Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

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Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Azure Vermillion » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:22 am

Lets hope I can get some input from some older member and some fellow Australians.

Alrighty I'd say the thread title is a little bit self explanitory but I'll ellaborate my motivations in creating it.
I grew up watching Anime on the Australian SBS channel, and basically everything I laid eyes upon was golden. While it might be some nostalgia lingering, I do indeed feel that a majority of ''today's'' anime is lacking compared to the older shows.
What I am hoping for to compile a small list of the 'gems' that were created in the last generation something like between 1989-1999. I'm also hoping to track down a few of the anime I remember watching yet can't remember the details.

I guess I'll start with the obligitory stuff - anyone who hasn't watched these series should seriously consider trying to obtain a copy.

Ghost in the Shell
Trigun
Bubblegum Crisis Toyko
Millenium Actress
Akira
Samurai X/Kenshin OVAs

Please feel free to add more to the list and discuss - I hope to see this list expanded upon
(mods if this has been done before move/merge/lock or delete this thread as necessary)
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Athena » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:46 am

1989-1999 is not old. Not even remotely old.

Try...

Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy
Mach Go Go/Speed Racer
Ace wo Nerae
Rose of Versailles
Space Battleship Yamato/Starblazers
Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets
SDF Macross (the original, none of that plus, seven, zero, or frontier bullshit)
Megazone 23
Mospeada
Orgus
Southern Cross
Gundam (the original, accept no substitutions)
Touch
Miyuki
Maison Ikkoku
Kimagure Orange Road

Also Tokyo 2040 sucks. BGC original is where it's at.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby -MD » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:57 am

Kionon wrote:1989-1999 is not old. Not even remotely old.

The hell is you smokin son :uhoh:
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Koopiskeva » Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:38 am

Kionon wrote:1989-1999 is not old. Not even remotely old.


It's considered old now. No use pretending we're not all getting old.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby EkaCoralian » Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:56 pm

I remember walking into an Older Anime Appreciation club on MAL, thinking, "Whoohoo, now I can meet people who love all of the old stuff like Trigun, Millenium Actress and all that!"
Apparently they considered anything from the 90's to not be old. I never understood they're reasoning behind it. ._.

Anyways, lately I've been rewatching Trigun. Good stuff. :up:
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby kenisama » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:54 pm

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Yawara!?!?!?
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Athena » Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:48 pm

Yawara is 1990, but I guess I'll consider it old. Maybe.

Koop, MD, Eka... GET OFF MY LAWN.

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We don't consider 90s old because that would mean WE'RE old.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Ishbalan » Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:13 pm

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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby kenisama » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:28 am

Kionon wrote:Yawara is 1990, but I guess I'll consider it old. Maybe.


The anime premiered in 1989! (one year, but hey, why not!) and the manga came out in 1986 I believe. Are you basing the oldness of an anime from the decade it was released? Because some of these titles could legally drink if they wanted to :beer: :rofl:
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:55 am

I heard of this kawaii sugoi cartoon called Tatami Galaxy, but I think that was last season.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby mirkosp » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:29 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:I heard of this kawaii sugoi cartoon called Tatami Galaxy, but I think that was last season.

Seriously... People say that older anime are better only 'cause the good recent shows go almost unnoticed whereas the somewhat enjoyable but still barely average shows get more attention than they deserve.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Qyot27 » Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:06 pm

EkaCoralian wrote:Apparently they considered anything from the 90's to not be old. I never understood they're reasoning behind it. ._.

Mayhaps because those shows were new when they started watching anime? It's the same reason I also refuse to call Coolio 'old-school'. My impression of what constitutes older anime is pretty close to Kio's list. Tack Gall Force and Dominion Tank Police on there for good measure and there you go.

Now, had the term actually been 'classic', that describes something other than age, even though a certain degree of age is implied.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby Êricō » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:16 am

Back in the days, most of the animes were based around cyberpunk, well at the least it was a period back then. Also anime was considerably more gorey like 'Genocyber' and many more but I would prefer not to mention them. 'Akira' was one of the best anime movies I have seen because I liked the action and the small doses of humour. I do not know how old the anime 'Spriggan' was but it had some awesome action sequences and higly detailed animation. Hayao Miyazaki's works were alos interesting to watch as well like 'Princess Mononoke'. 'Berzerk' was also a good anime and I wish if they had continued it because the ending kind of sucked. Older animes also appeared to try alot harder than some of todays anime in terms of detail and animation. 'Akira' and CLAMP's 'X' paid very close attention in the building destruction scenes which made those particular scenes look epic.
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby post-it » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:05 pm

I'm not sure how old you really want to go but, I sorta liked the Smurf's ^_^ .. .. 0_0 .... X_X !! :rofl:
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Re: Older Anime Apprieciation Thread

Postby NelTu » Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:57 pm

Saint Seiya 1986
Dragon ball 1984
Captain Tsubasa 1981 (my first anime ^_^)

80s FTW
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