I will vote Hikaru No Go as underrated as well as Spiral.
Good choice with Hikaru no Go, although usually regarded quite highly... it's often forgotten.
Spiral, I think it's rated about right. I really enjoyed it, but the piece of crap ending it had completely ruined my experience. It felt like I wasted my time watching it.
I have tried to like anime. I have really tried...and Im not a guy that has ANYTHING against cartoons. I still watch batman from time to time (the old animated series from the 90's, not the dumb futuristic one).
I mean Ninja Scroll will always have a spot in my heart, (is that even anime?).
But I tried to watch Cowboy Bebop, tried to watch some other ones...never took.
Well at least your tried. And yes, Ninja Scroll is an anime... the movie was great, the series sucked.
Cowboy Bebop, even though is a cool series I can see why people might not like it. I for one didn't think much of it when I first tried it. I gave it another shot, and loved it. The final episodes are legendary.
I don't know how you've been watching the anime, but I've always felt that watching it with the Japanese audio and English subtitles is a vastly superior way to watch these. The English dub more often than not dumbs down the anime and makes them lame.
I'll mention a couple more series here in case you haven't tried them, and are willing to give it another shot... who knows, maybe you'll find yourself bored (they are more of the great plot/drama variety targeted to young-adults or adults):
Monster - Great mystery thriller drama about a doctor who saves the life of a boy, just to later find out years later that he became a serial killer (while he himself is a suspect of the killings).
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=1539Twelve Kingdoms - Great story about a girl in highschool that suddenly gets visited by a guardian from a parallel universe, let's her know that she's to become their ruler, takes her there just so that she can find out a quite a ruthless society in the middle of a war. Because of her physical appearance, peoeple try to kill her... and it's her journey to find her rightful place to the throne. Great animation, story, and action.
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=26Now and Then, Here and There - a boy gets warped into another world, where he finds himself in an oppressed society where children are enslaved. Quite a dark/mature series.
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=114