my favourite anime you've never heard of | analyzing witch hunter robin 

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With the risk of sounding pretentious, I actually know about this anime, in fact I have a DVD of it with a low price as a gift from my brother in law.

very underappreciated series at this point simply because no one knows about it or they forgot over time

I remember watching Witch Hunter Robin on Toonami back in the early 2000s. I still have the episodes recorded on VHS. 😋📼 And Ergo Proxy, omg, one of my all time faves. It’s perfection. ✨

I was a little girl when this anime premiered 20 years ago. Back then, it was too edgy and deep for me to understand that I decided not to watch it entirely. I just memorized the opening and ending songs like what I usually do with anime back in those days. I kept WHR at the backburner of my mind for nearly two decades until last year. Thats when I decided to watch the series in its entirety and I was blown away by the beauty of the philosophy and significance of every episode. Just like when I watched Psycho-Pass, I decided to write an essay for every episode of WHR.

This and ergo proxy are two of my favorite anime. The atmosphere, mature tone, music, subtle characterization...it's a lost art form with anime I think

Witch Hunter Robin is one of my favorite anime shows 😊

I recomend you Ergo Proxy, same statatics and all, because its from the same creators. Same director, lead scrip writter and character designer

Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain, Trinity Blood, Trigun, all these animes make my soul sing. I have loved WHT for so long I had to make my own fan merch because there was none. lol

I’m 35, was on Netflix and randomly remembered this show. Which led me here. Happy to know there’s other people who remember this.

I've been thinking about this anime a lot recently and this era of my life toonami was my religion. I tried to tie my hair like hers with no avail for WEEKS. also Hack sign was on there and it had a banger of an OST

I was obsessed with this show when I was 17!! My ex boyfriends brother gave me a bootleg boxset of it and got me hooked. I hung out on the WHR LJ community a lot. I'm still waiting for an update on a fanfic that hasn't been updated since 2009 lmao.

I love Witch Hunter Robin. I've rewatched this anime many times and get an inch to rewatch it almost every year. Thanks for covering one of my favorite shows! ^_^

I watched this in 2007, still listen to the opening song shell these days. I wished the ending was more conclusive and it went on longer.

I love amon and robin’s chemistry so much

I remebered this show the other day like a sleeper cell coming online.

whr is so underrated its ridiculous.. im also canadian so the nostalgia is strong 🥲

I’m so happy we had the same experience. I loved Seed but hated Kira. Athrun and Cagalli should have been the main characters!

I love this anime and think it would actually benefit from a remake!

you will never, ever, see a question as obscure and deeply cut as the one you are about to read. Ever. See below: Do you remember the Witch Hunter Robin April Fools Day 2004 remake of episode 1 where literally every character, including the literal moon, had a moustache superimposed on it? It was on for 1 single day, and it was gone forever. It was the funniest thing ever, and only the true WHR fans will remember this.

I liked the ost on this anime

I had completely forgotten about this anime. The only thing I actively remember is adult swim did an April Fool's episode where they superimposed words on the screen but I can't remember what they said.

I think it's a shame the story was never continued. Robin's story could have stood to be allowed to grow up. Not to mention all the sexual tension between her and Amon. Robin's supposed to be the Eve or Queen of Witches. She needs a husband who can keep up with her. Also, just to note, I know about what most of the magic circles mean. Robin's character resonated with me because she was my age. I dived deep into her doing research on magic and historical context. Precious Illusions is my favorite episode.

I'm always so sad when I talk about WHR bc nobody knows it and don't understand why it's one of my favorite Anime of All time ♡

It's pretty disturbing that a subset of Canadians in their early to mid 30s now have this dorky niche where we can get all nostalgic about a minor anime series that aired 20 years ago on a specific channel. Also, I have the same Ikea shelf.

So I just found your channel by happenstance while looking up the Witch Hunter Robin soundtrack. I don't know if you mentioned it yet, but the music is fantastic! This video is great. Keep it up!

Honestly, I remember my cousin showing me it at a sleepover over once. I was about 10 years old and it was so frightening I never watched it again. Also, cool Pink Floyd tee.

LOVED Witch Hunter Robin when it was on Adult Swim after 10pm. It's how I discovered Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, InuYasha, Witch Hunter Robin, YuYu Hakusho, and TriGun.

Never got to finish this when I was younger. I appreciate this video recapping everything. Also had a good laugh when you brought up nostalgia critic those were good times.

translating animation into live action is very hard, theres alot of advantages when it come to animation. thats why im worried about the last airbender live action netflix show :/

Hey I am glad to see you making videos again!

Am a Canadian who saw this when it aired in the 2000's, it's still my favourite anime.

Heck yeah witch hunter Robin, Big O there's like so many good anime that was on adult swim back in the day that so many people don't know about right now. I started watching anime when I was 4 years old and my love for anime kind of just exploded from their starting with Sailor Moon and then hamtaro & tenchi muyo there was just so much anime that I was exposed to as a kid do to living in New York which I think is the reason why I got into anime at such a young age because there's nowhere else in the United States that would have had all of the amount of stuff that I was exposed to other than California. Any place that had a Chinatown probably had a lot of anime bootlegs and that's where I got my entire Inuyasha DVD collection set in Chinese sub and Japanese dub lol 😂😂😂. I did not understand anything they were saying but I was happy to see it lol. Nowadays it's so incredibly easy to get your hands on anime I can't believe it I love it this is definitely the time for otaku's to be alive that's for sure. I will say though that comes with a con because with the fact that you can easily get anime that's just being dumped out of Japan you can also have a harder time finding the good anime that's out there they unique anime not the rinse wash repeat cookie-cutter animes. I love anime still but I'm at the point in my life where I've seen the same plot so many times that I kind of don't even bother looking at new anime anymore because it's all the same bulshit there's nothing new there's nothing fresh. Violet evergarden and ascendance of a bookworm those were pretty unique in a sense styled anime, you don't see that type of plot line being used much right now and it was its own thing it wasn't trying to mimic any other anime and I just feel like there's a lot of enemy out there right now that's kind of just cookie cutter-ing (is that a word) to get into mainstream and be popular. No offense to any of the anime coming out and no offense to the people who like it I don't mind whatsoever it's just for me personally as someone who's seen it all honestly I just really wish I could find more unique styled animes that kind of drum to their own beat and recreations of the same thing as same plot line being used over and over. I'm sure there's great enemy out there within the anime that I would end up looking over and missing completely it's just I'm older I'm busy I have kids I don't really have a lot of time to like look over every anime and see what's unique about it if it's got the same plot line I'm not really interested. Meanwhile my husband watches everything that comes out every season he's always ready for the new stuff lol 😂😂😂😂.

I had a science teacher back in the day that loved this anime. I found a collection of used dvds of this anime although sadly it was missing the last disc containing the last 3 episodes.

Loved the aesthetic when it popped up for me just recently, fell in love with the OP, and definitely a solid anime

I love Richard Robin. It's the best classic or should I say a cult classic?

I watched this back in the 00s on adult swim! I enjoyed the darker vibe of it

Lmao I like you. This video has all my 30 year old feelings. I'm my own library of adult swim/ toonami anime. Also because I would sell my collections to buy more stuff I got sad and started over as an adult

I was obsessed with WHR in 8th grade and owned the whole series. I loved it.

Me as kid, cool witch. Me as adult, this really did get the tone of working in an office right.

Binge this anime every other month. Thanks for the deep dive from you.

I watched witch hunter robin ad finished it after two days! Worth it !

another day, another Why Isn't This Channel More Popular ffs 😤

I remember tuning into YTV one night and this just happened to come on and it happened to be around those ‘awkward’ years. It was a like meeting an old friend I forgot about? [Thanks to Vision of Escaflowne for that one] but I just loved it from the start. My only regret with this was when I did finally have my hands on the DVD box set I traded it for the Nickelodeon Avatar box set at a convention because the other person was really, Really, REALLY into it. At least we got crunchyroll, and oh yeah, we did write some fanfics too.. Still wish Robin fought with or had an antithesis like an Ice Crafter

Did you ever watch 3x3 Eyes? always thought that this series was a hidden gem from the 90s.

It's great, Robin is so frail and Pius and Almond is a great guy that loved his family so dearly, what a good departure from them being the only ones who wouldn't go back to normal.

Unlike many I was unable to see this show even though it was on cable on my side of the globe. Thanks to the fact we have the net now I managed to finally see this show! I have my own theories but well said about the negatives of this show: it's slow paced mostly and that negatively impacted its final episode a lot. The minor plots of the other characters weren't as fleshed out particularly Doujima's And I can tell there's this world building the show wanted to go for, but since it's so focused on the main plot and being poorly paced (or because they only have 26 episodes) I just don't understand how Solomon, witches and hunters are still not out there in public, when their activities can get quite destructive. Like I get Solomon acts like the SCP org but how do they keep these things under wraps? And the abrupt ending?? I don't know, I get we're supposed to have an inference as to what could possibly have happened to Robin and Amon, but I feel like there isn't enough especially with the run time and poor pace of the final episode. Not to mention the non-closure between the only romantic couple confirmed, between Amon and Toko. And the thing is, they were already in the midst of breaking up during the series! Toko and Amon are never given the chance to see one another and finally just make up and close the book.💔 That's not to say I hated this show. I actually found this so refreshing, especially with certain mature shonen-like shows today. I like how a lot of female characters are not only just active but no one among the females are sexualized or objectified. It's obvious the sexy one in this series is Amon lol Robin's character is well handled despite lore and writing inconsistencies. Not only is her journey reflective of the core themes the show is telling us, but overall she's a very believable teenager. And even more significantly is the fact she's quiet and reserved! Quiet characters are 50/50 in media, where it can be a good depiction or a stereotype. But this show gives us an example that quiet characters can be nuanced, powerful and magnetic, which is amazing. And despite the poor or slow pace, the show at least shed light to many of its supporting cast! It may not be so much of the finer details of how they got to where they are, but when the spotlight is on them, the show wastes no time in showing us who and what these characters can do. And the animation? It's not perfect BUT there is an almost great consistency when it came to their movements! It definitely picks up when for action scenes and a lot of them move with a grace that's almost movie-level. A good show. I do wish there was more. I wished it was at least 30 episodes so things weren't left awkwardly hanging like that.

YTV Canada, Friday night, early 2000s (i think 2004), part of the Friday Night anime block (called Bionix, i think)....where i first saw Naruto (original series), Bleach, Inuyasha, Zatch Bell, Eureka Seven, Blue Dragon, Death Note, Full Metal Alchemist (original series), Gundam Seed, Samurai Jack, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, .HACK//Sign (one of the series)....a great reason to stay up to midnight watching weekly anime i miss when children and teen channels had anime and animation from around the world and mix mature and younger age series...and was not just live action shows filled with kids...the new shows, the anime openings (original or North American, didn't matter, liked most)....a great reason for a 23 year old to stay up to midnight or later to watch weekly and Witch Hunter Robin was a series i liked alot, especially for it's style and design, fun too

I love witch hunter Robin I have a bootleg dvd set of it that’s very old 😅😅 also love wolfs rain think I discovered both about the same time.

Im definitely checking this out I wanna buy it so badly so I can have it physically in my collection

Found out about the anime from Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage around 20 years ago.

i got to witch hunter robin because of the opening and ending song, i got them in a cd from a magazine called anitype, it had the best songs from chobits, azumanga daioh and Inuyasha but shell and half pain definitely were the best. I still listen to the soundtrack when i need inspiration. Quisiera que mas gente en mi pais hubiera visto este anime...

You definitely need to write fanfiction over I am obsessed with how you want to tell their backstories would love to hear it

Definitely an underrated anime. I have never really seen anyone else that knows of it.

Funny. I own this on dvd and watched it (again) last week! 😀

This show used to be on YTV, I remember seeing Witch Hunter Robin and dot hack at night. I never understood them though, I was like only 6 or 7, and these shows seemed way too mature and beyond my reach

@Tara Natalia I'm a bit late to the party, I didn't start getting into older Anime until my highschool years. Alot of my first Anime were more of the mainstream unfortunately, which isn't bad but it limited my experience on what Anime could be or what stories it told. I'm currently in the middle of Witch Hunter Robin and I like it alot. I was born in 2001 so at the time all that was talked about was Sailor moon or Dragon Ball Z. Sadly hidden gems like Witch Hunter Robin , Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, Now and Then, Here and There, Gunslinger Girl, Key The Metal Idol, All the Gundam series, Legend Of The Galatic Heros, Jin-Roh, Angel's Egg, Rahxephon, Rainbow Rokubou No Shichinin, Casshern Sins, Vampire Hunter D BloodLust and much more slipped my radar as a little kid. Now as an adult, I grately appreciate older Anime more than ever . I honestly prefer older Anime, because alot of my favorites are from that era of Anime.

I wished Witchhunter received a movie treatment like Cowboy Bebop, also I guess the writers didn't know exactly what to do with Robin-Amon relationship because of that age gap, lol. the dub is great specially Robin & Amon voices.

This was my fave show in Gr.7 I remember watching it on YTV and then I bought the box set at AN in 2006. I’m making my bf watch it right now 🤣

I am happy you love this anime. I actually think that it is way better at being Emo. Then ergo proxy that everybody was raving about that still this day I didn’t really understand why they were so obsessed with it. But that’s a personal opinion that I don’t think everybody’s gonna agree with. And that’s ok. Having said that I feel they cut that show way too early. Anyways I’m glad you are telling people about this. By the way, I totally agree about your Canadian lineup. I’ve never been a fan of Inuyasha and I really wanted to be a fan but I couldn’t get over the main character. my daughter on the other hand absolutely loves it.

So glad to hear people are still interested in this vastly underrated series! ♡ ♥💕 P.S. - Was the online forum you frequented back in the show's airing called Harry's, by any chance? :D

I have definitely heard of witch hunter robin, and now me and my son are watching it 😻

Oh I’ve definitely herd of it. In fact I love it. It’s a great anime and I’m from the United States ;)

I feel like this might be saying a lot about me... but my favorite on YTV was Yvon of The Yukon 😏😅

This is my favorite anime.

I love this anime, very few people know about it, I wish there was a new season

I still remember the witch who made people slip from episode 1 and the witch who crushed people into cubes with telekinesis from somewhere off in the season. The show's pacing was really slow. I can see how our ADHD generation has trouble getting into it.

All I remember about this show is the guy whose spell trips people.

Best anime there ever was Witch Hunter Robin

i remember watching this on ytv every week, along with inuyasha and gundam seed

@Tara Natalia Idk if the artwork of Witch Hunter Robin is made by the same artist of Ergo Proxy, but both Anime have a more realistic artstyle and grittier vibe to it.

Watched the anime back then. Loved everything about it.. Still hate that the opening song is no complete on Spotify.

I'm not a fan. But it's on the edge of my memory like a dream. Glad I'm crazy

Love this anime, one of my favourites 🩷 I remembered staying up till midnight just to watch this show on Animax Asia, only to be able to watch it fully on RU-vid later on lol 😂

LOVED this anime on YTV Canada

Heard of it, seen it in it's entirety. Love the soundtrack, love the vibe, think the plot is mostly "Meh" especially after the mid-series twist instantly reverts to a status quo.

I watched it back in 2006 or smth in French Tbh it's not that big of a deal but it was fun to watch

Anime I've never heard of? I loved this show along with shows like serial experiments Lain and Boogiepop phantom GITS kaikaider etc

It was great on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The best episode was the April fools episode! I loved Inuyasha and Detecive Conan. I liked Cowboy Bebop as well.

I love this anime and all the OST

Ha, good call on they probably should be alcoholics (stressed office workers?) but aren't shown drinking much.

Best dvd set I ever bought

I like cowboy Bebop. It's my favorite right next to any asha beginning of the bleach fasta stampede Big o

This anime is wonderful. I love it.

What's with the whole hipster title? I have heard of it and loved it

yo i think this was on adult swim

Witch hunter robin is anime x files

Äs a huge fan of Inu Yasha BTW it's ok, Rumiko Takashi's characters and relationship dynamics are perfectly fair critiques to launch at her along with not being great at writing Trans characters and having some what socially conservative views. I'm not the least defensive of Kagome and Inu Yasha's relationship Dynamic even though I came largely for the romance elements of the storyline.

OMG stop this! The past feels are coming back :(

I LeArNeD SoMeThInG: Budget crisis.

i have heard of it

No, I remember WHR, but have yet to watch it. Have you seen Red Garden tho?

Nunca he visto el anime ,pero el opening es de mis favoritos. 250923

They showed this in america on adult swim this isnt exclusive to canada

Lol kill the sun. Yasss queen.

bold of you to assume i never heard of it

Ok. So I've been commenting a little bit here and there while watching.. The show probably wasn't written for an R rating. It is as it is. Anime was transitioning a bit there. The 80's were wild for anime with a lot of excess. Tits hanging out everywhere, sex scenes and tentacle porn,and superviolent. The 90's toned it down a bit more and then, prior to witch hunter robin lain was the big series for everyone, anime still had it's adult feel (whereas today it's almost strictly teen oriented), and I feel like it was just catching on to being popular in the west, so it went a little more experimental/artsy. With lain's popularity here, it went dark and existential for a number of years, (Gilgamesh, techxnolyse, ergo proxy, haibane renmei, etc), and it also went into horror elements and edge with gantz and Elfen lied and such. It wasn't the ONLY thing back then. Anime was more of medium than a genre, but WHR was definitely as it was and part of a specific trend. The horror stuff kind of died with the school days/higurashi incidents that resulted in "nice boat". I feel like darker than black and speedgrapher did it better in certain regards than this. I'm happy for renewed interests in these genres as I'm tired of Isekai. If you also want another show with moodiness and a different feel, I cannot recommend either boogiepop phantom or kino's journey (the original one) high enough.

Inyuasha bossed around his girlfriend? So we're just ignoring the fact that she physically abused him? lol I hated Kagome.

Wasn’t a fan of the ending but I overall enjoyed it

Anyone anime watcher over 20 has heard of this