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>>138992955
I just watched 3x3 Eyes and it was pretty good. There's also a sequel that came out 5 years later which is even better.

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I haven't remembered to really watch oldies in ages. Planning to watch Doubutsu Takarajima when I next have time. Bump though.

>>138992955
Why does anime look a lot blurrier and washed out?

>>138993922
old I mean

I wonder if Ganba will ever be fully released it's one of the few Dezaki shows that I haven't seen.

Is Magic Knight Rayearth good? Too bad that the BD rips looks like shit.

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Obari it up

>>138994076
>Is Magic Knight Rayearth good?

Yes. It is clamp

I'm finishing Zeta Gundam I' really disappointed. It has the 0079 flaws but with a lot more retarded and/or unlikeable characters. Why do people love it ? Even the war themes are poorly executed.

>>138994235
>It has the 0079 flaws but with a lot more retarded and/or unlikeable characters
They're lovably hideous human beings. Except for based Jerid.

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>>138994235
I only ever watched the original, which I feel like was one of those so bad it's good things, and war in pocket which was great.

>>138993922
Animation was hard back then. Smooth or high quality: Pick one.

>>138994273
I never saw human beings behaving like that. I almost feel bad for Jerid though.

>>138994076
>Is Magic Knight Rayearth good?
it has the best OP of all time

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Windaria was fucking good. I need to see his other works. Downloaded birth and will check it out later.

Are Roujin Z and Venus Wars good movies?

>>138995304
Why do you ask instead of just watching them?

>>138995304
Roujin is neat. Watch it first.

Waiting for the BD rips of Megazone 23, Tekkaman Blade, Tobikage, Zillion and beyond the episode 11 of Yawara.

>>138992955
I saw a couple BD eps of Rayearth released subbed

>>138993922
DVDs are shit, low res

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>>138994356

Not really. Lots of old things are only available in low res DVDs or bad encodes, so you get the impression of bad quality. And outside of long running TV anime animation was usually well done.

Iczer has finally got a BD release, so it might be watchable in good quality soon.

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>>138995465
I know the first 2 are but who knows how long til they are all released.

>Iczer has finally got a BD

Didn't know that should have got those instead of watching the DVD, but there aren't even rips on nyaa.

>Space Cobra Movie

The TV show is one of my absolute favorites but the movie I thought was pretty bad.

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Started watching Ideon, finished the 4th episode yesterday.
It's not confirmed yet but it's pretty fucking obvious that the Ideon and the Spaceship only work when that baby with white hair is crying.
The way they start their little war is really fucking stupid.
>hey look, there are aliens on this planet
>let's check it out
>oh shit they have buildings and an artifact, ATTACK

Also, I don't really get which faction came from Earth and which one didn't. Maybe both did, it's really confusing.

>>138995638

I liked it. TV does a better job with a lot of things, but the movie still has the Dezaki touch and CRYSTAL BOY, even if the plot is standard 70's/80s camp.
.

>>138995304
>Roujin Z

Yes it's good.

>>138995763

I can't stand early Tomino stuff. I envy those who can, because overall it's usually interesting, just feels horribly cobbled together.

>>138995908
How she got away with attempted murder twice is beyond me.

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>>138995763
You've deducted wrong.
The MCs come from planet Solo that's an Earthling colony. Buff Clan are a mystery. Earth is just mankind's cradle in it.

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>>138996160
Ok, that makes kind of sense I guess.
It's just handled really weirdly, at least in the first few episodes.

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>>138996105
The power of money.

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Waiting on [EG] Victory Gundam BD - Disc 5.

>>138994273
Paptimus,Jerid and Yazan were the only good characters.

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>>138996615
Holy shit.

>>138995933
Didn't like the different voice of Cobra, the guy doing him in the Tv series is perfect. But I suppose since the movie was first that couldn't be helped.

>>138996555
That girl was indeed fucking crazy. I wonder if the MC and Rei would have ended up together if she hadn't died Or was that just some Class S stuff?

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>>138996324
There are bluray rips (with improved subs) for the first 30 or so episodes already you know. The rest are coming eventually.

I'm the past week I've finished ZZ Gundam, F91, War in the pocket, SDF macross, and the movie. Now I'm in that weird spot where need to finally decided something else to watch. I'm thinking Macross +, 0083, and the Slayers series.

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>>138993922
1) DVD rips are shit
2) LD and VHS rips are even worse
2) A lot of shows were made mainly on 16mm film because it was cheaper, the ones with better budgets were on 35mm film which usually looks clearer when they make a BD transfer for it. Sometimes shows used 35mm for the OP/ED and frequently used stock footage, then the rest would be in 16mm.

>>138997979
0083 is good from what I've seen so far

>>138997979
>0083

Always saw that one webm with some guy looking angry in 1080p and look the BD is actually fully released.

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Working through Patlabor, starting with the tv series. A lot more SoL then I was expecting.

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>>138999150
Much more SoL in the series compared to the movies.

Noa a best

>>138998103
>A lot of shows were made mainly on 16mm film because it was cheaper,

I never knew that.

I remember an anon saying one could watch the second Patlabor movie wihtout having watched anything else because the main cast isn't really in it.
Since I don't watch movies alone I'd watch it with a friend but he hasn't seen anything patlabor.

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>>138999756

You can even run into some occasional 8mm stuff. Watch enough old blurays and you can eventually pick up the distinction by eye.

Most of /a/ watches new stuff. The threads like this for older stuff will never reach bump limit ever again.

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>>139001461
Sometimes they managed to.

>>139001461
Reaching the bump limit is not really a good thing.

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>>139001496
I have tried to make threads for older stuff and they get like 12 replies before dying. I just don't know anymore.

I started watching "Iria Zeiram the Animation" a while back. It's not something I'm able to watch more than one episode at a time, and not that interesting either, so only watched three episodes so far, but it's okay and still pretty good.

Also finally started Rose of Versailles, but on a break after 10 episodes. About French royalty, taking place in the late 1700s? I fear how this will end.
But so far, it has been absolutely amazing, I love it. Just don't want to watch the ending I'm expecting to happen.

>>138994076
Rayearth is awesome! Please watch it, it needs more fans. And the first OP is amazing. The background music is great too, and I love the main characters. Please watch!
I really want to cosplay it, already bought some stuff but need to start working on it...

>>139001461
When there's a high profile BD release there's sometimes a chance.

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>>139001907
>Rose of Versailles

You're in for the greatest anime of all time, at least for me.

I'm watching zz Gundam,damn this series is a fucking mess.I'm at episode 18 and nothing has happend so far besides some fag with a rose chasing a babysitter called Bright Noa.

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I finished LOGH last year and wanted to watch more adaptations of the same author. Arslan Senki's OVA are great but the story is incomplete and only six episodes. Nana Toshi Monogatari was just a two episode ad for the books, and was hodepodged and rushed.

I'm coming to realize most OVA's made in the 90's are essentially just vehicles to sell the manga.

>>138997114
Picking a popular singer to voice Cobra in the movie probably wasn't the best of ideas.

>>139002306
>I'm coming to realize most OVA's made in the 90's are essentially just vehicles to sell the manga.
Congratulations, you're overcoming nostalgiafaggotry.

>>139002306
The best things about 90s OVAs is just the atmosphere. I don't think you'd buy them wanting a complete story with some exceptions.

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>>139002462
I'm okay with that, I think. I enjoy the colors and style of early-mid 90's anime. There's plenty of stories (Nadia, Escaflowne, Rayearth, etc) that I can watch if I want a good story. I really enjoy OVA's anyways even if they're clear attempts at selling manga.

Really should rewatch both Rurouni Kenshin OVA's, they're just too good.

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>>138999756
With how cheap anime usually is, I think more stuff was actually 16mm than not. OVAs were often 35mm the whole way through, but TV had a ton of 16mm.

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>>139002109
Love ZZ.

>>139001554

I certainly hope you don't mean for specific series, since that's always been an issue.

>>139002739
I wanted a World Masterpiece Theater thread but I will make pre 2000 threads from now on. I wanted to see if anyone knew where the rips for this is. Yeah it's CR
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/11/12-1/sky-perfectv-airs-world-masterpiece-theater-4k-remastered-openings-special

>>139001977
Not that anon but I think Versailles will be the next thing to watch out of my backlog.
I'm a shameless Ikuharafag so I hope it is somewhat up my alley.

>>139002862
They should all be on nicovideo.

>>139002109
ZZ Gundam is my second favorite full-length Gundam, after 0079.

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>>139002923
>Ikuharafag

It's by Dezaki though so there aren't really any similarities.

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I finally watched Sanctuary yesterday. It's nothing special, but not bad either, quite a decent OVA.
Is the manga worth it?

>>139003151
He's referencing the fact that Ikuhara was heavily inspired by RoV when he was involved in the creation of Utena

Why was kite so fucked up. Goddamn.

>>138994235
Zeta Gundam is meh.

Tomino doesn't understand people or human relationships at all and can't write dialogue to save his life.

The plot is also as formulaic as any show from the 60s or 70s.

The standouts of the series are the music and the visual design.

>>139003151
I thought she was wearing glasses from the thumbnail

>>139005173

You say that as if though formulaic series from those decades weren't good.

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Nothing but special but finally watching Yu Yu Hakusho. Enjoying it a lot so far.

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Watched Violence Jack 2 yesterday.

Unironically owned. The first was utter shit but this was great.

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>>139005337
Some people just can't appreciate some decent fights of the week with a bit of an overarching plot. Take pity on them.

>>138997830
Fuck me, Proffesional and Queen Bee where God Tier.

>>139005008
You can always watch Mezzo Forte to cheer up.

>>138992955
>pre-2000 thread

here comes /m/

>>138992955
Iczer was terrible, not only the story is bad, it also feels incomplete and rushed.
And it didn't have enough lesbian alien sex.

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>>139005603
Well what the fuck do you expect? There were proportionally a lot more mecha shows back then than there are now.

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Watched this. Really liked the design.

>>139005784
BAOH HAS A LASER CANNON

>>139005603
For all that people like to complain that no one on /a/ talks about their old sci-fi shit enough, it gets way more press than anything else old.

>>139003295
What, they made a Sanctuary OVA!?

>>138994076
I have a translation for episode 3 at least, but no guarantees for the rest.

>>138995401
Waiting for Warau Salesman, Gamba and WBS, but at this rate I might end up watching them raw.

Also pisses me off how few DVD/BD releases of old anime get ripped. The prices are just too high.

>>139005450
How is it to the manga?

>>139006219
Eh, it'll happen eventually. It took years for anyone to rip Ideon.

>>139005660
A shame the Dangaioh BDs will take forever to get ripped and subbed.

>>139006263
There are blu-rays out of print now that were never ripped.

What's the plot of Daicon IV? I've watched it so many times, but I've never been able to understand a clear plot,it's just awesome things happening

>>139006305
Some examples?

>>139005784
Source?

>>139006306
Bunny girl frolics through 80's nerd favourites and stuff happens.

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>>138994076
>Rayearth
>BD
>Looks like shit
Come on, they don't look that bad. They could be a lot worse.

>>139005603
It's much better than this shithole of a board.

>>138994161
Too bad /a/ had extremely shit taste.

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>>139006281
It's an even bigger shame that they don't have the film for the last episode anymore, so they have to upscale it

>>139006305
And? Someone will sell those box sets eventually.

>>139006326
Mach GoGoGo

At least I think it is out of print, no Amazon seller will ship here.

old kamui gaiden blurays too, though there is a new blu-ray set coming
ashita no joe, but I think it is an upscale.

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>>138992955
I'm watching Zeta right now.

>>139006364
>And? Someone will sell those box sets eventually.
And who will buy overpriced, used dvd/bd sets via proxy only to rip and upload it online?

Once it's out of print, there is almost no chance.

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>>139006531
Who buys a new box set in the first place just to rip it and put it online? Going by your logic no one would ever upload anything they paid money for.

>>139006358
What stuff happens? Are there people trying to stop her? And then we just see her awesome escape scene? But then the city is destroyed and there are petals everywhere and a laser causes trees to grow. What is going on!

So when the city is destroyed and flowers everywhere, it seems the world is covered with green and vegetation. Also, it's the same spaceship that fires the laser that gives her the bunny powers? Is she a nature extremist, trying to destroy humanity to save the earth, and the enemies try to stop her, but in the end, we see her win when she's able to fire the laser, where the spaceship is shaped like a vegetable, representing the natural and her values. The destruction of the city followed by the flowers and vegetation growth represents how the destruction of civilization will bring back nature to how it was meant to be.

Okay, this are just some wild guesses. Am I on to something?

>>139006390
Funimation needs to fucking announce when they're going to release Mach Go Go Go already.

>>139006790
>overcompressed shit on 2 BD25
Yeah, can't wait

>>139006655
At least there's a better chance while it's sold at the regular price and ships internationally?

>>139006842
I was hoping for a miracle to occur, honestly.

And anyway, I don't think rips of the Japanese release are going to happen any time soon if ever.

>>139006359
Why do you even come to /a/ if you think it's worse than /m/ and also want to discuss mecha? Just go to fucking /m/.

>>139006359
>It's much better than this shithole of a board.

They're equal in all honesty, though this isn't the proper place to have such discussion.

>>139007220
/m/ is worse because it's slow.

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>>138994076

Did you watch the ugly filtered one pictured? The 2.7gig some anon uploaded recently looks fine.

>>139005531

Long motw series with a competent staff are always my favorite thing to watch. Enough time to really flesh out a full cast, build the setting, and experiment, rather than the rushed mess modern seasonal anime is (similar to old ovas if anything, without the style and atmosphere). And the payoff of a good ending is always worth it.

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>>139001554
The B-A releases of City Hunter are shittttttttttttt.

I have no idea why the Mokkori releases are not on Bakabt?

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>>139007220
>>139007192
>waifufagging
>shit topics left and right
>majority of threads ventured around new releases
/m/ is definitely better. But, that's mostly a mecha board so anons like me have no other choice but to come here.

>>139007345
If he did, then people really outta stop comparing encodes like they're the actual BD. A lot of encoders put filters on 'em and the majority probably take that as the real thing.

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City Hunter is not only an advocate for concealed carry permits but also has fantastic trigger discipline

>>139006390
Another I just remembered
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B009A89BIU/

>>139007762
>have no other choice but to come here
Or you could try reddit.

>>138992955
You didn't like the Cooter Wolves? Have you tried Megazone 23, Cyber City Oedo 808, or Legend of the Blue Wolves?

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>>139008209

>>139008209

This board should be be split into currently airing / older anime boards. It'd be a lot slower obviously, but it's not like that's a problem. Threads on obscure shows would hang around a lot longer and let people find them before they get bumped off. Although it might just devolve into generals /int/style.

>>139008689
If you want to see why that's a terrible idea, look at /vr/.

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Help /a/ I'm all out of 90's/80's shit to watch after I finish City Hunter and maby rewatch Wicked City/Bio Hunter/Dirty Pair TV

>>139008689
Nothing good comes from dividing boards.

>Threads on obscure shows would hang around a lot longer
Maybe, but I don't think a board for non-currently airing stuff would insensitive people to talk about older stuff.

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>>139008742
Solution. Mecha.

>>139008723
/vr/ is fine. We need a retro anime and manga board, too. Current /a/ is a mess of new shows and manga while older series get shunned. That, and how quickly new threads are made kills them.

>>139008742
Votoms or Cobra maybe? You could hit up some classic ovas like angel's egg, memories, gits, or giant robo.

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>>139009105
>/vr/ is fine.
It's just as bad as /v/ yet somehow made that shithole even worse by its creation. Separating a board in to old and new just breeds the most obnoxious kind of elitists on a dead board on one end, and removes legitimately good content from the other.

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>>139008742
See
>>138995203
>>139007683
Fucking really? I thought they just had a really shitty DVD release.

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>>139009123
I think I should rephrase my problem, I"ve seen almost all the classics including Votoms and I just finished watching all of Cobra two weeks ago.

>>139009414
Mokkori has the better encodes at least for city hunter 1 and 2.

>>139008742
You're Under Arrest? That's what I'm watchig currently. (watch the OVA's first, then the TV series)

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>nearly all fantasy OVAs are extremely short or incomplete adaptations
Any decent lengthed fantasy OVAs? I can think of Lodoss, Ellcia, and I guess Bastard!! which I haven't watched.

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>>139009105
>>139009214

Honestly, you both bring up good points.To be honest though, I don't think the creation of a new board and vice versa really matters.

The people using them are going to be antagonistic shitheads no matter where they are.

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>>139009214
Please, actually post and lurk there before judging /vr/. They always have a neato retro Japanese games thread and it's extremely not as autistic as /v/ which is great. A retro anime and manga board would be like having a version of /a/ without the /a/utism.

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>>139001977
>>139001907

Orphen was such a letdown, I was expecting a decent DnD-style adventure series and I got no adventures, a boring plot, and a case where everybody but Orphen is a useless load.

On the plus side, Lodoss War TV is a lot better than I expected.

As it turns out DnD style fantasy is all I ever really wanted in my life and I think I'm running dry on them.

>>139009514
>You're Under Arrest?
Oh god that show was meh as hell. If they took out the bullshit with captain falcons 75 year old dad banging a 20 year old girl it would have been better. God what the fuck was that so many episodes wasted.

>>139009618
*a cast

>>139009604
OSCAAAAAAAAAR

>>139009664
So far there have only been 2 episodes focusing on "Cap. Falcon's" parents. I'm about halfway through the series, and I'm enjoying it. I agree it's not the best, but I'm having fun so that's a plus.

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>>139007762
>majority of threads ventured around new releases
While the anime industry grow a lot(we get a ridiculously big number of shows a year if compared to old times), the mecha genre declined and is far from being relevant right now. Mecha don't sell anymore except if it's main-line Gundam.

If you like mecha you have no choice but to watch old shows. That's not the case if you enjoy anime in general, of course newer shows are going to monopolize all the discussion, you have something to move on. Lodoss got really nice threads when the BD was released but you can't expect people to come back to old shows, which are discussed a long time ago, unless there is something new to talk about.

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Gonna get around to watching the Irresponsible Captain Tylor movies and OVAs soon.

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>>139009518
Because many of them were made not to be stand-alone works, but to be advertisements for the then-running light novels or manga.
I love the designs for Weathering Continent(same character designer as Lodoss), but it's just a short movie to advertise books.
Books that I don't think were ever translated into English.
Not that we're the target audience.

>>139009761
I think later there is the marriage that takes up a few more episodes. S2 is ass and it ended with S1.

>>139009791
The OVAs were a dip in quality from the TV series.
Still, it had some nice episodes. Ensign Kojiro had a nice one, as did the Marines.

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>>138992955
I started Fist of the North Star last year. Finished the anime in January and now I'm finishing the manga. Favorite ost from the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDn_scXqvQ

The series as a whole is fucking fantastic. It's basically the grandaddy of modern shonen, and I get a better picture of how stuff came after it was inspired. In particular, Bobobo is a lot funnier to me know.
What I don't like is Ken's overall lack of facial expressions, and the fact that none of my anime nerd friends have even heard of the series.

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>it's a Strike Man episode

>>139009518
You could technically say Words Worth but that is hentai but enjoyable as hell.

>>139009797
I know, I just wish there were a few more complete ones.

OVAs seemed to be sci-fi dominated.

>>139009518
Legend of Lyon Flare and Ruin Explorers

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>>139009928
Yeah, even back then in the "Golden Age" of fantasy, it never was a huge seller for the Japs.
Unless it was a comedy like Slayers.
Slayers TV BDs when?

>>139009882
>it's a Ryo is perverted towards a woman he was hired to protect and Kaori hits him in the head with a hammer episode

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>>139009897
What's the hentai-to-everything-else ratio?

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>>139009995
>straight fantasy anime probably vastly outnumbered by fantasy parody anime

>>139009767
And regardless, you can still talk about old shows here, look at all the LoGH threads that have been popping up lately because of the english release of the novels.

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>>139009975
>Ruin Explorers
My nigga.
I just wish it lasted longer.

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>>139009995
>Slayers

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>>139010364
>it's a Naga is a perfect angel who deserves a lot of hugs and kisses episode

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>>139010469
>>>/fanfiction.net/

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>can't watch short OVAs because i want more and they'er not long enough
I still haven't watched the third episode of Cyber City Oedo

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>>139010531
>it's a senile grandpa wanders onto 4chan when trying to upload his Ranma fanfic to a lemon site and accidentally misremembers Naga being best girl in Slayers so he needs to be put down like Old Yeller episode

>>139010067
But that's almost every episode.

>>139010589
Nigger the third episode is the best.
Just do it. And join the rest of us in despair that it never continued.

>>139008742
Have you tried any of these?
>>139008304

Why are remasters sold for such ridiculous prices when they shouldn't cost anywhere as much to release as new series?

>>139010589
>third episode of Cyber City Oedo
That's one great episode of anime.

>>139010722
If it's a DVD, it's most likely out of print.
If it's BD, it's rarely more expensive than typical Jap prices.

>>139010786
leecher detected

>>139010722
Because Japanese anime fans are used to being gouged so you might as well milk them for all they're worth.

>>139009995

Never going to get a good release.

The masters are lost or destroyed I'm pretty sure

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>>139011025
Sadly seems to be the case. Even the DVDs are pretty shitty quality.

>>139010854
From what I can tell, it's pretty much the same for most Japanese television.

>>139011147
Yep. In America, most of us are used to paying around 20 bucks for a movie. That was the cost on VHS, on DVD and now BD after it saw a spike to an average of 30 for a little while.
Japs are used to paying the equivalent to 50 bucks for their movies and so, a single BD with two episodes on it for 50 bucks is just normal for them because that's how it was when anime was on VHS and LaserDisc.

>>139011259
I forget where I heard this, but I did hear that it became that way largely because of the rental market. Japanese customers would have rather rented and copied the tapes instead of buying them outright.

Not pre-2000, but I just started Noir because it's probably one of the last analog TV anime made, so the BD isn't too bad.

>>139011667
This basically, they started buying copies intended for video rental stores directly from the source, so they would get to keep them. The studios were more than happy to sell them the videos at those prices.

Seiya.

I love it, but sometimes these characters get ridiculous. I can't even count the number of times Shiryuu died or almost died.

>>139010589

Episode three is basically a dry-run for a lot of what Kawajiri wanted to do in Bloodlust. Design elements are brought back, and you could almost see them existing in the same universe.

>>139011098
>>139011025

I'm sure the film elements are fine. The movies and OVAs just all got some BD releases, didn't they? Though, the first TV series is seriously cheap, so a BD can only do so much to bring out the image that's there.

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From episode 75 IIRC

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BREAST PHYSICS

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>>139012468

>>139006364
>It's an even bigger shame that they don't have the film for the last episode anymore, so they have to upscale it

MAY I ASK FUCKING WHY!?

Downloaded the 80GB torrent of Outlaw Star and finished it a few days ago.

Might do Lodoss or finish Bubblegum Crisis not sure yet.

>>139011744
Noir looks pretty good, but man is it boring. I dropped it after 11 episodes of nothing interesting happening.

>>139012810
Yeah, the same is true of all of Bee Train's "Girls-with-guns" trilogy involving Noir, Madlax and El Cazador de la Bruja.

>>139012613
You can probably bet on it being either misplaced, stolen, or destroyed.

>>139012613

We already got our money out of this shit, so don't worry about keeping it safe.

>>139012666
>80g
I got the 720p version and think it looks fine enough.

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>>139013460
Well you're wrong!

>>138993922
I think I can help a little more than other people saying "It just is" televisions were worse, 360p was high quality for a television and 720p was good enough for the production cut that they copy from by the company. A lot of things factored into it, the camera lens used to take pictures and so. Things had to be made quickly so it was sketched, inked, then colored with copic, and then pictures were taken. They were almost always low production budgets so people were working mostly out of hope and hobby.

>>139013460
It is considered the best BD transfer there is. It is the best looking 1080 cel there is.

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>>139013536
No, I'm not.

>>138997979
>0083
Get ready for Nina

For Dirty Pair and Cobra, do I just start with the original TV series and then do whatever I want from there? Also, out of curiosity, has anybody here heard of Boldor: The Invisible Neighbour?

>>139014898
Yeah, especially for Cobra because it's one-shots or 3-4 episode long arcs, honestly you don't even need to watch the original series to understand what's happening.

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Rewatching this, finished the canon stuff but continuing because I'm incapable of dropping anything. The motivations and actions of some of these filler characters are so retarded it's infuriating

>>138995908
Oniisama e... is my fave as an avid yuri fan

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>>139014684
>all that DNR
That's disgusting.

>>139012075
>Bloodlust
Still gotta rewatch that sometime.

>>138992955
>Ikusa 1
Iczer-1, you dolt.
It's always been spelled Iczer-1.

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>>139011835
No shame in liking Saint Seiya. Although the movies are more ridiculous for me. Shun can't even move without tripping over himself and Ikki comes in and saves the day every time, Seiya always gets the Sagittarius cloth, etc.

>>138995465
>Why does anime look a lot blurrier and washed out?
>DVDs are shit, low res
No, it was shot on 16mm film. Has nothing to do with DVD or resolution.
The original transfer was all analog video until it got to the digital master with the previous generation of making things. A new transfer using latest film scanning would look a lot better on DVD, hell even digitally mastered VHS. It's all in what you have and how it's used.

>>139016808
There is immense shame unless your name is Pablo, Juan, Javier, Jesus, Carlos, Eduardo or Sergio

>>139016980
Ah, that dislike of the series coupled with racism.

>>139017046
>listing popular spic names is racism
>complaining about racism on /a/ in the first place
Fuck off.

>>139012613
It happens. Episode 16 of Eva was lost because of an earthquake, so the BD version is just an upscale from the DVDs. A rip of that is (usually) still better than old DVD rips, but it still sucks.

>>139017104
I wasn't complaining about it, I was enjoying it.

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>>139017046
Buildo el wallo

>>138995908
>this fucking bitch
FUCKING DIE YOU FUCKING WHORE!!!
Oniisama E is great thou, top Dezaki shelf tbhfam. I have to admit I cried when Rei bought the farm Having read both the manga and watched the show, I honestly don't knwo if I prefere it being suicide or accidental death The first is maybe sadder, but the second has the Aerith death sudden feeling to it, you really feel Nanako got robbed of her Good End by a mischievous fairy, like the ED says.

Seeing a lot of Dezaki love in this thread which is great since I've been meaning to get into his work for a while. I'm thinking of watching Versailles soon, but just for fun I'd like to ask

Which series do you think is the best starting point?
Which is your favorite?
Which do you think is the most influential?

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>>139006230
The manga is a bloodbath compared to the anime
It's also the ending to more than one Go Nagai series

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Taking a break from my Tenchi Muyo binge and just finished watching the Record of Lodoss War OVA. Now I'm in the middle of watching Gundam Wing which I'm enjoying a lot more than people have told me I would. I can't tell if I like it just because of the character and mech designs or the plot just has me confused enough to make me want to see how it ends.

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>>139008742

haha, time for leijiverse!

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>>139009214
>>139009105

I would like to point out that there are a truckload of anons who legitimately only watch currently airing anime to fit in and have something to talk about here rather than any real enjoyment over anime by itself.

Whenever I hear somebody say "oh but the threads were great" for an anime I die a little inside.

>>139020230
Sounds like regular people. Many times, people watch shows just because other people watch them and they want to have something to talk about with others. I mean, why else would everyone watch stuff like Game of Thrones?

>>139001977
RoV is an 8/10 ruined by a really rushed and meh ending.

>>139011835
>I love it, but sometimes these characters get ridiculous.

I want to watch it but I'm still waiting on decent subs. Some people over in the comments section in BBT seem to be working on them, albeit very slowly.

>>139006327
Baoh. It's an earlier work of the JoJo creator.

>>139014684
>>139014684

oh my god CBM what the FUCK ARE YOU DOING

>>139020350
People like that latch onto stuff precisely because are people that genuinely do like it. Usually people they are interested in sexually.

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>>139012591
>those fucking droopy eyes

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>>138997979
>I'm thinking Macross +

I'd recommend watching the movie first and then the OVA's for more delicious animation.

My reasoning being that the movie takes out a lot of content early on (which is bad) but adds in a very important scene near the end that wasn't in the OVA for some strange reason.

I think all the Macross series are now on BD, which is nice.

>>138992955
I marathoned Tenchi (except the movies and In Tokyo) last week....I now understand waifus.

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>>139020350

>Sounds like regular people.

I don't want to talk with regular people though, I want to talk to people on here who love anime purely because it's anime, the style/animation/eccentricities.

>>138992955

Been watching zeta.

Renewed my displeasure about tomino dialog, characters skipping developmental stages (unnoticed timeskips?) in relationships and the way they interact. Given that it's 50 episodes there was more time to work on this, but the episodly mech fight needed to happen inter-spaced by fragmented dialog.

Still hilarious to see the designated bad guys act like complete retards. Recently watched e26 where a titan pilot baits kamille into killing his commanding officer (the baboon) and his ship. This guy is char levels of 'fuck my own team, and no retribution for this at all', he's yet another traitor/spy.

Somehow Bright can't accept newtypes as existing? His fucking wife had/has low level telepathy with amuro, how the fuck are they still denying it? Four wrecked a large portion of HK, why the fuck doesn't HK go full AUEG support since feddies (titan faction) are just another zeon wrecking civvies.

Then there's the lack of surveillance tech during many of the trips to cities, hand wave it as 80's thing? It's not like surveillance tech was new then, why so little of it in the series.

For a horrors of war series not enough research went into all the spy/surveillance games that there should be.

>>139005784
I miss bioengineered weapons like Baoh, The Guyver, Genocyber, and Mewtwo. What other anime would you guys recommend that has a "bioweapon gone wrong" kind of story to it? Also any horror anime in general would be nice.

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>>139020958
You should also watch the live-action movies.

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>>139020958
I can't believe I forgot about that thing, and it's little china doll head in it's head. (that creepy little shit)
>>139020981
Will do.


>>139012468
BEST PHYSICS

>>139020749

The worst offender on retardation I find is if two mobile suits are fighting eachother and one of them escapes into say a colony or space station, the pilot leaves the mobile suit and goes in with their own body but when the opposing mobile suit finds the enemy mobile suit they don't immediately shoot it (even if it's empty), they sometimes just get out of their mobile suit and follow them in.

Makes no sense.

>>139020749
Zeta is a clusterfuck that somehow manages to be more than the sum of its parts, if that makes any sense.

Still, to this day I don't understand the reappraisal the series underwent about a decade ago.

>>139005531

But some of the episodly fights in Z are shit.

>chasey chase
>oh noes they are chasing
>4 suits rush to attack
>4 suits rush to defend
>mook/ 'character we're meant to feel sorry for' dies
>repeat next episode until scenery changes or actual battle takes place

The above structure for how the weekly fight happens isn't exact but you get the idea that there's always a reason for a weekly mech fight (sometimes with new toy to sell).

The character we're meant to feel sorry for is badly done, they often come off full retard. As either honor, revenge etc (insert emotional motivator) drives them to basically suicide against the superior force and their commander is like 'sure go ahead', but demonstrates they know they just sent them on a suicide run for no fucking gain.

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Nice to see my thread is still there, wasn't expecting that.

>>139020374
I only agree on the second half of the last episode was pretty unnecessary.

>>139020230
>Whenever I hear somebody say "oh but the threads were great" for an anime I die a little inside.
Why? You're not allowed to have fun talking about a show if it's not good?

>>139020350
>I mean, why else would everyone watch stuff like Game of Thrones?
>it's gotten so big and cancerous that people forget primaryfags even exist
I feel abandoned.

>>139022430
I'm sure there are still people who had read the books and wanted to see it in action, but the majority of people I've talked to watched the show first then sometimes maybe read the books because they wanted more or to avoid future spoilers.

>>139022430
>Why? You're not allowed to have fun talking about a show if it's not good?

You're missing the point.

>>139022596
What is the point? I don't see anything about most posts like that that implies the poster only watches anime for that, just that that specific show was fun because of the threads more than because of its own merit.

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Still would like to know if any subbed BD are Rwas have been uploaded recently. Downloaded gundam 0083 yesterday since that was released recently.
Anything else, movies?

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>>138999528
Noa is absolutely the best.

Just finished Gundam Wing yesterday. I don't agree with the hate it gets whatsoever.

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So i just finished Patlabor New files OVA.

I am gonna miss Noa so much.

>>139022637

I just prefer the company of people who enjoy talking about things they like in nerdy detail rather than people just watching whatever's popular because they're lonely. Like this thread is a lot of recommendations, opinions and reviews of shows, and somewhat educated discussion about the history of things (filming techniques, directors, etc). It's a lot more interesting than just a bunch of reactions in caps when an episode airs following by a week of threads complaining how awful everything is and insulting each other.

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>>138992955
Just finished G Gundam yesterday. Shit's awesome.

>tfw there will never be something like california crisis again but even better and it'll never have a proper rip

why isn't there a seeded torrent of a good quality rip for the original sailor moon series and why can't someone slap subs onto it

>>138992955
I wish F had some decent subs.

>>139023193
>I just prefer the company of people who enjoy talking about things they like in nerdy detail rather than people just watching whatever's popular because they're lonely.
What I'm saying is that I don't think someone watching a certain show for the threads means they only watch popular shit and/or only watch anime to fit in. It's like if someone said they had fun watching a bad movie with their friends and you decided they were a poser who didn't really like movies.

>>138995203
watched it recently.
real nice kind of classic tragedy.

mc deserves it all btw

>>138997979
i found slayers rather boring desu.

>>139009518
the twelve kingdoms.
real good except for the ending.
still an awesome watch.
you wont regret it

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>>139020084
>640x360

>>139025852
Any other Leji Matsumoto stuff worth watching? I've only watched Space Battleship Yamato season 1 and 2 and Interstella 5555.
Never really been a fan of his sameface though.

>>139025954
I don't know, Harlock is my first.

>>139024825
Juuni Kokuki is one of my favourites, but it's not an OVA.

>>139020410
Crunchy's subs are understandable, albeit barely, but they've only got up to the 12 Houses arc, if you want to watch the rest you could always learn spanish.

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Watching Dream hunter Rem. I think i'll just start watching ova's in chronological order now. There are so many cool ones i would never watch if i didn't.