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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

next time i'm sticking to my antisocial ways

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