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SHINNN GETTAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

>>4210
Gaplant is so good they kept reusing its style of shield binders.

>>4113
Easy, Megas XLR. I know it's not Japanese mecha but I think it's cool and the closest to what American mecha could be in my opinion. Haven't seen Pacific Rim if anyone asks.

The griffon is way too cool.

I really like the look of the Helldiver.

Was there any at all?

Anyone who identifies as an "anime reviewer" should be permanently banned from ever having any opinions on anime ever again

maybbe in japan?

>>4548
Only used for the opening.

>>3295
>pick random ova from 80's or 90's
>more masculine male characters
>better colors
>better background
>overall better art direction
Why anime were better back in 20 century? Why digital is so bad?

>>3295
>shading
>the great thing about 1980's and early 90's anime
I just want to point out how very wrong this cherry-picked infographic is. The amount of shading present in an anime has pretty much always been a matter of budget (OVAs and movies will generally have more/ more detailed shading than TV) and in some cases artistic choice. Most television shows in the 70s and 80s would only use 2 tone shading on occasion, it wasn't until the 90s that it became the norm most of the time (excepting certain shiny details like hair and eyes). I would assume that the website which loves Urusei Yatsura so much would readily recognize that most of it's one tone. Even in the 90s, they'd often subtly slide back to one tone here and there depending on the production team. The Kodocha screenshot here is from the 90s for instance.

You'd be hard to find a modern show that consistently has one tone shading, besides continuations of old stuff like Shin-chan. All that being said, I still prefer the look of cell-era shows. Not because of some numerically disprovable superiority, but because I generally prefer the character designs, animation style, painted backgrounds and the plots (wow).

>>4529
>>3449
I meant to quote this. I'll take the opportunity to post some more typical 80s tv examples. In order to supplement one tone shading, shows like this would sometimes employ hatching (drawing a bunch of little lines to make a color darker). The effect can vary from nice looking to awful, it's very typical of Hokuto no Ken in my mind.

>>4530
Actually, I think HnK is a bit of an outlier in general. I'll switch from 1 tone shading in one scene, then go to 3 tone in another, while simultaneously using heavy hatching with both.

>>4529
I don't think budget had that much to do with it, it's mostly stylistic choices. If you look at feature films from the 80s and compare them to OVAs, the films are usually more likely to go lighter on the shading than the OVAs, but have higher cel counts in comparison, which is much more of a cost multiplier because your inbetweeners get paid by the drawing at a flat rate, irrespective of how many lines are in the drawing or how high or low quality it is.

I think thats it for me, i dont usually save these things.

GRIDS used to be what we called AIDS.

>>237
Sieg Kaiser Reinhard!
Sieg Neues Reich!

>>240
>>244
Sorry to correct you here, anon, but both the main 110-episode series and the Gaiden series are OVAs. The main series has never been on TV (afaik) and was made specifically to be released on home-video.
>I remember trying to get into the series three times (once in 2015, 2016 and in 2017) only to give up multiple times.
I gave it a try many years ago too, but it was only recently that I started to appreciate older anime more, that I gave it another chance, and it became one of my favorite anime ever, if not my absolute favorite. Frankly, I didn't want it to be over by the time I reached the last episode.
As for the Gaiden series, I've downloaded most of the episodes, but haven't watched any of them for various reasons.
>another anime I absolutely adore is Irresponsible Captain Tylor and watching LOGH really showed me just how much of a parody that show as meant to be of this
Thanks for the recommendation, although just by reading about it, I'm not sure that it was meant to be a parody of LoGH specifically, or at least not many people have noticed. It would be hilarious if it turns out to be true, though. I have also noticed some possible influences of LoGH in other Japanese media after watching it.

>>241
I hope you watched, and liked it. I'm always happy to see more people watching it for the first time after so many years. Despite it being so common in pretentious 3x3 threads, it's a genuine masterpiece. I mean, it does come from a novel (not a light novel) so the writing quality in LoGH is obviously superior to the average anime, in my opinion.

>>246
>the writing quality in LoGH is obviously superior to the average anime, in my opinion.
its so far beyond other anime its not even funny

sometimes i almost wish it wasnt so thick
every time i get going on trying to watch the whole series, some irl bullshit always happens, a few months will go by, then ill either lose my place or just forget everything that was going on which sucks since theres all kinds of subtle/sub-plot stuff going on at all times
certainly not a series you can just sit down and only watch a few episodes at a time of

really is on a whole other level tho

>>246
>but both the main 110-episode series and the Gaiden series are OVAs.
Yeah I know, I was just trying to bump this thread by saying "Oh,yeah I watched the spinoffs" so I wasn't really thinking about it much. I thought it'd be easier to just call them "OVA" and "Main Series". Force of habit I guess after watching a lot of older shows that usually have a main TV series and an OVA spinoff.

>As for the Gaiden series, I've downloaded most of the episodes, but haven't watched any of them for various reasons.
It was released in a very odd order, you may want to look up a chronological series of events for each so the episodes flow better when you eventually watch it.

>Thanks for the recommendation,
No problem, I'd say it's my favourite anime. I remember falling in love with it during the climax of the 4th episode where I laughed for 10 seconds straight at how it played out.

>Although just by reading about it, I'm not sure that it was meant to be a parody of LoGH specifically, or at least not many people have noticed.
I can't fully remember how I came to that conclusion, but I do remember translating the Japanese wikipedia page and I believe it was mentioned there. Not sure if you can trust a ">translated wikipedia page" for information (it's also mentioned on the fan wiki for Captain Tylor, but again, hard to trust information), but when I was watching LOGH I just saw a lot of comparisons. According to English wikipedia, it's based off a movie called "Japan's Irresponsible Age" from 1962 which is quite similar, but there are quite a decent amount of comparisons you can make for both, plus Tylor's light novel came out 2 years after LOGH's ended.

Tylor is meant to be like Yang, albeit, a hell of a lot more easy going and downright lucky. Working for the "United Planets Space Force" and pretty much joining it for reasons that aren't relating to wanting to fight in battles but being exceptional in the battles he fights. Leading the people around him having no idea if it's dumb luck or incredible genius he plays off as dumb luck. Whereas his main rival opponent isPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I just finished LotGH and I must say it didn't dissapoint in the end. May write more complete thoughts on it later. Ruenthal did nothing wrong.

I really like this piece I'm hoping to find a better scan of it

Lower res of >>4536 but has Anthy as well

>>4535
>I have this thing
>can someone else scan it

Uh… scan it yourself numbnuts?

>>739
Shoujo Tsubaki (1992) by Hiroshi Harada, bad online discourse aside, it's a unique film that's rare in anime and is tapping into Japanese underground and wears its influences on its sleeves like Shūji Terayama films, Japanese theater, 1900's art, etc. It's ashamed the movie (and manga) are reduce to just shock content when it's much more than that while it meant to be shocking to the viewer in a exploitation way, it's still has themes and direction that make it above just an exploitation film.

>>760
And old opinion I came across was that for the second movie it’s an amazing animated spectacle but a terrible lupin movie, haven’t seen it yet myself but have watched mystery of mamo

>>739
yo this shit any good?

>>740
>>739
some of these are nice, and high end. might be nice suggestions for Criterion to add.

>>742
>>760
>>767
I’ve read somewhere once that pretty much sums it up, It’s a legendary fantastic anime movie but simultaneously a terrible Lupin movie.
Also funny enough I think I’ve watched most of the recommendations here in this thread lol