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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 2d

228: Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion

AKA Transforming Bullet Train Robot Shinkalion, it's an anime based on a toy line about bullet trains that turn into mechas driven by kids that fight monsters

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 4d

227: Meteora

A series from Bubble Comics following the titular space smuggler and her dangerous escapades across space

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 5d

226: Fuzzy Things: FvF

A Newgrounds fighting game based on the webcomic Fuzzy Things

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 9d

225: Higher Ground

A 2000 show set in a therapeutic boarding school where the students learn to face their troubled and dark pasts

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 11d

224: Paper Girls

A sci-fi drama Image comic series following four 12 year-old newspaper delivery girls who become caught in the middle of a conflict between warring factions of time travelers. It received a live action show adaptation in 2022

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 13d

223: Najavu No Daibouken: My Favorite Namjatown

A game based on the Namco theme park Namjatown. It's a collection of minigames following an archeologist on the hunt for artifacts and treasures

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 16d

222: Ned's Newt

A cartoon about a lonely boy who saves up enough to buy a pet newt. After eating too much specialized newt food, he turns into a talking giant and the two become best friends

Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 18d

221: Helvetica

A webcomic following the titular skeleton who wakes up in the afterlife with no memory. Now he struggles to uncover who he was before dying and deal with the intricacies of life after death

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 20d

220: Annalyn MD

A falling blocks puzzle game that's essentially a spiritual successor to Dr. Mario

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 23d

219: Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series

A cartoon loosely based on the live action Disney trilogy. Set on a world where alien ducks made hockey their lifestyle, it follows a hockey team that fights evil between their games

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 25d

218: Blackstar: The Novel

A book based on Celldweller's titular album. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity's remnants dwell in a city containing a public archive of humanity's memories called Re:memory. It follows an info broker who uncovers a dark truth while browsing Re:memory

Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · 27d

217 - Betty Bad

An action game where you play as the titular armored bounty hunter who has to eradicate an alien infestation

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Sep 19

216 - Do We Eat Him?

A dark comedy webseries following two women trying to survive a zombie apocalypse

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Sep 17

215 - Lauren Ipsum

A gag-a-day webcomic following the misadventures of a loony librarian and her friends

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Sep 15

214 - Parachute Panic

A casual game where the player has to successfully land parachutists in boats while avoiding obstacles like helicopter blades and sharks

Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

213 - GEB Operating System

A frutiger aero influenced digital horror ARG series revolving around the protagonist experiencing bizarre and personal phenomena while using the titular operating system

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Sep 10

212 - The Nine Lives of Klaws McGee

A comedy fantasy comic made by Sonic comic writer Ian Flynn. It's about the titular Klaws who tells stories of his life as an adventurer that may or may not have happened

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Sep 1

211 - DonPachi

A bullet hell shmup series developed by CAVE

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 29

210 - The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales

A French animated anthology film with a dry sense of humor that mostly takes place on a farm. The stories focus on a fox taking care of a family of chicks, a rabbit that acts like a stork, and a duck who wants to replace Father Christmas

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 27

209 - Wings Above the Mallee

A poignant romance novel where both leads work through their tragedies and losses

Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 25

208 - Chzo Mythos

A four-part freeware horror adventure game series. The first game follows a thief burgling an old country manor, only to be trapped inside it with other people and a murderous entity. The rest of the games jump around in time and space to unravel the manor's secrets

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 22

207 - I Married a Strange Person!

A surreal adult animated film made by Bill Plympton. It follows a newlywed man who develops a strange lump on his neck that lets him transform objects or people at will, to his wife's a chagrin.

Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 20

206 - Rattus Futura: An Anthology of Future Rodents

A collection of short sci-fi stories, poems, and art centered around rodents

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 18

205 - Super Lesbian Animal RPG

An indie rpg following a healer named Melody who decides to join her adventurous girlfriend Allison on a quest. Then things take a turn for the bizarre. SLARPG is a game about love, anxiety, and fighting funny-looking monsters in dungeons.

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Weekly Obscure Media @weeklyobscuremedia.bsky.social · Aug 15

204 - The Deadly Spawn

A gruesome 80's sci-fi horror movie following a young monster movie fan trying to fend his house from a carnivorous alien that snuck into his basement

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