Vintage (Circa 80s-90s) Anime Recommendations
Hello friends! Last time I made this post was over a year ago and it got a lot more traction than I was expecting so hopefully I can get some more people to see this and some new recommendations with it. I only like hand-drawn anime that’s just how it is. I know there’s a lot of new anime that’s very good, but that is not what I am looking for. I just only enjoy the old anime. I am also very particular with what I like to watch. I like space, cyberpunk, futurism, etc aesthetics. I don’t really want any recommendations outside of these parameters. Please look at my list of what I already enjoy and see if you can come up with anything similar! I have watched some shows, but I really enjoy OVA’s a lot more because I can pick them up and put them down a lot easier. I’m open to movie / show recommendations, but that’s not really what I’m looking for. Short shows / OVAs would be much appreciated!
Movies
1. Ninja Scroll
2. Nausicaa
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Akira
5. Macross Do You Remember Love
6. Castle in the Sky
7. Wicked City
8. Porco Rosso
9. Jin Roh
10. Angel Egg
11. Megazone 23
12. Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness
13. Perfect Blue
14. Rojun Z
15. Vampire Hunter D
16. Ghost in the Shell
17. Kentauros no Densetsu (‘87)
18. Memories
19. Demon City Shinjuku
20. Neo Tokyo
Shows / OVAs
1. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
2. Martian Successor Nadisco
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Bubblegum Crisis
5. Golden Boy
6. You’re Under Arrest
7. Macross Plus
8. Angel Cop
9. Armitage III
10. Goku Midnight Eye I & II
11. Gunsmith Cats
12. Cyber City Oedo 808
13. Goddamn
14. Riding Bean
15. Dominion Tank Police
16. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II
17. Dallos
18. Appleseed ‘98
19. Gunbuster
20. BAOH
21. The Cockpit
22. Bubblegum Crash
23. AD Police
24. Sonic Soilder Borgman
25. Altia Battle Angel
Short Films
1. Magnetic
2. Stink Bomb
3. Dragon Heaven
4. Cannon Fodder
5. Black Magic M66
Want to see
\- Galaxy Express 999 16:14
\- Spriggan
\- Fist of the North Star
\- Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
\- Metropolis
\- Revolutionary Girl Utena
\- Onisamma e 1991
\- Gundam F91
\- Neon Genesis Evangelion
\- Rurouni Kenhin
\- The Place Promised in Our Early Days
\- Night on the Galatic Railroad
\- Megazone Part 2-4
\- vs knight lamune & 40 fire
\- Escaflowne
\- Space Yamato \*
\- rurouni kenshin trust & betrayal
\- City Hunter
\- Shakotan Boogie \*
Recommendations
\- Beserk 97
\- The Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
\- Trigun (Show)
\- Paprika
\- Domin
\- The Dagger of Kamui
\- Project A-ko
\- Gundam Movies
\- Whisper of the Heart
\- Patlabor
\- Lupen the Third
\- Area 88
\- record of the lodoss war
Thank you to anyone that recommended before and thank you to anyone that recommends now!
Movies
1. Ninja Scroll
2. Nausicaa
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Akira
5. Macross Do You Remember Love
6. Castle in the Sky
7. Wicked City
8. Porco Rosso
9. Jin Roh
10. Angel Egg
11. Megazone 23
12. Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness
13. Perfect Blue
14. Rojun Z
15. Vampire Hunter D
16. Ghost in the Shell
17. Kentauros no Densetsu (‘87)
18. Memories
19. Demon City Shinjuku
20. Neo Tokyo
Shows / OVAs
1. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
2. Martian Successor Nadisco
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Bubblegum Crisis
5. Golden Boy
6. You’re Under Arrest
7. Macross Plus
8. Angel Cop
9. Armitage III
10. Goku Midnight Eye I & II
11. Gunsmith Cats
12. Cyber City Oedo 808
13. Goddamn
14. Riding Bean
15. Dominion Tank Police
16. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II
17. Dallos
18. Appleseed ‘98
19. Gunbuster
20. BAOH
21. The Cockpit
22. Bubblegum Crash
23. AD Police
24. Sonic Soilder Borgman
25. Altia Battle Angel
Short Films
1. Magnetic
2. Stink Bomb
3. Dragon Heaven
4. Cannon Fodder
5. Black Magic M66
Want to see
\- Galaxy Express 999 16:14
\- Spriggan
\- Fist of the North Star
\- Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
\- Metropolis
\- Revolutionary Girl Utena
\- Onisamma e 1991
\- Gundam F91
\- Neon Genesis Evangelion
\- Rurouni Kenhin
\- The Place Promised in Our Early Days
\- Night on the Galatic Railroad
\- Megazone Part 2-4
\- vs knight lamune & 40 fire
\- Escaflowne
\- Space Yamato \*
\- rurouni kenshin trust & betrayal
\- City Hunter
\- Shakotan Boogie \*
Recommendations
\- Beserk 97
\- The Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
\- Trigun (Show)
\- Paprika
\- Domin
\- The Dagger of Kamui
\- Project A-ko
\- Gundam Movies
\- Whisper of the Heart
\- Patlabor
\- Lupen the Third
\- Area 88
\- record of the lodoss war
Thank you to anyone that recommended before and thank you to anyone that recommends now!
Commentaires
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Future Boy Conan may be one of Miyazaki's best works with a lot of the common themes throughout him films being expanded on heavily as it's a full TV production, primarily environmentalism and war.
Space Runaway Ideon is an okay TV series with one of the greatest sequel films of all time. If you're familiar with any of Yoshiyuki Tomino's anime Ideon made me feel like I finally understood what he was going for with Mobile Suit Gundam.
Besides that, watch what's on your PTW! You've got some serious gems lined up.
Vampire Princess Miyu (has both an OVA and a TV series)
Twilight of the dark master (film)
X: the movie
Pet shop of horrors (OVA)
Darkside Blues (film)
Please save my earth (ova)
Sailor moon
Clamp school detectives
Magic knight rayearth
If you only like retro anime, that's fine (though I also would argue that expanding your horizons is never a bad thing). But don't imply that modern anime is "not hand-drawn."
> [Most animation is still drawn on paper.](https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2017/06/23/anime-craft-weekly-41-i-cant-believe-its-2017-and-i-have-to-write-that-anime-is-hand-drawn/) A massively huge chunk of it is still crafted in the most traditional way possible, which only makes the misconceptions about the production of anime sound even more alien. And while we’re at it, I’ll spare you the debate over whether digital animation counts as hand drawn or not; unless you’re some sort of prodigy who has found other ways to operate tablets, you still use your hands to draw on them. There are terms that are up for debate, but this is hand drawn animation by its very definition.
(To elaborate, although digital workflows (still using drawing tablets, with hands) have continued to gain ground, probably still a majority of anime today uses basically the same production pipeline and material that it has since like the 60s for the actual animation. Storyboards become layouts, which are redrawn as first key animation, redrawn again and fine-tuned as second key animation, and supplemented with in-between animation...all on paper (digital workflows use the same steps just with tablets). It is in the finishing and photography stages that things differ: in the past, the drawings were transferred onto animation cels and physically painted and then filmed, while now they are scanned in and colored digitally.)
If you want to be specific about the *physical media* with which the anime you are interested in is made, I would suggest using the term "cel animation."
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I see where you’re coming from but in my opinion you’re just getting into semantics. Hand drawn anime is hand drawn anime. Is what I am watching on screen primarily hand drawn? Vs Modern anime is digitally assisted. Is the majority of what I am watching digitally assisted? I’m still going to use my terminology because the most people will understand what I am talking about. I have been using those terms the entire time I’ve been watching anime and you are the first to raise any concerns. You can get hyper specific about anything but I’m not going to be the guy going “☝️🤓 aCtUaLlY” (not saying that’s you rn but I’m just not going to be that person)
Plastic Little
Dragon Half
Hyper Police
Lost Universe
El Hazard
Tenchi Muyo
Lily C.A.T.
Black Magic M-66
Fushigi Yuugi
Outlanders
Saber Marionette J
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku