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I don't know if Blood: The Last Vampire counts since it was released in the cutoff point year of 2000, but it provides a good example of just how the Japanese animation industry was changing from the 80s and 90s. It was completely digitally animated and also utilised CG to good effect. The blu-ray actually provides two versions of the 45 minute film, one is the version that was shot on film and screened at film festivals, the other is a direct digital transfer similar to how any modern animation is released.
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Traveller posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qXFunYSsc8 I love this fight so much. So well animated, and all to Ultra. I remember reading it being the most realistically done fight in an anime at the time somewhere...which I agree with right up until the fight ends.
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:I don't know if Blood: The Last Vampire counts since it was released in the cutoff point year of 2000, but it provides a good example of just how the Japanese animation industry was changing from the 80s and 90s. It was completely digitally animated and also utilised CG to good effect. The blu-ray actually provides two versions of the 45 minute film, one is the version that was shot on film and screened at film festivals, the other is a direct digital transfer similar to how any modern animation is released. It's slightly after the two cutoffs I mentioned (FLCL and Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman) but I basically pulled those two out of my rear end so I'll allow it. 
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Traveller posted:That soundtrack, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8MG_Plw0U The version also had an instance of the gently caress word from Deejay, if I remember correctly. Butt Ghost fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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Oh, what a fantastic thread! I've got a weird little gem to rec from the 80s - Vampire Princess Miyu. It's a set of four episodes that are four separate, self-contained stories about the titular character as she goes around taking care of weird demon-esque things. The plots are good, not great, but what I found excellent about the series was the creepy atmosphere. It hit that sweetspot between melodramatic and weird for me. I'm afraid I watched it with subs so I can't speak for the english dub, but here's the first episode off of youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U8fRbwSbmY (There's a TV show too but it strips out all of the weird atmospheric charm of the OVA and goes into mediocre demon hunting territory, which is a shame.)
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i'll put some more effort in when its not 3am on a friday night but everyone should check out zillion: burning night, a nuts 80s ova that has almost virtually nothing to do with the series that birthed it and like bubblegum crises features an extended concert sequence similarly inspired by the one in walter hill's streets of fire
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Radio Spiricom posted:i'll put some more effort in when its not 3am on a friday night but everyone should check out zillion: burning night, a nuts 80s ova that has almost virtually nothing to do with the series that birthed it and like bubblegum crises features an extended concert sequence similarly inspired by the one in walter hill's streets of fire Streets of Fire is absolutely everywhere in 80s OVAs.
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the messed up thing is that only one of the ovas is about a kamikaze
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Davincie posted:the messed up thing is that only one of the ovas is about a kamikaze it was basically suicide to be an ijn pilot post 1941
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I think I'm gonna have to lead off with All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku for being 90s as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3xHGtzpPcc I like this show in part because nearly all the assumptions you'd make from the title are wrong. Nuku Nuku is less a catgirl than a super-strong android girl with (literally) a cat brain, whipped up by an unemployed mad scientist on the run from his crazy ex because his kid had the sads about a dead cat. Her primary antagonists are a couple of slightly off-tilt office ladies and of course the ex who is really just a slightly frazzled mom with access to a company that makes deadly robots and a yearning to re-unite her family that she's just really, really, bad at expressing properly. Even Nuku Nuku is just a cool big sis that loves her family and wants everyone to get back together between all the robot fights and Tokyo being nuked repeatedly. As was kinda typical for the era it got a TV spin-off (two, actually) that had little of the originals zany charm and kinda missed the point, especially the second show "Nuku Nuku Dash" which aged up the son and made Nuku a love interest instead of family. Also it just looked dumb as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exIV5G3YgHs I also want to give a shout out to Project A-Ko for being a legendary OVA for it's time. I can't for the life of me find an OP for it though, and I can't begin to summarize it as the closest it comes to a plot is "Everyone wants B-KO, even though she's awful, now watch A-KO do crazy poo poo for 30 minutes straight." It's much more of an animation showcase than anything, but what it does it does very well. madmac fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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A-ko doesn't really have an OP because the first one is a movie and the OAV sequels just didn't really bother. Fun fact, Project A-KO was originally going to part of the Cream Lemon porn series that helped popularise hentai but the director decided it was good enough to stand on its own and turned it into the ridiculous super hero/mecha/whatever parody movie it is.
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Area 88 (1985-1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgEPsQvnmOs Awesome airplane animation, original character designs by Kaoru Shintani (a former assistant to Leiji Matsumoto) and a pretty rocking soundtrack are the most obvious highlights, but I have always been highly engrossed by the story of Shin Kazama, a civilian pilot who gets recruited into a mercenary flying corps against his will and has to struggle with the burden this brings him. The melodrama of his inner conflict and the fallout from the betrayal that started it all combine surprisingly well in order to engage those who are into that kind of theme. Unfortunately, the OVA didn't adapt all of the manga. They did attempt a retelling through a TV series two decades later using 3D planes and so on, though I believe that never reached the end either. Still, the final OVA leaves on a suitably poignant note. This production is definitely worth checking out for those who can appreciate cool flying machines and bittersweet tales about the brutality of war. wielder fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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1987 brought us Black Magic M-66, which was based on a single chapter in Masamune Shirow's (GitS) debut manga of the same name. Have a cheesy commercial for it's 1990 US release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgkOmQ7Pac Lady? Check   Guns? Check  Violence? Check   This one was all over the place back in the early 90's when video rental stores were still a thing. So, if you were watching Japanimation (sic) back then, you've probably seen it. And if you haven't now's a good time to do so. Basically it's about a journalist who ends up trying to protect a young girl from a bunch of Terminator-ish robots who are sent out (accidentally? maliciously? It's been awhile) to kill her. Lot of cool action to be found here. Actually here's a much longer Japanese trailer with some great 80's pop music for a backer. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1574023961
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Man, All Purpose Cultural Catgirl was one of those things i somehow knew about, but never actually got around to watching. Maybe i should give it a shot.
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So largely thanks to Cartoon Network, Gundam (specifically Gundam Wing) became very popular with with young American audiences in the 90's . Western distributors realized that "hey, Yoshiyuki Tomino has made some other stuff besides Gundam, let's try to peddle that in the States too!" And so somewhere around 1997 Tower Records was selling Garzey's Wing, a 3-part OVA "from the creator of Gundam Wing." It was some sort of semi-fantasy epic about a boy whose consciousness traveled to another world but really what made it famous was the dub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWru5o07j_I WELP I recall this being the first time in high school when I had bought anime and felt truly and completely ripped off.
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I wish to recommend Gunsmith Cats for everyone who likes ninety minutes of Kenichi Sonoda relentlessly fetishizing guns, explosives, and '70s muscle cars. Also featured: Chill music, dialogue scenes for people who enjoy good pacing, and special guest appearance by Radinov, master assassin and bastard lunatic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMBDFo8Xtco
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The other good thing about the GSC anime is that it's devoid of the creepy poo poo from the original manga.
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Yeah they mostly kept references to Minnie May Hopkins' status as a thousand year old dragon to a bare minimum and she just blows poo poo up instead and generally acts like a badass. It is a marked improvement.
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Hmm I always assumed that Gunsmith Cats was literally about some gunsmithing cats, I dont know if I am dissapointed but probably going to check it out anyway
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It's good, has girls, cars and guns and a cool soundtrack by a genuine US jazz musician Peter Erskine Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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Ali Alkali posted:The original JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OVA Satoshi Kon directed the fifth episode of this OVA, the fight with D'arby, it's ridiculously good.
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I remember having Gunsmith Cats in my "save" list on Netflix for like 5 years. I should probably just look it up online one of these days. You laugh, but I went through a period before legal streaming really took off where I was pillaging Netflix's collection of old-rear end anime dvds. Got introduced to a lot of random 80/90s shows and OVAs that way.
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Been watching Be-bop Highschool. Good poop jokes + delinquent fights
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This fuckin thread is fuckin great you fuckin guys are doing a fuckin great fuckin job.Not Keyser Soze posted:So largely thanks to Cartoon Network, Gundam (specifically Gundam Wing) became very popular with with young American audiences in the 90's . Western distributors realized that "hey, Yoshiyuki Tomino has made some other stuff besides Gundam, let's try to peddle that in the States too!" And so somewhere around 1997 Tower Records was selling Garzey's Wing, a 3-part OVA "from the creator of Gundam Wing." It was some sort of semi-fantasy epic about a boy whose consciousness traveled to another world but really what made it famous was the dub. This is amazing. CuLT fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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This thread is a poo poo hot shitter, really.
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madmac posted:I also want to give a shout out to Project A-Ko for being a legendary OVA for it's time. i remember hearing that the story behind it was that it was gonna be porn, but then they decided to make it a crazy action movie instead either way, project a-ko is very good
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A couple of similar recommendations, I wanted to present Lily C.A.T., and Roots Search. Lily C.A.T. is a film that owes a tremendous deal to Alien, but with the fun little twist that Jonesy is the villain. The monstery business, when it starts up, is appropriately fun and gory, and there are some very The Thing-esque body absorbing scenes.  Roots Search is a bit closer to Event Horizon than Alien, and there are a number of scenes in particular (the dude with the girlfriend who slit her wrists in the bathtub, the guy entering the airlock without a spacesuit) that make me wonder if Paul Anderson watched this at some point before making EH. As we hurry to the end, though, we go full-on gonzo, and we do God's judgment of humanity, space babies, and at the end the protagonists maybe end up in Hell? It's a trip. Also there's another pretty cool blob/the thing type of monster, though much less well-animated than in Lily C.A.T..
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This thread kicks a lot of rear end. Bookmarked.
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I watched a pretty funny and awesome OVA a few months ago about a soldier who has to rescue the cure to the AIDS virus from a group of international terrorists that, for the life of me right now, I can't remember the name of. E: Dog Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDIVCJnFyC8
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Reds posted:Kinda surprised Bubblegum Crisis isn't in the OP, I always thought that was one of the more high profile 80s OVAs. I'd say something about it but I haven't watched it soooooo Dexie posted:If no one has done a post on Bubblegum Crisis by tomorrow evening, I'll be all over that. And still it's not in here, what the hell people.  Bubblegum Crisis was a very popular 8 episode OVA series with character designs buy Kenichi Sonoda. Four power-armored vigilantes take on the mega-corporation GENOM against the background of a grim cyberpunk future 2032 Tokyo. It's heavily, heavily influenced by Blade Runner -- the main character Priss leads up a rock band named Priss and the Replicants, and the world itself is basically identical in many respects (albeit with more combat androids and mechs and such, but hey it's an anime.) Themes of corporate greed, betrayal, and fighting against the gears of a system that doesn't care about human emotions like love or revenge run high, and there's a certain air of worry that robots are going to be taking all our jobs in the near future. I think my favorite individual episode is the fourth, where a guy turns his car into a cyber-mad-max weapon of revenge against the motorcycle gangs that murdered his wife. The episodes actually don't have a huge amount of continuity aside from a couple specific cases, and the series ends abruptly after episode 8 more because they ran out of money than actually telling a coherent story. The 80's as gently caress music is one of the highlights of the series, as are some of the mech designs (best transforming motorcycles this side of MOSPEADA imo). This one's an all-time great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajTAnMqhZB8 And one more, why not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVq7WoflC6k It's possible that this isn't here yet because it's so widely known. It was easily available in the anime corner at your local Blockbuster, and it spawned a sequel (Bubblegum Crash), prequel (AD Police Files), and eventual remake (Bubblegum Crisis 2040), none of which were received well. The prequel series is markedly grimmer and more sexied up, while the sequel and remake are... bad. There was even a pen and paper RPG published by R. Talsorian games, the creators of the original Cyberpunk 2020 series. I think I still have that and both splatbooks in a box in my parent's attic and can post any number of sketches if necessary. Also, because of the open-endedness of the plot and the general availability during the natal stages of anime fandom, there is a shitload of Bubblegum Crisis fanfic out there that I certainly did not read when I was too young to know any better. Adam Warren even did an americomic. NmareBfly fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Tunahead posted:I wish to recommend Gunsmith Cats for everyone who likes ninety minutes of Kenichi Sonoda relentlessly fetishizing guns, explosives, and '70s muscle cars. Also featured: Chill music, dialogue scenes for people who enjoy good pacing, and special guest appearance by Radinov, master assassin and bastard lunatic. riding bean is another kenichi sonoda ova that's good and sort of ties in to the gsc universe because it also features rally vincent (except in riding bean she is blonde) cool late 80s/early 90s car culture aesthetic pervades it and it's set in chicago for some reason. it also has the same creepy undertones as gsc unforutnately, because sonoda is an unrepentant creep. goku midnight eye is some of yoshiaki kawajiri's most underseen work but also among his best. there are two of them and they are about goku furinji a detective who wears a suit with a tie but no shirt. he's investigating his partner's murder when he gets hypnotized by the villain and to break the spell stabs himself in the eye. it then gets replaced by a cybernetic eye which allows him to hack into any computer system in the world and then he avenges his partner. also there's a stripper who turns into a motorcycle, gratuitous baps, lots of dudes getting shot in the head and other 80s ridiculousness. megazone 23 is another cool 80s cyberpunk ova about a biker named shogo who gets entrusted with a military prototype motorcycle which can transform into a mecha. naturally this causes him to be wanted by a bunch of government paramilitary organizations and he stumbles onto the revelation that the world he inhabits isn't quite what it seems. i don't want to spoil too much for those who haven't seen it but it is probably more influential on the matrix than akira or gits is despite what the wachowskis claim. also there's a green haired idol singer named eve that shogo is obsessed with and she gets her baps out. that specific character was designed by haruhiko mikimoto who did character designs for macross and gunbuster among others. there are 3 installments but only the first two are any good.
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http://80sanime.tumblr.com/ <--------- indispensable repository for this sort of stuff. gifs, screencaps, artbook and magazine scans, interviews/transcriptions, music, etc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--149SJN0Lk Devil Hunter Yohko is basically Sailor Moon with demons and a big emphasis on horny teens denying their basic horniness because that's bad and stuff. Yohko is a typical bubbleheaded, boycrazy girl, who learns from her grandmother on her 16th birthday that she is the next in a long line of Devil Hunting girls who project humanity from evil demons. And in order to keep her powers, she has to remain physically pure. Bummer! Her mother conveniently got knocked up, so Yohko is the only hope for humanity when the Principal of her school suddenly turns into a kinky S&M loving fiend with an interest in young boys!!! There are something like 4 OVAs (the third basically being some music videos), and the original is some 80s as gently caress animation that sometimes dips into cheap 70sish animation style. It's basically one of those enjoyable enough flicks with just enough hint of Adult Content to get teens interested in a possible flash of T&A. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Radio Spiricom posted:riding bean is another kenichi sonoda ova that's good and sort of ties in to the gsc universe because it also features rally vincent (except in riding bean she is blonde) cool late 80s/early 90s car culture aesthetic pervades it and it's set in chicago for some reason. it also has the same creepy undertones as gsc unforutnately, because sonoda is an unrepentant creep. The last part is good because they talk a lot about Hard On.
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NmareBfly posted:And still it's not in here, what the hell people. I wrote up a post like, four or five times, but I wasn't happy with any of them. It's worth noting that all the mechanical designs were done by Obari, who also directed episodes 5 and 6, which IMO are the best two episodes and have a cool as gently caress villain. Also yeah all of the spinoffs/sequels/remakes are hot garbage. That goes double for Adam Warren's comic. EDIT: Also worth noting that there was a brief revisiting of the series a few years back...as a light novel...that was an AU set in a high school. 
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Dexie posted:
*sigh* Another victim of the Moe-po calypse.
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I watched 2040 before the original bubblegum and remember thinking it was mostly decent. Never finished it, though, because the plot got muddled towards the end.
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Rinkles posted:I watched 2040 before the original bubblegum and remember thinking it was mostly decent. Never finished it, though, because the plot got muddled towards the end. On its own, it's okay, but the plot goes completely stupid by the end. It feels like it was a victim of coming out in the wake of Evangelion, there's some serious wannabe vibes in the final run of episodes. As a remake of the original though? It doesn't compare at all. I will give it a little credit though. The opening theme is cool and I am quite fond of the character redesigns.
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