| After seeing The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (a few episodes) after reading a post from someone saying that GTO looked horrible where he said that this looks much better I wondered how many anime there are that to someone who's oldest anime they've watched was Soul Eater that looks like they could be from 2008-current. Rules: 1. Must be made before Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (late 2002) 2. Story doesn't matter (This is not under recommended anime) 3. The art style and animation should be good enough that if you showed it to someone who has only seen anime from 2008 and afterwards on a 4:3 monitor (of if it's in widescreen a widescreen monitor) they wouldn't be able to tell it was an old anime too easily. Example: Bad shaking (can't remember what it's called) (Bad) Example 2: People which are close enough to make out their face just being a blur or smudge. (Bad) Example 3: A slideshow (Bad) Example 4: The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (Good) 4. Must have good audio quality/ good sound effects Example: Vampire Princess Miyu (Bad) 5. No movies List (not in any order): 1. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (When I first saw it I was surprised that it wasn't from the early 2000s and actually from 1994) 2. Cowboy Bebop (1998) 3. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002) 4. Space Cobra (1982) 5. Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988-1997) 6. Trigun (1998) 7. Neon Genesis Evangelion 8. Gunbuster 9. Cat's Eye. 10. Fist of the North Star 11. Outlaw Star 12. Card Captor Sakura (Going to fix and update the list after I skim through a few episodes of each anime to see if they look like they could pass. Some day at least,) Note: I'm not good with words. Someone pointed out that I made it seem too opinionated so I tried to fix it. |
fatheredpuma81Jun 19, 2016 5:17 PM
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| Cowboy Bebop Ghost in the Shell Akira |
| Ghibli movies, Hayao Mizyazaki has a way of anime. |
| I still find Card Captor Sakura prettier than most modern anime even though it's from 1998 |
| 2001 isn't exactly old lol - might have been more useful to back that up 10/15 years. Personally, I'm still impressed with Space Cobra. |
| the ones that come to mind are Legend of the Galactic Heroes Grave of the Fireflies edit: you meant animation not anime in general then high budget movies like Akira |
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| If we are counting movies then i think Spirited away makes the cut as it was released in 01. Also princess Mononoke is animated superbly as well |
Gymkata said: 2001 isn't exactly old lol - might have been more useful to back that up 10/15 years. Personally, I'm still impressed with Space Cobra. In my opinion 15 years is pretty old. |
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| Trigun Outlaw Star Cowboy Bebop Akira Ghost in the Shell |
| Project A-ko is still a lot of fun, and a good amount of the references would still be understood by anime fans today. |
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silversaint said: the ones that come to mind are Legend of the Galactic Heroes Grave of the Fireflies edit: you meant animation not anime in general then high budget movies like Akira Yea my bad but it is too late now :P. Oh well. |
| Drop Beats, Not Bombs - Abe Lincoln |
| great teacher onizuka? extra text for 20 char limit |
| if you're talking just animation, then everything that wasnt a low budget piece of shit... aka most ovas and movies, and some higher profile tv shows did you deliberately avoid listing nge because of the last episodes? |
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| Gunbuster (any of the old Gainax stuff). Cat's Eye. Fist of the North Star. |
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CatSoul said: Project A-ko is still a lot of fun, and a good amount of the references would still be understood by anime fans today. That seems to be certainly pushing it in my opinion :P. |
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romagia said: if you're talking just animation, then everything that wasnt a low budget piece of shit... aka most ovas and movies, and some higher profile tv shows did you deliberately avoid listing nge because of the last episodes? That would include most movies and really only high budget shows. Probably going to go through tomorrow and check which shows don't look good after adding them to the list. Going to leave only the ones that do seem to pass. Was suppose to be anime that the art style is close to 2008 anime with a good budget. I was at first going to go through them all as they came in but too many people posted. I think I missed it? From what I can see it's not even in the posting. I've only added 1 thing to this list :P. |
fatheredpuma81Jun 19, 2016 12:53 PM
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| eh no one mentioned it, but evangelion is the first thing that comes to mind when i hear 'Old Anime That has stood the test of time' |
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| Anyways, anything high budget, like Akira. Also, a lot of series have animation inconsistencies, so is pretty hard to define "stood the test of time" in general terms. |
ThieveryJun 20, 2016 11:36 AM
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fatheredpuma81 said: now you're asking about art style?romagia said: if you're talking just animation, then everything that wasnt a low budget piece of shit... aka most ovas and movies, and some higher profile tv shows did you deliberately avoid listing nge because of the last episodes? That would include most movies and really only high budget shows. Probably going to go through tomorrow and check which shows don't look good after adding them to the list. Going to leave only the ones that do seem to pass. Was suppose to be anime that the art style is close to 2008 anime with a good budget. I was at first going to go through them all as they came in but too many people posted. I think I missed it? From what I can see it's not even in the posting. I've only added 1 thing to this list :P. no pre-2000 anime can realistically pass as being from 2008... the difference between character designs/art style, and cel vs digital is too big |
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| Rurouni Kenshin has very beautiful animation. |
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| "The art style must be decent" You mean fitting YOUR taste, right? There's no way of objectively judging an art style like you can judge animation. Judging by what you said about GTO I'd bet you'd dislike a lot of artstyles I personally love just because they're old. In any case if you want to make a list of old anime whose artstyle you personally don't find ugly I suggest you do that in a blog post, there's nothing we can really contribute to that so I don't see why it needs a forum thread. |
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| Ashita no Joe 2 I prefer the first one but the animation isn't nearly as good as 2. |
| Slam Dunk Movies animation are pretty much fluid and they're are widescreen too, I don't believe that it's 90s. so does Hunter x Hunter. |
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| Cardcaptor Sakura is the best older anime I've seen. Akira is one of the worst anime I've seen, so I made a review of it to express my feelings. |
| Eh, GTO didn't feel that dated in terms of presentation to me - apart from that laughably-dated CGI sequence at the start of episode 18 (with the Vice principal driving his new cresta). In fact, I actually like the artstyle of GTO, because of just how expressive the characters were. |
| One anime that really didn't age well is Mahou Yuugi 3D. It's fun to watch as a nice little nostalgia for how shitty 3DCGI used to be, but it really can't be watched any other way. |
| Escaflowne is approaching 20 years old, and it's still a damn good-looking series. Yes, that includes the noses. I enjoy the noses. |
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| Lupin the third part 2 and afterwards has aged pretty well imo. Particularly in that it aired on TV in america in the mid-2000s and came off as fairly stylish despite being 30 years old. |
| Kiki's Delivery Service I guess? Hella Ghibli movies still look nice af. |
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fatheredpuma81 said: I watched Gravitation which is from 2000 and it has a similar art style to GTO but I personally liked the art style and so do a lot of other people. Zetman aired in 2012 and it has a pretty crude art style. The only complaint people tend to have about it is that it was too rushed. Although it's not in quite the same category, Inferno Cop aired in 2012 and is well-received despite having an animation quality comparable to 1917.Pullman said: "The art style must be decent" You mean fitting YOUR taste, right? There's no way of objectively judging an art style like you can judge animation. Judging by what you said about GTO I'd bet you'd dislike a lot of artstyles I personally love just because they're old. In any case if you want to make a list of old anime whose artstyle you personally don't find ugly I suggest you do that in a blog post, there's nothing we can really contribute to that so I don't see why it needs a forum thread. Well if you REALLY wish to show me an artstyle from 2012 and forward that looks like GTO's artstyle :) (also either has to be a movie or a full TV series). |
Ridley_Cruz said: silversaint said: the ones that come to mind are Legend of the Galactic Heroes Grave of the Fireflies edit: you meant animation not anime in general then high budget movies like Akira Completely irrelevant,but who's the guy in your signature? he is the main villain from Lost Canvas |
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| Updated OP. All above were replying to OP that wasn't too clear. |
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| I'll say fushigi yuugi Read or Die Digimon Tamers Saiyuuki Artwise, there really isn't much.. |
| The original Macross is 34 years old now and from the 7 episodes I have seen, it fits your criteria. |
| Ghost Stories is a great one (from 2000, which fits your description). The character designs are quite unique, but they're not distinctively "old". The dub was made in 2005 and they joked once about an internet forum "not having much activity since 2000" meaning that the dub was set in the same time as it aired and the animation didn't feel out of place for 2005. |
Bu-but it matters! I mean good animation and art without a good story is a waste! |
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| The Twelve Kingdoms (Apr 2002-Aug 2003) -- which is borderline on your age requirement. Cowboy Bebop of course. While I agree LotGH definitely stands the test of time (I gave it a 9 and it's in my top 10) there's no way it passes your rule #3. I like the realistic character designs and as long as they are talking on the bridge of a ship it might pass muster but all the external action scenes in space or moving ground vehicles, etc. immediately screams "old" to me. The thread title is now misleading due to the graphics rule. As someone else mentioned it may as well be "Old Anime Whose Graphics Has "Stood the Test of Time". |
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| The only answer is Inuyasha. Made my the powerhouse duo of Sunrise and Kyoani, it's animated better than most of it's peers during the early 2000s era (before Ghost in the Shell). |
| And here I thought you were talking about highly critically acclaimed anime from the 90s when you said "Old anime that has stood the test of time" but meh you're just talking about pretty animation and art. |
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Rose_BombJun 20, 2016 7:41 AM
| Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (1990) Besides some filler episodes near the end it still looks good. |
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| Cowboy Bebop is really your best example of this. It's clearly old, from a time Western art had a much bigger influence on Anime. In fact, most of the tropes there - tough badass dudes, noir bullshit, space travel - is extremely cliched right now. It has all the shtick that make critics fawn over movies - oh! Everyone is tough in this movie so I'm tough and cool for liking it! Yet it's never pretentious, always fun and wacky and every episode is more exciting than the last. I don't agree with those who talk about depth in that anime, but it's so fun it makes telling stories look easy. Such attention to detail, to making sure every scene is important. |
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