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/cel/lo! figamin ## sysop 1/8/22 (Sat) 13:02:52 No.1[Reply]

Welcome to the best place to discuss retro anime! Please keep your posts mainly focused around pre 2000s works - remakes are OK if they're based on an older work.

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60s and 70s anime: anon 5/10/25 (Sat) 21:24:53 No.3527 [Reply]

Retro anime isn't just the Otaku boom anime of the 80s you know! The 60s and 70s have a lot to offer and mostly gets ignored.

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anon 5/12/25 (Mon) 00:57:09 No.3548

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>>3537
Yeah, I'd love to watch more stuff from the 60s, but no one's willing to sub it. I made my anime club watch the first (the only one subbed) episode of Star of the Giants and they seemed to enjoy it. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to sub all 182 of the anime that invented filler, but man, there's a lot of weird, experimental shit in there. I'd like to watch at least some of it.

The first episode especially has a lot of creative mixing live-action and animation, like in this scene (sorry, don't know how to make a video of it)

anon 5/18/25 (Sun) 15:34:11 No.3583

>>3529
I only started watching late 70s shows in the past couple of years and haven't ventured further back than 78 or so.
I feel attacked.

anon 5/21/25 (Wed) 21:21:57 No.3586

>>3528
And finished jeeg, watching raideen now which pacing is quite different

anon 5/30/25 (Fri) 22:26:58 No.3593

>>3586
Now started watching space pirate captain harlock, I’ve already seen his appearances on the two galaxy express movies and Arcadia of my youth but only now got to the television series that started it all.

anon 5/31/25 (Sat) 00:42:19 No.3594

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>>3593

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Remaster Wishlist: anon 5/15/25 (Thu) 03:03:23 No.3560 [Reply]

What are your favorites that are in DIRE DESPERATE need of new remastered releases. The more trapped on older dead media they are the better.

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anon 5/16/25 (Fri) 18:04:01 No.3572

>>3566
Never really got the feeling that Criterion cares that much about animation in general.

>>3568
Arguably Oshii's masterpiece. It's visually engaging and experimental in a good way. One of the interesting things about animation as a medium is that the creators are free to take it in any direction they want. Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! gives you a stage play where the camera/viewer can be placed anywhere, and no special effect is out of reach. Plus, on top of that it's genuinely really funny. Tie it all together with animation from some of the best animators of the time (hashimoto, ohira, iso, ect.), and you have one fantastic OVA.

anon 5/16/25 (Fri) 22:29:04 No.3573

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>>3572
>Never really got the feeling that Criterion cares that much about animation in general.

That is correct. They're kind of snobby and high brow and seem to think that animation is beneath them, or not part of their purview. They did release that Akira Laserdisc in the 90s, but that was before Akira had any good home releases that weren't just cropped VHS tapes.

You could make the case that there's a lot of overlooked and ignored Soviet, European, and Japanese, animation and some need restoration and care. They would have be high brow to fit the Criterion brand though.

I definely think we need a criterion for anime though.

anon 5/17/25 (Sat) 01:00:23 No.3576

>>3573
>I definitely think we need a criterion for anime though.
It would be nice. Feels like studios have rather random output with HD masters for their older anime. You might get one that's very well done and then another not long after that seemingly uses an older, worse mastering process. If Criterion were to remaster an anime you'd need something artsy, important, and I suppose something with no HD transfer or one done very poorly.The hardest part would be to decide which anime are the most culturally significant or important. For me, the one that leaps to mind instantly is the End of Evangelion. The TV show had an over all fantastic HD transfer sans episode 16, but the movie's transfer looks like an abortion. I feel that lots of films made during the transition to CG effects and digipaint suffer from this. While not entirely pre 2000s, Satoshi Kon's films are all perfect candidates. I did see that Perfect Blue was supposedly getting a new and better remaster, but the previews I saw did not impress me.

anon 5/18/25 (Sun) 12:15:44 No.3582

i love wap chan. i can just open a random thread and find a new anime to watch.

anon 5/29/25 (Thu) 14:14:14 No.3592

>>3582
make a video essay about them too you fucking newfren homo

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Webm/GIF Thread anon 1/16/22 (Sun) 11:17:43 No.1152 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Share cool retro anime Webms and GIFs with your fellow anons.Any other supported format is fine as well.

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anon 5/17/25 (Sat) 09:35:26 No.3581

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>>3579

Its aight.

anon 5/19/25 (Mon) 07:16:32 No.3584

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anon 5/23/25 (Fri) 05:46:31 No.3588

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This kind of shot is super hard in 2D animation.

anon 5/27/25 (Tue) 05:10:49 No.3590

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anon 5/28/25 (Wed) 02:38:17 No.3591

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>>3588
It was interesting seeing studios experiment with shots like this once 3D backgrounds became more common.

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Retro Anime News anon 4/19/25 (Sat) 23:49:02 No.3231 [Reply]

Current /cel/ has too much nostalgia wank. Too little quality show discussion. Manga is also 100x bigger and more varied and has better quality controls than retro anime to boot! Posting is very stale for what should be the core of the site. It should be about new discoveries, new 16mm scans, preservation projects, new laserdisc scans! Let's use this thread to highlight projects in the retro anime scene. I'll start:

A fansub of an anime short included in a V-Jump Festival '95 Video VHS tape, themed around Dragon Quest and starring Slime was released a few weeks ago.
https://www.lonelychaser-subs.net/2025/04/v-jump-festival-95-video-slimes.html
https://nyaa.si/view/1956932

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anon 4/24/25 (Thu) 22:35:20 No.3391

>>3381
Bebop Laserdisc looks the same as the original released DVD just slightly less sharp so it's the usual but Bebop changes aren't really visual anyways even if Blu Ray is darker.
https://youtu.be/vK3G07zN6NA

anon 4/24/25 (Thu) 22:38:37 No.3392

>>3387
It is, the only HD direct scan SM has is the movies which are sadly only in 16:9 (played in theaters that way but it was animated and shown on Tav 4:3 so it's better) and fan upload of Sailor Stars op.
https://youtu.be/322WvZ3e2zs

anon 4/28/25 (Mon) 08:02:27 No.3437

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You can literally see white specs fly up during the scene.

anon 5/23/25 (Fri) 05:27:59 No.3587

Any new 16mm or 35mm fan scans?

anon 5/24/25 (Sat) 11:07:03 No.3589

>>3587
Fuck you.

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old drill hair anime anon 5/9/25 (Fri) 03:29:49 No.3497 [Reply]

She isn't my favorite but I like Pacifica

anon 5/9/25 (Fri) 11:50:17 No.3505

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B-ko is just evil Lum and the earliest drills that i can find.

anon 5/15/25 (Thu) 00:23:31 No.3557

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My theory is that drills are an evolution of Lum's little hair thingies. I don't know if this is correct or not.

anon 5/16/25 (Fri) 02:31:37 No.3570

>>3497
is scrapped princess considered retro? that makes me feel so old.

anon 5/16/25 (Fri) 02:33:50 No.3571

>>3557
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RegalRinglets

hyperborean haircut

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Film Grain: anon 5/9/25 (Fri) 09:18:49 No.3499 [Reply]

>png
>1080
>no denoising or smoothing

Post dem film grain screenshots.

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anon 5/10/25 (Sat) 02:37:55 No.3523

>>3522
My bad. I only replied because I saw this on the overboard. I guess the OP just really loves grain. Maybe figamin can condense the threads somehow.

anon 5/10/25 (Sat) 23:45:43 No.3535

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Why wife Ran-chan with film grain!

figamin ## sysop 5/10/25 (Sat) 23:47:47 No.3536

>>3523
I'll give it a shot

anon 5/13/25 (Tue) 02:31:47 No.3551

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DBZ looks great when it's actually scanned properly.

anon 5/14/25 (Wed) 01:25:29 No.3553

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anon 5/11/25 (Sun) 15:00:20 No.3541[Reply]

Does wapchan want to compete in a competition against other otaku related imageboards?
The sport will be a vidya game yet to be decided(chess maybe?), so suggestions are welcome. Representatives from tohno, hikari, world2ch.net, and hopefully a few others should participate. That is all
(where was I supposed to post this therad?)

anon 5/11/25 (Sun) 15:46:09 No.3542

>>3541
you should also invite
>kissu
>hikari3
>bantculture
>smugloli
>39chan

anon 5/11/25 (Sun) 16:07:11 No.3543

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I'd love to play chess for wap, but only if there aren't noob-filteringly short time controls

anon ## Mod 5/12/25 (Mon) 02:00:04 No.3549

Moved to >>>/wap/3021.

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Retro Anime that you want to see subbed. anon 1/8/22 (Sat) 16:39:36 No.581 [Reply]

Self explanatory. For me it would be three late 80s Studio Comet produced TV shows all with Hirosho Kanazawa as character designer and heavily involved as an animation director. I believe all three are manga adaptations, and they all have the similar kind of pudgy faced caricatured character designs that are really unique. High School Kimengumi, Tsuide ni Tonchinkan and Meimon! Daisan Yakyuubu. The latter two I watched raw, with Tsuide ( screenshots shown here) being a well executed slapstick comedy, albeit a bit repetitive. Meimon is an incredibly well done sports drama with storyboards that feel somewhat reminiscent of Dezaki, as it was his student, Hiroshi Fukutomi who directed it. The animation quality was outstandingly good and consistent, full of subtle weighty convincing motion during the baseball games. Kimengumi has its movie subbed and I enjoyed it, but the series has yet to be picked up.

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anon 7/18/22 (Mon) 09:51:09 No.603

Maple Town Monogatari

anon 7/18/22 (Mon) 09:55:11 No.604

>>581
>>584

There were some VHS era fansubs that went up to about ep. 13 online, though I'm not sure if they're archived anywhere.

anon 9/15/22 (Thu) 05:55:24 No.605

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Still waiting for someone to pick up 70s Babel II again.

anon 5/9/25 (Fri) 08:00:06 No.3498

>>605
>>605
not subbed?

anon 5/9/25 (Fri) 20:57:28 No.3515

>>3498
Incomplete

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