Tuned in to Retro Anime / Manga!

Have (you) read his works?

Does /ar/ like mahou shoujo anime?

In response to >>1262 I'll make a brief post about why colors were so damned good in cel animation versus modern productions.

1. Paint

They're quite literally using real world paints on plastic cels to photograph so the colors are much better quality and more realistic.

2. Film stock

They were shot on 16mm or 35mm film, and film stock had strived for decade for rich strong colors and strong contrasts. Most television anime was shot in 16mm film, and 35mm used for theatrical films or television OPs.

Then they shifted to digital formats, and with them digital color spaces and palettes. More washed out, lacking contrast, overly bright, like there's a haze or some kind of bright light out. This is also an issue for live action productions.

Is it me or does the online lain fandom miss the entire point of the show? I'm pretty sure the message isn't that Lain is a cyber goddess or pushing some kind of tech gnosticism or accelerationist pseudo-philosophy.

The general themes seem to be on Japanese family breakdown, lonliness and atomization, and technology causing a hyperreal breakdown of the world. There's also the conspiracy history of the internet being invented by aliens but also theological stuff about the soul and religion too, which I'm guessing is just added on as a way to create artificial depth.

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

Let's have a thread for pre-2000s anime music that you enjoy a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGQpJq5KVs

This is a long one text post, so head's up:

Looking for a Mystery and-or Horror Anime that was on a T.V Anime Block (maybe be SyFy channel?*, or even Starz)

See, I watched on a anime on a TV block back around… I'd like to say around the 2010's, probably the mid-2010's at best guess.

I remember watching it around Halloween time as it appeared on either the Syfy channel or the Starz channel that was promoting "Mature"/"Adult" anime (blood, guts, nudity, etc) on either a limited anime focused block (to test the water or something) or of a pre-existing one 'just changed for the holiday season.

I've been trying to find this anime for years with no luck, but I do remember a few good chucks of the first episode that may help identify it; though again, it has been a good few years since 'so my memory is hazy on full details, and may have mixed or confused other details over the years .

The initial premise of the anime, if I recall correctly, was set in a high school where a fresh female teacher got a assigned to a new school 'specifically a class of trouble makers/perverts. Her colleague showing her the ropes is a buxom, blonde haired, sultry sexy type; with a red open long-sleeved blouse (or dress shirt) black mini-skirt[*?], garter sock stocking and heels.she has a very laid back attitude, with an aloof personality. given the school she works in is pretty bad (I think)

the new teacher is a glasses wearing, black haired 'braid (either a single braid ponytail, or braided twin-tails) a green jersey & matching sweatpants; which given to her by said colleague as protection, since as soon as she walking into the class a pair of male students are laying on the ground to take an up-skirt photo of her, which fails thanks to the track-suit given to her.her personality is quiet and a bit squirrel-ish, being a new teacher and all; the typical naive 'innocent heroine protagonist.

Her colleague steps in the class with her, where said students take an up-skirt photo of her instead 'which doesn't phase her, she teases the new teacher a bit & scolds the students while she introduces her to the class.
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Not sure if it needs a thread but it's not like we're overflowing with discussion here ;), still I recently started watching the original HxH anime from 1999. I have never actually watched/read any of HxH and all I know of it was that it's permanently on hiatus, that cat girl (or boy?) that everyone posts a lot and the designs of the MC's. I decided to give it a shot for no real reason and so far I've been enjoying it.

I've watched YYH last year and enjoyed that as well. I found Season 1 of YYH to be good, 2 to be great the first half of 3 to be fantastic and then it kinda falls off after Sensui is introduced which was a shame, but it's nice to know that Togashi hasn't lost it with HxH.

I will say the first couple of episodes were...fine, I'm still not entirely sure what the plot is. Sure, Gon is trying to find his father and that's the goal but the whole idea of Hunters just seem odd. The fact Gon and that other hunter in the first episode were seen hunting animals and Gon wants to become a hunter kind of makes you think Hunter's are animal hunters, but then they add several characters who don't really fit that niche at all which makes the term "Hunter" kind of confusing. I guess it's more like a catchall term for someone who is exceptional and reliable in everything and thus the guy you go to for troubles, like an official bounty hunter or mercenary.

Character wise, I enjoy them a lot.What surprises me the most about this show was that I expected Gon to be the main part of the whole show and everyone else to sort of be secondary characters who don't really interact with one another since it's about Gon and his story, but it's actually pretty cool to see Leorio and Kurapika be together a lot and see their histories and helping each other out and such. I also like how Gon and Killua have a really normal friendship. They basically act like kids their age would act if they were friends. Which is very surprising since I thought Killua would be very stoic and not want to be friends with Gon but he opened up pretty damn quickly to him. Hell their dynamic feels like the other way around. Killua should be the MC and Gon is the friend who helps him out of his shell, but it's not like that at all.

I'm currently on episode 27 and the final part of the Hunter exam. I found the first section (running) to be a bit lacklusterPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Does "Obscure Cel Anime" even exist anymore? I feel like I've seen everything.

Kanashimi No Belladonna (1973) is a masterpiece of tragic/erotic/psychedelic animation directed by Eiichi Yamamoto. Jeanne is a peasant who gets raped by a noble and becomes a witch; based on/inspired by La Sorcière by Jules Michelet, a treatise in the history of witchcraft. Noted for its experimental artstyle, bizarre visuals and its connection to Western classical art works like Klimt and the cubist movement, it's a unique piece of art with a moving narrative and breathtaking moments on screen.