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These are what I'd consider hidden gems, hard to find or under-watched titles that deserve more love than they get.

Hidden Gems Rating
3x3 Eyes (OAV) Very good
3x3 Eyes Seima Densetsu (OAV) Excellent
Alderamin on the Sky (TV) Excellent
And Yet the Town Moves (TV) Excellent
Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova Cadenza (movie) Very good
Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova DC (movie) Good
Aquatic Language (special) Excellent
Armitage III (OAV) Excellent
Armitage III: Poly-Matrix (movie) Very good
Armitage: Dual-Matrix (movie) Very good
Armor Hunter Mellowlink (OAV) Excellent
Armored Trooper Votoms (TV) Excellent
Armored Trooper Votoms Case;Irvine (OAV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms: Alone Again (OAV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms: Big Battle (OAV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files (OAV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc (OAV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms: Red Shoulder Document - Roots of Treachery (OAV) Very good
Armored Trooper Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder (OAV) Excellent
Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova (TV) Excellent
Aruvu Rezuru - Kikai Jikake no Yōsei-tachi (movie) Excellent
Banner of the Stars (TV) Masterpiece
Banner of the Stars II (TV) Masterpiece
Banner of the Stars III (OAV) Excellent
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (TV) Masterpiece
Birdy the Mighty (OAV) Very good
Birdy the Mighty Decode:02 (TV) Excellent
Birdy the Mighty: Decode (TV) Excellent
Black Jack (OAV) Excellent
Black Jack 21 (TV) Excellent
Black Jack Final (OAV) Excellent
Black Jack The Movie Excellent
Black Jack: The Two Doctors Of Darkness (movie) Very good
Black Rock Shooter (TV) Excellent
Blade of the Phantom Master (movie) Excellent
Blast of Tempest (TV) Excellent
Blue Gender (TV) Masterpiece
Bunny Drop (TV) Masterpiece
Buso Renkin (TV) Excellent
Chaika - The Coffin Princess (TV) Very good
Chaika - The Coffin Princess Avenging Battle (TV) Very good
Coicent (OAV) Masterpiece
Coyote Ragtime Show (TV) Very good
Crest of the Stars (TV) Masterpiece
Cyber City Oedo 808 (OAV) Good
Dance in the Vampire Bund (TV) Very good
Dances with the Dragons (TV) Very good
Dead Girls (OAV) Excellent
Death Billiards (movie) Excellent
Death Parade (TV) Masterpiece
Den-noh Coil (TV) Excellent
Denpa teki na Kanojo (OAV) Excellent
Dirty Pair (TV) Very good
Dirty Pair (OAV) Very good
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage (OAV) Very good
Dragonaut - The Resonance (TV) Excellent
Expelled from Paradise (movie) Excellent
Fairy gone (TV) Excellent
Figure 17 (TV) Excellent
Fire Tripper (OAV) Excellent
Five Numbers! (OAV) Excellent
(The) Five Star Stories (movie) Excellent
Flame of Recca (TV) Very good
Freedom (OAV) Excellent
(The) Garden of Sinners (movie series) Masterpiece
(The) Garden of Sinners/recalled out summer (movie) Excellent
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (TV) Excellent
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet - Far Beyond The Voyage (OAV) Excellent
Gasaraki (TV) Very good
Ghost Hound (TV) Excellent
Ghost Hunt (TV) Excellent
Ghost Talker's Daydream (OAV) Excellent
Goku Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (OAV) Very good
Gosick (TV) Very good
Green Legend Ran (OAV) Excellent
Gundress (movie) Very good
.hack//Liminality (OAV) Masterpiece
.hack//Quantum (OAV) Excellent
.hack//SIGN (TV) Excellent
Haibane Renmei (TV) Masterpiece
Happy World! (OAV) Excellent
Heaven's Memo Pad (TV) Masterpiece
Hell Girl (TV) Very good
Hell Girl: Three Vessels (TV) Excellent
Hell Girl: Two Mirrors (TV) Excellent
Heroic Age (TV) Excellent
His and Her Circumstances (TV) Good
Homeroom Affairs (OAV) Excellent
HYOUKA (TV) Very good
I''s (OAV) Excellent
I''s Pure (OAV) Masterpiece
In Another World With My Smartphone (TV) Excellent
Infinite Ryvius (TV) Masterpiece
Initial D (TV) Excellent
Initial D: Fifth Stage (TV) Good
Initial D: Final Stage (TV) Very good
Initial D: Fourth Stage (TV) Excellent
Initial D: Second Stage (TV) Excellent
Initial D: Third Stage (movie) Excellent
Innocent Venus (TV) Excellent
Interlude (OAV) Masterpiece
Inu X Boku Secret Service (TV) Excellent
Iria - Zeiram the Animation (OAV) Excellent
Joker Game (TV) Excellent
Jormungand (TV) Excellent
Jormungand Perfect Order (TV) Excellent
K (TV) Masterpiece
K: Missing Kings (movie) Excellent
K: Return of Kings (TV) Masterpiece
Karas (OAV) Excellent
Kaze no Stigma (TV) Excellent
Kaze no Yojimbo (TV) Excellent
Kemonozume (TV) Masterpiece
KenIchi the Mightiest Disciple (OAV) Very good
Kimagure Orange Road (TV) Excellent
Kimagure Orange Road (OAV) Very good
Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie Masterpiece
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Next Season~ (OAV) Excellent
King of Thorn (movie) Excellent
Kingdom (TV) Excellent
Kingdom (TV 2) Excellent
Kobato. (TV) Excellent
Koi Kaze (TV) Masterpiece
Kurau: Phantom Memory (TV) Excellent
Kurenai (TV) Masterpiece
Kurokami The Animation (TV) Masterpiece
(The) Laughing Target (OAV) Very good
(The) Legend of Black Heaven (TV) Excellent
(The) Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OAV) Masterpiece
Library War (TV) Excellent
Library War: The Wings of Revolution (movie) Masterpiece
Lost Universe (TV) Excellent
Lunar Legend Tsukihime (TV) Excellent
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (TV) Very good
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (TV) Excellent
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (TV) Excellent
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st Very good
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A's Excellent
MAOYU (TV) Excellent
Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) Excellent
Master Keaton (TV) Excellent
Master Keaton (OAV) Excellent
Megazone 23 (OAV) Excellent
Megazone 23 Part II (OAV) Excellent
Mermaid Forest (TV) Excellent
Monster (TV) Masterpiece
Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit (TV) Masterpiece
My-HiME (TV) Excellent
Myself; Yourself (TV) Masterpiece
Napping Princess (movie) Masterpiece
Natsu no Arashi! (TV) Excellent
Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū (TV) Excellent
New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning (movie) Masterpiece
Orange (TV) Excellent
Pale Cocoon (OAV) Masterpiece
Parasite Dolls (OAV) Excellent
Passage of the Stars - Birth (special) Excellent
Patema Inverted (movie) Excellent
planetarian (ONA) Masterpiece
Planetes (TV) Masterpiece
(Le) Portrait de Petite Cossette (OAV) Excellent
Princess Lover! (TV) Excellent
Rainbow Fireflies (movie) Excellent
Ray (TV) Very good
Real Drive (TV) Masterpiece
REC (TV) Masterpiece
Red Data Girl (TV) Very good
Red Garden (TV) Excellent
Requiem from the Darkness (TV) Excellent
Rideback (TV) Masterpiece
Riding Bean (OAV) Excellent
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Masterpiece
Ryoko's Case File (TV) Excellent
S-CRY-ed (TV) Excellent
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Very good
Scrapped Princess (TV) Excellent
Scryed Alteration I Tao (movie) Good
Scryed Alteration II Quan (movie) Very good
Shiki (TV) Excellent
Short Peace (movie) Very good
Shuffle! (TV) Excellent
Skip Beat! (TV) Very good
Snow White with the Red Hair (TV) Excellent
Snow White with the Red Hair (TV 2) Excellent
Sol Bianca: The Legacy (OAV) Excellent
Sola (TV) Excellent
Solty Rei (TV) Excellent
Speed Grapher (TV) Excellent
Spriggan (movie) Excellent
Star Blazers 2199 (TV) Masterpiece
Starship Operators (TV) Excellent
Stratos 4 (TV) Excellent
Stratos 4 (OAV) Excellent
Stratos 4 Advance (OAV) Excellent
Stratos 4 Advance Kanketsuhen (OAV) Excellent
They Were 11 (movie) Excellent
(The) Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye (TV) Excellent
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (TV) Excellent
Time of Eve (ONA) Masterpiece
Time of Eve (movie) Masterpiece
TO (OAV) Excellent
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV) Masterpiece
Tokyo Majin (TV) Excellent
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Tou 2nd Act (TV) Excellent
Tokyo Ravens (TV) Excellent
Towanoquon (movie series) Excellent
(The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) Excellent
Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune (movie) Excellent
Utawarerumono (TV) Excellent
ViVid Strike! (TV) Excellent
Votoms Finder (OAV) Very good
We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky (TV) Excellent
Welcome to the NHK (TV) Masterpiece
Wicked City (movie) Excellent
Witch Craft Works (TV) Very good
Witch Hunter Robin (TV) Excellent
xxxHOLiC (TV) Very good
xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream Excellent
xxxHOLiC: Kei (TV) Excellent
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (TV) Excellent
Yona of the Dawn (TV) Excellent
Yosuga no Sora - In solitude where we are least alone (TV) Excellent
Zakuro (TV) Excellent
Zan Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (TV) Very good
Zan Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei Bangai-chi (OAV) Very good
Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (TV) Very good
Zone of the Enders (TV) Excellent