Can we have an old anime thread?

Can we have an old anime thread?
What are you watching user?

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Ranma 1/2

I actually just started watching the Dirty Pair, coincidentally.

The first Lupin series

why'd Lupin just try and burn that fake psychic to death?

Votoms

just "finished" Dangaioh

Mia is a lovely leotard lady

I re-watched Golden Boy recently. Anyone who hasn't seen it should immediately go and watch it. The whole series is less than 3 hours.

I'm watching Ashita no Joe S2.

Some parts are better executed than S1 but its version of Joe vs. Carlos was disappointing. Both the manga and S1 did it better.
Episode 1 of Dangaioh was good but it was still annoying how the girls couldn't pilot the mech.

Ep 2 was well animated but horribly written

Ep 3 was generally boring

I want to read the yuri spin-off

Because Lupin kills people all the time? Even in red jacket and the modern specials he blows people up.

The manga version of the story is better because it ends with Lupin's dick getting burnt since it didn't have the anti-fire substance on it

And yes there is a yuri spinoff

Whats the appeal of Dirty Pair.

why it's not fully scanned I do not know

its a pro tranny anime and thus very progressive

sold!

Trying to watch Shamanic Princess, but it's really boring.Will probably finish it in not too long, though, only 6 episodes in total.

Also started Lodoss War TV a while ago, but havent' seen anytihng in a while. It got too scary and then i jst stopped and havent started again.

And Angel's Egg two days ago. Took a lot of effort to not fall asleep.

Also started Perfect Blue, but it's so horrible to watch. Will force myself through the rest in the coming weeks though

>It got too scary
I was never scared of an anime in my life

Golden Boy is really good mainly because of the anime execution. If you think about it thematically it's some of the most pathetic self-insert fantasy in the world (I'm a weird creep that sexually harasses women BUT I'M SECRETLY A WONDERFUL GENIUS THAT NO ONE APPRECIATES) and the manga is drawn in a way that is both technically horrible and not funny. But the fucking fantastic staff of the anime makes the anime a fantastic experience and it's easy to forgive the awkwardness.

Also I had no idea Kitakubo himself animated one of my favorite moments sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/17628/animated-character_acting-golden_boy-hiroyuki_kita

How good is Dirty Pair?

Two cute women wearing little clothing have crazy space adventures.

If you can't see the appeal, I hate to tell you this but you're probably gay.

Worth a check. Does the first episode give a good representation of the show.

To be honest I haven't seen the TV series, but if you want to get a good idea of the fanservice, banter, and zany adventures/scale of destruction, watch Project Eden. Second or third VHS I ever bought, I remember it fondly.

it ranges from kinda dull to fucking amazing.

Finished blue seed some time ago, the ovas are worth the show.

Perfect Blue is one of those anime movies that you're not allowed to dislike on the internet. That's fine if you don't like it but only because you're on Sup Forums.

the first TV show is possibly the least good part of the franchise.
watch the OVAs and the movies if the TV show doesn't hook you.

I'm watching Cowboy Bebop for the first time, actually. On episode 16
I've already been spoiled on the ending but it's the journey that matters

I don't really like Cowboy Bebop.
The main characters are all goofy or annoying, I don't like the soundtrack and I can't take it seriously.

the animation and direction is good though

I wish I could watch Bebop for the first time again. Don't forget to watch the movie after you're done with the series.

Currently watching Nadesico, something that has been on my list for a long time. On episode 7 and not sure why this gets so much love. I get all the references, but it's a mediocre satire so far.

previous user nailed it, the good episodes are fabulously entertaining, the bad ones aren't very interesting. Personally I thought the first TV series was the most fun part of the franchise.

>Ro-Ro-Ro-Russian-Roulette

It's not that I dislike it, it's just really uncomfortable

>goofy
The show's hugely inspired by Lupin III, you're not meant to take it that seriously.

It's good, not BEST ANIME EVER but certainly very polished and well executed.

Yuri is cute

OBJECTIVE DIRTY PAIR FRANCHISE OVERVIEW

>Novels: very cool
>TV series: pretty fun overall
>OVAs: VERY fun, very good
>that one movie nobody remembers: it's OK
>Project Eden: FUCKING MASTERPIECE
>manga: it's OK
>Flash: very uneven, sometimes boring, sometimes super fun
>Comics: start out clumsy, become extremely cool and end up gross and dumb

Monkey punch always reminds me of the art that you used to see in Mad Magazine in the 1980s, wonder if either of them influenced each other.

Overall, Dangaioh is a lovely but dated piece of animation with terrible writing highlighted by the fact that it has no ending.

The first 2 parts of this were pretty good. Shame about the final part being such shit

It's old now

God I miss 80's character designs

>you're not meant to take it that seriously
you're meant to be able to feel sad and melancholic when shit gets serious.
But I can't, because the main cast look (and act) like complete clowns.
Seriously, Spike has clown hair.
I can't even suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a woman fell in love with that goofball, so how am I supposed to feel sad when I learn about his "tragic backstory"?

I watched this recently. TMS put it up on YouTube for free (strangely with only the French and Spanish dubs).

It was pretty good, can't believe how it was so dark and meant for children at the same time though.

>but dated
>but
How is it a bad thing?
Like holy shit do you go to the Louvre to check out Delacroix's paintings and then go "Mh. It's fine, but it's so dated, it's obvious that it was made in the XIXth century."

I only watched part 1 and it was total trash.

The animation stand-outs weren't even that amazing, it had some of the least interesting Anno animation for example. The Kanada-style action near the end was probably the best but by that point I was just too annoyed with it to get any enjoyment out of it.

The writing was HORRIFYINGLY bad. The scene you posted is the dumbest shit in the fucking world and made me straight up hate it.

>"I stole a super-powerful secret mecha from a dangerous organization that wants me dead, so I'll let a schoolgirl film it and show the film to her school"
>"OH NO SHE GOT KILLED!!! THOSE MONSTERS!!!!!!!!"

The characters had no personality and were just "80s sexy anime people" with autistic dialogue

I've been watching Goldran, it's ok I guess.

poofy hair is so good

It seems like anime just isn't for you if you need designs that are boring and realistic and completely non-cartoony to feel sad for them.
Old shonens are dark as fuck, have you seen Ashita no Joe?

Or hell, have you read Astro Boy? There's a chapter where he comes across the bullet ridden corpses of Vietnamese children.

>that one movie nobody remembers

...Flight 009 Conspiracy?

>watching anime and expecting it to make sense
good writing is just a nice added bonus that happens every now and then, it's not what you should watch anime for. Just welcome it when it's good and don't pay attention to it when it sucks.

Pre-2000 that I've been watching the last few months:

Xabungle
Utena
SPT Layzner
Outlaw Star
Cowboy Bebop
Rose of Versailles
Dougram
Ellcia
Dangaioh
Bubblegum Crisis
Macross 7
Braiger
Cobra
Big O

Sup Forums today is trying its best to make me feel so fucking old. and its working

Hello since there isn't a QTDDTOT thread I'll ask it here.
I remember bits and parts from an old anime but for the sake of me can't remember the name. I'll try to describe what I remember been well over 25 years since I watched it.
So there are some crooks trying to rob a pyramid shaped glass bank with a tank. In comes for the rescue a cop that well he can't defeat the crooks. Lo and behold here comes the cyborg soon to be partner with the human cop and saves the day.
The human doesn't want this to happen but it does anyway and ofc at the end they become friends or something like that.
Sorry for my English not my first language. Thanks in advance.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but, in some cases, it bothers me a little (sometimes a lot).

I think he means the fact that it was made in the OVA era where if stuff wasn't successful enough it didn't get an ending. But saying something is bad because it doesn't have an ending is really, really fucking dumb. It's not like they didn't WANT to give it an ending, they just couldn't. That's just the way anime was produced then, they made episodes and released them and if it was successful they could continue it.

I love this style and I don't know why
Must be the poofy hair

>It seems like anime just isn't for you if you need designs that are boring and realistic and completely non-cartoony to feel sad for them.
Nigger you don't understand.
The main cast of Cowboy Bebop IS drawn in a fairly realistic style. That's what makes their goofy-ass looks even more jarring.
But even then, there are ways to get around that issue, namely PROPER DRAMATIC PACING.
Look at Trigun for example: it's paced appropriately for the goofy-ass comedic main character to become a strong pathetic figure, because the director doesn't rush us through his backstory on the last few episodes, and gives him adequately slow and steady character development.

Spike just fucks around for most of the show and then BAM! CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! FEEL SAD FOR THIS CLOWN!

There's a colossal difference between just making a 'fun plotless shit' OVA like say Dead Leaves or Birth and trying to be plot-driven but failing really, really badly.

Yeah I can't say I agree with Trigun being better than Bebop but I honestly don't care enough to argue

it's a combination of many things, mostly the fact that all those characters look fit, have cheeks, and of course fluffy hair

Also I would not call Bebop realistic. The designs are very anime-esque and stylized.

>Not watching old shows for girls

I'm rewatchimg Hokuto no Ken with the French voices ,shit's super hilarious

I agree that part 1 had really terrible writing that prevented me from really caring about the main cast, but the fact that it was mystery-focused was enough to keep me interested in the story.

Part 2 is much more focused and has a stronger pacing. The characters' motivations still make little sense but they're carried out in an engaging way.

Well it's not fucking Perfect Blue but it's a lot more realistic than your average show of that era.

AH, POURQUOI TOUT LE MONDE EST-IL TOQUÉ DE TOKI?

I'll admit that part of the reason I'm really mean to Megazone is that it gets away with so much dumb writing and gets no flak from the "old school anime fan" clique but then people act as if things like Mad Bull 34 and Apocalypse Zero are "unintentionally funny" and you're "laughing at them, not with them" even though they're obviously absurdist comedies and were written in an utterly self aware way.

I don't think so. I think you're mistaking the characters not having huge eyes with realism. The eyes are still stylized and anime-esque, they're just smaller because in animation mature characters generally have smaller eyes and big eyes are associated with youth.

I heard the French dub changed all the dialogue on purpose. Like the English Ghost Stories dub.

Megazone 23 was originally supposed to be a TV series with 12 episodes, but they had huge budget cuts midway through the production phase and had to change the format. Which also enabled them to have sex scenes.

I don't know how much that excuses the dumb writing but it explains a lot of it.

NON JULIA LA RAMBARDE ,ELLE N'A PAS ÉTÉ ENCORE CONSTRUITE !!
AMMENEZ MOI L'ARCHITECTE !!

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999
Sailor Moon
Spirit of Wonder
Captain Harlock

Kei a best, BEST, what would an evening of hot passioate sex with Kei be liek.

What the fuck are you on about? It's not just about the eyes you idiot.

>Dragon Half is for girls

then how come is so THICC?

Yeah the voice actor said that the show was too violent for the T.V so they changed the script to make puns all over the place and defuse the drama

>the "old school anime fan" clique
I don't think that "clique" exists and I haven't seen people treat Apocalypse Zero as shlock.

The absolute best thing that came out of Fist of the North Star isn't even old

Any good futuristic or cyberpunk anime?
Bubblegum crisis sucked.
Cyber City was great at least.

No, they said it was too violent for them and refused to dub it, UNLESS they could change the script and have fun with it.

That ed gave me my first boner.

Weren't all of Ken's attacks changed into ridiculous names?
I could swear I heard one of them as technique [quelque chose] beurre

But then I only watch the old stuff as brainless entertainment and I'm the kind of person who doesn't really get how people can develop a huge emotional attachment to the old Fist of the North Star stuff and how people reacted to Raoh's death the same way Ashita no Joe fans did to Rikishi's death
>I haven't seen people treat Apocalypse Zero as shlock
You've not spent much time discussing old anime online then. It's considered the worst anime of all time and the manga also gets shit on by default (the manga's better, the anime's still pretty good).

>Bubblegum Crisis sucked
well you're not getting any recs from me, faggot.

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Le doublage dit "Hokuto de Salle a manger " ou "Hokuto a beurre"

Fuck off with that garbage
Hiromoto is a barrel of dog shit

There's a hidden little gem called Akira.

I don't really know where to discuss old anime online outside of Sup Forums to be honest. I read a few blogs and forum posts from time to time and from what I've seen EVERY old anime with a few exceptions (Oshii's stuff, mostly) is either ignored or treated like complete shit.

I truly believe that anyone who seriously thinks normal FOTNS is better than what Hiromoto did with it is a genuinely a really dumb person

Im watching cowboy bepop in the cap 14 or something and I cant find why the people put this anime in top 10 best animes.
Can anyone tell me if is worth to keep watching it?

Get a load of this pile of shit.

You judge everything in the most literal "muh plot" way possible so nah you'll probably never grow to like it

If Jupiter Jazz doesn't catch you then just drop it.

I heard it's an anime mostly liked by people who don't like anime. Compare the number of people who watch anime with people who don't, and you can see the non-anime fans outnumber the rest. There is also strong nostalgia for it, most Americans grew up with it on TV so they will rate it higher

I've watching the first season of Lupin III. About halfway through now. Shit's pretty comfy, I like the soundtrack.

>Lupin.... He's a nice man! But he's cool...

Well ok, not really, I understand enjoying it more

But holy shit Jagi Gaiden is on a whole other level in terms of atmosphere and themes

Cowboy Beebop is overrated bullshit, don't bother with it.

I knew I wasn't imagining things
J'aime quand même le générique français

what?
that's a big assumption you're making

Les Chevalier du Zodiaque sont pas mal en français aussi

The only reason it has that reputation is because average anime fans are weeaboo faggots and generally shove the most obnoxious things into people's faces. There is plenty of other anime that's easily understandable by western viewers that just didn't become popular because it never aired on TV.

Bebop is also extremely Japanese, just in subtler ways that the kind of people who think saying Cowboy Bebop is overrated shit makes them smart knowledgeable fans would not notice. Something like it could not have come out of the US by any stretch.

it's just entry-level anime for people with "standards" (aka people who don't like anime, as opposed to people who watch Naruto), like Akira, Nausicaa and Ghost in the Shell.