Tuned in to Retro Anime / Manga!

The 90s anime is great. The OVA is great too.
Miyu is an underrated (creepy)cutie.

>>3150
I love both, though the OVA is my favorite, the way episode 2 plays on Miyu's difficulties with her destiny and her human emotions is really well done. The storyboarding and drawing quality is immaculate in all four episodes, and I love how it keeps Miyu mysterious but endearing at the same time.

Miyu has a message for you all.

>>663
My favorite of all cutie honeys

>>663
The best one.

>>663
I'm on a big Nagai kick, so maybe I will re-watch it. I enjoyed it the most out of all the Honey iterations. It's nice to see Honey take on a new adventure instead of just a repeat of the manga's scenario with a twist.

Big fan of pretty much everything but the original 70s show. I remember seeing a clip of Shin Cutie Honey at a Rob Zombie concert and that selling me on his music. All around great franchise.

Good visuals but the story is a complete mess. It's the kind of pseudo-sequel where if you haven't seen the original you'll feel like you're missing important back-story, but if you -have- seen the original you'll just be confused the whole time how the two are supposed to fit together.

IMO Re is the better OVA Cutie Honey, and F the better 90s Cutie Honey.

am in my 20's it's just a skill issue.
I've watched stuff like demon city and the original ranma anime

i got lum from urusei yatsura so i lucked out

>>3717

One of the weirdest things i noticed in comparison is the shows they made during those years is the cartoons produced for america usually have higher quality to them than the shows they produced domestically for themselves, all studios not anyone specifically.
If you look at the tv anime during those years and compare them to what the were making for people here youll see what i mean.

>>3719
It's a cultural issue. Western media values variety and originality, so Western cartoons and comics will have reasonably varied episodic and overarching plots each time. Japan tolerates series consisting of 50 near identical, generally low stakes episodes with the same general overarching story because it's easy to make that kind of show look deeper than it really is if you include depictions of PTSD, death, grief, teen angst, and sexuality as well as social commentary and dark endings.

>>3732

I dont think you understand what i meant.
Here is an example, there are others but this will do.
Ulysses 31 came out in 1981, compare its animation to any other tv anime made in japan during the same year. The quality of its animation during its run is quite high which is why you dont see people posting terrible inbetween frames or bad "quality" images from it when it gets brought up.
Compare it to something like GoLion(before it was Voltron) which came out at the same time but was produced for their domestic tv market.
Both has similar natrual character design style but the animation quality between them is vastly different.
You see where im going with this?

>>3733
That's also a cultural issue. Western animation prioritizes fluid motion while anime prioritizes detailed frames and will sacrifice fluidity if necessary. Western companies will want something fluid and full of motion if they want a series to succeed here.
Ulysses 31 has really high quality animation because in the early 80s, TMS had ambitions of being as well-respected and famous worldwide as Disney. In pursuit of that goal, they did good work on their global projects. Many of the other TMS 80s cartoons (namely Visionaries and Galaxy Rangers) also have really good animation.
Toei cartoons made for the West often had good animation because the Western companies always gave them more money than they'd allot for their own anime. The most prominent example of this is the Transformers movie, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was also true for the other Sunbow productions. GI Joe looks better on average than even Zeta Gundam.

I’ve never seen Ulysses 31, it was Tadao Nagahama’s last work before his unfortunate passing correct?

God I only started reading it last year but it’s probably one of my favorite jump manga alongside one piece and Jojo’s

Nice, Slam Dunk is honestly a really good manga. It was one of the few manga's that made me understand Sports on a deeper level. There's a part in the manga where one character couldn't play in a very important game due to an injury and he cries as he is sent off the court. I remember finding it odd and almost comical, it's just an injury until it's explained that he trained for this exact game, he spent days over months training every part of his body to play in this EXACT game and through no fault of his own, he cannot continue and must be sent off.

Interestingly, a few months later I was randomly watching a game of Football with a friend and the exact same thing happened (player injured in the final, he cries as he's forced to retire from the game) and I would've laughed before but now I truly understood.

It's a shame it never really got a true adaptation (I believe the 90's version stops about 70% through) but at least it's a finished Manga unlike Inoue's other manga….

Also best girl

>>3616
Hope you enjoy it. Aside from the TV anime, the movie is a good complement to the manga, it isn't a 1 to 1 adaptation of those chapters, but you'd definitely enjoy it more after you've finished reading the manga. I'm glad I got to watch it in a movie theater.

Its really good, I like the yaoi.

>>3912
I haven't actually watched it but the yaoi fics by Chinese sisters are high quality stuff. Strangely a lot of mpreg and lactation…

Vagabond is one of the few comics I had to own physically, so I suppose Iwill have to read this eventually. Even if it seems a teensy bit gay.

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>>2855
Well, I'm watching fancy Lala. it starts off a bit weak, but begins to channel what was so good about the '80s Pierrot Mahou Shoujo shows as it goes on: that dreamy kind of surreal take on magic and allowing it to interact with believable slice of life scenarios, and like Creamy Mammy it has the idol element front and center.Occasionally the animation and storyboarding gets quite strong as well , It's not really on the level of the '80s shows, but it's not unsatisfying that regard.

What about you, anon?

>>2855
Irony of this thread now.

>>3366
Much irony
Damn, I only have nu-anime screencaps and images, so I can't even post a relevant image. What a shame!

Turns out retro things are retro and there is very little interest in them. People are too busy being trapped in a perpetual seasonal flavor of the month cycle.

I'm not watching any pre-2000 anime but for manga I'm reading
>Akazukin Chacha
>Hell Teacher Nube
>Glass Mask
Akazukin Chacha's pretty cool. Ribon has a lot of good manga in the 80s and 90s. The anime for it interests me since some stuff in the openings don't have anything to do with the manga so far, and I'm past the point in the manga where the anime was airing. Also Shiine looks like a girl in the anime.

>>3610
I'd say any CLAMP or Showa 24 Group work would do nicely, maybe Minky Momo if you want historical significance

>>3605
>>3610
Not a lady… but I do like old dramatic shoujo. To me the go-to for that would have to mention the big 70s series first:
1973 Aim for the Ace! (+80s sequels)
1976 Candy Candy
1979 Rose of Versailles

And then add:
1969 Attack No. 1
1984 Glass Mask
1991 Oniisama e…
Plus shoujo-adjacent WMT series like Perrine, Anne and Sara.

>>3642
I love Oniisama e, I once saw it described as the "uber-shoujo" which is I think apt

>>3610
His and Her Circumstances is a must watch shojo anime even if the production is a bit of a mess.
Basically Anno who just finished Eva got handed a bog standard shoujo manga to adapt, the result is pretty crazy with him being pulled from the project at some point because the Mangaka was very upset.
Here is a article about the production if you're interested: https://archive.ph/jmcGD

>>3605
If you want a theoretical "Old Anime Canon", it'd probably look something this (exclusively just works fully subtitled in English given the demographics of English imageboards).
Only ordered by release date, this isn't a ranking.
>Sasuke (1968)
Will be releasing in English this October. It's an early ninja anime that is one of the first steps towards the 70s in terms of expected quality.
>Dororo to Hyakkimaru (1969)
Stylistically sublime… until it isn't. Still good, and you may recognize the name from the 2019 remake, simply called Dororo.
>Ashita no Joe (1970)
The first true Osamu Dezaki work, adapting the story of a drifter kid who becomes a boxer.
>Lupin III (1971)
I'll only put the original series here, but it's a short and sweet episodic adventure/heist anime.
>Ace wo Nerae (1973)
Another Osamu Dezaki, this time about the struggles of a high schooler as she is pushed to 'Aim for the Ace' by her school's new tennis coach.
>Ie Naki Ko (1977)
Another Dezaki work, this one adapting the french novel 'Sans Famille', about an orphan boy who is sold by his adoptive father to a traveling entertainer.
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