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Title: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 02:58:10 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVoEpRIaKg

In this video he talks about how Japan's animation evolved in the 80's during the economic boom thanks to the wonders of capitalism. The clips gave me heart eyes for my love. 80's anime. Fuck. Yeah. PLEASE WATCH IF YOU LOVE 80'S ANIME LIKE I DO
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Post by: mormapope on September 01, 2018, 03:44:58 PM: Capitalism :yuck
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Post by: D3RANG3D on September 01, 2018, 03:54:12 PM: Capitalism :rejoice
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Rufus on September 01, 2018, 03:55:03 PM: Quote from: Dufus on September 01, 2018, 03:34:36 PM
akira :yuck
You motherfucker! How dare you!? :maf
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 04:29:53 PM: Thebart in gits is amazing and I don’t have a favorite in this battle

I just love 80’s and 90’s anime :hyper
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 04:30:16 PM: The gore in Akira :rejoice
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 01, 2018, 04:33:00 PM: I don't know, I feel like thats kind of wrong. Nothing stands out? I mean I guess the amazing art direction, attention to detial, directing, and in general film tecnical parts being pretty much the best Japanese anime has to offer dosen't stand out. An amazing well realization of an "80s" dystopia Japan is quite the achievement. The world of Akira feels alive in a way that few anime do. Where does GitS take place? In some non-descript Asian city that randomly has Hong Kong aspects(Yes port city is excactly that), but Neo Tokyo is a character unto itself.

There's also few actual relevant anime that talk about actual political themes. Akira has something to say about Japan. It's constant struggle with it's military history and it's place in the future. How it uses and treats it's future generations. And it's pretty grey in regards to how it view's Japan's Peace constitution as the colonel is right and wrong on some things and the government proves plenty incompetent, because it just wants to ignore it's history. Thinking only of the future Olympic Games. All that as a backdrop to a relatable Big brother vs little brother story with one of the most iconic bikes in the entire world.

I don't find anything mediocre, nor do I find it gross. It certainly is'nt medicore shit. Not even close, that's kind of an idiotic statement about one of most important anime movies ever.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 04:45:39 PM: Ignore him.

A comment on the yt video summed it nicely.

“The anime is great. The manga is a masterpiece.”

But that anime, wew :whew
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 01, 2018, 04:51:05 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmlwhaEEgE

Patlabor :rejoice
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 04:55:39 PM: FUCK YES :rejoice

angel’s egg :rejoice
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Post by: team filler on September 01, 2018, 05:02:17 PM: angel's egg :foodcourt
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Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 05:02:48 PM: Holy shit. Went to check and see if patlabor is on blu because :bow and it is :rejoice
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 05:09:16 PM: Quote from: filler on September 01, 2018, 05:02:17 PM
angel's egg :foodcourt

https://youtu.be/wozOCjrIp1s
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: team filler on September 01, 2018, 05:12:32 PM: It's pretty, but also pretty boring :boring
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 01, 2018, 05:14:58 PM: :maf
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Post by: toku on September 01, 2018, 08:33:05 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRb_7W0Ffc

(https://i.imgur.com/7hHjBfx.gif)
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 01, 2018, 08:45:15 PM: filler's favorite anime is episodes 136-220 of Naruto.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: bork on September 01, 2018, 09:34:57 PM: Started watching the video and disagree on one initial point- Akira was big in the west, yes, but what I remember having the biggest impact and bringing "anime" to the mainstream was Ghost In The Shell, which was screened in multiple theaters in my city, had newspaper articles, etc. I remember Akira being shown at one art house theater and that was it. It then became kind of a cult hit on VHS over the next few years.

Quote from: Dufus on September 01, 2018, 04:23:59 PM
GITS is quite a bit better

not as good animation, but quite a bit better art i'd say

and decent to watch at least, especially some scenes are really really amazing

whereas akira, nothing really stands out, it's just one gross scene after the next, that last battle was nasty as fuck :-X

No way. Not at all- The GITS movie ditched Shirow's art style, which really stood out (especially back then), plus stripped the characters of humor and personality. I enjoyed reading the comics but the movie literally put me to sleep the first time I saw it. I don't think that a lot of Shirow's works got very good anime adaptions. The best is probably Dominion Tank Police.

Akira, story-wise, is kind of a mess (which is what happens when you try to condense so much story into a single movie. I mean...it's called "Akira" and Akira is not even in it :lol), but it was a visual masterpiece that still holds up. I also have a very soft nostalgic spot for the original English dub, which I saw back in '89 or '90. Leonardo from TMNT as Kaneda had me hype. :lol
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: chronovore on September 02, 2018, 11:41:11 AM: Quote from: Dufus on September 01, 2018, 04:01:33 PM
it was gross as fuck to watch

too much gore

yes, for animation quality, it's obviously god-tier

but as a film, it is mediocre shit

Original dub, especially so.

Yeah, Dufus ain't wrong. it's a masterpiece on the visual and musical scale. On coherency and structure, not so much.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: tiesto on September 02, 2018, 01:23:25 PM: Akira on VHS was the first anime I've ever bought back in the early 90's... haven't seen it in a while though.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 02, 2018, 03:10:25 PM: If you bothered to watch the video you’d know why akira’s narrative in the anime isn’t perfect! Hint: it took two major plot points from the utterly MASSIVE manga and inserted it into a two hour film.

The manga as said, is a masterpiece.
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Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 02, 2018, 10:26:58 PM: There’s also classics like Megazone, Macross, DYRL, and Gunbuster that make the 80s pretty great. These things like amazing thanks to blu Ray as well.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 02, 2018, 11:18:51 PM: Quote from: Rahxephon91 on September 02, 2018, 10:26:58 PM
There’s also classics like Megazone, Macross, DYRL, and Gunbuster that make the 80s pretty great. These things like amazing thanks to blu Ray as well.

Yes Rah, yes!!!
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Post by: Assimilate on September 02, 2018, 11:48:12 PM: Cindi, help me out. There was an 80s anime i watched and loved as a child. It had to do with a group of psychic kids, one specific dude that was super powerful and could fly through the sky like a shooting star or something weird like that.

Have any idea of what it may be? I was never big on anime outside of the big stuff.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Himu on September 02, 2018, 11:51:50 PM: Quote from: Assimilate on September 02, 2018, 11:48:12 PM
Cindi, help me out. There was an 80s anime i watched and loved as a child. It had to do with a group of psychic kids, one specific dude that was super powerful and could fly through the sky like a shooting star or something weird like that.

Have any idea of what it may be? I was never big on anime outside of the big stuff.

Akira.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Assimilate on September 03, 2018, 12:09:46 AM: Quote from: Cindi Mayweather on September 02, 2018, 11:51:50 PM
Quote from: Assimilate on September 02, 2018, 11:48:12 PM
Cindi, help me out. There was an 80s anime i watched and loved as a child. It had to do with a group of psychic kids, one specific dude that was super powerful and could fly through the sky like a shooting star or something weird like that.

Have any idea of what it may be? I was never big on anime outside of the big stuff.

Akira.
Is it really? :lol
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: team filler on September 03, 2018, 12:54:03 AM: :lol
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: naff on September 03, 2018, 07:44:20 AM: I would always make time for something i hadn't seen by Satoshi Kon (goat), Takahata(edited in, forgot Grave of the Fireflies for a minute), Mamoru Oshii or Katsuhiro Otomo (and Miyazaki/Ghibli to a lesser extent). I haven't got time for serials (unless they're more like a miniseries), and I've watched most of what they have to offer. I can love the medium, but generally think it's trash. Change my mind 8) (/hmu w some recs please).
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: bork on September 03, 2018, 09:01:01 AM: Quote from: Rahxephon91 on September 02, 2018, 10:26:58 PM
There’s also classics like Megazone, Macross, DYRL, and Gunbuster that make the 80s pretty great. These things like amazing thanks to blu Ray as well.

Riding Bean, Bubblegum Crisis, and Ranma 1/2
:rejoice
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 03, 2018, 10:54:37 AM: Quote from: naff on September 03, 2018, 07:44:20 AM
I would always make time for something i hadn't seen by Satoshi Kon (goat), Takahata(edited in, forgot Grave of the Fireflies for a minute), Mamoru Oshii or Katsuhiro Otomo (and Miyazaki/Ghibli to a lesser extent). I haven't got time for serials (unless they're more like a miniseries), and I've watched most of what they have to offer. I can love the medium, but generally think it's trash. Change my mind 8) (/hmu w some recs please).

-Goshogun: The Time Etranger [movie]
-Venus Wars [movie]
-Dominion Tank Police [4 episodes]
-AD Police [3 episodes]
-Dirty Pair: Project Eden [movie]
-Goku the Midnight Eye [movie]
-They Were 11 [movie]
-Five Star Stories [movie]
-Blue Sonnet [5 episodes]
-Robot Carnival [anthology]
-Space Cobra the Animation [movie]
-Crusher Joe [movie and 2 episodes]
-Project A-ko [movie]
-Fist of the North Star [movie]
-Grey: Digital Target [movie]
-Lensman [movie]
-Appleseed [movie]
-Macross Plus [4 episodes]
-Golden Boy [6 episodes]
-Gunsmith Cats [3 episodes]
-Otaku no Video [2 episodes]
-Battle Angel Alita [2 episodes]
-Armitage III [4 episodes]
-Cyber City Oedo [3 episodes]
-Memories [anthology]
-Roujin Z [movie]
-Iria: Zeiram the Animation [6 episodes]
-Bubblegum Crisis [8 episodes]
-Riki-Oh [2 movies]

Enjoy.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Momo on September 03, 2018, 11:22:45 AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip5CpjXR4CI
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Post by: Dennis on September 03, 2018, 11:50:31 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 01, 2018, 04:51:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmlwhaEEgE

Patlabor :rejoice

That is some quality animation. What happened?
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Post by: D3RANG3D on September 03, 2018, 11:59:08 AM: The 80's was a economic boom time where they gave them free rein and blank checks to go crazy with.

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Capitalism :rejoice
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Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 03, 2018, 12:12:28 PM: Economic boom [capitalism :rejoice] followed by sustained economic slump [capitalism :paul]

Also the opening of a large new market for content [home video]. Same reason there was a glut of scifi/fantasy DTV movies in America, except that making a good-looking animated movie is cheaper than a good-looking live-action movie. Of course, there were still plenty of bad-looking anime even during this time. Add in the maturation of a generation of anime nerds raised on 60s and 70s anime that wanted to make their own mark suddenly getting the opportunity and money to experiment. This era died when TV anime started getting really popular [mid-90s, economic slump, TV animation was a lot cheaper, Neon Genesis Evangelion]. The industry is now dominated by people getting paid poverty wages to crank out whatever studios think is most likely to squeeze a few extra Yen out of an infinitesimally small base of otaku.
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: team filler on September 03, 2018, 02:14:37 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhJSzlwz5uI

:rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
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Post by: Himu on September 03, 2018, 02:26:22 PM: Even during the economic downturn of the 90’s anime still ruled :rejoice
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Post by: toku on October 15, 2018, 09:20:53 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9q8Oc4dd0
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Post by: chronovore on October 16, 2018, 10:58:02 AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP9gB4Oa5q4
Title: Re: THIS VIDEO GAVE ME ACTUAL LIFE (80's anime appreciation)
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 16, 2018, 04:33:48 PM: I need more 80's and 90's anime on Blu-Ray.