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>>4248
Hardly at all

That's not a fatty.
This is a fatty.

>>4251
How can she eat so much?!

>>1530
oh noes

>>1530
>>1532
We must go EVEN WIDER!

I love yuno!!

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>>4241
Sir, this is the retro board

I wonder if there is any Japanese animation that was filmed with silver nitrate that exists in good quality.

>>4235
The pink gives it soul thouever.

>>4236
I doubt any animation was filmed on silver nitrate. That would have been phased out by the time animation came in.

>>4238
Nitrate film was used well into 1950s, so there probably was animation filmed with it. Old school Disney animated movies were captured on nitrate negatives and the earliest Japanese animated features go back to 1917 so I'm pretty sure it silver nitrate was used.

>>528
great find

>>528
thanks for this >>529

>>528
No doubt about some of the earliest western anime fanart, especially dunbine

this is sick, thank you anon

Really cool stuff regarding a perspective to early anime fans

>>4193
The Level Sets until they run out. Then, the Dragon Box. I think the [iKaos] release is the best off of the top of my head, but you might need a new HDD for it.

>>4193

Pioneer

>>4193
Seed Of Might’s colour corrected Dragon Box

>>3223
Thanks anon,i know i may sound like a retard but the last time i watched anime, i would just go to animetake and it pretty much had everything.

>>3170
>City Hunter 3's OP has her doing shit I'd LOVE to see her do in the show
Yeah, that great intro really set up something that never happened. Kind of odd how different it is from the other intros, with its narrative.

Although I don't agree that Kaori should've been using her hammer in actual fights. It belongs to the comedic sections of City Hunter, which are sharply, and loveably, divided from the serious ones. I think I can vaguely remember her trying to use it once and immediately gets dommed by a criminal, as a kind of meta joke about the hammer not actually being real. It also fits in with the hyper-masculinised men and hyper-feminised women of the 80s aesthetic. Kaori is the frail, innocent woman that needs to be saved by the strong, heroic man. In commercial American tv and film from the era this may have been vulgar and shallow, but it works in City Hunter.

>the less said about the amount of children/teens that fall for him the better. While those were some pretty funny jokes of desperately trying to not seem like a pedo, it felt like it happened WAYYYYY too often.
I think the same reason City Hunter could happily include gay people and transvestites was the same reason it could show Ryo lusting after teenage girls. It is completely without an agenda and is simply motivated by Hojo's objectivity and desire to create an entertaining world. Sometimes he uses the ridiculously masculine traits of transvestites for comic relief, another times he uses the passableness of a transvestite for comedic relief. I didn't see anything wrong with the many teen romance subplots; it is typical of Japanese culture and Ryo always ends up running away from them anyway.

>>3377
Yeah that's fair about Kaori. I was just trying to spitball some ideas here to make her more than what she is. She's a terrible shot with a gun from what I recall and the few times she does try and do things by herself other people have to help her and it's a real shame she can't have some moments to shine. Even a bit of luck could take her a long way with a few clients and that's pretty much all I wanted for her where she can handle herself but obviously gets overwhelmed and requires Ryo's help in the end especially near the end of the series.

As for the lolicon angle, I actually quite enjoyed those jokes. They were always pretty funny since everyone can understand *not* wanting to seem like a pedo and it's made even worse by the fact it's always the kids/teens initiating it and Ryo desperately trying to remedy the situation.

I also did find the use of gay and trans people to be surprising as well. Ryo frequents gay bars, dresses as a woman in a few episodes and jokingly convinces other people Kaori is a man much to her displeasure. It feels both progressive and mocking but I honestly liked that aspect of it. You never really knew what kind of angle each episode would take and it was always pretty funny.

I just finished watching the fourth series. City Hunter '91. I think it took a while to grow on me because my expectations were that Ryo would be a badass with a goofy side rather than a goofball with a badass side. I think the first series drags a bit compared to the follow up three, which I much preferred. Although it's episodic, they do show other sides to Ryo's character as it goes along and some of his backstory is fleshed out which is good. Kaori also takes quite a while to realise she's in love with him. There's also some soft continuity with occasional episode material and characters reoccurring.

The basic gag of Ryo reacting to mokkori babes and then getting the hammer never got old for me. I like the style of how women are drawn in this show. It's a bit odd that Kaori is mistaken for a boy in some episodes and then characters will call her pretty in others. Tomboyish sure, but she always comes across as cute and obviously a girl to me, and her seething over Ryo never gets annoying because her voice actress is very endearing (Kazue Ikura). I guess the "looks like a boy" thing is a bit of comedic exaggeration at her expense.

Ryo being played by Akira Kamiya is also interesting because for a character who looks so much like Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken, it's fun for him to have the same voice actor yet give such a drastically different performance as befits such a drastically different personality. It shows his talent.

My one real complaint about this show is similar to my one real complaint about the Space Adventure Cobra TV show; it's that although there are characters who are near equals and times when he seems seriously in danger, there isn't really anyone who gives enough doubt about whether Ryo will prevail. No one ever really gets hyped up even when there's a two parter either. I get that it's not that sort of show, because it's episodic and more light hearted, but the moments when it gets serious are very good precisely because of the contrast. I liked the face off with Robert Harrison, and the one with Umibozu in the cemetary. I really feel like the show could have used a consistent rival, in a soft continuity way. Umibozu occasionally dips into that role but overall he's on too good terms with Ryo and Kaori. A character like Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken may be overpowered on paper, but because it was serialized, his villains got to have some build up and although he usually dispatched them easily, the few times he Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>4212
That's an interesting take, I always liked the laid back nature of it and how every new case was someone new for Ryo to go up against.

They do somewhat play with the idea of there being people better than Ryo in the show, Umibozu is his obvious equal and I vaguely remember that american but you are right in there being no real antagonist in the earlier parts (they do reveal one later on that's implied to have a connection to Ryo and Kaori iirc) but beyond that there's nothing.

Personally, I never minded because most episodes were entertaining enough. They do a good job of making plot points that have weak characters thrown into the mix that makes Ryo's job harder by them existing. Like I always have a soft spot for that two parter with the girl in the wheelchair since it's both sweet and also a VERY difficult person to try and protect but Ryo does it flawlessly (it also has a hilarious ending).

As for the movies, they're alright. None of them ever reach the heights of City Hunter 2 imo.

>I guess the "looks like a boy" thing is a bit of comedic exaggeration at her expense.
I still laugh at the amount of times Ryo just annoys her by telling everyone around them she's a guy and then her finding out and getting mad. It's so hilariously childish.

>>4219

Endless waltz was never in theaters so how is it returning?

I haven't seen any old anime in theaters but I did get to see a whole bunch of old Hong Kong films when they came to the IFC here in new york last year. I think they're bringing back Hard Boiled again this year too, very much worth seeing on the big screen

I am due for End of Evangelion for the 3rd consecutive year
which may sound like a lot, but I also celebrate easter every year and I definitely like eva more than I like easter

one of my biggest regrets is not seeing the recent end of eva re-release (early 2024?) because my ex was working at the theater at the time

>>4102

Is doremi a /cel/ anime or a /digi/ one, i dont actually know.

>>4105
would be /cel/ since it started airing in 1999 and it was originally done on cels

I need to rewatch the first series.
>>4108
I don't think any Doremi stuff was cels. Toei was already doing digital stuff in 1999 and there's quite a lot of sloppy digital animation errors in the first season you can see if you're paying attention.

>>4112
>I don't think any Doremi stuff was cels
all 4 seasons were cel

Forehead

I mean by the time he would’ve flown out from Jupiter the movie would’ve ended already

Too busy fucking Roux on Jupiter
>Jupiter's gravity is 2.5x Earth's
Gravity powered thrusts