Pre-2000 Anime and Manga Thread

Just watched Nausicaa. I absolutely loved it. The way the world was built, the fun and exciting animation with good sound design backing it up; it all culminated into one very, very enjoyable movie. I have been trying to catch up on the classics a little more and it's definitely been worth it.

I haven't watched anything today or yesterday, but I finished Nausicaa a few days ago. It was pretty good, the world was really interesting, I loved the flight. And the main character had a really nice design.

Besides that, watching an episode of Turn A Gundam now and then, at a rate that will take me months to finish.
Maybe a bit too recent, but also working on Oh! Super Milk-chan, did episode 8 today. For the most part, it's slightly boring, but most episodes make me laugh at some point. And it's best if you just space out, listening to Milk-chan's voice while watching her drooling while drooling. But episode 7, that one was great. I laughed so hard when they switched between the mole and them eating potato crisps. Every time the camera zoomed in on them in that blurry way while they ate and we heard that sound, it laughed so hard.

Also working on some others, but these are the ones I feel like talking about now.

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Been watching Space Cobra. First episode was absolutely fantastic and instantly hooked me. The Royal sister arc got a bit weak (and lasted a long time considering it's an episodic show), but I'm enjoying it more again at episode 14

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Haven't started reading it yet, but I've got the first volume of The Legend of Mother Sarah that I'm looking forward to reading soon. It seems pretty interesting, but I am a sucker for post apocalyptic settings

what's the best way to find slightly more obscure (still subtitled) older anime other than just lurking threads like this?

I may just be retarded, but the anidb search isn't too great and it repeats the same show a dozen times. I'd rather just go back in time using their chart search which to be fair isn't a bad way to do it

myanimelist doesn't have the control that anidb does, and is overall just a little more annoying to use

>>153718695
Saber Marionette J is really fun.

>>153723363
Bakabt's random function is legit.

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>>153723363
I use my country's anime database website for that.

>>153723363

1.
Go to MAL
Seasonal anime -> archive
Pick a year and try things that look interesting

2.
Go to anidb
Find a director/seiyuu/writer/artist/etc from a show you enjoy
Try watching various things they've worked on


Also, learn enough japanese to watch untranslated anime, it's not very hard and you will miss out on a lot otherwise. And western rec charts generally suck, and are propped up by nostalgia for dubs of mediocre shows and hollywood mentality.

>>153724176
I might consider making a chart that just includes all completely subbed older shows. would be useful for these threads

speaking of which, this thread doesn't seem like it'll have as long of a life as the last one. should we only bother making these on the weekends, or what? a weekly thread every saturday wouldn't be all that bad.

Started Kyou Kara Ore Was and Shaman King. Both are being good readings so far, but Kyou Kara Ore Wa isn't what I was expecting, it isn't as funny as I thought it would be.

>>153725959
KKOW's manga is much better. It's probably the best delinquent manga out there, honestly, sans maybe crows.
>>153723363
Just look up random shit or lurk /m/ threads. Sometimes you run into shit like this channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkG15jgo_x8y3BxMUFoj-w

>>153726032
I'm talking about the manga. But I'm still at chapter 6. (Only the comedy is disappointing me a bit, the characters are nice and the art isn't half bad)

Want to watch Crest of The Stars, but the release I got last year had shitty video quality, almost VHS like, so I deleted it. What is the best release out there?

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>>153719416
>>153718926

The manga is fucking delicious. Buy it if you can

>>153718695
IF THIS IS JUSTICE THAN I'M A BANANA

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fuck i need to go buy a personal computer

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I finished the Sephirotic NGE+EOE bluray, around Christmas time.

>>153728569
Only /pol/fag tinfoils fail to appreciate the beauty of the English dub.

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Started yesterday.
Gonna watch episode 2 now.
More better looking than what I was expecting for 1982.

Just finished Kimagure Orange Road. The TV series was fun but I thought the sequel movies were a little stronger and had some great character focus. What did others here think about it?

>>153730117
kimagure is extremely uneven and goes from super comfy to fucking infuriating in almost every episode because MISUNDERSTANDINGS

but the character designs are super cute

>>153729280
What happened to his clothes?

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Got tipsy last night and downloaded Maison Ikkoku, having forgotten that I hate Takahashi.

Though the last time this happened, I downloaded Yosuga no Sora, so I guess it could be worse

>>153731434
That's a good gif my friend.

>>153723363
Get gud.

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>>153730117
Absolute trash. It could have been solved in 1 cour but it was stretched into a giant mess of misunderstandings and asspulls. The first ED and animation are the only good things about it. Have official boob.

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>>153731408
unless he loads inside her prior, she doesnt have enough memory to render clothes in the computer world

What old manga are you fellows reading

>>153732456
What did she mean by this?

>>153732549
reading Ashita no Joe and Getter Robot. Getter is ok but Joe is really good, too bad my ADHD ass is never going to get through all 20 volumes

>>153732549
kamen rider

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>>153732578
exactly what it says

>I Dream of Mimi, known as Buttobi!! CPU (ぶっとび!!CPU?) in Japan, 1999

>A young student named Akira has saved up a large sum of money to buy the latest and best personal computer - only to find out they are sold out. He then finds what he thinks is the same model number in an alley, and buys the large boxed-up machine from a shady character nearby. When he gets home, Akira is shocked to find that his new computer is a bio-android shaped like a pretty young lady. He is even more shocked when she tells him that she constantly needs his semen to refresh her physical memory.

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holy shit this is funny

>>153732453
Stretching things out is a problem I'm actually glad to see the last of. So many older shows are 50+ episodes and just have a bunch of episodes where nothing happens. I would much prefer 2 cours of a tightly focused narrative.


of cours enowdays you still get 1 cour shows that are a mess storywise and still manage to pack in several episodes of pointless shit but that's more a budgeting issue+studios just wanting to shit out as many new shows as possible.

What is it with old anime looking so glorious IE the original GitS compare to anime today?

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>>153735237
moe changed everything

>>153735237
THE POWER OF THE CELL

>>153720697
The sports arc is the best.

>>153735395
I miss the rampant fanservice. I don't like the consensual rape shit we have today.

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>Dat fucking end


Gunnm really did fucked up my day

>>153730117
>>153730219
>>153732453
The only good thing in KOR is the soundtrack.

The opening and endings are great.

Jesus tell me this "secret of the tattoo" arc in Cobra ends soon. I'm on 11.

>>153736694
next ep is the last one anon. I know your pain

>>153736694
It's going to take some time, but you'll see it's bullshit in the end.
~~seeeeecret desiiire~

>>153735395
PERFECT

>>153735395
god damn I need more of those

>>153735237
Why do anons that always ask this question never bother looking into how animation has changed?

>>153737197
Because they know perfectly well the answer to that question and are just asking it to bait people into starting a shitstorm.

The goal is to get people to start flinging accusations of nostalgia goggles and moeshit goggles at each other.

You know it's working when the same few fallacies are being thrown around, such as:
>moe existed in the 80s so it was just as bad as it is now!
and
>the artstyle doesn't matter, all that matters is the production values!
etc...

I never really got to finish Trigun and now I did. Good ride. Not sure what old series to go to next though.

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>>153735237
>the original GitS
Why that would be because it was a manga drawn by Shirow mostly for fun and with genuine care for his craft, and not a cashgrab designed to get fanboys to buy it based off brand name recognition and systematic genre-consumption.

>never download/keep porn, always stream
>only a handful of cream lemon hentai on streaming sites
>meanwhile whole thing available as torrents

I may have to download the whole thing and upload it to a bunch of streaming sites myself.

>>153737500
Yu yu hakusho
Gungrave
Lodoss
Berserk
Bubble Gum Crisis
Giant Robo Ova, the day the earth stood still. For extra points, watch the dubbed version. The sheer over the top cheese is unbelievably endearing and is surprisingly moving.

>>153718695
A couple of Miyazaki films like kiki or laputa. Laputa was kinda ok but kiki was just a generic slice of life.

I'm downloading Brain Powered. Barely read any info about it, so I don't know what to expect and I prefer it in that way.

idk shin-chan was shit (dub is better), captain tylor was boring for the most part (albeit had a great cast and good scenes here and there), golden boy had its moments but was too short, ping pong club was just not funny enough to keep watching

Sounds like I'm done here.

>>153737774
2004 dub or the 90s one?

Was Ronin Warriors actually good or is my nostalgia googles too thick?

>>153735237
done by hand vs computer

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Shame the director never got to do anything else

Just finished Lain.
Not 100% sure what was happening, hell not even 70%, but even then I enjoyed the hell out of it. Going to try rewatching later on to see if I can grasp it fully.

>>153737854
90's.
2004 is too measured and controlled it's really good but it doesn't have that certain THING.

>>153738068
Nothing to grasp.
It's just a clusterfuck of pseudo intellectual silliness that just ends.
Want something fucking insane that doesn't try to delve into stuff it doesn't really understand and does everything fails to do correctly?
Watch Sci-Fi Harry.

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Tried watching the first few episodes of the Evangelion series. Pretty good so far. Meanwhile, I'm also planning on watching the JoJo OVA's from the 90s while waiting for Part 5. Should I watch those subbed or dubbed?

>>153738122
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try it.
Is there a English dub of it? Only finding the subs

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>>153738122
I honestly and genuinely mean this. I think Lain was 2deep4u.
As I remember Lain she was an AI created by a scientist who hoped to become God through the use of Lain to merge human consciousness. She naturally brings out humanty's subconscious and causes it to manifest. Her family was created to fulfill the role of integrating and helping her understand human society so that she could complete the dreams of that scientist. The episodes help explore elements of humanity as things unravel around Lain. It ultimately ends with her rejecting her founder and recreating the world without her presence since the sort of human connection and the type of being she is naturally causes disarray and dysfunction

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Why was anime so awful before the 80s?

Anything before the 70s was Disney lookalike trash, and the 70s had nothing but kids mecha/racing/baseball shows with the depth of a puddle. I can only think of 4 worthwhile series from the 70s, and 2 of them are from the same universe.

>>153738463
I noticed that as well as I was looking at each season's offerings starting in 70. starts off with nothing but sports shows, then lupin, then sports and mechs, then yamato, more mechs, then more lupin, and finally harlock and gundam

there was also obviously all the tatsunoko stuff

I'm currently watching:

-Rose Of Versailles: great melodrama and direction, a must see.

-Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!: fun 10 episode furyo ovas, it's basically the same thing as shonan junai gumi so if you're disappointed over the lack of a true SJG anime then you definitively want to watch this

-Yu Yu Hakusho: It's a fun retro shonen but I think it lacks in comparison with how great Hunter x Hunter is, I know everyone won't agree with me, I've been told the serie peaks at the chapter black arc so I'm just waiting to get to this part

And I've recently watching Royal Space Force for the first time with a bunch of friends and we all really liked it, I'd love seeing Gainax try to experiment with this kind of realistic storytelling again

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>>153738739
and of course I'm a retard who forgot the kind of important ashita no joe

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>>153718695
Been marathoning all of DBZ every night but US broadcast so the cut down Ocean/original Funidub run because it's been a while since I last watched it at all.
Getting to the part where Babidi starts ATTACKING HIS MIIIIIIIIIIND right now.

Judge me but I watched all the recommended list on YouTube, got through nice stuff like goku midnight eye, mad bull, 3x3 eyes, armitage 3 etc

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>>153735237
Well really it's because standards have changed. Production costs keep getting cut, art styles change to be easier to draw and animate, and most of all the tools and methods used to make anime series are different compared to back then even if the production cycle hasn't.

>>153738981
and the sad thing is that it's impacting manga as well since the new generations of mangaka are imitating recent anime styles and not the other way around.

>>153739019
Well can you blame them when the market has shifted away from print for the past decade or so? It's getting harder for the upstarts to hook people in with manga these days, just like the western comic book industry has been doing for the past 20 years. That's why DC and Marvel have dabbled in the movie shit all this time, if they just stuck with print then there IPs would fall into the void.

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Post more Kenichi Sonoda

>>153718926
The only manga i consider to be better than devilman and pre-jrpg berserk is nausicaa

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https://soundcloud.com/musikconnections/kentaro-haneda-shi-no-koshin

fantastic

>>153735395
80s-90s girls were so much more cuter than.

>>153738436
How is that deep? That's surface level plot stuff. Sure it requires a bit of "reading" comprehension to get, but it's not anything deep.

>>153738463
>>153738739
Are you forgetting Rose of Versailles? It's a classic among classics.

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>>153738463
>the 70s had nothing but kids mecha
truly the best decade

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>>153739524

Okay

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>>153730111
>That Christmas episode
If only they had the original best girl Miime in the cast the series would've been perfect.

>>153730111
SSX was so good. A shame I postponed watching it because the original series was so lackluster.

ded

>>153741105
aerobics babes are the only true standard of female beauty

Trying to get through Oniisama E. The direction is good and having characters speak in actual sentences is an improvement compared to many current anime shows, but bloody hell, I hate all the hysterical melodrama. Most problems are actually very trivial, but the characters spend ages crying and screaming about them.

>>153744041
That's the main appeal of the show you idiot
it's a shoujo D R A M A

>>153744069
Drama is a genre, anon. It doesn't mean irrational hysteria 24/7.

>>153744041
>Most problems are actually very trivial, but the characters spend ages crying and screaming about them.
This is literally shoujo anime/manga in a sentence.

Contrary to /a/'s suggestion of slogging through the Eva series, I picked up the Rebuilds. Much better in every aspect. I don't understand how someone could subject themselves to the writing and visuals of the original series.

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Tokimeki Tonight right now, then I plan on rewatching the Patlabor OVA before starting Yawara.

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>>153744431
I like how the drama is mostly confined to each episode. It gives some good chuckles too here and there. Ranze is such a sweet MC.

>>153732549
Rokudenashi Blues.

>>153744462
I like that Ranze isn't a timid MC afraid of persuing what she wants.

I also like the Makabe segments, when it seems like you're peering into a sports shounen series that gets completely ruined by Ranze and Kamiya fighting over him.

>>153728356
How's the hardcover boxset by Viz? List price is supposed to be $70 but I keep seeing it for almost half.

>>153744291
Do you have like 12 completed?

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I hate how retarded Greed actually was for being Bebow-animated. Cool Cool Bye is better animated and better, since it's appropriately silly.

>>153744637
I bought mine at Barnes & Nobles for 60$. It's a great piece and comes with a small poster in it. The pages and cover all feel good and thick. Worth the money for me.

>>153738787
>I'd love seeing Gainax try to experiment with this kind of realistic storytelling again
Yeah, Blue Uru's coming out any day now.

>>153744041
80% of the cast consists of spoiled rich girls. It's to be expected.

>>153744821
It's available on Amazon for $38
https://www.amazon.com/Nausica%C3%A4-Valley-Wind-Box-Set/dp/1421550644/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1487680157&sr=8-2&keywords=nausicaa

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>>153745446
>any day now.
That's what they've been saying for the past 25 fuckin' years.
;_;

Anons, as someone who legit never saw Dragon Ball as a kid, where do I start with it?

>>153745613
The beginning. Duh.

I really liked Ninja Scroll and Wicked City.

>>153745775
Back when I didn't really know what Wicked City was about other than that it had horror elements I kept telling my friend we should really meet up to watch that. Good thing we never did.

>>153738244
The JoJo OVA dub is superior in my opinion. It feels like the English actors, especially DIO's, tried way harder than the Japanese actors.

>>153745613
Why do people always ask this question? I see it all the time, about various series. The answer is always "the beginning". You start reading at chapter one. You start watching at episode one. This is not rocket science.

>>153738244
The JoJo OVA dub is superior in my opinion. It feels like the English actors, especially DIO's, tried way harder than the Japanese actors.

>>153745835
I recently watched Wicked City, and I know what you mean, at one point I wasn't sure was I watching horror or hentai.

>>153746205
Yeah, DIO sounded really sinister in the dub.

>>153738244
Christ dude you're on /a/ how have you not seen Eva yet? Have fun, it's a great show

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>>153745835
>>153745775
>>153746665
You're the kind of people who would get embarrassed by a naked greek statue?

Wicked City is a favourite of mine. Dat fucking artstyle and colors.

BD WHEN, FUCKING MADHIUSE!

>>153748679
There's a big difference between the nudity present in a marble statue from antiquity and the nudity in Wicked City though. But of course it's good, it's by Kawajiri. Cyber City Oedo 808 and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust are his best works though.

>>153741156
>How is that deep? That's surface level plot stuff. Sure it requires a bit of "reading" comprehension to get, but it's not anything deep.
Super late reply because I slept, but it isn't deep at all which is why it is stupid that the person I was replying to called Lain a "clusterfuck of pseudointellectual silliness that goes nowhere". There was a clear point and he somehow missed it.

>>153718695
>If this is justice, then i'm a banana

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>>153718695
Reading Sangokushi. It's an epic on the scale that I've expected from a Romance of the Three Kingdoms adaptation. As far as major factions go, I think Wu had the best run, considering their stable power foundation and the Sun family being fair rulers. As for Liu Bei, despite him being portrayed as the real main character of the story, and him being a moral and benevolent person, he lacks the resolve to sacrifice things for the greater good. Even with the respect and love from the people, other leaders are those they serve under, and it feels as if he never lost the naivety he had in his volunteer brigade days. Cao Cao on the other hand is a very instrumental leader, and I'd argue if his primary motivation was pure ambition to rise in power for the sake of power, more capable of seeing the big picture. Even as an antagonist of sorts, we never see him randomly pillage or kill innocent bystanders the way Dong Zhuo did, and the story never mentions his bureaucracy being corrupt. So other than usurping the throne, he was a "tyrant" as much as any lord in those times.

Also, the Zhuge Liang hype was real, other than Guan Yu, hardly any individual character got that much attention.

>>153749511
Sex and nudity are natural.

So would you recommend reading or watching fist of the north star?
Also why do oldfags always compliment zillion?

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Started this yesterday
Proof that Isekai can be great when it not about stupid self-insert for beta faggots

>>153753302
>kissanime

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>>153718695
Recently re-watched Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure actually. Its such a shame that this fun little show was seemingly completely forgotten about.

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Started Mobile Suit Gundam. I feel like I transformed into a gundamfag since I'm loving it so far.

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>>153753302
what is more beta than not self inserting as junpei?

>>153718695
What was that, AD Police?

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>>153753811
i watched thios last week for the first time, holy fucking great

>>153753982
Op's pic is Angel Cop.

>>153744431
>Tokimeki ed
My very own first erection!

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>>153718695
You're only supposed to make this thread like once a month OP.
Don't turn something so pure and good into a general.

>>153744431
I watched this whole fucking show because of the ED waiting for that hot ass piece of naked cape to show up in the show and it never did. I felt so betrayed but the worst part is that I actually enjoyed it too so I can't even be mad about it.

>>153754032
Oh right. thanks

>>153754105
I know how you feel.
Dude, don't watch Neoranga.

>>153739524
>Exaxxion anime never
What a waste. what's Sonoda doing now, anyway?

>>153754105
>>153754172
Wait, I don't get it. The best part is that you liked it and you don't feel like you've wasted your time? Or did you enjoy feeling betrayed?

>>153754265
I enjoyed the ending and Ramze.
I didn't enjoy the fact that in the series she's never naked with a Cape
The result was that I started to enjoy my own suffering, and dracula penis.
I wonder if the other anon likes dracula penis too

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Treated myself to some pretty nice manga.

Anyone read Horobi by Tagami? Seems like all of his manga are unscanned, except for a 2 volume series.

>>153723493
Yes, I watched this recently for the first time. There is a new OVA or something coming out soon too.

>>153754425
In Italy we've been pretty lucky with Taniguchi.
RIP ;_;7

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>>153754660
You bet.

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I hope you have watched at least 3 WMT.

Would you say Kenichi Sonoda is a good artist?

>>153754904
Yes. Would you call Matsumoto or Nagai good artists?

Just watched Ghost in the Shell at my local theater. Original version too, none of that 2.0 bullshit. Quality taste.

Also watched Ninja Scroll the other day. Quintessential Ninja action movie. It's so fucking gripping, every victory is a close shave and feels earned since all of the Ninjas in the movie give this impression that they're either stronger or set good enough traps to kill Jubei every single time.

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>Colorful (1999)

its like my everyday struggle, in anime form

>>153718695
I've started watching Ashita no Joe again, I started watching it last January but stopped because I didn't want to burn through it so quickly after I watched 22 episodes in a week, then so much time passed that I was too intimidated to start watching again because I wouldn't remember everything that happened. I watched all the episodes at like 8x speed for a recap.

I've got some OVA downloaded like Meisou-Ou Border to check out soon, and I'm planning to start watching MSG 0083 since the last time I watched anything Gundam related was F91 in the spring.

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I'm enjoying this so muchI can barely stand it, I will be sad when it's over.

>>153754904
I don't like his chara design. Reminds me of in-game FFVII.

>>153754904

He never quite lost his 90s art style flair even to this day which I can certainly appreciate. It's not the most dynamic style ever but the man does like drawing his chicks.

I tried to download every available raw of Bullet the Wizard to one day scanlate it but I think people stopped caring about scanning the raws. Fuck everything.

>>153754998
I learned about Colorful from a kid listing it as his favorite show in our middle school yearbook

It was something else.

>>153754082
well yeah it definitely shouldn't be up at all times

but this thread has been good even though we had that large thread over the weekend

I think weekly would be work fine. that gives everyone some time to actually watch/read new stuff

>>153746012
Most people in the West started with DBZ. I feel sorry for them.

We got the franchise much later than other countries, but at least we started properly. Around the same time when Pokémon started airing as well.

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>>153755185
so based at such a young age

i wonder where he is now....

>>153757069
He's here for sure.

>>153732453
Hey man I liked it

>>153734733
this is great

Started downloading Maison Ikkoku and Urusei Yatsura. I had watched two episodes of the former and liked what I saw, but am yet to watch a full episode of the later, even though I kind now what I am for. But I have to say, are you guys insane? The most popular releases for both series are bloated as fuck, now way I am gonna download almost 300 gigas of cartoons, lucky me I have found good batches with good sizes.

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>>153754570
Haven't heard about it! I'm afraid it will be a money grab of questionable quality though... The recent rehashes of old shows (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Nurse Witch Komugi, to list a few) are nothing to be desired.

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>>153738463
>World Masterpiece Theater is awful

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I'm watching Outlaw Star and I'm having a lot of fun! I heard that there's not much of a story, but if it keeps being entertaining I'll keep watching it. Also planning on watching Dragon Half next.

>>153754425
>>153754660
fuck, I didn't know he died, shit...
I have most of his mango in /ñ/, anyone up to scanlating it? I'd give it a go at a TL

>>153759012
This show deserved a second season.

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>>153754105
You should watch Slayers next.

>>153759860
That show didn't deserve to exist.

>>153759860
At least there is Angel Links

>>153754897
I have more than 3, but now eternally waiting for more subbed episodes.

>>153758463
I'm with you man. I also think it's crazy that people download 30-50gb bluray rips of movies and that many pc games coming out are bloated to 50-80gb because of lossless audio

>>153762593
That much data would be something like 15,000 hours of FLAC audio. Lossless audio has very little to do with the size of modern AAA titles.

>>153760520
Is there a BD or is this just an upscale?

>>153758463
>bloated
so you want a release scrubbed of detail and messed with?

>>153762593
>lossless audio
Fucking cancer, I say. MUH FLAC. Bunch of idiots.

>>153763053
Nice false dichotomy, I love it.

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>>153763004
BD.

>>153763134
How is that a false dichotomy? It happens all the fucking time
The few times we're blessed with people like RX people don't give a shit and complain

>>153763134
>>153758463
Nigger what do you expect from series with literally hundreds of episodes?

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Downloading Biohunter right now, any one else seen it before?

>>153763689
If you think there is nothing wrong with episodes being 2 or even 3 gbs in size, well, go for it. I prefer to look around and see if there is something more reasonable.

>>153757069
why, here among us of course.

>>153732453
It's a cheesy romcom, but it was more tolerable than MI. You could easily attribute most of the misunderstandings to the main character lacking spine, which he grew in the end, because of growing up and all. Meanwhile in MI, the whole universe is cucking the MC, who is basically an adult, with his competition being a dead guy and a shameless playboy. There was way too much of poorly crafted drama for something that was supposed to be the same type of romantic comedy.

It was the same problem I had with Yawara, but at least that show had a likeable supporting cast. I'd never power through the show if it weren't for characters like Fujiko and Hanazono.

>>153763916
Of course I don't.
I download movie remuxes around 35GB.
Do you even quality/elitism?
>>153763912
>>153763912
Nothing special.
>>153764024
You don't understand. MI is first a comedy and second a romantic drama.

>>153764157
What you're saying can be applied to every romcom in existence. Hardly any romantic relationship in anime lacks personal drama, KOR included. The important thing is that both MI and KOR are primarily comedy anime.

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really good and underrated

>>153766127
What is it though?

>>153766252
Mermaid's Forest

The OVA only adapt parts of the manga but the story seems really good...

>>153766269
Oh I've actually seen it actually. Didn't recognize it though.
Yeah it's really good

I loved YuYu Hakusho, Flame of Recca, and gatekeepers.

That used to be my thing, right after watching Jetman.

>>153754425
I own this one and the serie about alpinism (le sommet des dieux in French).
It has a pretty strong vibe.

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>>153736389
Don't worry. It only gets worse from there.

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speaking of underrated...

>>153747907
I can't find a dub of evangelion so I watch subbed
personally i like the japanese voice actors anyway
btw the cel animation for the angel fights are fucking incredible

>>153770310
I just found this on bakabt, how is it? I'm trying to look for more stuff that include chicks that act sukeban.

>>153754252
He's showing up at Sakuracon, apparently. According to them he's working on some more stuff for Riding Bean. Considering going, but airline fees and hotel fees are an absolute jew.

>>153772986
I had almost written off going to Sakuracon, now it sounds like a good idea.

>>153772878
it's entertaining enough, basically a proto-Gokusen, wish there were more episodes, or at least a link to the manga, even the RAWs would be fine...

>>153773374
I'd only go to a convention for one of the greats like Sonoda.If you do decide to go, say so the next time this thread is up and I'll toss you a burner email if I also decide to go and you want to split the cost of a hotel room. I'm not a fan of mixing up RL shit but those fees are mad gay

>>153737774

Gungrave is excellent.

>>153763004
Movies have BDs. TV (except Revolution and Evolution-R) and OVAs don't.

>>153736389
The Gunnm/Alita OVA was fucking trash. They ruined Makaku completely by making up a surrogate without his back story, also robbing us of the superior fight against him. They introduce a new, pointless character in Chiren that makes no fucking sense and serves no purpose. And finally they kill off the most important guy on the scrapyard without whom everything would collapse.

I'm skeptical of Cameron/Rodriguez' film but it should at least be better than the OVA.
>>153769567
At least it has octopus lips.

>>153773576
But only the first half and the ending.

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How's the Lupin manga? I just realized it's not that expensive on amazon and it's not been fully scanned

I read the 3 chapters that some random group put out, and it seemed pretty decent. a bit tough to tell some people apart and to keep track of what was going on in a few spots, but it definitely is making me consider picking up at least the first volume or two.

it's weird how different the tone is from the show, but to be fair I haven't watched the first series yet.

Why is 80s and 90s anime so fucking comfy?

Digital is glossy and not very warm.

>>153718926
Same here

>>153764663
No, you still don't understand. It's not blended together, it's alternated in segments. 80% of the manga is comedy, the rest is romantic drama, for example the last volume is ONLY drama.

Basically the only reason for the manga to last that long was the slice of life comedy, with an established, frozen situation. This is a commercial manga, not an art house one. It HAS to last the longest possible. For what it is I'd say it's a very good one. Of course if you read it expecting an immediate, realistic resolution you're in for a big disappointment.

>>153761835
>not just watching it raw

>>153761835
>not just watching it raw

>>153761835
>not just watching it raw

>>153755696
What? I'm American and the first TV show I remember watching was Dragonball. DBZ aired after.

>>153778722
The original Dragon Ball series wasn't aired in the US in full until 2001. There were an obscure Harmony Gold dub of five episodes in the 80s as well as the 13-episode Ocean dub in 1995. But most burgers started with DBZ's 1996 Funi dub.

Germany on the other hand got the entirety of Dragon Ball in 1999 and DBZ in 2001.

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>>153774964
it's such a shame alita went bad

it went from great in the first half to amazing in the second half, then the end was rushed to shit, then it was retconned but last order wasn't nearly as good as the late original series, then it turned into a fucking tournament arc and then mars chronicles is just awful in comparison to the original

but seriously the original series is a masterpiece

>>153778763
They have finally printed a new edition of it in Italy, I've been waiting for it for decades, and it turns out it's a shitty budget one.
I'm so mad, I'm not buying that shit.
>>153778731
Burgers have no culture. More news at 11.

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I didn't even remember Chichi has had her first appearance that early in Dragon Ball. Back then she was all right.

>>153778983
You're Italian?

I'm so mad that you guys got the complete edition of Silent Möbius. That series has been cancelled two times in Germany (first after one volume because the publisher collapsed, then again after six volumes), has had a mirrored English release by Viz whose last volumes are impossible to come by and has lately had its English complete edition silently dropped by Udon after four volumes.

I'll never get to read the end in a language I understand. ;___;

>>153778731
Must have been the 95 one, since that's around the time I was 5. Did Sailor Moon and Voltron air around then as well?

>>153778983
>Talking about when TV shows aired in a country
>"F-Fucking Americans!"
You're inferiority complex is cute.

>>153779043
>You're Italian?
Yeah.

Kek, I don't even like Asamiya. What do you like so much about him? I'm curious.
>>153779074
How many Taniguchi manga editions do you guys have again?

>>153779342
>How many Taniguchi manga editions do you guys have again?
I live in Japan, know Japanese, and just buy manga from Animate on my way home or look for it at Mandarake if it's older. Still feeling smug, you fucking idiot?

>>153778679
>>153778689
>>153778697
In my defense I get the complete raws for one and watched some episodes, but a guy says that he is paying to be translated so I stoped to wait. It seems that I'll be done next month.
By the way, those two packs with complete WMT vanished.

>>153744431
>>153744462
If not by these two anons maybe I would never (I lie) watch this. Watched first episode yesterday I had a blast!
Getting the rest right now.

>>153779380
Yes, I feel very smug, because, if you notice, you haven't even responded to what I was saying, for some strange reason you thought you were the object of the discussion.
Good for you.

>>153779074
I don't know, I'm German.

>>153779342
>Kek, I don't even like Asamiya. What do you like so much about him?
Nostalgia probably plays a big part for me. We used to have a late-night anime block in the early 2000s, and Silent Möbius was my second-most favorite show that aired in it (first being Evangelion). I guess I'm also a sucker for his art style, since I can't say that there's much of a unifying theme between works such as Silent Möbius, Nadesico, Compiler (which I only discovered last year) or stuff like Dark Angel and that Batman thing. Finally, there's the terrible publishing history that keeps me occupied with Silent Möbius specifically.

>>153779601
>Trying to feel smug about buying licensed manga
>Thinking this somehow makes you cultured
You know what's cultured? Learning another language and consuming its media in its true form. Looks like based on our little sample here that burgers are more cultured than spaghetti's.

>>153778983
That sucks, though I've only read the scanned version. But I'm right with gunnm becoming terrible after the orginal, right? It's not just me?

>>153779658
>>Trying to feel smug about buying licensed manga
More like reading manga.
>>Thinking this somehow makes you cultured
It does.
>You know what's cultured? Learning another language and consuming its media in its true form
You're right.
With the caveat that reading it translated is better than not reading it at all.
>Looks like based on our little sample here that burgers are more cultured than spaghetti's.
>one sample is the image of its entirety.
Nice logic here.
If anything looks like I'm more ignorant than you and you're more stupid (and possibly butthurt considering how you keep calling me names) than me.

>>153779701
I wouldn't know, I refused to read it to avoid spoiling the memory.
>>153779606
I especially dislike some of the faces he draws, they look alien to me and give me an unsettling feeling.

>>153779998
>and you're more stupid (and possibly butthurt considering how you keep calling me names)
>Learning Japanese
>Stupid
I'm not going to tell you what I do for a living because you would believe me anyways, but I'd bet my left nut that you're not smarter than I am. As for butthurt, who's the one who complained that burgers (since we're on the topic of namecalling) have no culture because someone talked about which anime aired there in the 90's?

>>153732549
Finished YKK and want to look into Akira next. Only found the colored version though.

>>153744767
I couldn't enjoy Cool Col Bye at all. Yet to watch Greed.

>>153745613
The beginning you moron.

>>153754082
Fuck that.

>>153780072
>smarter
Don't use that word, it means nothing applyed to humans, it's actually insulting.
>my dog is so smart he can open the door!
>complained
Not a complaint, I was stating facts in an ironic way.
If we go back to the matter, would you say that Americans are very knowledgeable about anime, or as knowledgeable as Europeans?
>>153780154
>Finished YKK and want to look into Akira next. Only found the colored version though.
madokami.

>>153763912
underated imo, script was done by the Guy behind Ninja Scroll and Cyber City im pretty sure, so it's worth watching if you're into those kinda violent ovas/movies from the 90's and 80's full of tits and gore

>>153780310
>it means nothing applyed to humans
Thanks for the laugh, we're done here.

>>153780347
So you take pride in having the ability to do the same tricks as a dog, uh?

This is ridiculous and stupid, I'm also talking about what I'm doing.

If you want to respond to my previous question about the knowledge of Americans do it, otherwise let's talk about anime and manga, this thread doesn't deserve this bullshit.

>>153780488
Be honest with me, you're on the spectrum, aren't you?

>otherwise let's talk about anime and manga, this thread doesn't deserve this bullshit
Sure thing, just try not to let your inferiority complex make you whine about Americans for no reason next time. It's unsightly.

>>153780534
Let's say I was an autist.
Would you consider intelligent to dismiss everything I say just because of it?

Why are Americans so butthurt when someone points out facts about them? There are some good things about America and some not so good ones, learn to deal with them instead of attacking people.

>>153780825
>Why are Americans so butthurt when someone points out facts about them?
Oh we're just posting facts and not being asshurt? Ok. America has objectively the best colleges, hospitals and military in the world and has the highest GDP. Everyone else is irrelevant compared to us.

Oh, you guys have nice restaurants though.

>>153780906
>America has objectively the best colleges, hospitals
This is wrong though.

>>153781120
You're a fucking idiot.
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2016
http://hospitals.webometrics.info/en/world
Remember, facts only.

>>153780906
All irrelevant since you only had the worst anime in the past.

France, Italy, Germany and Spain whopped your ass in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

>>153781295
>All irrelevant since you only had the worst anime in the past.
What are you talking about? I had plenty of access to anime and manga when I lived in America. Being reliant on shitty translations isn't something to be proud of.

>>153781196
All that doesn't explain why corporations all over the world prefer to hire Italian professionals because of their wider culture, rather than Americans.
The criteria used are beyond laughable.

You are brainwashed.
>>153781364
>a kid has unlimited access to anime and manga

>>153781511
>corporations all over the world prefer to hire Italian professionals
Good lord, I know Italians have a misplaced sense of pride, but this is fucking ridiculous. Anyone I've talked to who had to work in Italy can't shut up about how lazy and inefficient you all are. Apparently your average work day is 45 minutes over work followed be an hour of coffee, and then repeat.

No, companies do not prefer hiring Italians, they prefer hiring people with educations and experience at top American universities and companies.

>>153781590
>who had to work in Italy
>reading comprehension
Not even Italians want to work in Italy, that's the point.
>No, companies do not prefer hiring Italians, they prefer hiring people with educations and experience at top American universities and companies.
Nope.

>Apparently your average work day is 45 minutes over work followed be an hour of coffee, and then repeat.
That's true only for the public. Do you really believe private firms accept that? You really are stupid, after all. It's like believing every single American is obese.

>>153763916
>>153758463
>most popular releases for both series are bloated as fuck
>episodes being 2 or even 3 gbs in size
Except that's not the case? Kagura's Urusei Yatsura encode has average episode size around 1.33 GB. It's "1080p" (minus cropped borders) partialy denoised video. I personally think the FLAC isn't really needed in videos so I would say he could have cut the file size there. But overall it is ok release.

You have to consider the video source you are encoding. Urusei Yatsura is an old show that wasn't even filmed on the best film material. The video is shaky and grainy with not a single frame being the same as the previous one.

You can compress new anime much better because static scenes are actually static. There is no natural grain or shaking. It just is much more compression friendly.

Kagura's video is partialy denoised because otherwise the video would be bit-starved at the already kinda big size. Noise/grain is more or less not compressable. That's why Iznjie Biznjie's release is even bigger, because it is trying to preserve the grain too. (And it isn't bloated either, it just really needs more bits to encode that grain.)

Kagura's release is not perfect, but it is ok. What you probably want is more economic release. Like 720p video with lossy audio release that is even more denoised.

It's always trade off between quality and size. "Bloated" release would be big for no reason. These are not.

>>153781691
>Nope.
Post a single piece of proof. Remember, I posted facts to back up my factual statements (since you seem so keen on them) so let's see some facts, and not anecdotes. You entire country takes the month of August off, who the hell wants to hire someone with that lack of work ethic imbued into them by their culture?

>>153781744
>You entire country takes the month of August off, who the hell wants to hire someone with that lack of work ethic imbued into them by their culture?
Nice lie.
Your country thinks unions are a communist threat. I can play this game as well.

A site called "topuniversities" is not a serious source of information.

>>153782200
So objectively no proof for your bullshit claim? Didn't think so.

>A site called "topuniversities" is not a serious source of information.
Just stop embarrassing yourself, you fucking idiot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quacquarelli_Symonds

>>153782335
>So objectively no proof for your bullshit claim? Didn't think so.
So objectively no proof for your bullshit claim about Italians taking August off? Didn't think so.

>>153782476
Way to avoid backing up the bullshit about literally everything you've said, and honing in on one small part of hyperbole while I pointed out how shit your work ethic was. But ok.
http://italianintrigues.blogspot.hk/2011/08/italy-is-closed-for-august.html
Really, just search "Italy closed in August" and you'll find plenty.

Now it's your turn. I showed you that we have objectively the best hospitals and schools, and military and GDP are common knowledge. Since you're concerned with only talking about facts, then show me literally anything proving that companies are dying to hire Italians. If you can't, that makes you an idiot by the rules you set yourself.

>>153763065
Hearing the difference is not the only reason to use FLAC

>>153782335
You keep talking about the Public as if it were the whole country. Yes, most people take all their due time off in Summer, rather than diluted during the year.
The blog post you posted is comic in the eyes of an Italian, it doesn't represent the truth.
I worked all year during the weekends and I worked last christmas eve. I'm the biggest supporter of Public offices being open all days of the week.

http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Educazione/2014/10/6/UNIVERSITA-L-anomalia-italiana-che-sfugge-alle-classifiche-mondiali/538404/
This is a good article that explains how laughable your beloved ranking system really is.
>muh prestige!
Doesn't even count the oldest universities in the world as having prestige.

>>153782635
>Really, just search "Italy closed in August" and you'll find plenty.
>be Italian
>get told to search on the internet how life is in Italy

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>>153727000
If you're fine waiting a couple of weeks, you can get mine when I'm finished.

>>153783097
Still waiting on that link about companies hiring Italians. And ok, I'll humor you and pretend the little site from the country butthurt about irrelevant is wrong.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7526_supp/fig_tab/515S98a_T1.html
Again, stop embarrassing yourself.
Our universities do more research and accomplish more in the fields of science. Objectively. No butthurt Italian article will change that.

>>153783136
On the one hand I have my Italian friend telling me that the country is lazy as hell and shuts down in August, as well as countless testimonials online. On the other hand, I have one angry Italian anon (who probably has autism) and who doesn't know what facts are.

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>>153783290
Fook off

>>153718695
starting Trigun

>>153783317
Sure thing, as soon as Mario stops pretending to know what facts are.

>>153783290
Research is not the original and most important purpose of a university, it's the education of individuals.

Yes, Italian universities are poor and do no research, never said the opposite is true. They also don't ask for 50k a year.

Contrary to the majority of populaces, Italians love to shit on their country, in the eyes of a foreigner things might seem catastrophic.

>>153783961
>Research is not the original and most important purpose of a university, it's the education of individuals.
I provided him with a source on that, but he didn't want to hear it, so I provided him with hard proof as to the superiority of American schools.

>Contrary to the majority of populaces, Italians love to shit on their country, in the eyes of a foreigner things might seem catastrophic.
Oh there's plenty of things wrong with America, they're just not things that non-Americans with the normal "Yeah haha, fuck those guys for being more important than us" attitude would know,

Fucking sage if you're posting this kind of bullshit.

>>153782741
You can't even get the original audio back since FLAC doesn't decompress to formats like DTS-HD MA. Unlike a music CD that you can restore to its original state with a .cue sheet.

>>153718695
I got so much old stuff in my plan to watch list, that i dont even know where to begin.

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If anyone is interested I just found an old scheme I made for the continuity of all the major Leiji Matsumoto related anime. It should be pretty reliable but I don't remember if it's by release date or continuity chronological order. Might be by release date but don't quote me on that.

>>153784038
>him
It's always me.
Some university ranking system (even the simply thought of making a university ranking is laughable in itself) with more than dubious criteria is hardly "hard proof" in my eyes.

If you could read the article I posted you would probably agree with this, it's very calm and not "butthurt" at all.

I can't even tell how we came from "americans are ignorant about anime" to this. I don't think I'm as prejudiced about Americans as much as you are about Italians.

>>153759012
Le cowboy bebop lite.

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>>153718695
Is Maison Ikkoku any good?

>>153787128
The manga is pretty enjoyable if you can buy into the characters.

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>faggots shitting up a good thread

Shut the fuck up about your stupid countries and talk about anime.

>>153785952
>Endless Odyssey after Captain Harlock
Riddle me this pastaman. How come Professor Daiba is still alive then? And how come Tadashi isn't in the crew?

There's no continuity in the Harlock stuff. Except for Arcadia Of My Youth into SSX. Also Endless Odyssey sucks but that's a different story.

>>153787783
Don't ask me, I don't remember, I recall I simply tried to put everything in order. I might have fucked something up.

After a closer look at it, obviously, it's in chronological order, not in release order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Harlock
>The story is set after the original TV series
Nope, seems it's correct after all.

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Wasn't the early pokemon supposed to get a BD?

>>153788048
It's more of a redo or something than a sequel. But with one reference to the original show.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the future Harlock would've been remade so many times with so many different takes that it would include a Kyoani style slice of shlock highschool comedy.

>>153781737
Found a release with 700 MB per episode average (the same with Maison Ikkoku) and I'm very content with it.

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>>153732549

Finished A Distant Neighbourhood a day before Taniguchi died, going to read Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths as I've had that on my shelf for months. Might read some of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's vignettes before I start A Drifting Life.

Anyway. I'm watching The Cockpit at the moment, visually beautiful and I love the amount of close ups on all the details of the planes. I think my favourite episode would probably be Knight of the Iron Cross or maybe the first one. There really wasn't a weak one.

What do I watch next from Leiji? I've seen Galaxy Express 999. Arcadia of My Youth and the Queen Emereldas OVA.

>>153788660
Why not Harlock? >>153785952

Is there a BD for the Cockpit?

>>153789438

>Is there a BD release for the cockpit
Saizen released one last year I think. The version I was watching was BD. I'll probably go for Harlock next or maybe Maetel Legends.

I'm reading Rokudenashi Blues.
>tfw only 10 volumes have been translated

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>>153785907
That's all the retro stuff i have in my backlog. I got a lot to pick from, and im hyped for most of them.

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The last two OVAs were a disaster and the worst example of 'a drama CD with some powerpoint slides', but overall I applaud the show for the edge.

>>153791574
I've enjoyed Excel Saga back when I first saw it as a teen, but I'd probably hate it now for its lolsorandumb Invader Zim like humor.

>>153791574
I really want to watch the Space Moby Dick and because it's Space Moby Dick by Osamu Dezaki, but I am worried that the shows doesn't have the budget to fully develop it's premise. Also heard it doesn't have the usual Osamu-style. I'll just have to see for myself.

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http://oldtypenewtype.tumblr.com is a nice archive

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>>153791928
>mfw won 13 MyAnimes for 5300jpy this weekend

>>153791574
Skip fillers.

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I've recently been watching a lot of older anime movies, i've revisted the '95 gits again and i really understood it alot better than the first time I watched it. I've also been watching older ghibli movies like princess mononoke and even though its not a pre-2000 i finally got around to watching spirited away. I've also been slowly going through Legend of the Galatic heroes too which is really fucking good.

>>153741651
Is this REAL!?

>>153773561
I would be interested if I already didn't have a place to crash that was already nearby. I feel you though, hotel fees are bullshit. Sonoda seems like a great motivation to attend.

>>153791574
I'd say start with Rocky Joe, Nadia, Rose of Versailles, Harlock and Hokuto no Ken.

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10 seconds in and this is already retarded.

>>153785952
>making a university ranking is laughable in itself
It's time to stop.

>>153797723
come on, the shitposting had finally stopped. why did you have to stoke the fire

>>153798061
Because someone said something really stupid.

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Poor Tochiro, doubt he will ever score.

>>153797360
>need a male to be your heir
>get a girl
>decide she's a guy so you can have a heir

bout halfway through Gasaraki, not sure what the hell is going on

>>153729280
Thank you for making me aware of this, reading through the manga and it is fun.

Where is the "I've been pretending to be retarded for 7 years" screencap from? LoGH?

>>153761278
Can't even compare them. The MC in Angel Links was annoying as hell for the most part. The tragic backstory somehow made up for it. The rest of her crew were meh.

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>man tits
Just wow.

>>153798096
Yes, you.
>>153797723
It is.
Ranking things is an activity for stupid people. Especially with those criteria.

To the faggot who said you don't need to understand baseball to read Adachi: it's bullshit, I don't understand what happens at all, I can only assume it from the context when it's evident and it's really frustrating and the fucking sameface doesn't help at all, especially considering I'm reading his collection of short stories and you have to remember characters introduced 3 pages before.

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I swear if Andre doesn't win I'm gonna get fucking mad and being this a shoujo and remembering another love interest is gonna appear in the future I'm already preparing for it.

>>153798711
FUCK IT ISN'T FINISHED
>no update in 5 years

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>>153800523
ANDUREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Best part was suffering with him.

>>153801190
I watched one episode and I can barely stand this muh strong womenz thing already. I'm pretty certain that if a weak man punched an average woman on the face it would knock her out for good.

Why do 90s anime feel so different? They feel authentic or something. Is there a specific reason? Am I the only one?

>>153718695
>Pre-2000 Anime

This was the only anime that was actually good. With few exceptions, everything after about 2000 was uninspired, garbage..

>>153745603
>that aircraft

I need this NOW

>>153800265
Why don't you try to learn how to play baseball though?
It can't be that hard.

>>153801347
90s anime is Real Anime.

>>153792667
From the thumbnail I thought this was some anime version of Irma from TMNT.

>>153784122
>>153763065

It's mathematically equivalent to the original source signal and compressed. Every lossless codec is the same in this capability. They only differ in their compression efficiency.

It's got an obvious application in archival. Having the "one true" version of something. Besides that, it's excellent as source material for editing. You can re-encode or transcode as many times as you want between lossless formats with zero loss in quality. Try saving JPEG pictures lots of times. The shit adds up.

If you care at all about making quality releases, then you use an original BD image or a losslessly-encoded file. You don't re-encode other people's shit encodings in MP3 with shit parameters to save size.

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>>153801347
>>153802546
I used to like the 90's, but then i found out about the 80's. and oh boy are they great.

>>153800822
Goddamn! I remember watching this as a kid on Locomotion

>>153802730
What is the show below DYRl? Only one I don't know.

>>153803091
Obviously you dont hail from greece. That's Igano Kabamaru, a pretty fun show.

>>153801295
>I can barely stand this muh strong womenz thing already
HHAHAHAH!
Wait for Dezaki the hated male chauvinist director.

>>153799722
They're called moobs.

>>153801347
>They feel authentic or something
For me they feel worse.
This experience with older anime taught me that the majority of anime from 90's are unbearable, they have the worst tropes and cliches.

>>153753943
Why didn't they just call it Elf Hunters?

>>153737854
For what?

>>153803764
>the majority of anime from 90's are unbearable, they have the worst tropes and cliches.
Funny, that's exactly how i feel about the anime of today. And it is even worse, since it is all a buf commercial now. They are so damn afraid of taking risks that they dont even make 20+ episode shows anymore. And that is both pathetic and disgusting.

>>153805333
It's crazy, I remember watching preview of the final bebop episode for the first time and, the narrator made it a point to mention how the show was such a short ride. Nowadays, shows are lucky to get 26 eps since the standard has been sliding down to 12/13 eps.

>>153807377
I think the reason for that is because back in the day the proving grounds for shorter form ideas was in OVAs. Since shows were generally expected to last over 20something episodes.

Since they don't really make OVA series anymore. And it seems like making a tv series is less costly they can throw together 12 episodes and then pray to the powers that be that they get another season or two to wrap up the story.

>>153805333
well to be fair sales did drop with the recession

but the solution shouldn't have been to appeal solely to the obsessive otaku who will buy whatever shit you shove in front of them

>>153789723
Right?

>>153737881
Good question. I really loved it growing up (mainly because the dub is/was hilariously bad in all the right ways) but as a show I still think it holds up. Standard plot and characters, interesting armor designs and powers, etc. but it has a certain charm.

It's definitely a product if its time, but so what? It's still enjoyable.

>>153800022
>Ranking things is an activity for stupid people
Spoken like the idiot in last place.

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Was this scene being referenced in KLK?

>>153814986

Post the comparison.

Just watched the original GiTS film for the first time. Still thinking about what exactly I just watched but it was visually astounding to say the least. I enjoyed the setting and backgrounds in particular. I was going to watch some other classic films after this but I'll have to take a short break for a while first.

>>153815805
Angel's egg.

Same director, but more weird.

>>153815805

No time for breaks, there's anime waiting.

>>153811716
>>153809058
>>153807377
>>153805333
This is exactly why i dont watch airin anime anymore. It's a bunch of commercials for something else. These day they only make the ''testing the waters'' shows. I am afraid of picking up an interesting show, because there is a 60% chance that there will never be a second season, and thus i have wasted my time and got my hopes up for nothing. They keep making safe shit that barely makes it's money back, while not even finishing those shows. They are never gonna break out of the cycle, if they dont try something new and different. And that is why retro is always better.

>>153803684
Please don't disappoint.

>>153809058

Watching Dragon Dentist, it really makes me miss what OVAs were for: short concepts and higher budgets. You get to the point immediately because there's no time for filler, you get something worth seeing made with a lot of money, and it never gets too long.

I was hoping anime serial movies was going to remain a thing, like with Kara no Kyoukai and Break Blade, because that's the OVA concept taken to the next level. I guess Yamato sort of did that, but it's still structured like a regular TV series.

>>153798431
I can only imagine how he managed to convince Louis XV to consider a woman for the position of Commander.

>"General, why do you think a woman has any business being a military officer?"
>"Because it's 1769!"

>>153718695
I liked angel cop but it went off the fucking rails, I just wanted cyborg police hunting down a communist conspiracy but what I got was genderbent Dio Brando's wild ride

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Slayers holds a special place in my heart

Still trying to finish Noir. It sucks that one of the last cel anime, and shot anamorphically, is such a boring slog.

>>153816027
Yea, I know what you mean. The most recent example for me would be re:zero. It was interesting enough to warrant a 2nd season, but instead of making the anime it's own thing, the powers that be decided to treat it like a long ad for the ln.

>>153809058
This makes sense I guess. It's probably mainly because of their decades long recession as well.

>>153735395
Wow Fila. sure bring backs 90's memories. I had a tracksuit and shoes.

>>153718695
I've been watching megazone 23,I'm enjoying it but part 1 character designs>part 2 designs

Just finished Escaflowne. The visuals and music were fantastic, but man, everything on the writing side of things was pretty bad.

>>153811716
>but the solution shouldn't have been to appeal solely to the obsessive otaku who will buy whatever shit you shove in front of them

This is the main problem with modern anime. Whenever a whole industry focuses on one demographic, that kills it. That's what happened to American comics: they were forced by censorship laws to make everything kid-oriented, so the medium became incredibly stunted. To this day, the best-selling series are capeshit, and even that doesn't sell well.

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>>153735395
I look at a lot of girls from mid the early 70s, and earlier. They always been drawn to look elegant sexy, or it is just I see Matsumoto's work everywhere because he was big at the tie.

I prefer his style, with Masamune's close second.