No.405737
From before you were big into anime, before you knew what anime was,
Before you were born?
Anyone else discover and start watching a classic recently? Image related
No.405738
No.405806
No.405832
No.405869
>>405737
The line was crossed when we stopped calling them japanese cartoons, as God intended.
Anyway, find anything you can about Black Jack. One of the best characters ever written in this barren land of copycats.
No.405882
I just got into Lupin the Third. Its super fucking good.
No.405922
>Before you were born?
Pic related is the Japanese cartoon that sparked a rebellion that no one remembers.
>Anyone else discover and start watching a classic recently?
Seconding >>405869, though I've seen the original and the 80s-90s incarnations, and recommend those. The pussified latest incarnation, not so much. I do wonder if Tezuka was alive how he feels about fujoshi appropriating his Mary Sue and turning BJ into yaoibait fodder.
No.405937
Ashita No Joe lately. I don't know if 90s anime is concidered to be old but I'm watching Saber marionette J
No.405938
>>405869
>Anyway, find anything you can about Black Jack. One of the best characters ever written in this barren land of copycats.
Whats the appeal?
Isnt he just a doctor?
No.405949
>>405938
>Isnt he just a doctor?
He's an outlaw surgeon with a grudge against normal people. The stories swing very brutally between comic and vicious, and often show his mean streak whenever he inflicts a batman gambit on a patient to see if he's worthy of living.
He's a bigger character than the medical subgenre implies, because of the biographic material thrown in by the author. A classic Black Jack scenario would be, saving a guy who's going to get his leg amputated, the kind of stuff that's seen often in times of war.
If it were done today, all the stuff about pain and death would turn into emo faggotry. As it is instead, it's sad but clear headed, and you don't feel like an idiot reading it.
No.406050
>>405869
I think a short while before "Anime" became standard, the term "Japanimation" made a few rounds.
>>405937
Eh, the overall theme is "before your time," so it's subjective.
No.406071
>>405737
I was going to ask how you went so long without knowing Ranma 1/2 existed, but then I remembered that it's a series completely unsullied by a shitty fanbase or widespread tumblr faggotry.
So, keep that one under your hat, if you could.
No.406077
>>406071
Yeah, holy crap it hurts to imagine what feminists and otherkin would do with that series premise.
Going with "before your time" though, not so recently, Cutie Honey. Wonder if there's more subbed episodes since I last looked.
No.406094
>>405738
Are there even english subs in existence for the anime version of this?
I feel like if there are they're on a VHS tape in someone's basement, slowly molding away
No.406098
>>405922
Apparently everyone over the age of 25 knows Voltes. They all thought Combattler was a ripoff, kinda like France and Saudi Arabia with Grendizer being more popular than Mazinger.
No.406102
Captain Harlock, first series. The anime that embodies /pol/ and would make tumblr foam at the mouth.
Earth is populated by cuck midgets who won't defend it as a matriarchy, of sexy alien womyn approaches. It is up to a loner with a pirate spaceship to stop them.
When struck to death, the aliens scream and burn like witches. As main characters literally cry with joy and a smile on their faces.
Harlock himself is impossibly cool, but distant. The viewership embodies in his younger doppelganger, a kid from Earth who's out to get revenge for his father. That guy is mentally unstable and is consumed by anger and hate, in a way that no possible modern animation -especially western- would allow. In here, he's a hero.
No.406222
>>406102
Harlock's creator is, notoriously, ultra-right-wing (by contemporary standards).
No.406342
>>405949
I just dont see how it can be interesting, he either saves his patents or he desnt. Is there some over-arching story?
I will give it a try, but it wonnt be high up on my backlog. Then again i was a faggot who was originally reluctant to watch Kaiji because of the art, and it's now one of my favourite anime/mangas.
No.406357
Been getting into Lupin III for the first time
No.406374
I've been reading dragonball. I used to watch the show as a kid but I actually enjoy it in the manga form way more than I thought I would.
No.406389
I just finished s-CRY-ed the other day. I have no idea why I had never heard of that masterpiece before.
No.406405
Urusei Yatsura has been going great...
>>405882
>>406357
Lupin the III has an amazing album i you find any "You & the Explosion" just bask in Yuji Ohno greatness.
No.406428
>>406102
The Legiverse is great as long as you don't think about the continuity. Legi never lets details get in the way of a good story. For me personally the Mayu thing never getting fleshed out bugged me. She's Toshiro and Esmeraldas's daughter right?
No.406433
Robot Lesbian Battle Elves, otherwise known as Fight! Izcer 1.
No.406559
Recently watched Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories for the first time.
Each episode was really very different from the others thematically.
The first, Magnetic rose, was a mix of science-fiction, horror, and drama. The second, Stink Bomb, more of a dark comedy/horror.
The third, Cannon Fodder, was very very unconventional. Part dystopian social commentary, but the world he creates is just so dreamlike, yet in a nightmarish way. Like something from a fairytale.
Otomo actually wrote and directed Cannon Fodder. Magnetic Rose was directed by veteran animator Kouji Morimoto, while Stink Bomb was directed by Darker than Black creator Tensai Okamura.
Both Magnetic Rose and Stink Bomb were written by Satoshi Kon
Magnetic Rose was the biggest surprise. I don't want to hype it up too much, but if you've never seen it, give it a watch. It's only like 45 minutes.
I remember thinking that this would be fairly typical space horror early on. While there was an element of that (very well done), I realized my expectations were being betrayed when Heintz and Miguel entered the structure and saw what it was like inside.
But what really surprised me was the Emily subplot. Very well foreshadowed, at first I thought the creepy doll and spooky girl were just typical horror conventions. But tying them into Heintz's past was brilliant.
The way things escalate, from horror to horror-action, was brilliantly done. Things keep ramping up up to the explosive finale.
Ultimately, the story was about being a slave shackled to the past vs living on in the present.
Heintz dealt with the loss of Emily and was able to go on living his life. While Eva died, alone and secluded in a prison she'd built to lock herself in the past, the only legacy of her prestige and fame a death-trap that hypnotizes men and drags them into the fantasy world that she left behind.
At least Miguel got what he wanted. Poor, poor Miguel.
Lush scenery, beautiful animation, a moving story, with a soundtrack that's part opera and part Yoko Kanno, it's one of the buried gems of Japanese animation.
Stink Bomb, on the otherhand, is a surreal comedy. There's less to say about it than Magnetic Rose. It's not bad, I enjoyed it a great deal for the direction/animation. There's not much in the way of thematic content or story, it's just really fun from beginning to end. At least I thought it was.
Cannon Fodder felt at times more like a silent movie. There was strong emphasis on the images and what was going on visually on screen, but what little dialogue there was was rarely focused on. Most talking was done off camera or to the side. It was the world Otomo was illustrating that he wanted us to explore.
It felt less like a story being told about a fictional world, than a glimpse into it. Like we're just observing what's going on in some other universe. We get a general sketch of what life is like there for its denizens, with emphasis on how different it is.
But there are obvious parallels meant to be drawn between the fictional world and the real. It takes trends that we see in real life but takes them to fantastical extremes. The setting might be uncanny but the characters are still humans, having to live in their reality. So we see through their lenses what life would be like in that kind of world.
No.406573
>>405842
Full manga scanlated never.
No.406900
>>406102
>The anime that embodies /pol/
It really is.
No.407451
>>406342
>he either saves his patents or he desnt
There's a difference between watching the game, and reading the score a week later. Lots of people die in Black Jack, but of course he's a god and mostly saves them: still, it's about the process and not the result.
>>406428
>She's Toshiro and Esmeraldas's daughter right?
Yes, but they only say so at the end of the series. We only know that his friend's ghost is in the ship computer, but not exactly who he is (or the mother).
No.407704
>>406102
>The anime that embodies /pol/
>Not Angel Cop
Japanese agents fight a leftist revolutionary group that tries to fuck up japanese economy. The group is really financed and backed by USA which is secretly controlled by jews.
No.407758
Gundam 0080: War in the pocket
Underrated even on the Gundam community sometimes , deserves more love. Quick watch.
No.407760
>>407758
>people hating on 0080
It quite possibly can rival some of Tominos work
No.407761
>>407760
Like, I've been going through UC series in chronological order, and this is my favorite gundam series ATM. Haven't finished 0083, tho
No.407777
>>407758
0080 is great. Probably my favorite Gundam after 08th MS Team, and that's only if I pretend episode 12 never happened.
No.407792
Theres so much shit to watch
i keep falling for the late 80s / early 90s OVAs
Ruin Explorers, Plastic Little, Nuku Nuku (how come none of the shows was good, they were too meh)
Also, i keep pushing back watching Prefectural defense force and finishing Genmu Senki Leda
Plus these last few new animu seasons have been unwatchable for me, i think i am finally too old for new animus
(The last 2 titles i saw fully were Otome youkai Zakuro and GJ-Bu)
No.408064
Damn I've seen most of these besides Robot Lesbian Battle Elves. kek. That had me giggling. Is it any good?
Being a older animu fan is the pits. I really miss older animation.
No.412884
I recently started watching Escaflowne. I found it at a local pawn shot, I picked it along with Ikkitousen and Yukikaze up for $40.
The animation is really smooth, especially during action scenes and the music is stellar. The shoujo themes aren't as strong as I had expected when I started watching the series, they've handled the combination of action and romance quite well thus far.
I plan to watch Rahexphon after this, as it too has strong romantic elements.
No.412902
Watamote, I saw it only recently. When it was released I avoided it because I thought that it's made by stupid normalfags who pretend to know our culture, but now I see that there are really girls who are like anons.
No.412937
>>405737
The anime is 90% fillers.
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No.412952
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I have been trying to watch the old classics like Ideon, galaxy express, captain Harlock and Votoms. However I always get bored with them and drop them. I guess the dull colors, poor shading and lack of effects turn me off. I have found the Crying Freeman manga interesting though, the art, action and story are nice/interesting.
No.413011
>>413001
Laserdisc art on Chinese cartoons are so fucking badass
No.413013
>>412884
You actually found the Escaflowne box set for cheap?
Jesus christ
No.413033
>>412952
Ideon really has too many episodes. The thing about running away, being found and fighting goes on for too long and doesn't add much to anything.
Even though you won't miss anything by just watching the movie (A contact), the movie kinda rushes some stuff.
So if you think you won't get through the series I recommend just watching the two movies.
>>406102
Can I just watch the anime, or is the manga especially good?
No.413298
>not exclusively watching chinese cartoons prior to 2000
>watching chinese cartoons made post-2000
>implying youre not uncultured swine
No.413349
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>>408064
The sequel Genki Loli Robot Battle Elves was better. Also known as Izcer Reborn or Izcer 3 Adventures.
No.413351
>>413349
There is also a third unfinished installment in the series called Izcerlion. It's shit. It didn't help that is was being produced at the tail end of the OVA boom where quality and sales were going to hell. It had a plot that was just too much of a stretch from the first 2 series to even be made in the same continuity. One more thing on Izcer 3 was the superb ship designs. Very boss mechanical designs.
No.413358
>>413351
Went ahead and looked up who that designer was. Yasuhiro Moriki was design/mechanical design for better know works such as Crest/Banner of the Stars, Nadesico, and Rayearth. Most recently did the Imperial Arms design in the Akame ga Kill! anime.
No.413382
I watched the first season of Yamato recently.
My feelings on the show are conflicted. There are a ton of animation mistakes, the plot is often inconsistent and the filler isn't fun, I remember very little of the episodes between the first and the finale.
However, when the show gets good, it's pretty awesome. I'll watch the remake at some point to see if it's any better, and maybe the second season at some point.
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>>406433
>Robot Lesbian Battle Elves
Sounds promising
**
Daitarn III
It has Kaminas father.
No.413417
It's not really a "classic", but I've been watching Galaxy Angel recently and am having a blast. 2001 was 15 years ago.
It's not recent, but I still consider the three months I spent watching Urusei Yatsura to be some of the best time in my life too.
No.413434
Watched Chobits the other day. Was pretty decent.
No.413523
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Not sure if this counts as 'old' but it certainly counts as a classic in my book.
No.413540
>>413523
1990 was 26 years ago.
No.413552
While I have seen it before, I reccently rewatched "Angel's egg". It is a beautifull looking film. It dosn't make much sense, but i belive that it is a 'visual exerience' more than anything else.
No.413559
Yu Yu hakusho.When i was but a wee lad it aired on cable and i never got to watch it(for some reason i never gave it a chance after all these years). I am having a blast.
No.413562
>>413552
neat, I've got the art book for that.
No.413651
Outlaw Star. Damn 90's animation had style
No.413658
Watching some Grumpy a few months ago and his review of Windaria enticed me. He said it was depressing; he sure wasn't kidding. Then watched Weathering Continent right after. Twas a good evening.
DO NOT WATCH THE HARMONY GOLD RELEASE OF THIS. IT'S SHIT
No.413659
>>413382
Before 2199 came out I wanted to watch the original. Well kind of by mistake I ended up with Star Blazers, which is the same except for the names and replacing some of the more mature content with shit like "Wildstar! come drink some of this Earth Spring water with me"
No.413675
I decided to hunker down and watch through LOGH. It's older than I am by about less than a year, so it was about time.
It is a fucking gem. I'm always reticent when it comes to taking recommendations and hearing good things about something, but this is a fucking gem.
The animation is surprisingly good, the voice acting is surprisingly good, the plots aren't that contrived for the most part, the dialogue is great, and it's a fucking treasure trove of great screenshots. I can sympathize with most characters on both sides, even if they're working against each other and against themselves. I can even sympathize with Paul, even though he led to Reinhard's increasing alienation and indirectly to Sieg's death.
It's a fucking ride.
No.413697
>>406102
I had been meaning to pick up Captain Harlock since I loved Gun Frontier so much. Your description sold it.
No.413729
>>413697
I'm going through it myself and it's wonderful; the animation can be kind of QUALITY at times but once you get used to it it really draws you in
No.413732
>>405922
>sparked a rebellion that no one remembers.
Please explain.
No.413735
Dragon Ball
Urusei Yatsura
No.413737
>>413735
>That song
Pretty nice.
No.413830
>>413523
I'm watching this right now and it's great. Nadia herself is the worst thing about it though.
Hopefully she'll stop being such a whiny bitch before the end.
No.413846
Finally got around to watching both Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer and Goshogun Time Etranger. They complement each other fairly well, as surreal films about trying to break out of a dream state, but in very different takes on the concept. Even how they treat their source material is very different, and they just make a great companion piece to each other.
Good soundtracks and animation for both as well.
No.413902
>>413830
>Hopefully she'll stop being such a whiny bitch before the end
She gets pretty bad in the fillers (around episode 25) to the point she's just a bitch for the sake of it. But they're fillers so whatever.
No.413958
>>406559
Magnetic Rose is absolutely perfect, I'm glad people here know about it
No.413987
>>413846
>Time Entranger
Mah nigga
No.414006
Ghost Sweeper Mikami. Its fun, like if Zettai Karen Children wasnt written for pedophiles.
No.414049
>>413846
>Goshogun's director has done nothing but direct the Pokemon TV series for nearly 20 years
No.414235
>>413559
we need more shonen protags like Yusuke. these days MC is either a pussy, an edgelord, or a dumbass. i could totally see Yusuke as being a real dude.
No.414244
>>406102
Galaxy Express (same universe) is the first anime I ever saw. I saw it as a child and it blew my mind.
In the US, the SciFy channel used to have whole weeks dedicated to showing anime moves from 10pm until 6am the next day.
I miss that.
No.414376
>>414244
Was it on that much? I remember them having movies on saturday. Iria was the one I really remember, though come to think of it, that's where I saw tank police too. that and toonami were my formal introduction, unless we count speed racer.
No Idea if Zeiram was over my head at the time, or if it really did have nothing going for it other than having a fapworthy protagonist at a time when I was smack in the middle of puberty. MY main memory of it is a booty shot where she's rummaging through her ship's storage compartment or something.
No.414404
Kawajiri seems to be generally overlooked, even though his works (Oedo 808, Wicked City, Ninja Scroll) are concentrate of the old style.
BTW, he's still in the industry.
No.414495
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>>414404
>Kawajiri seems to be generally overlooked
Nigger what? While he hasn't done anything since 2007 (when he made that shitty Highlander anime), stuff like Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust are some of his most celebrated works. Ninja Scroll especially was a huge "gateway" anime for budding weaboos in the 90s. Kawajiri also directed a short for the Animatrix in 2003. You're clearly an underage newfag.
Oedo is my favorite Kawajiri anime. Had this been a 26 episode series it would've been a hit on the level of Trigun or Outlaw Star. The ingredients for an entertaining action anime TV series are all there
No.414764
>>414495
Now find a thread about any of that today, clearly-not-a-newfag-who-is-also-a-fool-for-using-wikipedia.
No.416688
Where do I start with GE999?
Is the movie set before the series, or is the series first? Or is the movie like LoGH and just a remake of one or two early episodes?
I want to get into this, but I dont know how.
No.416702
>>416688
Seperate adaptions. The movies are directed by Rintaro and Captain Harlock is in them.
Also just in case you don't know, FelineYogi did about 43 episodes ripped from the Blu-rays (upscales) and DVD's. The rest you can watch from Horriblesubs.
No.416704
>>416702
No idea who Captain Harlock is.
Seperate adaptions, do they cover different content? Which is better?
I dont want to pick say the movie and find it spoiled the series.
Where would you reccomend starting?
No.416709
I love early to mid nineties anime.
Apparently they made a new Arslan but fuck that I love this art style.
No.416717
>>416704
Captain Harlock is Leiji Matsumoto's most famous character, a space pirate. He has his own series with its own sequels. The Matsumotoverse tends to crossover with eachother.
The TV series is a closer adaption of the manga, so I would start there.
No.416720
>>416717
Thanks anon.
This is probably the oldest anime I will have seen.
No.416995
Lain
I feel my eyes and brain is hurting
No.417431
>>416709
new one does look like dogshit; reason enough to ignore it.
No.417433
>>416995
My nigga. It was one of those things I was aware of but never checked out until recently. Man it's weird how they hit some things right on the head.
No.417544
>>414515
Just saw this, it's alright.
wish it had more action
No.417548
>>405737
How is that show? I actually liked Inuyasha so if it has that kind of charm I should probably watch it. (I think it has the same authors anyway)
No.417549
>>417548
It's cute slice of life with some plot and feels here and there. Shampoo is best girl.
No.417550
>>406559
I should've finished that. I liked Magnetic Rose, but Stink Bomb and Canon Fodder didn't click with me at all. I actually rented that from my local library.
No.417551
>>417549
I'll have to check it out. I don't think it ever saw a release above 480p, so it would probably be perfect for my slow ass internet. Getting large files at 12kbps really fucking sucks.
No.417619
Recently finished Getter Robo Armageddon
Get on that, if you haven't seen it.
It's certainly my favourite Super Robot show.
Currently flicking between VOTOMs and Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!
Chirico has been imprisoned a comical number of times
The poor bastard can't catch a break.
>>406102
I've been eyeing Harlock for a while. You've pushed me into actually watching it. Might go for Space Battleship Yamato afterwards, if it's good.
>>406357
I've been enjoying 2015 Lupin III, but the sheer volume of the classic stuff is intimidating. Are there any particular parts to recommend or are you just ploughing through it?
>>407704
>Angel Cop
Mein neger
No.417701
God Mars
Early Lupin III
Some Gall Force stuff. I actually have a VHS bootleg of one of them somwhere...
The one with the female Indiana Jones type chick
No.417824
>>405737
I just started Kimagure Orange Road.
No.417831
I remember watching anime at my father place. One of couple good memories from my childhood. I cant remember title but it was something about ghost ship.
>>417701
>Early Lupin III
Is castle of caligostro any good? I tried to watch something from lupin III but it was "so I steal all the money with one hand,beat everyone with the other hand, laugh at everyone with my mouth and fuck everyone with my dick all at the same time"
No.421237
>>417548
There's not really an overarching plot to drive things forward, but it's not so mundane that it can be called slice of life, and it's not really romantic or character-growth oriented enough to be a romance series. It occasionally has small arcs, but it's almost kind of monster/villain of the week at times.
It's a weird creature of a show, but it's got a good cast of characters and a fun premise and even if it doesn't really go anywhere (it literally doesn't. The end of the series was the author saying "Just imagine they had more adventures. Everything stays the same. The end) it's still a fun ride.
No.421239
>>414764
>Now find a thread about any of that today
Nigger, his shit is decades old, no ones going to make generals for it every single week you stupid faggot. And that being the case doesn't make him "overlooked".
Everyone recognizes Astro Boy as the beginning of anime as know it today, but you don't need a general for it to know that.
No.421244
>>417619
>Recently finished Getter Robo Armageddon
I'm still sore that we'll never get the continuation of the original storyline established by the first three episodes.
I mean what we got was awesome and all, but I really wanted to see where Imagawa was going with it.
No.421248
>>417831
Castle of Caligostro is a classic. It's a must see for both Lupin and non-Lupin fans, but knowing a little bit about the characters does help.
No.422065
Last night I was on a gaming new website and saw that Arslan game was going to be released soon. I then promptly remembered that this is an anime series that I should finally get around to watching. I proceeded to download the OVAs along with a batch for the new series.
I just finished the OVAs. It was really enjoyable, though there were some things that could have benefited from a little more screen time, like the whole war with the Turan and how Jimsa worked his way into Narses plan.
The whole king breaking his chains, taking Guiscard hostage and proceeding to just mosey out of his castle, was the most bad-ass thing from the whole series.
I'll probably watch the OVAs again once I finish the first season of the new series.
No.422086
>>413552
I watched this a few years ago, it's really hard to describe the feeling I got from it. There was what, maybe 5 lines throughout the movie, yet it was still visually and aurally engaging.
On topic, started going through my backlog and finally got around to watching Cromatie High. I feel like such an idiot for not watching it earlier
No.422094
>>422086
>feel like such an idiot for not watching it earlier
Amount of good anime is finite. If you watch all of it in one go you will have nothing to watch afterwards.
No.422097
I finished playing SoTN some time ago and I wanted to see more stuff with that style so I watched Vampire Hunter D. The guns, the designs, everything was awesome. Definitely gonna watch more of Yoshitaka Amano's anime.
No.422099
>>422094
It sucks that this is the case and that newer anime are, in general, meh tier at best with an occasional good one popping out. I'm really not looking forward to the day when I've watched all good anime. Depressing I'm close to hitting that mark with vidya.
No.422101
>>422097
Did you watch the first movie or Bloodlust?
No.422107
No.422220
>>405737
recently started watching Urusei Yatsura
unlike all the "comedies" of today I've actually found myself laughing and enjoying this one. Its nice to watch a comedy that doesn't think the definition of a joke is "shoe-horned sexual innuendo"
No.422232
>>422099
Just start reading mangos, it's gonna last a lot longer.
No.422241
I watched Night on the Galactic Railroad recently. I didn't know what to expect, but it blew me away. I also watched Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! a little while back, and found to to be very enjoyable as well.
No.423345
I watched Record of Lodoss War not too long ago. I really like the art style it has. It looks so detailed and beautiful.
No.423744
>>422099
i have so many classics archived away and haven't seen most of them. and this is the reason. after I watch them, what then?
No.423762
Just finished watching Devilman: The Birth
and I was blown away.
I haven't seen monster designs that twisted an nightmarish, or violence that visceral and gleeful in a long time.
Having thoroughly enjoyed both this and Getter Robo Armageddon, I think I'm going to download a bunch of Go Nagai manga and check it out.
No.424640
>>422232
>>422099
>>423744
>when everything good has been watched/played/read
No.425867
>>422232
Luckily my manga backlog is huge, so hopefully I won't be running out of material anytime soon.
>>423744
Since I'm close to finishing my vidya backlog, I've started learning Unity to make my own game. Starting of with a small project, but who knows, maybe further down the line I'll make something good.
>>424640
Man that hits hard. Learning something new is the only thing that keeps me from falling into despair.
No.425869
>>422232
Luckily my manga backlog is huge, so hopefully I won't be running out of material anytime soon.
>>423744
Since I'm close to finishing my vidya backlog, I've started learning Unity to make my own game. Starting of with a small project, but who knows, maybe further down the line I'll make something good.
>>424640
Man that hits hard. Learning something new is the only thing that keeps me from falling into despair.
God damn site goblin let me post
No.427714
>>413675
I've already seen it myself but you're an absolute asshole for not spoilering the character deaths.
No.427756
>>422099
Dude I feel you. I've already hit that mark with vidya
>tfw you'd rather play through the Seiken Densetsu series for the 1000th time then pay to repair your PS4
I didn't know how bad anime was getting until I recently cleared through a bit of my backlog. I say this mostly in terms of animation though. Many older shows such LotGH, Record of Lodoss Wars, and Gunbuster weren't really fantastic stories. I don't watch anime for that though. Revolutionary Girl Utena hit my target zone so god damn hard. not just with the pink hair fetish That weird ass Ikuhara story telling and the incredible (though recycled) animation.
No.427953
What's this? No mention of Rose of Versailles? No mention of City Hunter? No Sakigake Otokojuku?!
I'm disappointed, but also delighted that you all get to discover these gems for the first time. Delighted and jealous.
No.427965
>>427953
>No mention of Rose of Versailles? No mention of City Hunter? No Sakigake Otokojuku?!
Everyone has watched all of these long time ago, and there is nothing left to discuss. I'd rather see more posts about stuff like Harlock, Windaria, and Devilman (which finally got ripped with Discotek subs not so long ago).
No.427970
>>427953
Rose of Versailles is rubbish.
No.427974
>>427756
Revolutionary Girl Utena is pretty much the best materialisation and reification of the feminist ethos. You can tell it was made by a man, because it really gets what patriarchy is and really gets at what rebellious women don't like about the patriarchal system, and how they are inherently tragic creatures, because they desire an impossibility, not least because they feel conflicted about their desire. The fact that Utena loses her virginity with the symbol of The Patriarch in the show is sheer brilliance.
Beyond the thematic treatment, the mise en scene is also brilliant. The theatrical framing of the whole show fits the contents like a glove, and the series in all its nooks is full of artistry and craftsmanship.
Lighting in a bottle, pretty much. A testament to this is that politically I lean "far right", traditionalist, and yet I enjoyed the series immensely.
No.427976
>>423345
You're talking about the OVA, right?
No.427998
>>427974
I couldn't agree more with you.
I'm a pretty harsh person in my ideals as well and I found that series to be fantastic.
No.428134
>>427965
Let me throw around some info about the Leijiverse, for those who are interested in the old classics. This is the loosely-tied fictional universe of Leiji Matsumoto's works, whose trademark is incredibly romanticized science fiction. We are talking about a guy who literally has an old west train, fly into space. This is played completely straight, no snark and false shame involved: the result just trascends.
These series are, at the same time, shonens for darn children AND tales filled with rage and resentment. Matsumoto is a very old man, his works are contemporary to stuff like Go Nagai or Star Trek's original series. Old enough to write about the far right's feeling in the aftermath of WW2. It can't be any more evident, than in Battleship Yamato where the japanese fleet's flagship has to fight off a race of blonde invaders who devastated their land with atomic bombs.
Yamato is too well known and I've already described Harlock up above, so let me talk about Galaxy Express 999. We're talking about an episodic scifi travel story, with a solid granite planet of the week format. The bare bones summary would be, that a gorgeous blonde lures a shota into traveling through a series of ever more decadent societies: with the goal of turning the boy into a machine, who can feel no pain.
Any kid from the 70s who reads that summary shit, would sign up immediately for the adventure: you got cool places to visit, a hot woman and a killer gun to boot. For you, it should ring as many fucking alarm bells under you ass as possible.
You got a kid whose mother gets hunted for sport by a band of augmented humans, whose law forces the vanilla to be their cattle. And like all of them, the kid believes the invisible hand bullshit that if he works hard enough, one day he will have a chance of traveling on the space train and become augmented himself: which brings immortality and shuts down emotions. Of course he's got no chance, and here the seductress shows up, playing motherly and cozy: come with me little boy, I'll give you everything for free. It's not a trap, but consider you'll have the entire rest of the human race out to steal your place on that train, so arm yourself for a struggle.
At its core, Galaxy Express 999 is an exploration of dystopias. Lots of them are complete bullshit, fairy tales for japanese schoolchildren: here's the planet split in classes, here's the planet of the cavemen, here's the planet whose owner became a living iron monument and just looks at the sky forever.
Now, your brain might have autocompleted that the goal of the show at this spoint, is to help any of those faggots like the A-Team. Far from it. It's too late: the good people are there, but they're isolated; there's no justice, nothing to save; they are positively rotten worlds. Your mission is to survive until the train refills and departs the next morning. It's bleak, sometimes comically or childishly so, but played absolutely straight.
You'll be excused too, if you thought that the kid was a blatant self insertion for the viewership, and the blonde was pure fanservice. They are... but these are not the 70s anymore: you become that kid, it's like watching through the eyes of another generation. Are you comfortable with the idea of killing an entire race in revenge, do you lick your lips when the kickback on your bigass gun shatters the face of every cyborg you meet? That little kid does. His new mom, slash teacher, slash lover taught him so.
No.428150
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>>417831
>Lupin III
S1 "green jacket" was the most dark and unconventional, with some memorable deaths. Season 3 was stale and homeogenized, think Toei.
Season 2 "red jacket" was Miyazaki's masterpiece. Lupin got turned into a gentleman thief, and it was all about the chemistry within the trio. Not to mention that fucking samurai's moves being so orgasmic (well, that's not exclusive to S2).
Don't miss on Miyazaki's cameo episodes from S2. One is a spoof of Conan Future Boy, with Fujiko Mine running commando on some uber plane. The other is a little masterpiece, honestly good enough for its own series: the robot from Laputa is flown around for terrorism, by a Nausicaa\Cagliostro princess lookalike (related video, check 00.00 and 06.00).
No.428156
>>428134
You almost had me until that last paragraph.
Go back to Colony Drop, asshole.
No.428304
>>406102
>Harlock
Someone send uncle /pol/ this scene. Harlock finds a way to identify the infiltrators (all females!). Once the world government refuses to act, his gang starts with the assassinations.
Notice how the killer isn't Harlock himself, but the disturbed vengeful kid that joins in the early episodes. This vid is from my italian dvds so there's no subs, here's what they're saying:
>Lovers: "It doesn't matter to me, whether the alien artefact is here or not"
>
>Kid: "You might not care, but I do! You're dead!"
>
>Announcer: "Check the delicate designs on this fashion piece"
No.428317
>>428134
anon, Leiji Matsumoto is a god of anime, simply one of the best ever, if not THE best.
No.428355
this whole thread is a fucking treasure. i just wanna say thanks.
No.428431
>>428134
I actually dropped the show becuase of the kid.
I disliked his design, and I found it annoying how he could be totally niave and incompetent one moment, then gunning down soldiers and bandits the next.
No.428487
>>413658
>Winderia
I have been looking for this for ages, thank you.
No.428504
>>413658
>Winderia
I have been looking for this for ages, thank you.
No.428656
>>428304
That shocked me when I first watched it. It's literally The Day of Rope, just with aliens instead of non-whites. They'd never let something like that get made today, not even in Japan.
No.428662
>>417824
>that cliche start
>that stock music
Oh boy, I'm going to enjoy this
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>>428662
>stock music
Nvm, the sax is pretty sweet
No.428679
No.428699
>>428662
>>428668
Yeah, it gets better after the first few episodes, though almost half of them are just
>"A horrible thing is about to happen, which will ruin the MC's chances with that girl he likes!"
>"Oh wait, never mind. He was just overreacting."
No.428722
>>427974
What part of that covers turning into a car?
No.428738
>>428699
Yeah it looks like it's going in that direction. I like how he's really self observant cause usually the older anime I've seen has the MC just some blockhead who makes dumb mistakes from either his perversion, bad luck, or just being unaware of common sense, but the one in this anime is pretty good.
No.428768
>> Before you were born?
Born '61 (yeah, an AARP card carryin' weeb. Deal with it).
Animu from before me? Not a whole lot to choose from.
No.428823
>>428768
>61'
Dad, it's time to stop shitposting
No.428828
>>428431
yeah i don't like the idea of that goofy kid effortlessly killing cyborgs and shit. but, only 3 episodes in, and there's something really satisfying about the show that makes me wanna continue.
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>>428738
>Urusei Yatsura
Ataru Moroboshi is a relic of ages past, that sex drive of him would have him thrown in jail for harassment any day now. I think of him as the healthy, un-idiot version of Philip J. Fry: that's another character who in the 70s would be a hero (Buck Rogers) and today has to be... sad, castrated. It's liberating to see him running around like the god of boners incarnate, absolutely proud of his dirt even though he has a (violent bitch) girlfriend waiting for him home.
Rumiko Takahashi was a war machine, working on Lum and Ranma seemingly forever, basically inventing slice of life. But these came from before harem style solidified, so you can see how the prototype wasn't really as cancer as today.
No.428861
>>428828
It's a scifi coming of age story about the indomitable human spirit. The even pay extra attention to remind you that "this is a soldier's gun": I guess they're teaching kids that's the right way to change the world. When I first watched Harlock, I was so surprised at the angry kid not being treated like a dangerous deviant, that I joked about the inevitable scene where he would shoot the country flag as he screamed vengeance for his father. THAT FUCKING HAPPENS by like episode 5.
As an added bonus, Matsumoto loves german expressionism which makes for sinister and spectacular camera angles. In Harlock, the ship interior is actually darker than space: pitch black corridors dotted by lightspots, the bridge resembles a theatre or a throne room in absolute darkness, and the computer room is a monolith.
No.428866
>>428722
I talking about the series, not the film. There are a lot of tongue in cheek moments in it anyway, since it's a postmodernist work after all, there is no deeper reason behind everything, just most things.
No.428968
>>422099
I'm pretty much set for life with animu/mango and vidya. 1,5TB of animu backlog shit load of mangos 2TB of vidya. It all just keeps on growing as I get new hardware, explore new authors and genres and there is still the uncharted moonrune territory. If you ain't some NEET faggot you will also have less and less free time as you get older. If someone says he watched/read and played everything good he's some casual fag that barely scratched the entry level shit surface.
No.429046
Umi no Triton and Bosco Adventures raw.
The damn thing STILL doesn't have English subs.
No.429775
>>428304
>sloppy vid
Get on with the times, old man.
No.429931
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I finally got around to watching the first two Patlabor movies, after watching the first OVA some time last year. It's shocking how much darker and more sophisticated the films are, especially 2.
Is the third movie or the TV series worth watching as well? I've heard they're not as good the first two films and the OVA.
No.429992
>>428968
>1.5TB animu backlog
>set for life
is it all 480p or what?
No.429995
>>429992
well the only real good anime is the old shit so you're mostly right. I also had a 500gb hard drive with the anime basics like bebop on blu ray AND porn. So 1.5tb isn't too far-fetched.
No.430053
No.430142
>>430053
>oremo
I already know that that list is gonna be shit. We're talking the essentials, not trash. We're talking Eva, maybe a few shoujo, Sailor Moon, Bebop, Angel Cop, KITE, Akira or anything Otomo, Angel's Egg, Perfect Blue, tearjerker shit like Clannad, everything GiTS, Champloo, Redline, and maybe some classic shonen for a good laugh. The idea is, if there's moe/cute animation, it should be dead last on your list.
Although this board IS for weebs so you guys are far more inclusive when it comes to anime.
Also, why is there hentai in there? hatsu inu is great you have some fucking taste, anon.
No.430146
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I thought I'd ask since people were talking about Lodoss. Is the tv Lodoss any good? I've only heard people say bad things about it, but I can't get the op out of my head.
>>430142
>The idea is, if there's moe/cute animation, it should be dead last on your list.
I disagree. There are some cute things everyone should see. Azumanga and Dragon Half come to mind.
No.430149
>>430146
I couldn't tell you about azumanga, I've never seen it. But Dragon Half is old, and in my opinion that's pretty much a seal of quality. By moe, I meant modern moe like k-on.
No.430171
>>430149
What if I told you, that there was exactly as much moe in the 20th century anime, if not more. Same with ecchi. Majority of it is not translated to English, and was never licensed in the West, which is the root of the misconceptions of yours. But it exists nonetheless. If you think any of the 21st century moe shows introduced something new to the genre, think again. Most of the tropes you hate are older than you. I've been watching some releases of anime from the fifties, and these titles already had pantyshots and female nudity.
In my opinion, you're nothing more than a newfag, spreading misconceptions you've heard others say, in order to fit in. You haven't personally seen the required amount and variety of the old titles. Know your place.
No.430179
>1996 was 20years ago
Jesus christ and other imaginary characters! I feel old.
No.430185
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>>430171
>moe existed in the 20th century
Cutesy characters did, it's the proper lolis, which only showed up in the late 90s. Contemporary anime cracked jokes about the fad, like Excel Saga.
Your average slice of life like Urusei Yatsura, used to have older characters: now it would be lolis. Witches from the Studio Pierrot series used to transform from lolis, into sexy grownups: now they would be just sexy lolis.
The few lolis back then, didn't have the same overpowering importance as today's. Things change over time, is all. Can't pretend time doesn't pass for the industry.
No.430186
>>430171
>>430171
You're forgetting the fact that old moe actually looks original and didn't rely on cancerous voice acting. My problem isn't with cuteness, it's how it's executed. Take that catalog and compare it to this season's anime. Everything looks pretty and bland right now, where as back then there was at least some form of style to it. Old anime is just fun to watch. Is there as much gore/violence in today's action as there was back then? It feels as if we've abandoned good action for shoehorned romance subplots. Idk.
For example, compare season 1 of inital D to season two. Can you really tell me season 2 looks aesthetically better?
Guess what I'm trying to say is, we've done away with skillful hand-drawn cels for this awful flash-tier watercolor bullshit. I just don't like it. I enjoyed the grittiness of shit like Genocyber, I just can't find much of that these days.
No.430187
>>430186
Drop that first sentence, don't know why I put it lol
No.430207
Is there a particular order if I want to watch the harlock animes? Also are they in the same universe as the yamato anime?
No.430235
>>430207
Watch the Space Pirate Captain Harlock series from 1978, then the Arcadia of My Youth oav, and finally Harlock SSX if you really must (it's dull).
The connection with Yamato only exists in the manga, as that subplot was removed in the anime. In the manga Mamoru is Harlock, left for dead and returning mid series.
No.430280
>>413732
> Please explain.
http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/02/25/enrile-edsa-revolution.html1
>One joke goes that many of the people of EDSA were actually disgruntled fans of Voltes V — a popular Japanese anime series in the 70s — who never got over their resentment at Marcos for banning the series.
Kek.
No.430281
>>430149
>never seen Azumanga Daioh
No.430291
>>430281
Don't watch much anime, unless it's pure romance comedy trash it's great for zoning out to or something classic/old. Only browsing /a/ at the moment because /v/ has gone shit lately.
No.430315
>>430291
Don't fucking post, then, stick to lurking.
No.430322
>>422099
90% of anime is shit but if you don't mind going back 40 years there are plenty of good shows.
Just don't watch the new stuff, it is mediocre at best.
No.430328
>>430315
mad, faggot? lurking has nothing to do with whether I want to watch an anime or not.
No.430338
>>430291
>Don't watch much anime, unless it's pure romance comedy trash
Boy do I have the show for you.
No.430347
>>430338
Do tell anon. I really only watch it to zone out to but if you can give me something with actual quality my dick sure would appreciate it.
No.430349
>>430347
Just watch all of the Tenchi series that should keep your dick happy for a while, and since most of them are old they look great because they are hand drawn.
No.430352
>>430349
*sighs* Here we fuckin go. *unzips dick*
No.430353
>>430352
You won't regret it.
Don't give up on Tokyo to easily it is the worst of all of the series but it has it's good moments.
No.430354
>>430353
Even if it was shit, I doubt I'd be able to notice. thanks man.
No.430355
>>430352
Sasami is a miracle of the universe.
No, really. Her life is an actual plot point, at least in the original OAV.
No.430356
>>430355 (checked)
Might actually relapse into weebdom if more old anime does shit like this with quality.
No.430450
>>430171
That robot was the most the most "human" crew member on the entire ship.
No.430459
>>430235
Thanks, Onii-Chan
No.431155
>>430356
If only new anime could learn anew from old anime, alas.
No.431398
>>430171
"part 1"? You have the rest plz? I want to dig into all of those!
No.432318
>>430171
> OnV is an example of a show about cute girls
Your image was made by an idiot and you are also an idiot for posting it.
> grouping moe and ecchi
> not getting how moeshit that is focused on cute characters alone is different from cute characters taking part in, say, typical adventureshit
> not getting what moe genre is at all
You post is shit.
>>430185
> proper lolis, which only showed up in the late 90s
“Proper lolis”, as in lolicon, appeared much earlier than that. First hentai OVA (and one of the first OVAs ever) was a lolicon one, from 1984. It is a widely known fact (among non-retarded anime fans). If you somehow confused magical girls with lolis, as I am inclined to believe, they have a history of their own.
Your post is also shit.
No.432355
>>430179
> and other imaginary characters
You probably think Shakespeare and King Arthur were imaginary too, faggot.
No.432381
>>432355
Of the three King Arthur is surely the MOST imaginary. His existence is utterly non-confirmed outside of fiction, and most theories as to any real person that he may or may not have been based on revolve around random Romans who may or may not have existed and who certainly were not named Arthur Pendragon.
Jesus of Nazareth has a shitton of fake magic attributed to him, but we're fairly certain he existed.
Shakespeare was real even though some people think he used ghost writers for his plays (and they say that about all the famous dead authors too).
No.432932
Why was Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair so comfy.
I could have liked this for the early 1800s America setting alone. But the writing was surprisingly good for the show overall.
No.432954
This is one of my favorite cartoons.
No.433089
>>432954
What the fuck is starblazers?
No.433090
>>432932
Never even heard of this one.
Downloading right now,
No.433096
>>433089
>starblazers
Another horror of american dubbing: seriously, you understand the Nintendo Treehouse shit better when you realize that nothing ever fucking changed.
Starblazers changed the name of most crew and the Yamato ship itself, further changing the script to make everyone sound more of an individual than a single crew united in one mission. Because you know, american kids had to be brainwashed about the values of the West.
No.433102
>>433096
>implying I watched it for anything other than the Spacebattles or dat fukken Wave Motion Gun
No.433107
>>432381
>His existence is utterly non-confirmed outside of fiction
The name Arthur is attested in lists of fallen Welsh warriors:
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/stanzas.html
Arthur is also attested in the the Mabinogion, which is considered folklore, as opposed to fiction.
>Jesus of Nazareth has a shitton of fake magic attributed to him
*tips fedora*
No.433140
>>433090
You are in for a good ride.
The runaway arc is the best.
No.433417
>>433140
It's giving me those bosco adventure vibes.
I wish innocent looking and high quality shows like that were still being made.
No.433683
>>405737
Rewatching Ranma 1/2 as well
I completely forgot how sweet Ranma and Akane are early on in the series.. It's kind of heartbreaking to know that all this character development will go out the window soon enough and it will just a string of screaming and mallets.
No.433830
>>433683
Lum will always be the best Takahashi girl. She's so good even not-Lum in Ranma is better than Akane.
Akane is is just a knockoff not-Shinobu, and just like Shinobu she's worst girl.
No.433983
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin
Silver Fang
Re discover more like. The first anime to gain poularity in my country, first aired the year i was born. Watched it on kids morning shows when i was around 7-8 years old. Recently found a decent torrent and watching it again, uncesored this time as all the violence and deaths where removed when it first aired so the story got pretty had to follow.
No.434125
>>407777
>08th ms team not a middling effort at best
0080 is great though.
No.434165
>>433683
How far in? I think my last mini-binge stopped with the end of that arc where they were looking for the Japanese spring.
This sounds like seasonal rot. Does it set in slowly? Cause where I'm at they're still really cute in how tsundere they are for each other.
No.434848
Amon Saga and Dragon's Heaven.
The version I found of Amon Saga (Warui) is kind of dark, so it's hard to see some stuff sometimes, so I'm downloading an .ISO file from animebytes to see if the quality is any better. Can you believe it doesn't have any seeders?. But's it's still pretty. Amano did the character design, so that's good. The backgrounds are really good looking too. The story is meh, but that's alright.
Angel's Heaven is awesome, those fucking mecha designs from Makoto Kobayashi are the best. The animation is really good too, too bad it's so short. I wish I could get the manga scans, even raws would be alright.
No.434855
>>428150
>S1 "green jacket" was the most dark and unconventional
Only for the first 8 episodes. After those, Miyazaki and his took over, but the series ended after 23 episodes because low ratings
>Season 2 "red jacket" was Miyazaki's masterpiece. Lupin got turned into a gentleman thief
Nigger, are you fucking high? Red Jacket is completely by the numbers Lupin with him being a lech and an amorous albeit likable thief. Remember, Red Jacket gave us the first Lupin movie, Mystery of Mamo, which at the time was Lupin at his edgiest. Miyazaki only directed two episodes (the ones you mentioned) out the 150 that aired.
No.435475
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I have been rewatching Sougen no Marco, its full of feels tho ;___;
No.435695
i saw some Pataliro episodes, cannot forcé myself to go further
Also, Clamp did anything for the Rayearth Anniversary ? or do we have to wait til 2019 ?
No.435776
>want to watch Tiger Mask
>I either need to learn Italian or Japanese
even in hell!
No.436205
I pretty much had Ranma 1/2 Manga Vol. 1-6, pretty much enjoying the story and characters.
No.437907
>>406573
Isn't it fully scanlated? I remember finishing this series a while back or is there more?
No.437921
>>437907
The original series is fully scanlated by dynamic pro scans. I don't know what he's talking about.
Violence Jack isn't complete though.
No.437924
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Dr Slump but barely any of it is subbed which I find weird because it's such a fun show to watch
No.438312
>>405737
This fucking show right here.
No.438431
>>438312
Impeccable taste.
No.438493
>>434165
It's not too long after Shampoo is introduced that they stop trying to make Akane likable and just have her overreact for seemingly no reason.
No.438496
>>405737
Berserk and galatic heroes. I regret to not see it before.
No.441083
I liked Crossgame and the earlier work that it copied Touch; was reading and saw Adachi won some awards for this before he sold his soul to sports manga. The opening is abstract and thoughtful; op's in the 80's tend to set pace for a show pretty well. The main plot follows a young Masato Wakamatsu who has a crush on a girl named Miyuki, she seemingly reciprocates his affections until it is revealed that he had accidentally swiped her bikini bottoms. Dumped and slapped, he bolsters his pride and hits on another girl at the beach who also happens to be named Miyuki. He then meets up with his long lost sister, who just so happened to be girl he just hit on. The show touches on some very creepy adult themes, yet plays them off as very innocent. The soundtrack is very good; I'm up to ep13 and there's a song in the background that's like a Japanese Talking Heads; still trying to do some digging as to who actually did it. Given the age it seems this is the progenitor of many of the tropes we still see today, and sadly Miyuki does them much better.
No.442402
First episode of Cyborg 009 vs Devilman has been subbed in spanish..
Not ideal, but good enough for me.
It's by the same group that subbed the second episode of Thunderbolt.
No.442467
>>432932
Seems neat. Name?
No.442617
>>441083
> there's a song in the background that's like a Japanese Talking Heads; still trying to do some digging as to who actually did it
> what is AniDB
> what is BakaBT OST torrent
No.442850
>>442617
SPONFEDDING OH NOES
No.443608
>>434165
>>433683
I still need to read more of the manga after getting halfway on the old old sets, but it definitely feels like Rumiko didn't automatically fall into the "Akane gets angry and hits Ranma" stuff as often as the anime filler did.
I also noticed Noriko Hidaka's a lot easier on the ears even when angry than Myriam Sirois or whomever Ocean Group used.