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I think mine is a book written in Japanese in 1988, which was translated into English in the 90s but has since gone out of print.

I probably won't count these canons as "obscure" as much as "inaccessible" for English-using audiences (which is most of DWRP). For most of the series I've played from, though, I was the only player or one of a handful of players who had journals for them.

Multimedia projects are even more daunting for the canonblind because a newcomer to the canon or character is often like, "There's a video game? The stage plays aren't an adaptation of the video game? What do you mean the Crunchyroll licensed anime is shit? There are novels? The author does AMAs daily on Xwitter? There are concerts with storylines? omg how do you deal with this" (to paraphrase an actual reaction I have seen) which means it's a fun series to enjoy but difficult to entice people to join in with the enjoyment. The few times I played from a popular-at-the-time canon, I would get a significantly bigger number of people tagging me simply because they recognized the character or canon.

Some of the obscure or inaccessible canons I've had journals for:
1) AU doujin with its own unrelated plot and story of a video game with already nebulous canon
2) movies that were supposedly going to be a trilogy and the third movie was never made, the first 2 movies were in Chinese with dodgy official subtitles
3) the multimedia project that got the omg reaction above
4) alternate history stage play series set from the 1500s-1940s, Japanese only

It’s a tossup between niche visual novels and standalone PS1 games that were never remastered or remade.

IDK if this counts as obscure but I briefly memed around with a character from the RubySpears Mega Man cartoon.

“HAh! I KNew you’d risk youRSELF for MISTer Lincoln”

i've played a couple characters from concept albums, some better known than others

did you by chance play from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots back in the day, anon

jrpg that was never translated into english

playing from one right now, in fact

a book series that’s popular enough among normies to have gotten a tv adaptation but has no surrounding fan culture

at least i got icons out of it

Ooh, which series?

while not exactly hard to find shout-out to my homies and me from back in the day that played from singular vocaloid songs

kid radd

hey, me too! i played G.I. Guy for a bit

oh, there were three of us apparently because i've seen evidence that someone played gnarl at some point

i played radd. just belatedly realized i never actually said that

The Lost Journey franchise.

Out of print fantasy series from the early 80s that I found on the 50 cent rack at my local used bookstore when I was 12.

It's since become less obscure because the publisher brought it back as an ebook, but when I first apped from it, it was nearly impossible to get copies.

Rival Schools, from the PS1 and Dreamcast era of video games. Street Fighter V gave me the tiniest amount of foolish hope that there might be a little attention put on the series. Alas. But I did get some decent icons out of it.

good taste anon! it does feel like the series hasn't gotten much attention save for the occasional cameo, but the characters' writing aged well for rp. i googled the home releases after seeing this comment and it's a shame that no one seems to have gotten around to translating/patching the school life simulator.

At least there's that recent Teppen set...

Japanese canons that wwre dubbed into Arabic, but were never dubbed into English. One didn't even fully get English subtitles...

next time i'm sticking to my antisocial ways

What’s the most obscure canon you’ve ever played from, anons?

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