It’s easy to see the 1990s as one of the biggest decades for anime, if not the biggest. In addition to the creation of the anime block Toonami, the 90s were defined by anime like Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho, and the legendary trio of Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z, all of which have gone down as some of the most iconic and well-regarded anime of all time.

The 1990s was a legendary era for anime, but not everything from that era left its mark on the world. As with any decade, some anime were greatly overshadowed by bigger shows, but with how wildly the quality of any piece of entertainment can vary, while plenty of anime from the 1990s were wildly underrated, there were just as many that, for various reasons, aren’t worth watching so many years after the fact. A few anime in both categories are especially worth highlighting,...