Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?

I am the KWING of this genre. There was a phenomenal show on PAX yes the Canadian local station called "Young Blades". It was SO good. About the three musketeers then a girl disguises herself as a boy to join them. I wish I could find it on the internet somewhere.

A tale in the desert was kind of Minecraft before Minecraft. Such a great game.

Nexus Tk kingdom of the winds was also great until they changed the system for leveling.

Tons of books or book series like Darren Shan saga and tales of ambrose. This great series by Christopher pike about vampires

My entire life has been spent in this genre 😆

Cable Guy . Jim Carey is very scary and the end monologué about thé internet future was spot on.

The 10th Kingdom (2000). Great miniseries that mashes up fairy tales some modern twists. I really enjoyed all the characters, and the kind-of multiverse was cool.

Tremulous (2006). A first person shooter with first person builder elements. The human team depends on electricity for their various guns and turrets, the alien team can build anywhere and walk on the walls and ceilings, but are more limited to their claw's melee range. There was no matchmaking so you just went to the same server all the time and made friends with the people there. It was cool.

Found someone selling the Young Blades series video files for $6 https://www.rainofhearts.com/qos/youngblades.html

Metalocalypse. If you like metal music, animated shows and a bit of dark humor then this is the show for you.

Runner up: Aqua Team Hunger Force - if you like short stupid storylines and crude jokes.

And bonus: Squidbillies - if you like Aqua Teen Hunger Force but you want things the get even stupider.

Man...tons but I'll just pick a few. (OK a few turned into a lot anyways)

Music:

Driveways (lots of heavy Blink 182 influence)

Shiny Toy Guns (Especially the first album)

Lauren Babic (Started with YouTube but my favorite female vocalist)

Dream State (Before CJ Gilpin left, new singer is men for me)

Tash Sultana (Flow state was fantastic)

Like roses (Splenetic is my favorite song feel like they just need a big break to get big)

Savlonic (Started as a joke band, became really solid)

Movie/Show:

Blood Machines (Music by Carpenter Brut, whole short film is in the same style as his music videos)

Tomo-Chan is a Girl! (Cute anime romance about a tomboy girl wanting to be recognized by her boy bff)

Mushi-Shi (Very chill and intriguing stories about mysterious Mushi creatures)

The Air I Breathe (Left a lasting impression on me, has Brendan Fraser pre-hiatus and Sarah Michelle Gellar among other great cast)

H (South Korean Thriller about a psychopath and a detective, really excellent. Was hard to find a copy in the us)

Taking Chance (Excellent Kevin Bacon movie, should really hit hard on any military family)

Role Models (Not sure if it's underated but never see anyone mention it. Hilarious movie with Paul Rudd and probably Seann William Scott's best comedy work imo)

Better Off Dead (John Cusack comedy about a teen break up and eventually recovery. May have been better known at the time but hilarious movie)

Game:

Xenogears (Seems more well know now, but absolutely was a pivotal game on my youth and no one knew of it for years)

Katana Zero, Mirror's Edge, Ghostrunner, System Shock Remake, Prey, Stalker(I know I know but it always needs more fans imo lol)- (All games with mixed audience levels but still ones I feel don't have enough recognition.)

Hidden Cats, 100 Cats, X full of Cats, and Find All - (Really cute and cozy hidden object games. Most are either very cheap or free and I think more people should grab them and enjoy them.)

Books:

William Arand/Randi Darren books. There is a whole huge universe involved. They look like just harem smut on the surface, and his Randi Darren books do have a lot of smut to them, but there is an overall linking story through all of the books that is very enjoyable and intriguing. One of those "plot" books that has an even better actual plot imo. (First few books are rough on the edges but still good.)

Legends & Lattes (I'm sure it's well regarded in the "Cozy Adventure" groups, but it needs more recognition outside of that.)

Can't be changin tapes and drinkin mah sip!

Will you be my friend?

Galavant. Two seasons on ABC in the mid 2010s.

A bawdy, over the top musical medieval themed fantasy series about a knight trying to get his wife back after she's kidnaped and forced to marry an evil king.

Fantastic main cast and Weird Al in a recurring role as as the abott of an order of singing monks.

I don't generally like musicals, but it's so damned catchy and fun.

These are all very popular and well known imo

Man, people can't help but post stuff they like and is popular, not stuff that's almost never talked about. Anyway...

The Irresponsible Captain Tyler is an old school anime most people slept on. It's the sci-fi genera of "aliens are elves with big shoulder pads", and Tyler is a bum, he decides he wants to join the military because it's got free food and chicks dig guys in uniform, and then he accidentally starts an interstellar war with the aliens, accidentally becomes captain of a ship, and accidentally starts beating the crap out of the aliens without meaning to. The aliens think he's a strategic genius, his bosses think he's an idiot and are trying to get rid of him, and his crew can't tell if he's one or the other. The whole show has a lot of love put into it, each background character has it's own name and voice actor, and the show is hilarious right off the bat till the end.

I also feel that Thief the Dark Project doesn't get enough credit and attention. It was the first first person sneaker, has better stealth mechanics than even some modern games, and a great story and world building. I think maybe some sequels that weren't as popular as the second one kinda made people drop the series but it was fantastic.

Pretty much everything "Weird Al" Yankovic and his band have ever done.

They've gained more recognition in recent years, but most people don't realize that his catalogue goes back to the mid-1970s. A lot of people are sleeping on his work, even today, because he's categorized as a "novelty artist".

The early stuff is rough, but from the mid-1980s on up is worth a listen even if you're not a fan.

https://mezzacotta.net/ and all the weird little experiments in webcomics they do

My personal favourite is Comments on a Postcard, which is they uploaded (intentionally) broken image links to a "webcomic", and then assign a caption for it from a set of user submitted captions. It gives the feeling of exploring old websites that are half broken and trying piece together what they were about

I did really adore 10th Kingdom

Tv series: MR ROBOT; Person of Interest.

Manwha: The Boxer

Book: not really obscure, but for me not enough known is the Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series

Man, people can't help but post stuff they like and is popular, not stuff that's almost never talked about. Anyway...

Man, you really missed an opportunity to suggest something like... Friends or Superman after that

band The Suborbitals. It has 130 monthly listeners on spotify and it's one the best bands I've ever heard. I specially recommend Aquanaut (the Blackout rolling version), Devil's dance card, Let's forget ir for a while, 405 and Little things.

Honestly I recommend most songs, but these are the best :D

Them on: spotify
deezer
youtube

On the surface, Cross Ange is just another fanservice mech anime. The first few episodes will filter out a lot of people before of the gore.

If you stick with it, you get one of the more aggressively feminist anime out there. And I do mean aggressive. Every character arc is a metaphor for something women either have to deal with primarily or exclusively in society. The show actively punishes the female characters who can't recognize themselves as victims and rewards the ones who do and work to fix their situations. The final villain is an incel power fantasy. I've seen next to no discussion on Cross Ange in this context online.

Quite like

A web comic: Stand still, stay silent

https://sssscomic.com/

Ohh! this sounds good! Thanks!

Hell yeah 😙🤌🏼

Also, UHF is a comedic masterpiece.

Is it on iView?

Wrong ABC, sorrey ;)

Oh my gosh! You like Galavant too!?
The show is so good!
Apparently the actor for King Richard got a stroke though so the possibilities of it ever getting a season three are even lower now.

Timothy Ommundson had a stroke, thus delaying the original Psych movie and later being written into the next such movie.

And yes, I LOVE it! A repeated rewatch.