Anyone else nostalgic for 90s / early 2000s Japan? I wasn't

Luna Sea gives me this kind of feeling sometimes. I think it has to do with their music videos and lives on youtube

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please post a natsukashii image if you have one :)

80's are better

Rewatching dragon ball gave me feels after discovering the old art style a while back
>>15501221
Damn

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>>15501122
>90s / early 2000s Japan
A lot of my favorite anime and VNs are from this time
Since I grew up with them too in this time, it's only natural that I would look at this era of Japan nostalgically

I'd say Japanese pop music's peak was around 97 to 03. There was a big variety of styles that actually did well on the charts for a couple years there that I haven't really seen before or since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_8T7lYucQ

I've started watching 90s JAV and watching a lot of DDR videos from 1st Mix to Extreme. If i had a time machine 90s Japan is the first place I'd go.

>>15501122
80 through maybe 2004 best era(s)

Do Japanese idols regularly do photoshoots in Bali?

NO ONE SLEEPS IN TOKYO

NIGHT OF FIRE

As a child, my dad would take me to hobby shops which contained alot of imported models from Japan (Tamiya for ex.). I remember seeing the boxes being bright and colorful as well as having large Japanese fonts printed onto it. I also recall looking at Japanese Pokémon cards in those shops too.

I don't know. I guess whenever I see Japanese shit from the 90's it sort of reminds me of that. Same with the whole vaporwave thing.

>>15501122

No, but gravure/porn photo books from that era are awesome.

Early 90s were when I first discovered masturbation and the internet, so it is nostalgic as fuck.

The Y2K Bug years were shitty all over the world, but Japan deserves a mention for:
- shitty nonsense variety shows, the basis for the whole obnoxious "crazy Japanese shows" myth that lives on to this day. Tokuhou Oukoku, with gratuitous nudity and innuendo, was considered prime time material, whereas today BPO would have drilled tv producers a second asshole right on the first episde. Also I swear right now some idiot on the Internet is posting the same old Houkago Denjiha Club photo without even knowing what it is.
- no imo-neechan idols like the 80s, no cute idols like today, basically everyone was too busy trying too hard being American with nigger suburban style and it was awful, like kpop today but way goofier, this also affected music unfortunately. There's an ongoing myth about what 90s Jpop was like, and I have to wonder what the fuck did people listen to to think it was anything like "vaporwave".
-fashion wise, it was a split between black hair with ratty bangs (I know it has a name but I can't remember) and Amurors with their puke brown/orange shades, absolutely no light mascara or makeup either way which made it all the more awful. The former made 90s porn almost unfappable by today's standard. Harajuku-kei needed to die.
- anime incorporating all the most dreadful plot stereotypes that some still believe to this day, even the sole mention of their nams give you flasbacks of how awful weeaboos were back in the day
- even criminals stopped trying, the only memorable feats in the post-bubble years were the Sarin attack and the Sakakibara murders, yawn
- the sort of transition decade feels where everyone tries to be cutting edge and innovative, but technological immaturity is pulling you back, and Japan was at the top back then, mind you
- the only good thing were videogames, here Japan truly shined, to the point I think all the artistic genius of the time focused their efforts there. "Sound" novels flourished on PC, RPGs and action games boomed on disc systems. Like all transition periods in console ages, it was a time of experimentations, lots of kusoge were produced as a result of the point above, but also lots of hidden gems that didn't leave Japanese shores
- Yutori education raising a generation of DQN, nuff said

I love the spirit and visuals of late Showa Japan, but early Heisei was absolutely shitty, no rose tinted glasses can salvage it

RIKA
NISHIMURA

>>15507044
Unfortunately modern Japanese videos games are mostly bad. The majority of people who play "games" in Japan play mobile micro-payment shit.

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>>15501122
I get this feeling when watching amagami (set in the 90's)
probably has something to do with shows like sailor moon and dragonball being what I watched growing up

>>15501331
this is a recent photo with a filter you dumb son of a bitch

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>>15501122
I've always liked 80s Japan but 90s/2000s has a nice feel to it as well.

90's was when it all went wrong.

>>15507409
and rhytm games

>>15507924
The burst of the bubble economy?

>>15507044
>imo-neechan idols
Please describe this further

>>15507802
Says a lot about nostalgia in general if you really think about it.

>>15501122

The golden age for akiba pretty much, before electric town with a lot of small shops became otaku town with a lot of the same multi stories big stores. The current one isn't even necessarily bad, but sure is different.

If you want to see what Tokyo looked like back then, this guy has been uploading a lot of videos of Tokyo he took in the early 90s: https://www.youtube.com/c/lylehsaxon/playlists

>>15501122
>90s / early 2000s Japan

Sure was fun during their big recession where they went from "second most important economy in the world after the US" to "wow it's fucking nothing".

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>>15508142
It's just that unpolished look that makes you look like somewhat of a country bumpkin but still very cute

>>15501122
Op I'm 35, every second i live i feel nostalgic about something
Stop torturing me with these threads.

>>15508158
Thanks for the link.

>>15508229
would fuck to the moon and back

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>>15508229
really dig this look
all this brown hair these days makes me sick

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thick eyebrows and fuzzy sideburns

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1999

>>15501122
Yes, I wish I saw this thread earlier, I like to find old documentaries about Japan from that time, reminds me why I started being interested in Japan as a kid. Here's a couple links will post some more tomorrow, if anyone has any please share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFud9pqqdHg

http://mediaburn.org/video/the-90s-episode-212-an-impressionistic-view-of-life-in-japan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g89WoIJGY0M

There was an amazing NHK documentary on YouTube about Osamu Tezuka but the audio got pulled, really hope someone reups it someday

>>15510658
I really want mid-late 90's gyaru style to come back. These girls are very cute, in a sort of sexy way.

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Does anyone have any recommendations for any kind of 80's or 90's Japanese music? I'm going through a phase of really indulging in this fake nostalgia and I'm loving it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2wjCX81CHM

>>15510826
seconding

hell, do YOU have any recommendations? i was turned on to tatsuro yamashita via game center cx and would love to expand my playlist.

>>15509399
>>15508229

Way cuter than any AKB girl.

I want to kick it in Shibuya in about 1998 or so. Hang out in baggy jeans and flannel, listen to some choice tunes on a minidisc player, and just peoplewatch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdF48xcPcXE

>>15510826

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCO5ljaZtvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG2bGuTqfT8

>>15510826
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g7tddHZ8E

>>15510826
alot of tracks sometimes sample or remix a jap 80s/90s pop song

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6hBefyLMtG7FXhZ55da3Vw

you'll have to find the samples for yourself since they never credit them, plus the channel is just a hub channel for alot of smaller artists.
you might find more if you look on the artists websites.

best sources for magazine scans, pictures, and other material from that era?

>>15510826
You should check out more city pop, the entire genre great.

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&genres=City+Pop&include_child_genres=t&include=both&limit=none&countries=

To me, though, there is a kind of uneasiness about it, because the whole movement was kind of projecting this idealistic image of Japan when their economic boom was happening, one that wasn't real at all. There is a strange atmosphere of fakeness to it.

>>15510826
MORITAKA CHISATO
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6M7G5JfLyo

you fucking pleb

>>15511398

The internet.

>>15512541
Thanks

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>>15512110
>city pop

>>15501331
I love Digiko!

Well OP lemme tell ya, my guy. It was a hell of a place to be. I remember getting drunk by myself at a bar outside of Yokohama in December of '95. Next thing I know I was invited over to a tabe with a couple of friendly Japanese gents who didn't speak a lick of English but they were all super polite to me. Fun times.

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>>15510826
here's some of my favorite 80s jpop tracks.
https://mega.nz/#!kIAFGCoL!ytXVoj362HAHt0QmUeJ9cuJ0s7lwlMgcRr8PE4JbRgo

Nakamori Akina DESIRE (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaMhp6PeOOg

>>15501122
I, too, have listened to Saint Pepsi!

>>15512110
Everyone by now knows about your gay little city pop shit you dumb vaporwave fag

>>15507802
Looks more like someone used the zoom on their phone.

>>15517277
>>15507802

Most likely one of those shitty flips phones gaijin use.

So terrible.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7mUOty-FdQ
for anyone who is into delinquent culture.

Nostalgia maybe, but at the same time I defeinitely wouldn't want to have lived there at the time. The country was still reeling from the bubble bursting in full force.

>>15506879

I guess you've heard of Purejapan and their cronies, eh? 90's Japanese girls got different aesthetic tho compared to today's, even if the first things I got were tacky photoshops involving them and cars I had on a wallpaper CD.

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>not a single mention of Japanese cars and motorsport

>NSX/NSX-R
>GT-R (R33, R34)
>Supra (JZA80)
>RX-7 (FD)
>MR2
>Lancer Evo (WRC bro)
>Impreza WRX STi (WRC too)
>Silvia (S14, S15)
>Civic (EG, EK)
>Roadster (NA, NB)
>Integra (DC2)
>The "A-B-C" trinity of kei sports cars (AZ-1, Beat, Cappucino)
>JGTC
>JTCC (Japanese Touring Car Championship, Group A rules then Supertouring, just like 90's BTCC)
>Super Taikyu
Nothing beats 90's Japanese cars for me.

>>15512110
>There is a strange atmosphere of fakeness to it.
>Pop
>Strange

You are both pretentious and stupid. And the Japanese economy was booming until the late '80s.

>>15510826
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dMWMsU6NU

>>15519763
>Purejapan and their cronies

What is that?

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>>15507520

Currently watching Ghibli's Ocean Waves (Umi ga Kikoeru), it's early 90's as fuck, pretty nostalgic.

Whisper of the Heart is also set in those times.

>>15501122
>I wasn't even a part of it, or even following anything Japanese at the time, but for some reason it's nostalgic to me.
I'm under the impression that you don't actually know what nostalgic means.

>>15520696
I'm not him, but the phenomenon isn't uncommon. According to some people at http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/50144/is-there-a-term-that-defines-nostalgia-for-something-youve-never-experienced , a good word for this feeling might be “Sehnsucht”.

>>15510826
I've recently started listening to 80's synthesizer stuff (specifically Jun Fukamachi), which I discovered through https://mega.nz/#F!e9UHHaxL!_IjanEo9inWB-iznNn8GUw .

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Public Service Announcement: The apostrophe denotes the numbers dropped of the year, so it goes before the number. Examples: '80s, 2000s, eighties.

>>15520667
They were the gravure/AV idol photobook scanning groups back in the late 90's to early 2000's Internet. They apparently have their own file format and viewer program (.pjs, Purejapan Viewer) which no-one has documented yet.

Their "cronies" include Kuni and "The First of A Million Kisses", whoever were them. (You might have recognized them if you go to BobX and look at older galleries) Remember, those were days before DGC and other gravure sites were big things.

>>15506879
>No, but gravure/porn photo books from that era are awesome.
Be careful anon, that was before the west made them only have 18+ girls in nude images.

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>>15501122
I remember seeing these Azumanga Daioh buses during my trip to Japan back in 2002.

>>15520837
Thanks dude, I'll try to remember that

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>>15519794
Mazda won LeMans in 91 with the 787b. The only car to win with a rotary engine and during the crazy group-c era.

>>15520837
Are you an apostrophe otaku?

>>15519794
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSYD4a3RzW4

>>15501122
Not just Japan but the 90s, late 80s in general.

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>>15519794
Let's not forget their crazy touge scene, Mid Night Club and of course, Best Motoring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_A7HmYHbk

>>15528006
VIDEO OPTION MASTER RACE.

god i miss those old street racing days everything was so underground, and videos were treasured as a badge of honor that you were part of the scene. that an the factory service manuals in japanese or from australia.

>>15525548
I am a grammar otaku.

A E S T H E T I C S

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>>15528006

I'm loving that Fairlady Z. I'd settle just to have even a beater 300zx turbo at this point.

>>15522888
>DGC
Who/what?

>>15528064
Whatever nerdmeister.

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>>15527351
>Stallion is a good name for a car
>Starion is not
I don't think so, Clarkson. I'd rather ride the stars than a stupid horse that chews on fence posts.

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>>15528734
>no one is driving

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>>15528795
I believe you mean "whatever, nerdmeister."

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>>15528920
The future is here and it's called "reclination."

>>15528921
I was calling you a ``whatever nerdmeister'' to indicate both that
a) you are a nerdmeister
b) it does not matter what you are nerdmeister of.

>>15528936
Is automobile culture reclining?

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>>15528966
yes and no.

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>>15510826
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNM0pShTXXw

>>15528920

When the Japanese build self driving cars in the '90s nobody bats an eye, but when Google does it suddenly everybody makes a big deal of it.

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Did someone say 90's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phAoChN1nC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYPddrBsXAE

I bought a copy of OCEAN SIDE on vinyl and it came with a foldout poster. Going to Disk Union and browsing through 80s records is my favourite thing in the world.

>>15530024
best anime ever

>>15523244

I don't collect 80s gravure or anything. I just thing the styles back then were pretty awesome.

Even modern gravure has some sketchy stuff.

>>15528064
Can you explain to me why "its" doesn't have an apostrophe when it's possessive?

>>15520678
I just watched Ocean Waves based on this post. I really liked it. It sort of makes me wish I could have had that sort of innocent romance back then. It wouldn't be the same if it happened now.

>>15520678
>>15530378
That movie had a pretty nice soundtrack, I downloaded it and am listening to it now. Pretty surprising seeing how it wasn't done by Joe Hisaishi

>>15501922
>I've started watching 90s JAV

Where the fuck would you even find shit like that?

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>>15501122

You know what I miss? when girls would wear bloomers for gym class, now they use boring shorts.

Too bad that japan is adopting more and more american prejudic... err.. I mean... "values"

ahh late 90s and early 00, that straight long hair and that braided hair
jap girl looks so cute back then.

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>>15530836
I guarantee any uniform changes are based on japanese otaku fetishizing them rather than anything America did.

Even then, bloomers only look okay with shirts covering them, they look goofy when you see the whole thing.

Besides that, if you go back far enough, bloomers become shorts again. This is what they were like before they evolved to the ones like in your image.

>>15528781
Desktop Gal Collection, one of the websites that churns out gravure photoshoots of modern-day gravure idols.

>>15530000
Toyota actually did research on self-driving cars as early as the 90's: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/10/06/toyota-driverless-cars-automated-highway-driving/73448028/

>>15522888
>BobX
I just went there for the fist time. What a blast from the past with that page design!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tsLrM5naR0

>>15530349
Firstly to differentiate it from "it is." English speakers used to say "John is bike", which contracted to "John's bike," but pronouns don't have this. There' no your's or her's.

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>>15530378
>Not watching every Ghibli film anyway, even Tales From Earthsea
https://youtu.be/ogy5JVextNA

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I get sort of nostalgic for the "generic anime style" from back then. The style of shading, highlights, pointed hair tips, excessive clothing folds.

Something about it seems more cartoony. Modern styles lack something I don't really understand clearly.

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>>15534177
Whisper of the Heart is another nostalgic slice of the 90's. The protagonist meets a boy after seeing his name written on library books which she had checked out too-a lost practice in the digital age (I sometime see names signed like that on the due date card of old books in my college library, from back in the 60's and 70's).

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>>15501331
nice.

>>15534536
I really wish they still did that. At least they still stamp the due date in the front of the book, but I wish they still did names.

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I sort of want to track down a pair of these to mate with a nice MindDisc player.

>>15535121
those are actually really good headphones. i had a pair a long time ago, and they probably still work if i could find them.

>>15534266
This, absolutely 110%.

>>15510993
You could try the following
>Yellow Magic Orchestra
>Ayukawa Mami
>YAPOOS
>Sakai Noriko

and speaking of Tatsuro Yamashita, try RIDE ON TIME and Moonglow. They're as good as FOR YOU despite being released earlier.

>>15534536
>The protagonist meets a boy after seeing his name written on library books which she had checked out too-a lost practice in the digital age (I sometime see names signed like that on the due date card of old books in my college library, from back in the 60's and 70's).

It's an odd feeling when you check out a book and find the last time anyone took it out was a decade or more ago.

>>15535591
Seconding Yellow Magic Orchestra. Service is one of my favorite albums.

Can someone in this thread tell me why Yukiko Okada killed herself?

>>15512119
MY DICK

>>15539728
>Yukiko Okada
A better question is why hasn't everyone else?

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Just wanted to thank everyone who posted for the great thread, haven't had one like this in a while.

>>15535591
thx m8

>>15501122
Me too, but the reason is that I watched too much SoL anime and manga that time.

Love Hina still feels like a time machine to me.

>>15544615
Same. Still have the DVD box I bought in 2004.

>>15506822
STREETS OF FIRE

>>15523295
Now they have better stickers.
Nostalgia = appreciating lame shit from the past that you grew up with.

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>>15534266
>Modern styles lack something I don't really understand clearly.

I think the modern style is just too sterile.

For example look at this. If this was a modern anime the lines would all be smooth and without gaps. Also the colors would be more saturated. The mecha would probably be CG too. And the image would be perfectly sharp. Without this slight fuzziness old anime has.

It's kinda the same with digital cameras nowadays. It's why old images taken on film give you a warm feeling.

>>15549219
>better stickers
They have Chiyo-chan?

>>15550956
No, Miku stickers and many other that look even better.

I discovered this song from an Idolm@ster video on Niconico. It's from 1990
http://mp3.zing.vn/bai-hat/Roman-Hikou-Kome-Kome-Club/ZWZFE8W7.html

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>>15550925
I don't know, we're talking about the 90s and early 2000s here. Stuff you mentioned wasn't exactly not happening then. And it's not just anime, I posted a game art in my example.

I think one thing is a lack of lines though. Less lines defining the hair, face, clothes, and other things. Looking a bit, I think things tend to be defined more by shadows than lines now.

It's probably why I thought Star Driver had an older feel to it at times. Sometimes they'd have a lot more defining lines.

Japan in the 80's-90's was like their version of Americas 50's.

The economy was great, the country was young and alive. Everyone was generally happy. It was still nice in early 2000's but you can see it start to decline.

>>15507044
>There's an ongoing myth about what 90s Jpop was like, and I have to wonder what the fuck did people listen to to think it was anything like "vaporwave".
You're a couple years late. This ""vaporwave"" thing is inspired by the bubble era, not the lost decade that followed

>>15510826
Togawa "absolute madwoman" Jun

Ganguro girls
GTO
EGL
Ayumi Hamasaki
FFVIII
Utada Hikaru
Otaku boom
Touhou
Morning Musume
Geocities

>>15558056
Fucking loved morning musume. I really liked the Ayaka's special english lesson skits, they were so fun to watch as an english speaker. Too bad I think the guy that uploaded them all to youtube got them deleted or something

Japan 2000-2010 had some pretty significant moments, shocks and subculture booms. Can't really say the same for 2010-2020 so far. There's madoka and I think AKB is even more popular than before. Otherwise not much to mention.

>>15558056
>Morning Musume
Does their general thread even exist anymore?

>>15558056
>Otaku boom
Where were you/what were you doing when it happened?

>>15558173
>There's madoka
Was this really a notable event? I was in my cocoon when it happened, but I haven't seen any real impact other than the inevitable (annoying fans). I don't think that some anime getting a bit more popular than others counts as an event, but I don't know if there's been other stuff I haven't noticed.

>>15558930
Madoka wasn't relevant to anything in the long run.

>>15558173
Do LL, Kancolle, or Osomatsu-san quality as having impact yet, or are we still waiting to see if they'll just go away?

>>15559291
What has LL had an impact on? It's only popular in the wake of iM@S and the idol anime boom. Kancolle doesn't have an effect on anything at all. Seriously, it's literally irrelevant outside of some fan art. The last thing is just some old show getting remade. It'd be like saying JJBA is affecting anything because of its new anime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9-ekIkXQcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRPubOBJ8k

>>15558173
Most of the subculture booms and shocks of the last decade were due to the popularization of 2chan and its effect on Japanese society, especially during 2000-2005.

There is no such thing today. 2chan still exists of course but it's old news by now and quite diminished since 2013.

>>15559291
What has Osomatsu-san done? I don't really pay attention to the news but I liked the show, so I'm asking honestly.

>>15560320
Currently quite popular with fujoshi.

>>15560607
I want to cuddle a cute fujoshi.

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>>15561892
3DPD not welcome.

>>15560607
Lots of things are popular with fujoshi. If there weren't things popular with fujoshi, there'd be no fujoshi. This doesn't count as anything worth mentioning.

>>15558930
>>15559291
>>15559434
None of it was really relevant.

>>15559937
Not really. Gothic Lolita also got really popular in early 2000's but there were lots of other thins. Maid cafes weren't really due to 3chan, you could wonder if the Akihabara attack was really related to Japanese internet, or just a random thing. Touhou got popular from Comiket. There was Haruhi and the whole shrine pilgrimages too. Wii and the DS were game changers for Nintendo. How about Nico Douga being created, or Vocaloids.

So many things happened that you can't ignore it. What has there been that isn't just a variation or iteration these days?

>>15558173
I kinda hoped that Trigger would be something but I was an idiot.

>>15562941
Most of these things would not have been possible without 2ch as a channel for uncensored information.

The rising popularity of otaku stuff (comiket, touhou, maids, akiba kei in general) was because 2ch provided a hub to discuss and learn about these things. None of these were being covered by the mass media in any form, eventually they just reposted (botched) summaries of 2ch threads.

The anime pilgrimage thing is kinda native to 2ch. The akiba attack as well unfortunately (it wasn't the first).

Nico shared almost all of its site culture with 2ch at the beginning, they only started to diverge significantly later on. When Miku started being popular and Crypton decided to copyright claim all derivative works, it was mostly through 2ch that the shitstorm to get them to reconsider their position ensued.

That's without going into the piece of media spawned directly from 2ch threads like densha otoko, which was super popular for some reason.

It's easy to see 2ch as irrelevant because that's its current situation, but it wasn't always the case.

>>15558173
I feel like if there are any real "game-changers" of the 2010s it's been the rise of social media (as used by creators and fans alike) as well as the mining of otaku culture for the mass market.

These are more things that are happening than individual phenomena and seminal events but I think the characterize a lot of what's been slowly changing this decade.

>>15510826
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnFGY_NToEI

Just the right amount of the 80s Jpop dragged into the 90s.

>>15563715
What do nerds even get into nowadays? Non nerds stole everything so I need new interests.

>>15563792
AKB48 is still the uncontested realm of the most filthy and deranged otakus, you could get into that!

>>15563811
No thanks. I can barely stand to look at real people nowadays.

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I do. Growing up in the 90s/early 2000s most of my toys/entertainment was Japanese made. Now I too look at pictures of Japan from that era and get nostalgic...

I get very nostalgic for 90/2000s America as well. It was just
as good as Japan. I don't think the two countries will ever share
as much excellent popular culture like they did in those days again.

Here, have some vaporwave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJsUpeXK6Jo

>>15563833
vaporwave and future funk and all that is awful.
the real deal is way better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1apBASnOlY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikWSo-eqjFM&feature=youtu.be&t=3m59s

>>15563833
90s America was utter garbage, the 80s had so much more and I wasn't even alive. But the 00s got off to a rocky start, kazaa, lots of gaming stuff, like xbox was born, then netflix, shows became really popular then. There was also 4chan, the adults just didn't understand the internet. It was a wild west for a while. World of Warcraft came out too.

>>15563833
This sounds like a try hard version of shibuya-kei.

>>15558173
What are examples of things that were significant from 2000-2010? Honestly the last notable big thing that came out of Japan was probably Pokemon. Nothing has ever been as explosive as that. That was the late 90s.

>>15564743
(I'm not the guy you asked)
Significant in Japan or to western otaku?

Almost everything the otaku in the west at that time (that is 4chan "oldfags" and the like) liked was in the very, very late 90s to about 2002ish era. e.g. Azumanga Daioh, Mahoromatic, Di Gi Charat, and helped shape internet culture in the post-geocities/pre-social media era.

In general, Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night and Maria-sama ga Miteru are good examples of stuff cemented in the minds of otaku in and out of Japan. Rozen Maiden and Lyrical Nanoha were pretty popular too.(Even though, both tend to only get referenced in pretty meta otaku works) In particular, with Rozen Maiden, it was part of a boom of lolita fashion clad anime characters. (Actually some Nanoha characters are this way too). It existed before then, but lolita fashion characters really started getting popular and became nearly omnipresent. It's particularly notable for merging into magical girls, who were influenced by idols or just normal witches before. You can even see it in Touhou as Reimu and Marisa switched more into their modern clothes in EoSD and PCB, particularly Reimu who wears some frilly outfit not even resembling a shrine maiden outfit anymore.

Like think "Vampire girl" and you'll probably think of some girl in gothic lolita style.
Speaking of that, ojousama loli types and neo-tsunderes, and fusions of the two (as well as vampire lolis), really got codified in that time.

Actually there might have been a fad of gothic/gothic lolita styled anime around then but I don't really know. For sure there was a maid boom though. I don't really know why maids were especially popular then, but it might have been a whole old-timey boom like there was a slice of school life boom between 2004-2010ish.

Since 2010, it's been like a boom in old manga made/remade into anime, meta "us otaku" anime(vs otaku-depreciating otaku anime), mmo anime, and mobile games, which I'm surprised haven't been made into anime given how popular they are. I'd say Chuunibyou koi whatever is part of a trend in producers getting tired of average school anime and seasonal mecha and magical girls and trying to make flashy so-called "chuuni" anime, thought the show is just another light novel with a long title anime. MMO anime might even be included in this as it provides a good world and reason. I want to say short anime has been a trend too, but even though lots of them come out, I don't think too many have had any sort of impact. The Teekyu and gdgd fairies people keep getting anime made, so maybe there's something to be said for cheaply made anime being viable. This 2010+ era is actually pretty experimental, anime-wise if you think about it.

>>15564743
>>15565210
As far as pokemon like things, I can't really think of anything that isn't a game, which pokemon also is. Even the popularity of doujin and indie games are just games. So I don't really think big things that aren't games really came out of Japan, except maybe the "big 3" which are also probably old enough to not really count. I'm not sure even Naruto is as popular as DBZ still is. Anime still doesn't hit the mainstream even if it hit secondary(TV dubs only) and tertiary(just look at fanart and summaries/fan fiction/memes) otaku. Torrents and Japanese p2p software and scanslation/sub groups had the biggest effect on otaku related things.

As far as Japan in general goes, Japan hasn't really had anything popular blow up in the west after samurai and ninjas were popular besides power rangers and various games like pokemon (and yu gi oh, beyblade, bakugan, and other kid games/anime.)

I guess Vocaloid(That is to say, Miku) would be the closest.

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>>15551879
I get what you mean by being defined by shadows instead of lines. In a lot of the older anime styles, hair appeared more voluminous instead of flat and smooth because of that. But I guess that also reflects the current fashion styles too as people usually keep their hair straight and flat now.

Anyone know the name of this song?

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1XyVQbFF9fd

>>15566363
here 8 go m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zpOc9n7dlI

>>15566212

They look 12.

>>15558323
You mean the H!P General? I think so but it has been obscured by AKB and other idol generals.

>>15559434
> Kancolle doesn't have an effect on anything at all.

It kind of obliterated the 2hu fanbase being an alternative to a somewhat stale 2hu franchise at that time.

>>15560320
Making Osomatsu-kun popular with a new generation of fans plus the fujo effect.

>>15566473
Of what? Touhou Music? Fangames? Fumo?

>>15566486
2hu in general. I mean it took a long time for 2hu games past 14 months or years to come out so some, not all, would find something new to do.

>>15563792
The NERD nerds get into fiddling with hardware like raspberry pi or coding for games or open source projects. The pop culture following nerds probably go into visual novels or idols or indie comics or collectible card games. Scifi novels are full of social justice propaganda, steampunk is cogs and brass memes, fantasy novels are on tv. Vidya is dominated by the likes of cod and overwatch, but there are still a lot of interesting games being made. Anime and manga might be pretty visible in the public now, but if you look at anime conventions it's often not most attendee's primary hobby.

>I wasn't even a part of it, or even following anything Japanese at the time, but for some reason it's nostalgic to me.

lol kimoi

>>15563868
Some of it is good. I like both the original and future funked versions of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFwxxq8aQDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9n8f4k2fE

Getting back to 90's though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0qFlIYJRYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vKUv2HW9Lg

>>15564057
90s America gave us a lot of "wars" though like the console wars or the Monday Night Wars which gave us a lot of options to choose from.

>>15566597
Gulf War

>>15566597
>like the console wars
I miss those times, not necessarily for the console wars themselves, but it was a time where people wouldn't be like "our brand is better than 'the leading brand'." but instead would outright pretty much say "fuck [brand x], buy [brand y]." people got way too pussy in the 2000s. I want the in-your-face, edgy, x-treme 90s.

>>15563811
µ's and 765PRO ALL STARS would like to say hi.

>>15567180
Back in the day "fans" managed to send in enough death threats to traumatize one of the original 765pro seiyuu out of Idolmaster entirely.

Seiyuu fans have always been a little fucked in the head.

>>15564743
Vocaloids
Nico Douga
2channel
AKB48
Maid cafes
Otaku boom
Akihabara stabbing impacted shopping there
Touhou Project EoSD onwards
Ayumi Hamasaki
Harajuku style popular world wide

>>15567432
Half of those things are the 90s. My point is I don't think there is really 'less things' in the 2010s. I think it takes a while for things to feel nostalgic and you get some perspective. Maybe in 10 years people will look back and say the "teleporting to a new world anime boom" or something.

>>15567451
And also I think people will look at Twitter in 10 years as a really important thing. I don't personally use it, but it is really popular in Japan for artists, etc.

>>15567451
Might add some more 2010s things for you:
>The rise of light novel adaptations
>NJPW's rise back to prominence of some sort (largely because of the Bullet Club)
>The smartphone gaming boom

>>15566212
Yukie is cute.

>>15567451
They're not the 90s you dumbass, none of them are. You can point to things like ZUN being in college and making the first Touhou as a 90s thing. That by the way had more zero impact compared to any forgettable shit on TV. It only got popular after EoSD

>>15567561
Light novel adaptions were already popular for years, how ignorant can you be.

>>15566473
Kancolle and granblue killing touhou is just a meme, in practice they just moved in to fill the void. Touhou was already slowing down and would have slowed down even if kancolle never existed.

>>15567749
Not really. It was Haruhi that really kicked that shit off

>>15568103
They didn't kill anything though. The meme is just a few artists people liked draw them now. Almost no content is produced for them like games and music though. If they can't even get fangames, they're less relevant than Madoka.

>>15568198
*fill anything

>>15567749
>>15568124
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ライトノベルのアニメ化作品一覧

>>15568198
Kancolle can't get fangames because they're explicitly banned. Of course, that's completely retarded in its own way. Not sure how it is with Granblue.

>>15568124
>what is slayers

>>15568225
Yea? Look at the crazy spike that starts around 2006

>>15568124
Haruhi anime was 2006 you dork.

Besides many things started as novels, like NHK, none of this has anything to do with post 2010 era.

>>15567561
Eh, Tana/Okada/Nak becoming the next Three Musketeers were a bigger deal for getting NJPW back on its feet in the fans' eyes; the Biz Cliz just was a thing for weebs.

>>15507044
>nigger suburban style
Opinion discarded tbqh

>>15568729
His whole life should be discarded really

I hate stromcucks no matter the board

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This is more 70s but still cool:
http://youtu.be/o4Igs0clpUQ

>>15566434
http://youtu.be/xUA-DcW1lFc

>>15568729
>>15568743
I like how you cook down a thousand word post about Japan into a single word you don't like and offer no relevant commentary besides.

>>15569023
Well, their feelings got hurt. Makes them unable to think rationally

>>15569023
Yeah but your whole post was shit, and wrong too.

>>15568729
I wonder how many people get triggered when they come to my country where the only word for black people is a badly pronounced "nigger" with the i sounding like an e.

>>15569550
Is your country even somewhere people go?

>>15569621
I see Japanese and Chinese people incredibly often when in my (less popular) main town.

>>15569550
Some countries are more dumb and stupid that others. Like that retarded black Pete bullshit a few years ago. It's always some backwards euro hick country nobody gives a shit about.

>>15569645
Ah yes, because we didn't have slavery of black people and never based our "nigger" around racial stereotypes like most countries, our country is stupid and dumb!
good job anon

>>15569634
>Only Asians.
Are you from one of those countries with "stan" in the name?

>>15569688
Estonia, can't tell the difference between natives and neighboring countries so I don't list them.

also back on topic pls no bullying past this point

>>15501922
>90s JAV
I'm interested in this, tell me more.

Around the late 90's early 00's I got internet and the very first thing I did was look up Japanese porn and beat my dick raw for several weeks.

>>15572169
I remember around that time, on porn sites there were any terms I didn't understand at the time. One was "cuckold", which I thought had something to do with old people, given the name and usual participants.(basically I thought it meant "old people porn")

Another term was "kogal", which was basically on any site remotely to do with Japanese girls. (There were a couple other terms too that I don't remember off hand that were probably related but disappeared too). Not knowing Japanese at the time, I had no idea what that was supposed to be, but over time that word disappeared from places. Years later I learn about gyaru fashion from the internet from people making fun of wacky Japan and its ganguro fad, and so I gathered it had something to do with gyaru and not just schoolgirl uniform cosplay, but its only in recent times I really came to understand what that term meant and why it's gone.

Oh I remember, another term was like "urabon" or "uraban" or something. Given the first thing, I never bothered looking up what it meant.

Now that I think about the "wild west" internet and the large number of young model sites there were, I sort of wonder how prolific junior idol sites were back then.

Forget JAV though, I was never really into even Japanese porn. Ecchi anime images were the best thing and I'm glad numbers, availability, and quality have gone up over time. Even though there's a lack of those long serious stories there used to be. Or maybe they just moved to being more slice of life-ish stories along with the moe fad.

there's a dude in r9k who dumps vintage gravure magazines featuring actual roris

>>15573116
Just because japs are flat doesn't make them lolis even if they are teenage.

>>15569180
That wasn't my post, but if he's so wrong one would think you could have taken some time in the two full weeks since he posted it to enlighten the rest of us.

>>15573072
I knew what kogal meant from some comic I read back in the day set in Japan but didn't really pay to much attention to it. I was like a homing missile and immediately started searching Japanese lesbian porn and consumed it like a drug fiend.

I'd like to get some names of '90s JAV stars if anyone has any, the only one's that I remember is Akira Fubuki and another one named Kanazawa something.

Mostly I'd just like to have a nostalgia fap since that's when my yellow fever was at it's highest.

>>15573368
Why? Can't correct all the dumbasses or you will never be done. It's not worth it.

>>15573583
I long for more kogal porn, anon. I had a hard drive that I lost about 5 years ago; it was full of the stuff. It had porn and other things that I was holding onto since middle school. It still hurts.

>>15575506
What exactly is it? I'm too scared to search it.

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>>15575556

What are the chances to find underage girls from JAV since 2000? Basically impossible? I'm always paranoid. What about those videos where they almost show but not quite?

>>15575556

While >>15575567 is a much shorter summary, it means girls who use the gyaru fashion but are still in school, as opposed to adult gyaru. In porn terms, it means gyaru in school girl outfits. Implication wise, it's that they're in high school and thus <18. In practice it's probably not any worse than searching for "teen" porn, where teen is used to mean girls (who pretend to be) of 18 and 19 years of age, but with Japan involved it could potentially involve picture of school girl prostitutes or something. Basically they're the underage b& of the gyaru culture.

>>15575625
Have you seen Bounce Ko Gals?

>>15575556
>>15575625
I should mention, the term itself isn't pornographic in any sense, so you probably won't be put on a list just for looking it up, although I'd imagine you'd still get JAV results.

>>15575636
I don't care about JAV myself, if that's what that is, so no.

>>15575575
>What are the chances to find underage girls from JAV since 2000?
0 if it's from an actual company. Probably that way before too.
Probably high if it's just some amateur video thing, but in the sense of if you looked up videos of girls flashing their tits at a concert or something and you have no idea what their age is.

>What about those videos where they almost show but not quite?
Do you mean gravure or youtube/nicovideo? Even if it's gravure, you can still even find junior idol videos, it's not like they stopped non-porn.

If you're paranoid, people would probably think a flat chested 27 year old Japanese woman was underage because westerners all think Japs look like little kids relative to themselves.

>>15575672
I know there are jr. for stuff like swimsuits and other cosplay, but there are ones where they give themselves a camel toe, just cover with their hands, etc. You probably know what I'm talking about.

>>15575680
jr idols would probably still have cameltoe, because that's just part of being female, whether they're doing it themselves or not. Being actually nude, even covered, is most likely a no I'd guess.

I'm not sure what you would be paranoid about. To use a Senran Kagura MMD as an example, https://a.pomf.cat/wkafaf.mp4 you're either looking at some busty gravure idol or not.

>>15509399
I kinda wish thick eyebrows would comeback, as a kid watching J dorama's, I always thought they looked good on Japanese girls.

>tfw you'll never have a qt '90's Japanese gf

The Gods are truly cruel.

>>15575575
Are you saying that before 2000 there are underage girls in JAV?

>>15501122
Japanese media was hugely influential druing the 90s and early 2000s because of video games, the anime boom and so on. They were also taking influence from 80s American culture so there's a big nostalgia vortex there.
I'm really into the aesthetics from around then at the moment myself.

>>15575417
>It's not worth it.
One wonders why anybody ever bothers posting anything.

>>15576976
That's one of the reasons I liked that period so much. The swapping of cultures was really cool.

On a somewhat related note, my dad has a "Dire Straits Greatest Hits" album from Japan. No idea how he got it, but it's neat to see the little examples of cultures crossing paths.

>>15576976
>I'm really into the aesthetics from around then at the moment myself.

I hate that this became something like vaporwave instead of a cyberpunk revival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdYPJ0EQLXg

>>15569550
>>15569023
I think that whole post is bait

>>15576991
To talk about things they like and tell idiots to shut up.

>>15577170
This is too much. I can't bear all of that nostalgia. That being said, I remember Iketeru Futari as a rather mediocre anime, even though I love that opening.

>>15563833
Can someone please tell me what this is from? I reverse searched but only got some music group

>>15577464
You need to search harder, dude. It's there.
Protip start from the last page

>>15577318
>To talk about things they like and tell idiots to shut up.
As far as anyone can tell from this thread the "things you like" mostly include calling people out on their language and telling people to shut up.

>>15577511
>calling people out on their language and telling people to shut up.
This falls under the later, how is this even hard to understand, did you fail kindergarten?

>>15577885
And the former?

>>15501122
>nostalgic for a time I never experienced in a place I've never been to

Can't say I am.

Though I do regret that I didn't get to see Akihabara back when it was the electronic crazytown.

>>15575575
They are real and they exist in tor

>>15559781
I just realized, are these the guys from Schaa Dara Parr?

>>15572169
I've been using this thread for downloads lately. Some good shit on here https://www.akiba-online.com/threads/from-the-past-vhs-jav.1498180/page-9

>>15583702
Oh man. This is a goldmine.

>>15511066
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nic9iabheIc

>>15583865
This was beautiful. Thanks

>>15506822
That's para para nostalgia right there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCAWFArUVRo

>>15584652
Para Para Paradise combines everything I love about early 2000's Japan. Gyaru, Bemani and Eurobeat.

>>15583702
You are a saint among men.

I see that these are RAR files, which of the two files services do you recommend?

Help an anon get his nostalgia fap on, I'm seeing stuff here from 93 and I cannot in good conscience not fap to that.

>>15584904
I've been using the big file links. It's slow as fuck, like most of those sites, but definitely worth it.

>>15584918
No torrent required, I assume?

>>15584954
Nope, just slow ass, mid 2000s style direct downloads. I've been working at it all day. They also throttle the download speed so I've only got a few so far.

>>15585092
Awesome, I'm thinking of grabbing that Lesbian Hell II JAV and just go from there for some more lesbian stuff.

>>15528006
>Supra versus a McLaren F1
Man that's not even fair.

>>15512110
RYM charts are terrible for Japanese music

>>15575625
What does the Japanese culture usually do in instances on teens sending nudes around? Do they shame them or does someone play victim and get the other in trouble?

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>>15558056
>Ayumi Hamasaki
>Utada Hikaru
>BoA
>Koda Kumi

I still listen to them today.

>>15594296
Having any aspect of your private life exposed in public is shameful for all parties involved.

But they're not quite as stuck up as America regarding sex and neither do they pretend that teenagers aren't interested in it if that's what you're asking.

>>15509399
qt!

>>15520347
His point was that part of the boom was still based in an unsustainable land bubble which makes the hopeful spirit of the music seem inauthentic in retrospect (not that it is). And yeah, pop can seem strange. He's talking about 80s japanese music from the perspective of 2016 zeitgeist.

>>15550925
>It's kinda the same with digital cameras nowadays. It's why old images taken on film give you a warm feeling.

As a photographer and videographer I want to kill you twice for your naive understanding of film and perpetuating misunderstood nostalgia.

>>15576645
thick eyebrows are the best ;_;

>>15594843
How do you feel about digital Kodachrome filters?

>>15507520
Thanks for the link too mate

>>15511257
That touches me.

>>15511257
1988 in Tottori...that music is also amazing...

I want to revisit this thread. If it archives where can i find it?

Sorry i only been on 4chan for a year.

>>15595809
Threads archive within 4chan and stay up for 3 days after its over. This thread will probably stay alive another week or so anyway.

>>15595812
Its weird cuz it feels like ive seen archives on other websites where maybe they stayed up longer. But thanks.

Any good old japanese movies?

Ive seen mivies like dark water and ringu. Very good

>>15595809
>>15595834
http://arch.b4k.co/jp/

>>15595940
How long does it stay up ?

>>15518542
I love Bosozoku.

>>15595940
Jesus christ at least suggest Warosu if you're going to link him to something.

>>15595839
Harakiri

>>15596139
Nah. Warosu is for tru/jp/sies. Guys like him can use b4k.

>>15595967
until they run out of money.

>>15596139
Says that and doesn't even fucking link!

>>15595809
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/15501122

>>15595646
I don't mind if someone is filtering their stuff for a specific look. My issue is with the conception that all film has a uniform "warmer" and more "nostalgic" look to it when different processes could vary wildly in appearance and professional film stock and film stock still manufactured today can actually be very clear with excellent reproduction much like a digital print. That and the quality of a photo also relies heavily on the optics.

I don't know why more people don't get more nostalgic about tape recordings since those were an '80s, '90s thing. And then in that era you were watching home videos on a tape medium anyway, unless you had a laser disc or, later, VCD.

>>15596737
Tapes, cassettes, 8-tracks, and the like a shit.

Why didn't they just fucking put music in cartridges/memory card type devices?

>>15596899
Because NAND based storage hadn't advanced enough back then?
I have a flash card from 2004 and it's only 30mb.
1mb USB sticks can still be found on eBay.

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>>15534266

>>15596947
I'm sure they could have come up with a better application of the rom carts they used for video games since the 70s or gotten higher capacity memory cards earlier should there have been a market for it. Tapes didn't have that much music on them usually anyway.

>>15501448
I'd say the peak was around the time Utada was big, which was slightly later.

These days Japanese pop music is garbage beyond recognition.
AKB48 and the likes have done a flawless job.

>>15596899
>reel-to-reel
>a shit
>not knowing that tape could be very high quality

I'm not fan either, but your comments about cartridge memory show your ignorance of turn of the century media storage.

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>>15501136
>Luna Sea
I started to play guitar in the mid 2000s because of X Japan and Luna Sea. Even practiced with a band and stuff, until I realised you can't do visual key type stuff in the West. But then again, it has become a niche thing in Japan as well I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRivjln2GHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibk0tPsaNk

>>15597030
They couldn't.

And if they could, what would the consumer rather buy:
>Small, but extremely expensive flash card
>Larger, but very cheap tape (that could be used without requiring the purchase of a new music player)
The tech wasn't there and neither was the market.

In fact, the first iPod didn't even use a flash card to store music, it had a tiny hard drive in it.

Also, since you brought up videogame ROM carts; Pokémon crystal is 2mb in size, only with extensive tweaking (and bringing in Nintendo's lead programmer) could they fit it onto a gameboy ROM card. That was in 2002 and the cart was huge.

(One more thing)
As >>15597082 said, magnetic tape is excellent for data storage. Cassette tapes turned to shit because the tape got stretched and worn from over-use, magnetic tape drives are extensively used for backing up important data because of how reliable it is for long term storage.

>>15509399
>fuzzy sideburns
This is literally what I find most attractive about women. The longer the better. I've seen some girls who could grow their sideburns to longhair strands. I just want to cuddle my nose in there.

>>15597082
Please educate me, oh wikipe sage.

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>>15512119
Oh god...

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This thread is very educational.

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>>15519794
I had a teacher long ago who drove a Skyline. Nigga was showing off with it on every possible occasion. Can't blame him though.

I really love these songs and her voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5o5Ccj_Uhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTcNRWjhd4

>>15528920
Japanese cars have the steering wheel on the right. The driver is just blacked out.

>>15530836
>tfw you will never be a boy going to gym class in 90s Japan with girls in bloomers
>tfw you will never stay after class has ended and sniff the floor for feet residue and jerk off

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>>15534266
>>15535518
>>15550925
>warm feeling.
Around 2000, anime studios began switching from cel animation to full digital.

Digital animation is always cohesive in colours and line art since they're merely 'parameters* set in a computer frame.

Old cel animation had to be worked with different sizes to achieve different resolutions. Higher resolutions cost more money but make for a sharper picture. Line art was drawn on one side of the foil, the coloration on the other side. The finished foil would then be placed on a pre painted background and lit/scanned. The biggest difference is the way the colour stuck to the foil and formed a natural pattern when distributed across the cell. The backlight would make colours more pastel like and organic. To this day, you simply can't replicate this aesthetic digitally because (apart from a lack of 'demand' I suppose) the patterns are always different in accordance to the individual cel composition through colours reflecting off each other. This is also why cell animation looks 'just right' and 'warm' in a way that is hard to put in words, while digital animation appears sterile in comparison.

Cowboy Bebop was one of the last series that was all done in cel animation and is a good example of what could be achieved in a non-HD TV series format.

>>15575575
They were only distributed unofficially I believe as amateur vids, however they found widespread sale under the counter. The only thing that was sold officially were junior idol print media and videos, which were nude until 'MURICA stuck its dick in between and forced Japan to clothe the girls.

There are a row of very famous vids from the 'Kansai' series where guys filmed each other fucking school girls as young as 11 or 13. You can still find them if you search hard and you can easily recognise them by the VHS conversion quality and time codes etc. These were also sold rather liberally until, you guessed it, 'MURICA!

>>15550925
Oh man I love Patlabor so much.

>>15597794
She does have a nice voice! Shame I can't find anymore of her stuff.

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>>15597938
>This is also why cell animation looks 'just right' and 'warm' in a way that is hard to put in words, while digital animation appears sterile in comparison.

This isn't what I (>>15534266) meant at all. I just meant I don't like the actual drawing, shading, and coloring styles of modern anime/games. I like the excessive folds and dark shadows and pointy detailed hair. There's some sort of feeling in design and execution that's lost too, that's hard to describe. It's not about the animation, but about the feel of the characters.

Think about panty shots and nipple slips back then. They'd have things like the panties showing at ties they'd normally show and only for a split second. Same with nipples popping out unless they were naked for some reason. Take this gif of Nanoha for example. That series (and even the first season of Dog Days somewhat) showed lots of panties but without making this huge deal about it, but still blatant.

Nowadays they can't even mention the panties without spending 10 seconds zooming in on the vaginal folds coming through the material. Shows tend to use characters with either more normal designs being ultralewd or wearing stuff that's basically being naked all the time. It's like severe fetishes leaking out all over the place in anime even though I felt the older ones were more shameless.

This is why it's hard to describe. They'll make an anime nowadays about normal schoolgirls but have it be entirely about pissing and lactation every episode, but in older anime you'd get like some girl wearing a cow print thong leotard with a tiny skirt and milk bottles hanging off the side, but it wouldn't involve lactation at any point and she'd fight against other girls wearing animal themed bikinis without them feeling embarrassed to be dressed up like, say, a bunny in suspenders and hotpants. Something was more shamelessly otaku about the designs and feel of certain anime. Ero stuff, kawaii stuff, moe stuff. Somehow it's become more perverse, but less "shameless". Girls will only wear lingerie for some ero scene, not just as part of their normal day-to-day clothes.

But that's just one thing. Well two, since I touched on the lack of silly clothes that aren't just for laughs. It's not about the perversion or shamelessness either, but about the overall eccentric(?) character design. I don't have any nostalgia for the animation process itself nor the "feel" of old animation.

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>>15558056
>>15558323
>>15558081
>tfw Reina Tanaka has changed so much.
She looks like a different person now. I wonder if she did some surgery?

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>>15598079
I see. Well, that's just a natural progression, same as clothing trends change.

>>15598153
Just because it went from kawaii style to moe style doesn't mean there can't be some interesting (flamboyant) character designs though. I guess otakus just care more about moe yuri schoolgirls than robotic catgirl maids nowadays.

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Makes me wonder how Anime will look in 10 years from now

>>15598540
Anime will be banned after 2020 Olympics and the only thing will be American shows done in "anime style" by toonami fans who miss it and old people who still think sailor moon is all anime.

>>15597938
In late 90s anime studios were already mastered cel animation, today digital animation is still very experimental and CG looks "off".
I wonder how long will take to japan master digital animation KyoAni is making great stuff when it comes to animation and kaguya Hime No Monogatari looks beautiful, i hope soon we can see great animation more frequently.

>>15598540
It can't be any worse anyway.

>>15598540
Broadcast in 4K, hopefully.

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>>15599020
They could go full CG

>>15573116
Are you talking recently? I spend almost all of my time in /r9k/ (no bully pls) but I've seen him there only twice at most. I did see him post often on /b/ years ago.

>>15544615
>>15545928
Thinking back to Love Hina, I can't recall any anime that had a similar hyperactive musical style in the OP song. The closest thing I can find are mosaic.wav visual novel openings.

>>15563161
With Trigger shows like Kill la kill and other studio's shows like Kabaneri there seems to be a resurgence of high quality TV animation.

>>15599810
>a similar hyperactive musical style

I read that and though you meant something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRYFhOGowLs especially since you mentioned Mosiac.wav, but when I looked up the opening it wasn't like that at all. It's just some kinda goofy but generic song.

KyoAni's OPs tended to be like that though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpF-xWBKmwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzNLayMrJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV4R2AUZbek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFhkaNFkJdA

Sort of is the opening type for cruddy otaku-y shows like KKN above and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OWNCTNgOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkPuiDo-ZE

>>15599828
Kill la Kill wasn't very good. Other than the art style, it was impressively generic.

>>15600409
Revisiting this post, I meant to put the Lucky Star op with the KyoAni ones instead of the Chuunibyou OP.

OP here, good thread didn't think it would last this long. If someone wants they can make another one to replace it if there's enough interest. I'm probably too lazy myself to make it into a regular thing.

>>15601346
You'll have way more attention and excitement if you don't make a new thread immediately.

You get tired seeing the same thing day after day, right? It's more exciting when you see it after a little while of it being gone. At least for me anyway.

>>15599103
Literally one step away from South Park.

>>15601346
Just go hang out in that 80\s nostalgia thread that keeps getting made.

Or is this a spinoff because they keep jerking off to times before anyone even cared about Japan?

>>15598569
>2020 Olympics
this

2020 will be the end of everything you love about Japan, because it will be 100% 'MURICA'd.

>>15599046
>4K
anime doesn't profit as much from high resolutions. It's actually the opposite sometimes and 1080p is more than enough.

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>>15544615
>>15545928
>>15599810
Oh man. The time when Love Hina came out was probably my most intensive fapping period in all my life. I fapped about 5 times a day. My fantasies were so juvenile and my cum was thick as glue and white as snow. I saved the little money I had and bought art books, drew anime characters and stuff and collected tons of anime pictures online. I still have these old art books and DVD boxes in my basement. Totally forgot about this part of my life.

Thinking back... that was also the time when I discovered 4chin.

>>15600409
I meant something like Love Cheat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2bu-DCXGg

Now that you mention it, the Nichijou OP is probably the closest match in style, but even that one takes a big rest break in the middle. All the others feel like they have a significantly slower tempo.

>>15601972
I'd say it's an offshoot, I don't know about everyone else, but I got really into Japanese stuff during the mid to late '90s. Japanese stuff was everywhere back then and most vidya magazines had some kind of "Big in Japan" article going on.

...and then just as quickly it all died out.

Ah well, it was a fun ride while it lasted, had I a time machine I'd gladly do it all over again.

>>15599103
Isn't that what they did with that garbage mahou shoujo show this season?

>>15603754
There's been consistently at least once since gdgd fairies.

>>15603754
>>15603761
The good parts of those programs are the ad libbed parts. It's almost like listening to a sketch radio program only with visuals. Tesagebu! is probably one of my favorite things of all things.

>>15603962
I think gdgd and tesagure are the best, but I like gdgd more. I wonder why Narihero never got subbed. I wish I new more about sports so I could watch the extended tesagure audio only things from the blu rays.

Mahou Shoujo Naria girls seems to be being done like Minarai Diva with the motion capture, but with much lower quality.

Speaking of all CG shows, Fireball is the best CG show and needs another season.