Tuned in to Retro Anime / Manga!

I remember having volumes of Sailor Moon and Fruits Basket as a kid, if that counts.

>>4056
For sure, both are pre 2k.
I'd like to mention claymore, but that was 01, so I'll just post Kerberos/Jin-Roh instead.

I don't know if I count KPC as 'normie', but good read either way.
How about Parasyte?

I love Rookies, if it counts (started in 1998).

I really didn't expect to like it as much as I did but Kawato is such an endearing character that I just fell in love with the whole thing. Seeing him go out of his way to do so much for that baseball team even when no one else would and leading all the students to actually want to try in Baseball again was just brilliant.

My favourite part of the manga will always be when in one game he goes up to an opposing pitcher who has been struggling in the game so far, tells him he's doing a fantastic job, then goes to the opposing coach to tell him to stop fucking around. He should take that kid off the mound and give him actual coaching advice so he can grow into a proper player (and adult) instead of this weird humiliation ritual he was forcing him to do to teach him a lesson. Then proceeding to return to his dugout and screaming out loud "AHHHHHH WHY DID I DO THAT I COULD'VE GOT THE TEAM SUSPENDED"

It's truly a one of a kind manga and it saddens me that everything else the mangaka has done is not fully translated yet, even Rokudenshi Blues is taking 20 years to translate and is still around 40 chapters away from being complete.

I'm not sure I'd call this a favorite but had no idea where to post it tbh. Push Man by Tatsumi Yoshihiro. A series of bleak gekiga one shots originally published in doujinshi magazines, giving Tatsumi free reign to make whatever he liked. The majority of the stories are bleak slice of life stories with absurd endings, mostly fixated on Japan's working classes and the soft underbelly of crime and sexual perversion. I don't think I've read anything this cynical. Sewage workers pilfer the corpses of dead children dumped in sewers, a man falls in love with a hostess through the TV set only to commit murder-suicide, a student rapes a woman he's infatuated with for no apparent reason etc. The artwork is suitably dark too. Claustrophobic interiors, grimy workplaces, dirty slums, and chaotic streets. The world feels dark, hopeless, suffocating, a bleak contrast with the popular image of 60s Japan's economic miracle.

Not exactly normie tier I think, but I really love Saint Rosalind :)