Pre-2000 Anime Thread

What Pre 2000 anime are you watching?
What do you want to get a BD?

I'm watching that right now, user. Only 4 episodes in yet, still meeting the cast, but it's very entertaining so far.

Chacha is great, but only the episodes Yakko-chan is in.

My man of fine taste.

My middle school friend was pretty obsessed with Chacha. I only had interest enough to watch the OVA.

It's a pretty cozy show to just have playing the background, although the attempts at longer fantasy story arcs are less entertaining.

Well the plot ends about 3/4 into the show and the rest is comfy filler. It's my favorite kids show if you want to call it that.

About to start watching Cardcaptor Sakura for the first time, I just finished downloading it.

Did you get that fuck huge coalgirls release?

Chacha was great at being a damedame little girl comedy in a fantasy setting, but the magical girl stuff they threw in to compete with Sailor Moon was rubbish.
Yakko and Marine were a great "team".

Yeah

Marinechan

Not as good as I thought it would be. Also didn't expect the gay sex.

I'd love to get a nice Hokuto no Ken BD.

Anyway, recently downloaded Arion and The Five Star Stories and the Escaflowne movie, are they any good?

I'm watching Sailor moon super s at the moment.
It's not as bad as people are making it out to be.

I'm rewatching You're Under Arrest because I never finished it back in the day. I'm enjoying it way more than I did as a teenager. Every episode has some kind of passive joke that a kid wouldn't get.

Its also good because it basically has a Belldandy clone, but she has an actual personality.

Zeta Gundam, it's actually pretty good.

>starting a thread two hours after your last one died with the same OP
Please let it take a break after this one, we don't need to resurrect it every time.

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This is really making me want to rewatch the show but really, the school antics/filler episodes are the most entertaining part of it.

Great show overall though.

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The film's very entertaining too, and actually matches the OVA in quality. Watch out though, there's a version with a decided bad video transfer.

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No need to make the same thread every hour, always make different ones or the board will become stale

Patlabor.
Still better than most modern anime.

It's better than most non-modern anime, too, so I don't see what your point is.

im watching this one
its a fun ride

I'm not a huge fan of Arion, despite how good it looks. The story gets dumb later. Five Star Stories is great though.

Sticking needles in my eyes is also just as about as enjoyable as most modern anime

Are you allergic to cute things?

I love cute things. Modern anime is just very ugly and neutered to appeal to purityfags

>am I popular yet Sempai!

i would cut off my two of my fingers for a bd of this

Modern anime is very cute, fuck you.

I just want it to be subbed. I've been waiting a decade to watch it.

>wah muh shading!
>my example is a high cost OAV from the mid 90s compared to a low budget TV series

You could have been been speaking nip in a fraction of that time.

I also could have written a series of novels. But instead I waste my time here.

When will these threads upgrade to pre-2005? I'm not watching any pre-2000 anime at the moment.

My likely next anime from this time period is probably Nadia, because I've been wanting to watch it for a while.

Another possibility is Brain Powerd, but not sure yet.

I have started watching Rose of Versailles, but haven't put any effort into it in a while.

I am also thinking more and more about Patlabor. Someone said it was a nice SoL-ish anime or something, and that sounds good. It's also really popular.

You really should have picked up enough conversational japanese from anime to get by in that time though.

>70's Madhouse
>adaptation of an Ikki Kajiwara manga
>Tomino, Dezaki, and Ishiguro on storyboard
>key animation by Hayao Miyazaki
>BD re-release
How does this not have any sort of presence fucking anywhere?

We could just make it a cel anime thread as digital won in the early 2000s.

I've seen these threads with "pre-2001" so they include stuff like FLCL and the Cowboy Bebop movie.

I can understand about half of what is said in a typical anime series. Enough to tell when a translation is making shit up. But still not enough to watch something completely without subs. Unless its something really easy like Hanamaru Youchien or CardCaptor Sakura.

And since this is a pre 2000 anime thread, might as well post it.

I think the most logical cut off would be 2004. Since 2004-2006 was the time when dubs started to drop off and online subbing became dominant. Basically, after 2004, the vast majority of anime fans in the west were watching subs online out of necessity. But back in 1998 or so was right when the Toonami/Dub fad began.

Also because some shows like Princess Tutu, Pita Ten, Gate Keepers or Azumanga Daioh seem to get lost in the mix. They're not old enough to be pre 2000, but not digital and 'new' enough.

>Also because some shows like Princess Tutu, Pita Ten, Gate Keepers or Azumanga Daioh seem to get lost in the mix. They're not old enough to be pre 2000, but not digital and 'new' enough.

I mean, we're making an arbitrary divide no matter which year we choose, so I don't think that's that big a deal.

>Pita Ten

Ah, I remember you.

I don't think dubs are what to look at. Digital is one suggestion, another could be widescreen format.

Princess tutu at least gets discussion though, and Azumanga Daioh. But that time period had so much good anime it may be able to sustain a thread my itself. 2000-Haruhi for example.

I hope you faggots watch WMT. Princess sara is the best one.

I've been reading GTO for the first time. Is the anime different enough to take a look at, or am I getting the full experience through the manga?

It looks like an interesting show by the first episode but maybe the plot isn't amazing. I got the raws after leeching for like three months.

The anime is basically 2/3 the manga. But ends abruptly.

The reason you should watch the anime is for the hilarious voice actors. And some of the jokes work much better with the quick cuts and exaggerated animation style.

Just started Zambot 3, so far I like it a lot, kind of bullshit how Jun learned everything through his sleep but oh well, I'm expecting things to get dark pretty soon considering it's a Tomino show.

LOVELY hair

>but the magical girl stuff they threw in to compete with Sailor Moon was rubbish.

Really? I actually kind of liked that so far. The henshin is really dynamic and color. Her transformed self is really pretty. The magic attack looks cool. It's stupid and repe

>The storylines of the manga and the anime adaptation are markedly different: while the anime uses most of the same characters, the story of the first two seasons were invented for the television show. Most of the stories in the third season are based on the manga.

But now that I read the wiki page I'm a little worried that I might be better off just reading the manga before it "turns dark."

Alright lads, I'm gonna need R E C S for more obscure ultraviolent shit. I've been searching myanimelist for recs but it all circles around the same list of movies I've already watched.

Here's what I've watched:
-Urotsukidoji
-Ninja Scroll
-Wicked City
-Doomed Megalopolis
-Demon City Shinjuku
-Angel Cop
-MD Geist
-Genocyber
-Vampire hunter D
-Bio Hunter
-AD Police files

And of course the entry-level shit I don't even need to mention. And now I need my fix of ultraviolence.

Kodocha. Love the humor and the interactions between the MC and delinquent boy, but the drama can get a little too thick for my taste, especially this entire "Mom writes a book" arc. Just powered through it and hope it returns to the fun stuff.

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The logical cut off would be 1995 because EVA changed everything.

Does anyone else love 80's hentai OVAs?

Yeah, but not for the porn honestly. They're just fun to watch.

Yeah.

>2004-2006 was the time when dubs started to drop off and online subbing became dominant.
>But back in 1998 or so was right when the Toonami/Dub fad began.

There was no "dub fad." Dubs have always dominated and continue to dominate the Western anime market, at least in America.

>but the magical girl stuff they threw in to compete with Sailor Moon was rubbish.

The magical girl stuff in Sailor Moon was rubbish and that would have been a far better show were it not held back by that.

>am I getting the full experience through the manga?

Yes, you absolutely are. The manga is massively better than any other adaptation of it, and I say this as someone who typically despises most manga elitism.

Pita Ten was pretty awesome, and the manga was sad, I loved it.

This is the fourth thinly veiled recommendation thread I've seen in the last 10 minutes.

I haven't been watching anything from before 2010 the past week or two. I've been catching up on tons of shit I just ignored for various reasons, regardless of quality.

The majority of people even in America have switched to watching online subs. Simply because of necessity. They're free and way more prevalent. Why spend $60-$100 to buy a show when you can get it online for free? And watch it right when the show airs in Japan, not 2 years later.

For fuck sake, even my 12 year old cousin watches subbed anime online. And this is a kid who goes out and buys every major AAA game that comes out. Yet even he doesn't bother buying anime.

Sauce? It doesn't look like it Gundam.

Are you one of those people who think that any thread where people might name shows they like is a rec thread?

My sides

What I watch lately
>Princess Tutu
Good story, but too slow & too long. Should be just 13 episodes.
Ahiru deserves better ending.
>Excel Saga
Good. I didn't expected the nude loli fan service & loli blowjob in the last episode though.

>Princess Tutu
>too long and too slow
Modern anime fans everybody.

You know it.

I see this a lot lately. The longer and slower the better as far as I'm concerned. Being able to digest a 50+ episode series ends up being a lot more memorable and fulfilling than rushing through tons of short mediocre series.

I'd like to see BDs for:

all of Dirty Pair and Flash
all of Gal Force
all of Armored Trooper VOTOMS
Legend of Lemnear
Ruin Explorers
Gunsmith Cats
They Were 11
Birth
Area 88
Queen Millennia
Dallos
what's still available of Project A-ko
Neo Tokyo
Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight Mutiny
Robot Carnival
Iria:Zeiram
Armitage III
Silent Mobius
Genmu Senki Leda, and
Windaria

to name a slight few. The list is hundreds of entries long, there's just tons of stuff that needs BluRay to really shine. Some have already had remasters but are still only available on DVD. Remember how stunning Lodoss' transformation was, it could make a lot of these into something stupendous, especially Gal Force and Dirty Pair Project Eden.

Trying to download Rose of Versailles but no one's seeding.

Hey man, I binge 50 episodes of Kemono no Souja Erin right after that and It was great, since Erin has solid story. But Tutu pace was just bad in my opinion.

>Windaria
I need this so badly. I listen to the OST about every day.

Aside from episode 2 and 3, I don't see how it was paced bad. I also disagree with you about it not having a good ending. It had not one but two of the best endings in anime. The ending for both seasons were amazing.

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crying freeman
wounded man

You're watching it too fast. I started Tutu a year ago and just watched episode 8

her voice is sex itself

Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne

fetish violence AND sex!

I agree. Though I think the voice for Ahiru in Tutu is even better.

I like the ending, dude. I don't mind Ahiru didn't end up with prince, I just hope Ahiru become normal human completely, not just a duck.
She deserves some rewards, though.

1- 13 were good. Bad pacing starts around episode 14 - 22 in my opinion.

oh yeah, such a cute awkward little duckling

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This is the opinion of a crazy man

I'm not really going to try and change your opinion. But the reason the second season ended the way it did was because of the source material (Swan Lake). And because ballets as a whole usually end with a bitter sweet ending.

But also, it being a shoujo and all, it was playing right to the female audience. "Fakia still loves Ahiru as a duck, its so touching." etc.

Right now I'm making my way through the last stretch of Key the Metal Idol. I've only got the thirteenth episode and the two OVAs left.

It's been really interesting so far. First thing that came to mind was that Key was like a sort of prototype for Serial Experiments Lain, but that doesn't really seem to be a fair comparison for either series.

noice!

After 5 or 6 episodes of nothing happening, I couldn't finish this. I'm sure it led to a powerful ending, but there's only so much I can take of Key sitting alone in a park and Sailor Mars complaining about her boyfriend.

I always liked Key. It has some pacing issues with the last two OVA episodes, but I still love the style and dark direction.
Also, the dub is a bit of a guilty pleasure. They actually did a good job translating the songs.

>Fakia
You mean Fakir.

Ahiru pronounces it Fakia so I'm going with that. Not that big of a problem, unlike Mute/Mytho/Miyuto.

I prefer the english version of the opening to the japanese one.