Any other fans of oldschool anime here?

DateYutaka said:
older anison is better than newer songs in anime

Kuraaiiya said:


This is a new song in anime (2012) and only other works by the same musician rival it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrOliVhbBo8

ParaParaJMo said:


Rikiishi went through major weight management to finally fight Joe. How can you not say that's not crazy? Plus, remember why Rikiishi ended up in juvie to begin with? He assaulted a dude talking shit about him after a fight. Rikiishi doesn't take shit from anybody.

Joe is crazy, but at the same time, he was also a total bastard, especially to Yoko and Danpei at times.

As for the anime being better than the manga, I disagree. Both Ashita no Joe 1 and Ashita no Joe 2 anime totally got the fight with Carlos all wrong. The manga version of Joe vs Carlos is certainly one of my favorite fights. But the theme song is certainly one of my favorites.

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But if possible, I recommend people to see the original Japanese version of Mach Go Go Go. In the English translations, besides the names, the dialog is accurately translated word for word which really impressed me when I compared the two.

The original Tekkaman was canceled half way into it sadly. It is very "disco," and I personally enjoyed it. Despite how colorful the art was, it was also a dark series. But Tekkaman Blade brought it to a new level of potential.

I also recommend, Go-Lion, the series that Voltron was based on. It is SUPER violent and dark! Now one of my favorite animes of all time.

Transformers Headmasters is a fun series to me as a fan of that franchise. It took more creative freedom in making the series more Japanese in context to humor, but I didn't like how they did not modulate the voices for the robots to make them sound more robotic.

Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors also has a very special place in my heart for every reason. It was also one of the first series I watched as a fan.

Naturally Macross and Zeta Gundam have to be on this list of great classics. To me, Zeta Gundam is the best anime of all time. Aura Battler Dunbine is a great title of Tomino and is really one of the few titles that earned him the monicker Kill Em All.

An oav I enjoy is Bari Bari Densetsu, it is 2 episodes, but the original manga went on pretty long. It was made by the creator of initial D before he made that.

But I am also big on the songs of old school animes.

Last, I personally have a hard time bringing myself calling anything from the 1990s "old school. "Makes me feel old if I did. It was when I finally got into anime, but I was also enjoying titles from the 1970s and 1980s as well. But the 1990s was when I was also watching the "in" anime at the time like Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Magic Knight Rayearth, Marmalade Boy, Yuu Yuu Hakusho and so on. It really connects me to my youth. So I find it strange people tell me that they consider Cowboy Bebop "old school" when it still feels new to me. Hell, Evangelion still feels new to me. But I do love the seiyuus that made it big in the 1990s like Hayashiba Megumi and Midorikawa Hikaru. They were everywhere to some degree and even though they had recognizable voices, they could capture their characters.

DestrNameless said:

"Paprika" is not oldschool anime. But, anyway, works of Satoshi Kon have distinctive features, so you couldn't judge on them even if they were quite old.

plintus said:
I think the older animation is much MUCH better.

BlackSabotage said:


My idea of newer anime is stuff from 2000+. I can't stand when people act like 5 years ago is ancient history.

If you look at in terms of the industry it is quite a long time because animation technology advances quite a bit in five years, but I partially agree with you, I would say newer anime would be anything from 2005+ also Monster started nine years ago, not five.

Btw ParaParaJMo. Looking at your list, you need to watch some more "obscure" OVAs, Movies from the 80s and early 90s likes BB Fish, Project Ako, Legend of Lemnear, 8man, They were 11 etc. You are missing out some great hidden old gems. :)

BlackSabotage said:


fixed

Ambient_ said:
I try to avoid anything prior to 2000's.

Bring on the hate.

BlackSabotage said:
I like anime from all eras but my favorites come from the 70's and 80's! I love stuff like City Hunter, Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya, LOTGH, Galaxy express 999, and my favorite Ashita no Joe. Since most people only pay attention to what came out in the last 5 years its nice to see others with similar tastes.

BlackSabotage said:
Because it gets your f***ing blood pumping man!

TookMe6Years said:


You have good taste sir. It is to be expected. Try to go further like the 50s and 60s. Oh who am I to judge. Both old and new has some good anime. The art discipline just change. Until a new type of art style emerge.

I saw some of those anime. I was introduce to Galaxy Express 999 somewhere in an Anime convention backed when I was in highschool. It was interesting.



PEGASUS FANTASY!

Kuraaiiya said:


"Fixing" a sentence even when he said "I think" right at the beginning of it? REALLY?
Keep your preferences to yourself. The animation is obviously better now. The art is subjective

plintus said:
I think the new animation is much MUCH better.

DateYutaka said:
older anison is better than newer songs in anime

rederoin said:
I only watch currently airing anime.


Haibane renmei, kino's journey and Sora no woto all have better music than most(if not all) old school anime.

Not to mention how much better the OST's of anime made in the 2000's are.

BlackSabotage said:



Taste in music is subjective mate. Best anime song is You wa shock imo. If you only watch currently airing anime then you wouldn't know anything about older anime since you so purposefully avoid it.

rederoin said:

At the moment, but I thought it that was obvious enough that I didn't need to point it out.

And what makes you think my 2nd statement was not subjective? I don't it was that hard to understand.

DateYutaka said:

how can one truly judge this unless you you disect a sceen inch by inch at base level maybe but is it realy gotten bettter no imo
cause the trade off of less detailed art has killed that idea dead

there is less detail in the art nowadays

ZetaZaku said:
Characters in most new anime have no nose.

Old: 1
New: 0

rederoin said:
I only watch currently airing anime.


Haibane renmei, kino's journey and Sora no woto all have better music than most(if not all) old school anime.

Not to mention how much better the OST's of anime made in the 2000's are.

yhunata said:


Because that's his opinion. He didn't state a fact, he mentioned his opinion. By that logic, you don't have any right to say new anime has less detail in art for the simple reason that you haven't "dissected" it "inch-by-inch".

BlackSabotage said:



Taste in music is subjective mate. Best anime song is You wa shock imo. If you only watch currently airing anime then you wouldn't know anything about older anime since you so purposefully avoid it.

Kuraaiiya said:


If you count Berserk as an old school anime, then definitely not all. Sure the op and ending are mediocre, but the other tracks are works of a transcendental genius

DateYutaka said:

1 berzerk in not old school

Synrite said:


So...it's just old?

Synrite said:


So...it's just old?

Higashi_no_Kaze said:


It isn't really. 16 years is just a teenager.

Higashi_no_Kaze said:


It isn't really. 16 years is just a teenager.

Synrite said:


That is a dumb analogy, in terms of the entertainment industry that is a long time...in dog years, that is pretty much a dead dog, if not dying.

"Just a teenager"...wow, really?

Kuraaiiya said:


If you count Berserk as an old school anime, then definitely not all. Sure the op and ending are mediocre, but the other tracks are works of a transcendental genius

RisingCascade said:
lol Otaking failing yet again.

"Old" has a different connotation to the pertaining person who uses the term. Old may mean 60s and stuff to you but it mainly goes as to when the person started watching anime or what the earliest year was that the person started.

Not everyone started in the 60s like you, in fact, 97.5% of those peeps haven't even been born yet! :D

TookMe6Years said:


People can always lie about their age. Who is Otaking?

Old school? I'd say a bare minimum of 20 years of work. Why not 10 years? Score sounds more credible than decade.

But to be more clear with what I am trying to say is even if 10 years have past the artwork can still be passable to the current artwork. 20 years gives you a better look at the difference in my opinion.

TookMe6Years said:


People can always lie about their age. Who is Otaking?

Old school? I'd say a bare minimum of 20 years of work. Why not 10 years? Score sounds more credible than decade.

But to be more clear with what I am trying to say is even if 10 years have past the artwork can still be passable to the current artwork. 20 years gives you a better look at the difference in my opinion.

RisingCascade said:


Otaking=DateYutaka AKA "only my opinion matters because I've seen 32908253095823095823098502385092358 different anime"

As I've said before. There can be different meanings of "old school" when regarding anime. Since I started in '07 I even consider stuff like Azumanga Daioh old to me.

Higashi_no_Kaze said:


That's perfectly understandable and probably a useful distinction for you personally, but in a debate about anime as a whole (which this thread kinda is) there's no room for everyone to bring their personal idea of what is 'old' to the table. There has to be some inter-subjective scale like the age of the anime industry, otherwise we could just make a listing thread where everyone posts when they started watching anime. But that already exists :P

DateYutaka said:

i have putt cells under a scope somthing i cannot do with an art book page

rederoin said:

I was more or less talking about the 70's and 80's.

BlackSabotage said:
I'm just going to be honest I havent heard any good songs in modern anime except maybe a few catchy techno tracks but you can't beat You wa shock and Pegasus Fantasy lol.