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Anime from the 80's and 90's were the best. Look here for some recommendations.
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Happosai is fucking shit. Fuck him.
MomoPufflet
Member
Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (aka Curse of the Undead: Yoma) [1989]
Not sure how popular this one is but I always liked it. Haunting atmosphere, depressing story, gory, gritty animation.
Not sure how popular this one is but I always liked it. Haunting atmosphere, depressing story, gory, gritty animation.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Oh shit, this one's fucking good!
Good taste, OP.
One that gets overshadowed but is seriously worth tracking down is Crusher Joe. Released in the early 80's, it pretty much laid the groundwork for every non-mech sci-fi adventure series of the 80's and 90's. Written and created by the author / creator of the Dirty Pair and directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko who did the character designs for the original Gundam and directed some of the best episodes. Total throwback to classic pulpy sci-fi adventures with space pirates, sexy girls, horny robots, tough talking cyborg co-pilots and danger around every corner. If you like Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop or heck, even Guardians of the Galaxy, Crusher Joe should be watched immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDB8pIayQ0
Gonna watch this one right now! Looks pretty awesome.
cj_iwakura
Member
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World(OVA) is truly fantastic. One of the best endings to any series ever.
And The Wanderers ruined it by turning Ifurita into a ditz.
And The Wanderers ruined it by turning Ifurita into a ditz.
sixteen-bit
Member
Patlabor is so based.
plasmawave
Banned
I really like the magical girl transformations stuff, apart from sailor moon I also enjoyed the following shows:
Creamy Mami show and Tonde Boorin series.
I hope someday this will get a translation...
Cardcaptor sakura and Fushigu Yuugi are also huge favourites of mine.
Will Ulysses 31 also count as anime? It's a collaboration between french and japanese studios and also another show I am a big fan of.
Creamy Mami show and Tonde Boorin series.
I hope someday this will get a translation...
Cardcaptor sakura and Fushigu Yuugi are also huge favourites of mine.
Will Ulysses 31 also count as anime? It's a collaboration between french and japanese studios and also another show I am a big fan of.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
I really like the magical girl transformations stuff, apart from sailor moon I also enjoyed the following shows:
Creamy Mami show and Tonde Boorin series.
I hope someday this will get a translation...
Cardcaptor sakura and Fushigu Yuugi are also huge favourites of mine.
Will Ulysses 31 also count as anime? It's a collaboration between french and japanese studios and also another show I am a big fan of.
oh i love this genre when was younger
would you know of this anime where the protagonist was a lil princess and she had a scepter and could change costumes / disguises to solve the episodes? her father is stocky and chubby and the king.
it was super cute amg
Ganzlinger
Member
Super Pig aired on Fox Kids (at least in Brazil, so I suppose it aired on the USA as well). The protagonist was really cute.I hope someday this will get a translation...
strangedopamine
Member
Kancolle and Strike Witches have their fans but the thing is there are more anime getting released nowadays than at any other time, with this season having around 40 anime starting alone. Of course not everything available will be to everyone's taste but you should find at least one or two that you want to follow.
Also to counter that last point of yours, anthropomorphising mecha has been a thing in anime for a while. Gundam's MS Girls started in the 80's after all!
NyMartin90
Member
Surprised noone mentioned Goldenboy yet
reynal1287
Member
Nadia The Secret of Blue Water is on Hulu btw. Really good so far.
The island arc sucks and even the show's creators disowned that. However, the ending makes up for it.
FlyingSaucer
Banned
- Anything by Osamu Dezaki.
- World Masterpiece theater series. 'Meisaku' series are what I miss the most in the current anime landscape, the last series I would remotely associate to this genre being Fantastic Children and Patapata Hikosen no Boken ? (Nadja also, maybe)
- Dirty Pair Project Eden. Koichi Mashimo was god-tier when he worked on full-feature movies, his talent has vanished since then.
- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko has have an interesting (but short lived) career as a director at the time; Arion, Venus Wars, Kaze to Ki no Uta and Crushed joe are must watch.
- omnibus movies : Manie Manie, Robot Carnival
- Sherlock Hound
- Lupin III : the first three series, Mamo and Fuma's conspiracy. At this point I assume that everybody has seen Cagliostro (which is a good Miazaki movie but a bad Lupin movie if you are more interested in Monkey Punch's original vision of the character, free from Miyazaki's heavy re-interpretation)
- The Galaxy Express first two movies; Harlock - Arcadia of my youth.
- Kamui no ken for filling my list with another Rintaro movie
I can probably think of another 40 or 50 good ones if I have some time.
Also, Beautiful Dreamer isn't the alpha and the omega of Oshii's involvement in Urusei Yatsura. Can't believe the number of people who watch it and never watch the other movies - or the TV series, and miss some clever Oshii and/or Kazunori Ito crazyness.
Way more ancient but for the love of the gods people, WATCH DOUBUTSU TAKARAJIMA.
- World Masterpiece theater series. 'Meisaku' series are what I miss the most in the current anime landscape, the last series I would remotely associate to this genre being Fantastic Children and Patapata Hikosen no Boken ? (Nadja also, maybe)
- Dirty Pair Project Eden. Koichi Mashimo was god-tier when he worked on full-feature movies, his talent has vanished since then.
- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko has have an interesting (but short lived) career as a director at the time; Arion, Venus Wars, Kaze to Ki no Uta and Crushed joe are must watch.
- omnibus movies : Manie Manie, Robot Carnival
- Sherlock Hound
- Lupin III : the first three series, Mamo and Fuma's conspiracy. At this point I assume that everybody has seen Cagliostro (which is a good Miazaki movie but a bad Lupin movie if you are more interested in Monkey Punch's original vision of the character, free from Miyazaki's heavy re-interpretation)
- The Galaxy Express first two movies; Harlock - Arcadia of my youth.
- Kamui no ken for filling my list with another Rintaro movie
I can probably think of another 40 or 50 good ones if I have some time.
Also, Beautiful Dreamer isn't the alpha and the omega of Oshii's involvement in Urusei Yatsura. Can't believe the number of people who watch it and never watch the other movies - or the TV series, and miss some clever Oshii and/or Kazunori Ito crazyness.
Way more ancient but for the love of the gods people, WATCH DOUBUTSU TAKARAJIMA.
XGRaViSmOrSX
Member
uncredited male
Member
Ninja Scroll, yay. Ninja Resurrection, eww.
All they way up to 1999 is not cheating right? Checking thread search I couldn't find...
The Hakkenden
Spriggan
Perfect Blue
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
X (Movie) (actually, it was terrible)
Shadow Skill (Kind of a personal favorite. I have some cels of this.)
Now and Then, Here and There
Ayane's High Kick (Only 2 eps)
Jubei-chan: The Ninja Girl
Some Ghibli
I also couldn't find Fushigi Yûgi in a search but that is obviously a mistake.
EDIT - Oh yeah, Kurogane Communication.
EDIT 2 - And Eat-Man. I have brought shame to myself.
All they way up to 1999 is not cheating right? Checking thread search I couldn't find...
The Hakkenden
Spriggan
Perfect Blue
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
X (Movie) (actually, it was terrible)
Shadow Skill (Kind of a personal favorite. I have some cels of this.)
Now and Then, Here and There
Ayane's High Kick (Only 2 eps)
Jubei-chan: The Ninja Girl
Some Ghibli
I also couldn't find Fushigi Yûgi in a search but that is obviously a mistake.
EDIT - Oh yeah, Kurogane Communication.
EDIT 2 - And Eat-Man. I have brought shame to myself.
The Silver
Member
trying to bait peeps into posting your icon huh, I won't give in
Legit surprised we're four pages in without a single mention of Evangelion.
I don't get it. Modern anime put me off in part because it's obsessed with this sort of pointless, saccharine cuteness, where older anime was just plain sweet when it was being cute. Part of the reason I gave up anime has been the massive increase in really, really crappy, rote, poorly-written stories and characters. I don't think anime has ever had storytelling as good as it did in the late-90s.
I don't get it. Modern anime put me off in part because it's obsessed with this sort of pointless, saccharine cuteness, where older anime was just plain sweet when it was being cute. Part of the reason I gave up anime has been the massive increase in really, really crappy, rote, poorly-written stories and characters. I don't think anime has ever had storytelling as good as it did in the late-90s.
alfredofroylan
Member
Good job GAF, now I ordered this from Amazon.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Outside of the gore, I thought it was pretty boring.
This!
I so want him back in the game to do another Ninja Scroll.
There's the live action film that came out recently for Rurounik Kenshin based on the show. Gaf had a thread too, but I'm too lazy to dig it up.
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
"to watch" list just doubled from this thread
i wonder which of these you put the most weight on
i wonder which of these you put the most weight on
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
FUMESY~ OLD PAL O' ME 'EART, YOU~
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
But didn't the term moe originate in the 1990s? Your favorite era is responsible for what you hate, zomg!
yeah, really awful times, glad the industry has gotten good since then
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
well, the first 3 and a half pages were nice
Patlabor's the best.
I watched it for the first time a month ago and felt it kind of petered out after the first few episodes, which were really strong / hella '80s (in a fun way). I still like it, but it's not really the classic I was hoping for.
I watched it for the first time a month ago and felt it kind of petered out after the first few episodes, which were really strong / hella '80s (in a fun way). I still like it, but it's not really the classic I was hoping for.
alfredofroylan
Member
Saw this Dragon Ball scene on national TV here in Mexico... it was hilarious.
uncredited male
Member
Don't make me start dropping poorly compressed gifs in here.
Yeah there totally isn't good anime made after the 80s and 90s OP, you're absolutely right.
One of the best sports anime/manga available with one of the most well-rounded and hilarious supporting casts ever.
Great band drama, albeit somewhat bogged down with teenage romance but the cast is pretty good and the song performances are amazing. Unfortunately, the Funimation version replaces one of the more impactful moments in the series with an original song because it involves a cover of "I've Got a Feeling" by the Beatles, and obviously the original song is nowhere near as good. Sadly does not finish the entire storyline and is unlikely to be finished in a new series.
Brought to you by Mamoru Hosoda, the director behind Digimon The First Movie and is just a great movie all around and the title kind of speaks for itself, along with wonderful art direction and good animation.
Also directed by Mamoru Hosoda, just going to copy-paste the wikipedia description as I can't put it into my own words at this time:
The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done to it and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further damage.
And to complete the Hosoda trilogy, the Wolf Children Ame and Yukki, a tale of a mother who falls in love with a wolfman, who passes away, and she ends up saddled with the massive responsibility of raising 2 wolf children without her husband's help. Wonderful story with amazing art-direction and animation.
...and I just realized everything I've listed has been animated by Madhouse, and to keep with that line of thinking, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S REDLINE!
A completely hand-drawn high octane anime movie that took seven years to make and has some of the most impressive animation ever, along with an amazing OST composed by James Shimoji. No really good plot here, just sit back, kick up the volume and enjoy the visual feast. This is the one most everyone who liked 80s/90s stuff will enjoy.
Oh, going to include the Satoshi Kon stuff too. Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent (series) and Paprika are all worth checking out, along with the short he completed before he died, Good Morning.
But anyway, carry on with the narrative that 80s-90s anime is awesome and anything released after isn't as good. Like anything, you have to wade through the shit to find the good stuff. If you think anime is now lacking, I'd at least recommend giving these a look at.
One of the best sports anime/manga available with one of the most well-rounded and hilarious supporting casts ever.
Great band drama, albeit somewhat bogged down with teenage romance but the cast is pretty good and the song performances are amazing. Unfortunately, the Funimation version replaces one of the more impactful moments in the series with an original song because it involves a cover of "I've Got a Feeling" by the Beatles, and obviously the original song is nowhere near as good. Sadly does not finish the entire storyline and is unlikely to be finished in a new series.
Brought to you by Mamoru Hosoda, the director behind Digimon The First Movie and is just a great movie all around and the title kind of speaks for itself, along with wonderful art direction and good animation.
Also directed by Mamoru Hosoda, just going to copy-paste the wikipedia description as I can't put it into my own words at this time:
The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done to it and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further damage.
And to complete the Hosoda trilogy, the Wolf Children Ame and Yukki, a tale of a mother who falls in love with a wolfman, who passes away, and she ends up saddled with the massive responsibility of raising 2 wolf children without her husband's help. Wonderful story with amazing art-direction and animation.
...and I just realized everything I've listed has been animated by Madhouse, and to keep with that line of thinking, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S REDLINE!
A completely hand-drawn high octane anime movie that took seven years to make and has some of the most impressive animation ever, along with an amazing OST composed by James Shimoji. No really good plot here, just sit back, kick up the volume and enjoy the visual feast. This is the one most everyone who liked 80s/90s stuff will enjoy.
Oh, going to include the Satoshi Kon stuff too. Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent (series) and Paprika are all worth checking out, along with the short he completed before he died, Good Morning.
But anyway, carry on with the narrative that 80s-90s anime is awesome and anything released after isn't as good. Like anything, you have to wade through the shit to find the good stuff. If you think anime is now lacking, I'd at least recommend giving these a look at.
surrealist
Member
The golden age, when they drew their vehicles/mechs and it looked glorious
No nostalgia needed. Anime from the 80s and 90s was terrific. A guy at work was telling me how much he loved Ghost in the Shell Arise, and never saw the original. I told him the original shits all over Arise.
McSquishin
Banned
I'm legit surprised too. Evangelion has A LOT of flaws, but despite them manages to still be an amazing anime. It's in my top five if for no other reason than it's art style. I'm not a giant robo type of guy normally, but goddamn those mech designs are fantastic. More than fantastic, iconic.
Zantetsuken
Member
G Gundam and Yu Yu Hakusho were some stand outs for me.
the old anime artstyles were pretty unfortunate. Digital age really cleaned everything up nicely.
Word.
The 80s had Magical Princess Minky Momo, which mixed hopefulness with hopelessness, quite the mix. It was good.
Speedydonut
Member
I'm just glad we got out of that early digi paint era.
