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 No.889[Reply]

This anime was incredibly good. I am surprised nobody really talks about it especially with other adaptations of Treasure Island being dug up because of recent memes.
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 No.891

Treasure Island's great. I watched it with some friends back in 2021 and it's just so....fun. It's just got this great sense of adventure and every episode just flew by. I love that Jim has a leopard cub and that Benbow grows up so at the end Jim is just this guy walking around with a leopard like it's totally normal. And it's got my favorite Long John Silver in media.

I'm going to pick up the official release for sure, I hope it gets more people watching it.

 No.892

>>890
I also have a real soft spot for child main characters when they are done right and Jim was definitely done right.
It was an extremely surprising series since it did so many things that I wouldn't expect to see in a story based on an old adventure book like a morally gray antagonist who kind of wins in the end or most of the conflicts being battles of wits. I was fully expecting it to be cheesy swashbuckling action like those old pirate movies my great grandparents used to watch.
Silver is quite possibly my favorite anime antagonist of all time.
I am definitely going to have to read the book some time soon.

>what recent memes
Those soviet Livesy memes have led to some people in the animation community digging up other weird European Treasure Island adaptations and reevaluating stuff like Treasure Planet.

 No.893

>>892
Treasure Planet is incredibly bizarre and half the time I couldn't make sense of what I was watching, but I have to give them some props for that ending.

 No.894

I've had the show on my radar for ages; where I'm from (Arabia) it was extremely popular. Even saying it's popular doesn't even begin to scratch the surface.

Weird anecdote: my dad's an amputee so all his friends call him Long John Silver because of this anime.

 No.895

>>892
Yeah, and not too long ago I watched the muppets rendition, still funny after all these years



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 No.882[Reply]

It's time to play the retro otaku famous sport, finding old Japanese web pages! Now these days, various search engines have been filtering these pages, making them harder to find, but if you know a thing or two about old anime/doujin circles, this shouldn't be a challenge for /ar/.
Do pixelly oekaki scribbles make you blush? Does finding dithered old .MAG anime CGs make you cum? Then take note of these examples to find these types of images on your local search engine
>"index of" ~[insert generic japanese nickname here]
>"index of" ~[insert old PC model here]
>CG [insert 90s anime or 90s anime character name], "ne.jp", 1998.03.05 (this date is just an example, any date between the early 90s-early 00s will give you results)
Voila! You've done it. Now contribute to the thread with your various findings. Happy hunting, /ar/.
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 No.884

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Instructions unclear somehow I am here. Send help OP

 No.885

Would Yandex yield far more results?

 No.886

>>882
share where you found those, please!

 No.887

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I found these Higurashi-themed sites from the otaku documentary in >>877
https://web.archive.org/web/20070216204535/http://www.geocities.jp:80/loosedogtom/higurashi/higurashi.html
https://poopingpenis.web.fc2.com/higurasi/ (mirrored from trapmaster.topaz.ne.jp/higurasi/, I had a feeling it wouldn't last long, so thankfully I had the good conscience to save it since the Internet Archive didn't)

 No.888

>>887 (me)
actually, it's still up, my browser just redirected it to HTTPS by default, so it wouldn't load



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 No.875[Reply]

No Matsumoto thread? Sad.
Discuss his anime here: Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999 (what I've been watching recently), hell, even that Interstellar 5555, the Daft Punk concept film he did.

I'm a fan of his stuff, great storyteller and a great artist to boot. His designs are extremely nice (my favorite of which was Emeraldas's design), pic related.
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 No.877

>>875
Captain Harlock became one of my favorite anime characters after I finished the 1978 TV Show and I really liked Arcadia of my Youth.
Right now I think I have around 30 episodes left until I'm done with GE999 and it's been amazing,I can't wait to see how it ends and to rewatch the movie.

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>>877
The episode/arc where Harlock shows up is the best part imo. It's got new OST, punished Maetel, Harlock badassery, and an Arcadia cameo.

 No.879

>>878
That’s some heavy maetel for an episode

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 No.881

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I always want to watch his stuff but get filtered whenever these abominations appear.
It's not like he can't draw normal characters either.



 No.853[Reply]

What's everyone's favorite episode of Patlabor? For me it's a tossup between one of the goofier episodes like the ones where they go into the gator labyrinth and SV2's Longest Day from the original OVA.
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 No.870

>What's everyone's favorite episode of Patlabor?
The episode where Shinobu and Gotou stayed in a hotel and the one where they parody Ultraman.

 No.871

>>870
kek that's a good one

 No.872

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>>853
I quite liked the one where the team have to go to retraining and Goto decides to fuck with them by staging a fake ghost haunting.

 No.873

I tried watching the TV series, but I just couldn't stay with it. There first few episodes were all just a bunch of "funny" things happening, with no real overarching story arch. Is the whole thing just one lame comedy gag after another or is there a point where things start to get interesting?

 No.874

>>873
An overarching plot does develop, but if you don't like the comedy I wouldn't bother. Patlabor (TV) is a comedy first and foremost.



 No.1413[Reply]

tfw no comipa gf


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 No.843[Reply]

Who digs giant robots?
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 No.848

>>843
He’ll yeah

 No.849

>>843
He’ll yeah

 No.850

>>848
>>849
Oh shit it got confused by the new capcha system and I thought I had to do it multiple times and the first image did pop up previously. Sorry for the repeat

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>>843
who doesn't?



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 No.806[Reply]

This is a thread to provide resources for anons to educate themselves on the history, production process, and common critical language of anime and manga (I am less educated on manga personally, so my recommendations will be anime focused).

Here is a useful article that is a great overview on anime as an artform, how it got to be the way it is, and what distinguishes it from cartoons: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/anime-vs-cartoons/

The Dragonball fandom has an excellent series of articles about the production process of your average television anime (both the retro and digital workflows are explained), as well as a map of all of the staff and what they do:
https://www.kanzenshuu.com/animation-production/process/
https://www.kanzenshuu.com/animation-production/positions-and-roles/

Here is another article that helps establish a baseline knowledge for talking about animation quality, or more specifically some pitfalls to avoid when discussing it:
https://www.kanzenshuu.com/animation-production/quality/

For those who want a much more in depth and technical book on an academic study of anime as an artform, there are several books I could recommend, but by far I find this the most useful: https://film7000.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/thomaslamarre-2009-theanimemachine.pdf

Finally if you'd like some insight into the history of the American anime community, this is a great book:
https://u1lib.org/book/5612293/e70b96

Feel free to share your own resources if you have any, the more educated the community, the more we can appreciate what we love!
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 No.810

>>806
https://fullfrontal.moe/animage-1988-11-ova/

Animage industry interview from 1988, on the OVA market.

 No.811

>>807
Excellent, I wanted to dive more into sakuga/animator culture. Thanks!

 No.812

this stuff is really interesting, cheers

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>>806
New interview with legendary animator Shinya Ohira.

https://fullfrontal.moe/nterview-shinya-ohira/

Ohira discusses Yoshinori Kanada, Masahito Yamashita, the new Urusei Yatsura series, and more!

"It’s well-known that you became an animator after discovering Masahito Yamashita’s[6] work on Urusei Yatsura[7]. What would you say is the appeal of Yamashita’s animation?

Shin’ya Ohira: Let’s see… (thinks) First, there’s the mood and dynamic action he inherited from Yoshinori Kanada[8]. But Yamashita has things that Kanada doesn’t, like physicality and details… It’s hard to express. Yamashita’s animation is both sharp and sensual. I really like that sort of fleshy mood, and I also love curved and irregular lines… Kanada used rulers, so it’s very sharp and straight, whereas Yamashita’s drawings are just curves, and he puts them together to create something very dense with details… (thinks) I think that’s what I like about him. That’s why I like Yamashita’s touch more than Kanada’s.

Since we’re on Urusei Yatsura, what movie is your favorite, Only You[9] or Beautiful Dreamer[10]?

Shin’ya Ohira: Only You, of course! (everybody laughs)

There’s a new Urusei Yatsura TV show coming out soon. Will you watch it?

Shin’ya Ohira: Well, you know… (laughs) The staff is totally different, and I’m not really into it for the story, so if Yamashita isn’t there, I don’t really intend to."

...

"Shin’ya Ohira: No, it hasn’t gone that far. Something small might happen soon, though. But I’d like to make something longer before I die. Actually, I want to try doing mecha again. Of course, not 3D, all by hand. Something like what we used to do in the 80s.

Won’t you do a remake of Birth[19]?

Shin’ya Ohira: (laughs) Yes, something like that! I want to go back to my roots, you see. At first, I really liked Kanada and Yamashita, but I was rejected for it, so I had to change. But with things as they are now, I’d like to return to how it was before. At least once, I’d like to do a long-form work with my own interpretation of Kanada and Yamashita’s styles, which I couldn’t do when I was 18 or 20. It doesn’t need a story; I’d rather do something like a documentary about this kind Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>806
>>807
Fascinating stuff, thanks OP.



 No.783[Reply]

Have you seen Golden Boy?
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 No.801

>>799
No, because I heard the manga ruins the character of Kintaro, and I don't want that.

 No.802

>>801
I read it to the end and it really goes off the rails.
Here's a basic summary of what I remember
-A long arc where Kintaro poses as a schoolgirl
-An arc where Kintaro's old college classmate is running a VR sex cult
-Kintaro gets hypnotized by the sex cult
-A flashback arc where you think you'll learn about Kintaro's past and why he travels and studies, but it's just lots of philosophizing and lots of sex
-Actually most of the later manga can be described as "lots of philosophizing and lots of sex"
-The art gets really weird and "stretchy" looking
-The manga ends abruptly in the middle of a sex scene--which featured lots of philosophizing

This might sound hard to believe but I actually like the manga and how crazy it gets.It's like the author dropped acid and decided to start experimenting

 No.803

I'm currenly rewatching it. From the best retro anime, especially for an ecchi comedy. It sucks that they didn't made more episodes.

 No.804

One of my favorite anime. Love the character designs, love the flexibility in the animation. Great characters. Arguably the best dub of its time (sub is great too!). Just a banger of an ecchi comedy.

 No.805

>>800
Man, the manga certainly goes places. I wasn't expecting the hard turn into NTR drama for example or the rape scenes. This is one case where the anime absolutely beats the pants off the manga.



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 No.771[Reply]

Didn't expect Trigun to be this bad. These production values are on par with those Lost Universe webms. Surprised there was no backlash against it and that the show is remembered fondly in spite of this.
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 No.778

>>777
I hear that Trigun is one of the worse ones. I mean I watched Lain and Evangelion too to add to the list of tv anime but none looked this bad.

 No.779

>>778
>I hear that Trigun is one of the worse ones
Trigun doesn't have that reputation, where are you hearing this?

 No.780

>>777
Naw, I can think of plenty that are well animated most of the time. I haven't seen Trigun but 98-02 had more sketchily animated shows than before just because they started producing so much more so quickly. You go watch late 80s TV anime in comparison and generally things are much better animated.

 No.781

>>771
Sure it's not a masterpiece by any means as far as the animation/production goes. But it's by no means a bad anime series. I have plenty of fond memories watching Trigun late at night on Adult Swim back in the day.

 No.782

I didn't think it was bad at all. Hell it was overall pretty good but it is one of those shows I can't go back to after reading the manga which was way better. The only reason I am offended by Lost Universe is that we got an ugly CG Gaiden instead of the proper adaptation we could have finally got.



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 No.735[Reply]

I am in dire need of old generic loli cat girl animes. Would you guys help me out?

 No.736

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Interested in this too. I didn't think this was a trope until the early 2000s. Anything earlier?

 No.737

>>736
Di Gi Charat was 1999, I think that was the first anime ABOUT loli cat girls
I know there's loli cat girls in a variety of 1990s media but they're usually side characters.

 No.738

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Geobreeders is from 1998.
90's OVA nudity warning, the cat girl's design is top tier though.



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