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Talking of sport shows, does anyone remember the name of a baseball show where the protagonist was a pitcher who jumped on the air and curled like a shrimp?
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Anime thread of the 70's and 80's - because classics!
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Voltes V, Daimos, Lupin III, Ranma 1/2, and probably a few others I don't currently remember.
Voltes V was one of the first shows I've seen in English (terrible local English). Loved the hell out of it. Daimos would follow it, but I didn't bother watching much of it, though.
Ranma 1/2 is this guilty pleasure of mine because it's borderline "what the fuck". Lupin III was straight hilarious. In retrospect, it's pretty awkward watching both shows in the presence of my parents.
Dragonball is a given, though I didn't watch a lot of it until later in my childhood.
Voltes V was one of the first shows I've seen in English (terrible local English). Loved the hell out of it. Daimos would follow it, but I didn't bother watching much of it, though.
Ranma 1/2 is this guilty pleasure of mine because it's borderline "what the fuck". Lupin III was straight hilarious. In retrospect, it's pretty awkward watching both shows in the presence of my parents.
Dragonball is a given, though I didn't watch a lot of it until later in my childhood.
YES. YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
Also, watch Gunsmith Cats, which is sort of in the same world setting.
Both are fucking EXCELLENT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7HPyUcy37I
not psycho
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All mentioned already, but:
Future Boy Conan. Basically a Studio Ghibli television show.
Lupin III. I've been thinking the Osumi episodes are the best.
City Hunter.
Future Boy Conan. Basically a Studio Ghibli television show.
Lupin III. I've been thinking the Osumi episodes are the best.
City Hunter.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Although I don't know the progression of Lupin III. Which opening is which season? We both had the "Lupin and gang riding a jeep in a desert" intro and the "Lupin and gang playing billiards" intro.
What happened to your tag?
Riding Bean's pretty much the perfect OVA. Gunsmith Cats is also worth checking out.
God they made some horrible shit back then.
The only thing worth a damn was Warriors of the Wind.
Why did you have to bring that up?
I'm about to go through a long-planned idea of watching all of Rumiko Takahashi's creations come to life in pog anime form over the Christmas & New Year break. Looking forward to it.
I might finally watch Touch as well.
Because sometimes life is bitter and deals you sour grapes. But sometimes in rare occasions it manages to go above and beyond the call of duty by delivering majestic turds like Warriors of the Wind. When people talk about something being so bad that it's good, then the Emperor of that title belongs to the monstrosity above.
I might finally watch Touch as well.
Why did you have to bring that up?
Because sometimes life is bitter and deals you sour grapes. But sometimes in rare occasions it manages to go above and beyond the call of duty by delivering majestic turds like Warriors of the Wind. When people talk about something being so bad that it's good, then the Emperor of that title belongs to the monstrosity above.
If you wanna watch a majestic turd, watch the dub of Garzey's Wing.
It will change your life.
I fear for my sanity already. Let's not go overboard here!
As a sidenote I may as well throw in a link to the thread I did of yesteryore regarding this enjoyable era of animation. Here it is. No need to bump it, but I figured the first few posts might be a good reference point for many people in here who may have forgotten the gems or they are wading through the waters for the very first time.
As a sidenote I may as well throw in a link to the thread I did of yesteryore regarding this enjoyable era of animation. Here it is. No need to bump it, but I figured the first few posts might be a good reference point for many people in here who may have forgotten the gems or they are wading through the waters for the very first time.
thetrin
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The bulk of the anime that I own happens to come from this era, heh.
City Hunter is another pretty good one.
It's a show that somehow manages to be light-hearted and badass all at at the same time. Good, mostly self-contained stories. Think Miami Vice meets Lupin the Third. Great stuff.
Have you ever read Angel Heart? It's a bizarre alt universe of City Hunter.
Vulcano's assistant
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80's yes, but 90's > 70's
Wyndstryker
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So oldschool, so awesome
And who would've thought the themesong was composed by the same guy who does the music for studio ghibli animes. Joe Hisaishi ftw!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEMM96sGyo
Charoncaori
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I've almost exclusively been watching stuff from this era over the last couple of years. A lot of it is beautiful and unique. Currently watching Votoms, I'm really, really enjoying it. I wish modern anime had more old-style sci-fi like this.
This one wasn't really mentioned: the Macross DYRL movie. America never got it, it's a remake of the original series.
And it's gorgeous.
For comparison to the original show: Knife fight!
This one wasn't really mentioned: the Macross DYRL movie. America never got it, it's a remake of the original series.
And it's gorgeous.
For comparison to the original show: Knife fight!
Crash Station
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How about anime based on 70s manga?
Everyone should watch Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
JoJo is 80s, dude.
Does this hold up? I think I'm kind of interested in hunting it down just for nostalgia's sake, but not if it'll tarnish my memory.
Project A-Ko is where it all started for me. As soon as I found out that breasts could be animated, I became a fan for life.
I think I remember it opened with her waking up and some panty shots or something... whatever it was exactly, I just remember I thought it was hot.
Typographenia
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I watched it less than a year ago and had a really great time watching it. The show is just plain fun, and, while the premise is a little too dumb, it works because it's so dumb. I definitely encourage you to track it down again, I think it still holds up. : )
Awesome, will do. Thanks.
Wings of Honneamise is not very known but its one of the best anime movies Ive seen
Just looked this up, sounds awesome.
Yes, yes, yes.
I remember being blown away by the production values and art. And this was on crappy VHS. Wonder if it's been released on Bluray.
I remember the first Devil Man OAV being awesome. The second one sucked, but the first, damn if I didn't watch it at least a couple dozen times. I thought the violence, mood and theme were so edgy back then.
Also, the Vampire Princess Miyu OAVs (think this pic is from the TV show, though):
And Devil Hunter Yohko, which I guess came out in 1990, but I see it and just think '80s.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Funny: I've been reading through the manga to prepare for the original Dezaki series; I'm not surprised you brought this one up so quickly. Anything featuring Nachi Nozawa as the lead seiyuu seems good to me!
lol, Both intros are from the same series.
There are three main Lupin III series: the Green Jacket series, the Red Jacket series, and the Pink Jacket series. They each have their different strengths and weaknesses, so there's a lot to talk about regarding the core parts of the anime canon. I've only completed the Green Jacket series so far.
Osumi's the reason I revisit the Green Jacket episodes. Most of the Miyazaki/Takahata episodes succeed at providing a toned-down version of Monkey Punch's manga stories, but Osumi heads into surreal drama territory in his Lupin episodes (e.g. anything featuring octopi and femme fatales). He had a unique vision for the Lupin crew that no other anime directors or story-writers seem to have grasped. Other auteurs have worked the characters into their own unique product(s)two examples being Osamu Dezaki and Sayo Yamamotobut Osumi sticks out from all of them. It's a shame that, even though his Green Jacket episodes are the most popular and renowned in Japan, Osumi's work goes largely unrecognized.
Synth_floyd
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I think it does. It's just a goofy story about 2 girls fighting over a 3rd girl, one who is super intelligent and makes giant mechas and the other who has super powers. Then aliens invade earth and the 3 of them all get involved.
http://fantasyanime.com/anime/project-ako-sub
I remember being blown away by the production values and art. And this was on crappy VHS. Wonder if it's been released on Bluray.
I remember the first Devil Man OAV being awesome. The second one sucked, but the first, damn if I didn't watch it at least a couple dozen times. I thought the violence, mood and theme were so edgy back then.
Also, the Vampire Princess Miyu OAVs (think this pic is from the TV show, though):
And Devil Hunter Yohko, which I guess came out in 1990, but I see it and just think '80s.
Devil hunter Yohko is really great but occasionally its borderline hentai.
I was originally excited to come here and expound on the artistry of La Blue Girl, but then I found out it was from the 90s.
Hentai anime is awesome when you're a teenager.
SonicMegaDrive
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I was originally excited to come here and expound on the artistry of La Blue Girl, but I just found out it was from the 90s.
Hentai anime is awesome when you're a teenager.
But completely boring when you're not, I've found.
Shoujo anime was awesome in the late 70s up to the 90s. They don't make stuff like this anymore:
Rose of Versailles
Poem Of Wind And Trees
The Door Into Summer
Aim for the Ace!
Yes, yes, yes, to all of those. Some of my all time favorites.
What I wanted to add was already mentioned, so I'll add what hasn't been mentioned yet: Gunbuster.
It may not be the best thing ever, but you gotta admire a story that starts with a female highschool for pilots where they make mech do push-ups, and end by disposing of a threat
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The fact that that show's threat gets top billing in the intro to Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, which is the largest-scale one yet in the series and was made almost 2 decades after the show has to mean something - and I've only realized this recently, I've loved that intro for ages, but finished watching Gunbuster about a month ago, I thought the ships the bots stand on and the creature swam by the end was Banpresto original stuff - nope, Gunbuster. And then noticing the show's last episode name was used for the game's sub-title, "To the End of Eternity"... really major stuff, and worth a watch,even if not all of it aged well.
That rescue scene from episode 1 (I think) is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen animated just for how crazy it got with "camera" work for a rather complex movement - and then the way romance worked out in the series was pretty surprising for something of its age. I gotta watch DYRL one of these days to see if it does those things justice in such a compressed format.
It includes in episode 2 what is probably the greatest depiction of grief
I've ever seen in any medium, even the animation seems to break down with the character at one point, but that actually manages to emphasize the feeling more without detracting from the experience.
I've seen the very first episodes quite a few times as a kid but I don't think I've actually ever finished it, gotta work on that someday.
this was remarkably popular when I was a kid - then again, back then we had fewer TV channels (2), I wonder how it'd hold up nowadays...
This actually made football seem likable to me for a while, that's impressive enough on it's own.
This right here is the goddamn pearl of 80's shows, the diamond in the rough that could use some extra polish to encourage people to see what they've been missing. There are 2 movies that'll compress the experience for you (mostly the 1st one, the 2nd one is mostly new action to end it all), since the episode-based structure doesn't always work well with the core story and concepts, in the sense that will wear out some people's patience along with the odd names everything and everyone seems to have and possibly the aesthetics:
Buff Clan machines look pretty weird, but the main pilot carrying the 70s on his shoulders like a champ, between the afro and the popped collar makes it hard to relate to in more recent decades - then again, most of the really important characters in the show are female and dress more tolerably, and theirs are the stories that the show tries to tell - the lovel thing about mecha shows made to sell merchandise is that once the mech's included in the setting, you can tell any story you want, and Ideon ran away with that idea to distant and interesting places for its time, even if they didn't exactly match the target audience's (or the sponsors') expectations.
The key thing to know which isn't said nearly as often about the setting (even if there's a great site about the show, it tends to leave out this part of the lore where it would be relevant), but gets revealed about halfway through the show, is that the titular mech somehow contains thousands, maybe millions, of souls of the civilization that left it behind, so when it seems to act on its own, it's running on lowest common denominator behaviour, since that's the only thing that many individuals could possibly agree on: self-preservation, protecting the young, lashing out at agressors in times of despair.
This is important because the show is primarily about human behaviour - both the protagonists and antagonists are humans despite coming from different planets (classic trope, I know; the distinguishing trait is the subtle way their eyes are colored), and a lot of it is about dealing with each other, with a misunderstanding triggering early events, and later issues revolving around trust and callousness toward each other, with the Ideon reacting to it all.
I tend to suspect there's an id/ego/superego thing going on in the show, with the Ideon's Ide energy being the id, the pilots (which change somewhat during the events) being the ego, and the Solo ship (the mech can dock with it and they share displayed information; most of the adults and youngest children are in it) acting as a superego, but I'm yet to see a Tomino interview that covers this sort of thing...
Some people might only know about this show since it's a stated inspiration for Evangelion, but I get the feeling Anno saw something very different in it than what I did - he certainly saw and probably liked the image of a gigantic mech roaring (though in this case "I have no mouth and I must scream" is no reason not to, and IMO it adds to the impact when it happens, while EVA-01 seems rather fond of showing off its teeth), and EVA actually goes into the process Ideon skips over of merging together millions of souls. The kind of character interactions in each show are quite different, but while I appreciate the diversity (I really liked EVA and how it handled characters), I kinda wish that there was a more polished modern take on what Ideon did.
As for music, the ending movie Be Invoked gave us this pearl, Cantata Orbis, which despite the events of the film containts lyrics which are a celebration of life.
Apparently the show got some awards in its day, and the way I figured, it deserved them - i just wish it got more attention since, there isn't even an official english release - however, all of it's been fansubbed and Youtube seems to have it all.
Speaking of Youtube, it contains an hour-long show about the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEpsdgWScY
It's in Japanese and apparently part of a series that covers many other anime, but I'm just glad that exists, the show needs all the exposure it can get.
I really do hope it makes it to SRW Z3, it's usually present at the end of subseries, such as Final F and Alpha 3 - with the likes of Gurren Laggan and maybe Demonbane likely appearing there, I hope there's still a stop for this heavy weight to show its relevance.
It may not be the best thing ever, but you gotta admire a story that starts with a female highschool for pilots where they make mech do push-ups, and end by disposing of a threat
through the destruction of half the galaxy with a bomb whose main ingredient is Jupiter
The fact that that show's threat gets top billing in the intro to Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, which is the largest-scale one yet in the series and was made almost 2 decades after the show has to mean something - and I've only realized this recently, I've loved that intro for ages, but finished watching Gunbuster about a month ago, I thought the ships the bots stand on and the creature swam by the end was Banpresto original stuff - nope, Gunbuster. And then noticing the show's last episode name was used for the game's sub-title, "To the End of Eternity"... really major stuff, and worth a watch,even if not all of it aged well.
That rescue scene from episode 1 (I think) is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen animated just for how crazy it got with "camera" work for a rather complex movement - and then the way romance worked out in the series was pretty surprising for something of its age. I gotta watch DYRL one of these days to see if it does those things justice in such a compressed format.
It includes in episode 2 what is probably the greatest depiction of grief
over the death of a loved one
I've seen the very first episodes quite a few times as a kid but I don't think I've actually ever finished it, gotta work on that someday.
Heidi
this was remarkably popular when I was a kid - then again, back then we had fewer TV channels (2), I wonder how it'd hold up nowadays...
Captain Tsubasa
This actually made football seem likable to me for a while, that's impressive enough on it's own.
I am surprise no one have say this anime yet.
space runaway ideon
Dat Intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jnRvKPJf8o
Action Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T29sIAsFutc
This right here is the goddamn pearl of 80's shows, the diamond in the rough that could use some extra polish to encourage people to see what they've been missing. There are 2 movies that'll compress the experience for you (mostly the 1st one, the 2nd one is mostly new action to end it all), since the episode-based structure doesn't always work well with the core story and concepts, in the sense that will wear out some people's patience along with the odd names everything and everyone seems to have and possibly the aesthetics:
Buff Clan machines look pretty weird, but the main pilot carrying the 70s on his shoulders like a champ, between the afro and the popped collar makes it hard to relate to in more recent decades - then again, most of the really important characters in the show are female and dress more tolerably, and theirs are the stories that the show tries to tell - the lovel thing about mecha shows made to sell merchandise is that once the mech's included in the setting, you can tell any story you want, and Ideon ran away with that idea to distant and interesting places for its time, even if they didn't exactly match the target audience's (or the sponsors') expectations.
The key thing to know which isn't said nearly as often about the setting (even if there's a great site about the show, it tends to leave out this part of the lore where it would be relevant), but gets revealed about halfway through the show, is that the titular mech somehow contains thousands, maybe millions, of souls of the civilization that left it behind, so when it seems to act on its own, it's running on lowest common denominator behaviour, since that's the only thing that many individuals could possibly agree on: self-preservation, protecting the young, lashing out at agressors in times of despair.
This is important because the show is primarily about human behaviour - both the protagonists and antagonists are humans despite coming from different planets (classic trope, I know; the distinguishing trait is the subtle way their eyes are colored), and a lot of it is about dealing with each other, with a misunderstanding triggering early events, and later issues revolving around trust and callousness toward each other, with the Ideon reacting to it all.
I tend to suspect there's an id/ego/superego thing going on in the show, with the Ideon's Ide energy being the id, the pilots (which change somewhat during the events) being the ego, and the Solo ship (the mech can dock with it and they share displayed information; most of the adults and youngest children are in it) acting as a superego, but I'm yet to see a Tomino interview that covers this sort of thing...
Some people might only know about this show since it's a stated inspiration for Evangelion, but I get the feeling Anno saw something very different in it than what I did - he certainly saw and probably liked the image of a gigantic mech roaring (though in this case "I have no mouth and I must scream" is no reason not to, and IMO it adds to the impact when it happens, while EVA-01 seems rather fond of showing off its teeth), and EVA actually goes into the process Ideon skips over of merging together millions of souls. The kind of character interactions in each show are quite different, but while I appreciate the diversity (I really liked EVA and how it handled characters), I kinda wish that there was a more polished modern take on what Ideon did.
As for music, the ending movie Be Invoked gave us this pearl, Cantata Orbis, which despite the events of the film containts lyrics which are a celebration of life.
Apparently the show got some awards in its day, and the way I figured, it deserved them - i just wish it got more attention since, there isn't even an official english release - however, all of it's been fansubbed and Youtube seems to have it all.
Speaking of Youtube, it contains an hour-long show about the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEpsdgWScY
It's in Japanese and apparently part of a series that covers many other anime, but I'm just glad that exists, the show needs all the exposure it can get.
I really do hope it makes it to SRW Z3, it's usually present at the end of subseries, such as Final F and Alpha 3 - with the likes of Gurren Laggan and maybe Demonbane likely appearing there, I hope there's still a stop for this heavy weight to show its relevance.
I didn't get into watching anime until the 90s so I don't really have the same nostalgia factor, but there are still some great stuff mentioned here that I love. Vampire Princess Miyu OVA is still my favorite anime ever, Kimagure Orange Road was great, and my favorite 80s anime that no one mentioned yet is Hikari no Densetsu, a shoujo series about rhythmic gymnastics~
Never got released here in America, but luckily there was a reasonably priced French set released a while ago that I was able to pick up.
Plenty of other good stuff, too, but those are my favorites!
Never got released here in America, but luckily there was a reasonably priced French set released a while ago that I was able to pick up.
Plenty of other good stuff, too, but those are my favorites!
God, so good.
Yeah, I'm not liking my odds of finding a copy.
Also, the lack of Megazone 23 so far surprises me
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
It's Gainax so it should be relatively easy to find compare to actually obscure stuff.
Hope so, I really want to watch it now.
Edit: And just like that, I found a copy. I'll have to wait to buy it, but it looks like its in stock in a few places.
I would love to see some of this stuff legitimately, but so little of it gets a western re-release. Bought the Lupin '72-'73 series and the first two Galaxy Express films, as well as Madman's release of Cardcaptor Sakura (90s, but you get my meaning). Seems like a bunch of catalogue stuff are on streaming sites that aren't available in Australia. :/
I didn't get into watching anime until the 90s so I don't really have the same nostalgia factor, but there are still some great stuff mentioned here that I love. Vampire Princess Miyu OVA is still my favorite anime ever, Kimagure Orange Road was great, and my favorite 80s anime that no one mentioned yet is Hikari no Densetsu, a shoujo series about rhythmic gymnastics~
Never got released here in America, but luckily there was a reasonably priced French set released a while ago that I was able to pick up.
Plenty of other good stuff, too, but those are my favorites!
How similar is this to Kaleidostar? (if youve seen that)
That drives me bonkers.
Oh man. Love this show so much. Picked up the entire 18 disc set for 80 bucks.
A little? Kaleido Star isn't really shoujo but this is definitely 80s shoujo with rhythmic gymnastics mixed in. ;p
Daikyouryu no Jidai, The Age of the Great Dinosaurs, 1979
Whole movie is in youtube, in Spanish though
I loved it as a kid. Pretty brutal though... The T-rex eating all those baby triceratops gave me nightmares for years. So sad
And veeeery dated too
RoryDropkick
Member
I loved the OST for Be Invoked so much that it was one of my first purchases on LP when my wife gave me a record player last year.... something about Cantata Orbis sounds better on vinyl than on CD, maybe it's just me though. I bought that and the Zeta Gundam OSTs.
Some more that I think haven't been mentioned yet:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986)
Tomb of Dracula (1980)
Soooo bad. Awesome music though, from Saint Seiya composer
Ai shite knight (1983)
So corny
Nobody's boy: Remi (1979)
Such a drama... Like Marco x10
Aim for the ace! (1973)
Man, anime was so much more dark and dramatic back then. Deaths and tear jerkers everywhere.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986)
Tomb of Dracula (1980)
Soooo bad. Awesome music though, from Saint Seiya composer
Ai shite knight (1983)
So corny
Nobody's boy: Remi (1979)
Such a drama... Like Marco x10
Aim for the ace! (1973)
Man, anime was so much more dark and dramatic back then. Deaths and tear jerkers everywhere.
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