Tuned in to Retro Anime / Manga!

I'm still holding out for Discotek to do a bluray remaster of Mahoutsukai Tai OVA. Their Project A-Ko one was fantastic.

>>3560
I’ve mentioned this in the past on /m/ but it would be nice for a remaster of gaiearth from AIC

>>3560
Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!, Bobby ni Kubittake, Take the X Train, Down Load: Namu Amida Butsu wa Ai no Uta, and Dragon Half, to name a few. There are so many OVAs trapped on old VHS/LD releases.

>>3560
Rumiko's one shot OVAs (especially Fire Tripper and Supergal)

Any chance we could get Criterion to remaster a few? They'd have to be culturally significant, and high brow artistic.

>Gosenzo Sama Banbanzai!

Why does /cel/ think of this criminally underrated OVA? It's got some of the greatest character acting I've ever seen in any animated series. And no remaster.

>>3566
Never really got the feeling that Criterion cares that much about animation in general.

>>3568
Arguably Oshii's masterpiece. It's visually engaging and experimental in a good way. One of the interesting things about animation as a medium is that the creators are free to take it in any direction they want. Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! gives you a stage play where the camera/viewer can be placed anywhere, and no special effect is out of reach. Plus, on top of that it's genuinely really funny. Tie it all together with animation from some of the best animators of the time (hashimoto, ohira, iso, ect.), and you have one fantastic OVA.

>>3572
>Never really got the feeling that Criterion cares that much about animation in general.

That is correct. They're kind of snobby and high brow and seem to think that animation is beneath them, or not part of their purview. They did release that Akira Laserdisc in the 90s, but that was before Akira had any good home releases that weren't just cropped VHS tapes.

You could make the case that there's a lot of overlooked and ignored Soviet, European, and Japanese, animation and some need restoration and care. They would have be high brow to fit the Criterion brand though.

I definely think we need a criterion for anime though.

>>3573
>I definitely think we need a criterion for anime though.
It would be nice. Feels like studios have rather random output with HD masters for their older anime. You might get one that's very well done and then another not long after that seemingly uses an older, worse mastering process. If Criterion were to remaster an anime you'd need something artsy, important, and I suppose something with no HD transfer or one done very poorly.The hardest part would be to decide which anime are the most culturally significant or important. For me, the one that leaps to mind instantly is the End of Evangelion. The TV show had an over all fantastic HD transfer sans episode 16, but the movie's transfer looks like an abortion. I feel that lots of films made during the transition to CG effects and digipaint suffer from this. While not entirely pre 2000s, Satoshi Kon's films are all perfect candidates. I did see that Perfect Blue was supposedly getting a new and better remaster, but the previews I saw did not impress me.

i love wap chan. i can just open a random thread and find a new anime to watch.

>>3582
make a video essay about them too you fucking newfren homo