3. Rage of Bahamut

There are plenty of Fantasy series around, but fantasy series that do it right - that's already subject to controversy. Luckily Bahamut is here. Actually, Bahamut has no right to be on the list because the anime is based on a smartphone game. However, Mappa Studios managed to create an epic saga that would not even shame Tolkien himself (ok, I may have exaggerated with this particular superlative). Bahamut is a great combination not only of the elements of fantasy in it (which contain branched politics, a journey full of dangers and wars) but also humor and fantastic animation. 

1/3. Noragami

Tell me, did Bones studio ever produce a bad series? Just before the studio entered the My Hero Academia frenzy, it was another Shonen series that made fans happy Noragami follows a high school girl who, following an accident, discovers that there is a dimension that exists parallel to ours, a dimension where ghosts, demons, and gods (in Japan there are tens of thousands of them) roam freely and get beaten up. Yato is a god without a temple (that is, a loser!) who is ready to take on any job, and together with him the two get into all kinds of adventures... This is a sentence that would not be correct to state. They put their lives in danger time and time again and get involved with the wrong people.

It's a good, exciting and high-quality action series and it's too bad it won't have a third season.

That's it for today. Hope I convinced you to try out something other than My Hero Academia.