10 Underrated 1990s Anime You Probably Haven't Seen

Let's play a little game - I'm going to tell you the plotline of a show and you tell me how high you think the creators were at the time. Okay? Here goes:

A trio of anthropomorphic cyborg cats who run a pizza shop in a city that is half Edo-period Tokyo and half modern Tokyo. The city is ruled by an evil anthropomorphic rat who has equally anthropomorphic minions named Bad Bird and Jerry Atric. The only way to stop the rat - named Seymor 'Big' Cheese - is for said cybernetic cats to take on samurai forms and fight against Big Cheese's minions.

Needless to say, the show doesn't have a serious bone in it. Originally debuting in Japan under the name Kyatto Ninden Teyande (literally, "Cat Ninja Legends, What!?") Saban Entertainment (the same company that brought Super Sentai to the west as Power Rangers), gobbled up the rights to the show and turned it into the Samurai Pizza Cats. And no - the original Japanese isn't any more serious than what we got in the west.

The most major changes to the series in the west were that several episodes weren't aired on television due to what the censors deemed to be excessive innuendo, and 'homosexual themes' because one of the main characters is openly gay.