Pre-2000s Anime Thread

What older titles have you been watching lately?

Recently finished Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, a series about dogs and bears fighting for control over some snowy mountains. It was a good time.

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Oh yes, that was cool shit. However, I don't really watch that much older anime. At least in my native language, not many fansubs worked in old shows and most focused in seasonal ones. I was even lucky to get the original gundam show and Gin translated at all and it is a chore to watch shows subbed in english.

I was waiting for this thread!
Report on Patlabor TV: I reached episode 35.
Damn, these last few episodes were excellent! It was true, Patlabor is really good. I was wishing for a real decent fight between patlabors and this mini-arc far surpassed my expectations. It was really beautiful to see that somewhat realistic fight between giant robots, with the public servant trying it's best to protect and not allow anyone to end hurt while it's patlabor was being torn to pieces.
I'm proud of Noa.

just finished golden boy

>criminals stage a terrorist strike and invade the Bokuto station with firearms and gas masks
I really didn't expect this from a You're Under Arrest property.

Any new sub projects for older series?

Started Cardcaptor Sakura and it's a really fun, easy series to watch. Animation is also great.

Saber Marionette J
Majutsushi Orphen

I think Saber Marionette is the only harem I watched which I didn't find cringeworthy.

Orphen has this old-school fantasy feel to it, kind of like Slayers.

Both shows feature competent and likable male MC.

>this show makes nordics go all sentimental

I finally got around to watching Devilman a few weeks ago. Currently got Ashita no Joe downloaded but the first few episodes didn't really hook me.

Watching Gunbuster finally after being a Diebuster fan for ages.

Its really great and the OP is very of its time and fun.

Also glad the copied the style of the eye catch in Diebuster.

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>Seeing Diebuster first
What were you even thinking?

Watching a series with a friend not realizing it was a sequel.

Ben was best doggo

Ashita no Joe is one of those "it gets good after 100" episodes things. Consider reading a summary and just watching 2. To be honest I didn't love 2 either, but I get why it's popular. Good for Dezaki fans.

CCS is the pinnacle of the medium.

1 is honestly better than 2.

I'm only half-way through the first, and I enjoy it. Ashita no Jow, that is.

Heck no, the writing is retarded in both but at least 2 looks okay.

You crazy, I'm finishing 1 and enjoying every episode.

>the writing is retarded
How? Seems to make sense to me.

You're gonna have to tell me why.

Reminder Card Captor Sakura is and always will be better than Sailor Moon.

Currently watching Joe. Just finished Joe and Rikiishi's first fight. I'm impressed by how many references there were to Joe in TTGL outside of Kamina's death but it seems like there was a lot like Kamina using the same method as Joe did to escape the prison like riding the pigs to freedom.

How many more was I missing? I'm pretty sure the fight between Simon and the Anti-Spiral leader is supposed to be a movement for movement of one of the Joe fights but I can't be sure since I'm not done with the series yet.

Read a book or something.

I never actually made the connection between the two escapes, that's cool. There's probably a lot more, but maybe because Joe inspired so much and TTGL is a big love letter to old anime.

Ok.

My nigga OP, that show is the absolute best.

>MUH POP CULTURE
I can already tell it is shit and void of any depth

>Read a book or something.
Literally reading a book right now. A well-regarded classic. I took a break to see your response.
Now, what is so wrong with the writing in Ashita no Joe?

Duh, it's infamous. "Read le book" is broad.

Which classic? I've got like 100 or so pages left of Moby Dick and I'm enjoying it a lot. I wish there would be more anime adaptations of classical literature. 100% sure it got an adaptation at some point but it was in a sci-fi setting. Not that user but I think the writing in Joe is fine and semi-believable, the entire thing reminds me of a Dickens or a Hugo novel.

Some VHS tapes with this was passed around in my village when I was a kid. Safe to say I was scarred for life and I still hate bears.

Well, I never actually read Treasure Island as a boy, so I'm doing it now. I like it.

That show is fucking bananas. Literally every episode gets crazier than the last, and this is a show that opens up with an old hermit sending dogs off to fight bears in mortal combat in the middle of nowhere. There was never a bad episode either, and it's nonstop great.

10/10 taste OP.

Most recent older anime I watched was G-Gundam. Also a bonkers show where you want to scream at everyone in it for being so painfully unaware of how ironic the things they say are.

>Master Asia looks over desolate waste land of ruined post apocalyptic cities
>The Gundam fight did this. We have the gundam fight so we don't have wars which threatened to ruin the planet.
>Domon is a fucking tool and never makes the connection that the gundam fights are about 100x worse in terms of destruction.

Great hilarious stuff there. Also when the American guy is terrified of fucking clowns.

I read that before summer actually. Been meaning to watch the anime adaptation since Dezaki, I was surprised by how much I liked Long John's character despite the fact he's been so diluted due to unfunny pop culture skits.

Started watching Nadia, karekano and Nadesico. What am I in for?

>rating things after 1 episode
for what reason?

>rating things at all

No that is not it. There was a time, where my backlog was overflowing. I didn't want to delete it all, so in a few weeks, I watched the first episodes of every show on my backlog and moved them to on-hold (many shows were dropped). But now I had a clearer understanding of what the shows in my list were. The scores were more like first impressions.

I've been watching a fantasy trio: Slayers, Escaflowne, and Record of Lodoss War. Funny how all three of their first episodes involve a dragon.

>trying to watch some good old shows
>search for subs
>either no sub or no seeds
I hate to stream but there is no other way though.
The only good thing is some shows have a decent dub (spicy user)

Finished Takarajima. Got better towards the end, especially the end. I loved the last scene with Silver. That handsome bastard carried the show.
Gray felt like an anime original character.

Dropped Spaceship Sagittarius after 30 episodes.

Started KareKano. Episode 7 was god damn sweet, but with 9 the teenage highschool drama starts. Hope it doesn't get too annoying.

Are you watching Fushigi Yuugi? And scoring it a 9? Dude, doesn't matter, you can endure anything.

Anyone else have an anime you hold so dear to yourself you don't want to end it? I'm barely past 12 episodes of Cardcaptor because it's everything I wanted it to be. I swept through the manga but I'm holding myself off to a couple of episodes every other week; I'm just having too much fun with it and don't want to think about finishing it

Hint: if you can't find a torrent, or it doesn't seed, you can also download the source file from streaming sites like kissanime and 9anime. It's a last resort, but it works for me.

What's wrong with Fushigi yuugi? Everything about it is so terrible (the cheesy story, the romance, the characters, the dub etc.), that it goes full circle, and becomes awesome again. I love how cheesy and goofy it is, I love the mc, I love the sudden shifts into more darker themes, I love the ending theme. It is just so fun.

>the dub
Watch the sub, then at least you'll get to hear some god-tier 90s seiyuu even if everything else about the show is terrible.

The anime is fine, but the manga is much better.

Is the Urusei Yatsura movie collection torrent ready yet?

Yeah, it's an all-star cast.
>Hikaru Midorikawa
>Yumi Touma
>Takehito Koyasu
>Tomokazu Seki
>Shinichiro Miki

Watching Utena right now. Ming-blowingly brilliant. I feel every single scene, composition and piece of music has meaning behind it that plays into the larger theme(s) that the show is trying to portray.

I don't care about japanese voice acting. At all. So that's a nope.

>I don't care about japanese voice acting

>Everything about it is so terrible
I tried watching a few episodes and was unbearable.

Why? You hate blockhead teenage girls so much?

I'm in the middle of City Hunter. I don't mind the fanservice, although the overuse of the word "mokkori" is slightly grating. Makimura didn't deserve what he got.

Try a private torrent site then. Or, if using nyaa, patiently wait. Sometimes seeders appear out of nowhere.

How about you just end your life right now? Or at the very least fuck off and spare us your moronic posts.

See

And what is so "moronic" about my posts?

Shut up and lurk more, then you might figure it out.

Uh just headsup to whoever else is following saizen's release of Yawara, they finally posted another episode a couple days ago.

also, another interesting thing I found out this week is someone began subbing the original Little Women WMT a couple weeks ago.

and lastly, recently found out that Hana yori Dango has finally been blessed with a much needed new encode.

Some weeb needs to go back and sub Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai properly.

What did he mean by this?

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Fist of the North star and City Hunter S1. Was recomended the second one by a close friend.
Recently finished Armor Hunter Mellowlink though. was an OK OVA series but I do't think I'm going to touch anything post shining heresy to be honest.

I'll do it cheaply for just $50 per episode. How about that, you stupid weeb?

To much "90's" for my patience.

Recently finished Gundam Wing + Endless Waltz. I've seen every Gundam show now.

Even Gundam MS IGLOO and SD Gundam Chibi Senshi?

I wonder what you are doing in this thread then.

I really want to watch Yawara, I believe that it's worth watch the anime instead of reading the manga. But the files are too big, I wish someone would shrink the encode.

"began subbing"... for now ignore that effort. You can't take it serious when they start the project already asking for help with translation.

Just finished Space Fantasia 2001 Nights and it was sublime to say the least, definitely an 80s masterpiece.

Yeah that arc really got me into Noa as well. Having to do her duty while her Alphonse was getting torn to pieces was such a trial for her - that whole arc produces one of the better character arcs I've seen in anime, we see her really scared and feeling down on herself for the first time, and the Griffon is a great design.

I need to pick it up again, some of the SOL stuff was getting boring to me ( I was wanting more magic and less children eating cake), it seemed really well done from what I saw at least.

G-Gundam is goofy, but so hot-blooded and emotional it really sucks me in.The music is probably the best in any Gundam series as well.

Nadesico is a top tiered mecha parody and more. If you don't know the genre already you may be missing out a bit on the references.

I recently completed Record of Lodoss War. Every now and again I hate the way they drew the MCs nose, but mostly everything is on point. I've never seen epic high fantasy done so competently in anime. I especially liked the detailed character art on all the antagonists - it made them seem that much more menacing.

Recently I watched Windaria. The plot and characters could have maybe used a bit more run time to flesh out, but the movie was executed extremely well and the art and animation was incredible. You can see allot of Nausica influence in it, which I found interesting. I'm surprised I don't hear about this movie more.

On top of that I am watching Blue Seed, re watching SDF Macross and slowly making my way through Urusei Yatsura. I also watched the Legend of Lemnear OVA, which was really fun ( Lemnear is an amazing character design, just what I like for 80s floofy haired waifus) and Zeorymer, which was way better than I expected, with titanic well animated battles, astounding art and mecha design, and an actually pretty interesting small plot to boot.

>the files are too big
>I wish someone would shrink the encode.
nyaa.si/view/571105

>Nadesico is a top tiered mecha parody and more. If you don't know the genre already you may be missing out a bit on the references.
I'm familiar with the genre. Ever since I watche the youtube series "the visual history of mecha anime", I have been picking up mecha shows left and right. From go-nagai to all of UC Gundam.

I've been watching Mobile Suit Gundam. I know it's a classic but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it for some reason.

Should I watch the original space battleship Yamato, or the remake (I keep hearing good things about the remake.) ? Which one is a better show?

The original

Why are you asking Sup Forums? Do your own research and pick your preference.

Watch the Space Battleship ニート　instead.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=upAZcvTbUK0

How can one character be so based?

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>for now ignore that effort. You can't take it serious when they start the project already asking for help with translation.
Uh the subs aren't bad at all though? Plus the release rate is quite consistent, I think the fansubber was just asking if anyone wanted to help because it's a lot of work.

He was always my favorite, after Lum-chan.

2199 is a cringy weebshit parody of Yamato. There is one insanely autistic retard who shitposts for 12+ hours a day defending it and he will likely enter the thread soon.

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Oh my god this brings back so many memories! This was the first anime I watched subbed back in 2007. I watched Weed after, but it didn't hold up to it's predecessor

Saeba Ryo is so cool

How can someone so based have that much trouble getting laid?

Yamato 1974 is pretty bad honestly. ANYTHING is an improvement over it.

Fist of the North Star is so fun. I'm honestly enjoying it so much right now. Super comfy since Ken never loses, very calming

>Yamato 1974 is pretty bad
Except it's not?

DVD quality (and no seeders), what I want is the new BD rip.

rewatched this OVA today after years
I still like it and really want the OST.

Literally no one has even ripped the BD though, the raws exist no where.

Started watching Mobile Suit Gundam Wing for the first time. It's also my first Gundam show.

Then what is this "high" resolution grainy screenshot?

It's literally saizen/live-evil's release of Yawara, the only group that is currently ripping and subbing the series all over again.
I for one don't understand why they can't rip the entire BD for us to just retime the old subs, but for some reason they want to stubbornly rerelease the series at a snails pace (i.e. a release every 3 months).

Prove me wrong.
>most characters have the depth of a puddle
>animation is horrendous
>writers make shit up as they go along
>Villains with no substance

The soundtrack and the fact that it had a better Kodai is it's only merit, in fact the OST was so good that 2199 just lifted it from the original. 2199 is superior in every aspect.

I just watched Ruin Explorers a few days ago. Holy shit it was fucking great, why was there never more than a 4 episode OVA?