8,18class score
Hadashi no Gen
movie · 1983 · Shounen, Drama, Award Winning
in the lists of 205 viewers of the class (10.9%) · Shikimori 7.77
8,18class score
Niche & depth
«While you were watching the top-100, I was excavating the industry's basements.»
Rarity
2.1%
1,881 of 90,492 profiles
Class mean score
7.06
across all ratings by the class's viewers
Ratings per list
~310
on average per viewer of the class
While the whole site discusses the season's latest hit, the Treasure Hunter is down in the depths — sifting through nineties OVAs, forgotten films and series with three dozen ratings on the whole site. The pull is organic: he might watch the popular stuff, but the spark only lights at the line «you're one of the few who rated this».
The algorithm identifies him by the share of low-popularity titles in the list: noticeably higher than the average viewer's, and not as chance visits but as a steady course. What separates the Treasure Hunter from the Underground Advocate is motive: the Advocate defends the niche with high marks, proving its underratedness, while the Hunter cares about the dig itself — a find can even get a six, what matters is that nobody found it before him.
Viewers like this are the industry's reconnaissance: nearly everything the crowd «suddenly discovers» years later, Treasure Hunters dug up and mapped in advance. A profile worth befriending: he always has a title in reserve you've guaranteed never heard of — and a couple of stories about the depths he had to drill through to find it.
a list of things nobody's heard of · the further from the top, the better
If anime characters kept rating lists, these would score titles in the spirit of «Treasure Hunter».
Treasures from the catalogue's basements: titles below the 1500th popularity mark that this class dug up en masse — and rated highly.
movie · 1983 · Shounen, Drama, Award Winning
in the lists of 205 viewers of the class (10.9%) · Shikimori 7.77
OVA · 1986 · Kids, Adventure, Drama
in the lists of 196 viewers of the class (10.4%) · Shikimori 7.39
TV series · 1999 · Josei, Horror, Mystery
in the lists of 193 viewers of the class (10.3%) · Shikimori 7.26
OVA · 1993 · Seinen, Drama, Sci-Fi
in the lists of 172 viewers of the class (9.1%) · Shikimori 7.07
movie · 1991 · Josei, Drama, Romance
in the lists of 171 viewers of the class (9.1%) · Shikimori 7.45
ONA · 2018 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy
in the lists of 166 viewers of the class (8.8%) · Shikimori 7.94
movie · 2008 · Drama, Award Winning
in the lists of 162 viewers of the class (8.6%) · Shikimori 7.99
TV series · 1994 · Shoujo, Romance, Mahou Shoujo
in the lists of 154 viewers of the class (8.2%) · Shikimori 7.92
ONA · 2025 · Action, Fantasy, Mystery
in the lists of 152 viewers of the class (8.1%) · Shikimori 8.61
The card is built from the ratings of all 1,881 viewers of the class — each class has its own recipe highlighting its signature. Music videos and 18+ are excluded. The collection recalculates as the base grows.
Even those who dig far from the charts share some treasures. Here are the titles Treasure Hunters find most often — and rate the highest.
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
movie · 2001 · Adventure, Fantasy, Award Winning
in the lists of 797 viewers of the class (42.4%) · Shikimori 8.77
Howl no Ugoku Shiro
movie · 2004 · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
in the lists of 778 viewers of the class (41.4%) · Shikimori 8.67
TV series · 2009 · Shounen, Action, Adventure
in the lists of 424 viewers of the class (22.5%) · Shikimori 9.11
TV series · 1999 · Shounen, Comedy, Delinquents
in the lists of 433 viewers of the class (23%) · Shikimori 8.68
Mononoke Hime
movie · 1997 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy
in the lists of 544 viewers of the class (28.9%) · Shikimori 8.67
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
TV series · 2023 · Drama, Mystery, Historical
in the lists of 467 viewers of the class (24.8%) · Shikimori 8.85
One Punch Man
TV series · 2015 · Seinen, Action, Comedy
in the lists of 651 viewers of the class (34.6%) · Shikimori 8.48
Tonari no Totoro
movie · 1988 · Adventure, Supernatural, Award Winning
in the lists of 561 viewers of the class (29.8%) · Shikimori 8.25
Majo no Takkyuubin
movie · 1989 · Adventure, Comedy, Drama
in the lists of 540 viewers of the class (28.7%) · Shikimori 8.24
Kimi no Na wa.
movie · 2016 · Drama, Award Winning
in the lists of 693 viewers of the class (36.8%) · Shikimori 8.82
How the collection is built: we take the ratings of all 1,881 viewers of the class and compute each title's in-class mean score and audience size. The top features titles the class both watches en masse AND rates highly (a weighted rating that cuts off stray single votes). Music videos and 18+ are excluded. The collection recalculates as the base grows.
Shikimori profiles whose ratings match the class portrait the closest. The percentage shows how much the class dominates their taste spectrum.
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