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‘80s anime is basically my favorite thing on Earth, so I got a bit carried away. When I started, this was supposed to be a top 10 list. (all movies or OVA unless otherwise specified) First, everything Studio Ghibli did 1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (technically pre-Ghibli but it’s part of the canon now) 2. Castle in the Sky Laputa 3. Grave of the Fireflies (clear your schedule for the the day you watch this) 4. My Neighbor Totoro 5. Kiki’s Delivery Service The absolute must-watch stone-cold classics 1. Akira 2. Bubblegum Crisis (brace yourself for the tragic non-ending, though) 3. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise 4. Macross: Do You Remember Love? (TV series is good too but it may try your patience) 5. Aim for the Top! Gunbuster 6. The Venus Wars 7. Riding Bean 8. Robot Carnival 9. Manie Manie Labyrinth Tales (a.k.a. Neo-Tokyo) 10. Megazone-23 Parts I & II Also pretty drat good 1. Wicked City 2. The Dirty Pair: Project EDEN (and there’s OVAs where that came from if you like this) 3. Dominion Tank Police 4. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (you don’t have to have seen any other Gundam) 5. Night on the Galactic Railroad 6. The Dagger of Kamui 7. Arion 8. Project A-ko (might want to watch this last, lots of in-joke references to other stuff) 9. Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy (having seen other Lupin helps) 10. Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie Quality production values but edging toward more “entertaining” than “good” 1. The Five Star Stories (only covers the very beginning of the manga but it looks gorgeous) 2. Golgo 13: The Professional 3. Fist of the North Star: The Movie 4. Vampire Hunter D 5. Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth (the Leijiverse is a convoluted mess of anti-continuity, but this is a good place to start, as well as the first real anime I ever saw) 6. Harmagedon 7. Lensman 8. BAOH the Visitor 9. Goku: Midnight Eye 10. Ai City The artsy, the weird,and the utterly inaccessible 1. Angel’s Egg 2. The Tale of Genji (1988 movie version) 3. Twilight of the Cockroaches 4. TO-Y 5. Twilight Q 6. Bobby’s in Deep! (not hentai, I swear) 7. Take the X Train 8. Gosenzosama banbanzai! 9. Radio City Fantasy 10. Birth TV series for when you’ve got way too much time 1. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (watch the MS Gundam compilation movie trilogy before Zeta, then Char’s Counterattack after Zeta, don’t worry about the weird Zeta movies) 2. Armored Trooper VOTOMS (some people hate the prequel/gaiden OVAs, I actually like them, but I guess watch the series first) 3. Urusei Yatsura (and especially the first two movies, even if you don’t watch much of the TV series) 4. Legend of the Galactic Heroes (functionally more TV series than OVA, see the relevant thread for more than you could ever possibly want to know) 5. Mobile Police Patlabor would go here I guess? (but the OVAs and movies are in a different continuity from the TV series, and that didn’t actually come along until the ‘90s, speaking of which…) Getting into the early ‘90s but before the industry really crashed 1. Nadia and the Secret of Blue Water (look up which episodes to skip, trust me) 2. Record of Lodoss War 3. Cyber City OEDO 808 4. Otaku no Video 5. Roujin-Z 6. The Weathering Continent 7. Giant Robo 8. Video Girl Ai 9. Doomed Megalopolis 10. Black Lion The worst part is, there’s still dozens of things I left off. I should just start a blog about this poo poo and be done with it.
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Kingtheninja posted:What, no GAL force? teenage me had the hardest time understanding the plot in that movie. Much as I love Kenichi Sonoda, I've always found Gal Force to be just kinda OK. Not bad, but not memorable. Compare to, say, Harmagedon, where you have the hysterical disconnect between an obviously massive animation budget and a story scribbled in crayon by a hyperactive and possibly drunk child.
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