Whats the best /vr/ anime and why is it Slayers?
At least post a picture of a Slayer vidya man.
Also Nadia.
Right here mate.
>>2909345
At least post the Mega Drive game.
>>2909357
Hyper Iria is a fucking awesome game.
Since most of you seem older than posters on other boards, when did anime actually start becoming popular in the US? I was only in elementary school during the 90s and thus started with Toonami.
>>2909380
Let's not derail the thread, but only pokemon and dbz were truly popular in the early 2000s. Maybe sailor moon, robotech before that.
>>2909340
Berserk
or Magical Knight Rayearth
or Gunparade March
I wish we had a Retro Anime & Manga board.
>>2909404
/m/ is practically that, considering how most of the good shows are at least 20 years old.
>>2909380
It's tough to say because so many of the cartoons we watched in the 80's were actually anime, we just didn't know it. In terms of actual anime fandom, fan subs started getting big in the 80's. But that's "big" within the anime community which was still tiny.
I would say it was with Sailormoon and Dragon Ball that started getting marketed as being Japanese that the whole anime thing started to become mainstream and got popular. By the mid 90's it was swinging.
>>2909383
Kind of hard to derail a thread about anime with talk of anime.
It's far from my favorite movie, but in terms of games I think pic related is one of the best anime games ever made.
CCS because cunny
>>2909380
It really started to take off in the early 90's. As a point of reference, the first Otakon was held in 1994, so it was a big enough fandom to support its own conventions by then, instead of just being those weirdos who would hide themselves away in some screening room attached to a larger scifi convention.
I often hear people attribute a lot of the popularity 5th gen games with heavy anime aesthetics (especially JRPGs) to the concurrent boom in anime popularity itself. I can't speak for larger trends, but for me it was certainly true.
My personal favorite game based off an anime was Samurai Pizza Cats (or Kyattou Ninden Teyandee) for NES. It felt kinda Mega Man-ish, but still had its own original feel. The artwork was really good - characters from the show looked like themselves, and original characters/settings fit in well. Every supporting character from the series seemed to have an appropriate role - I like the way they incorporated the Rescue Team. The music was pretty sweet, too. It's a shame it was only released in Japan, because the foreign dubs improved the show's writing considerably.
Dirty Pair is my favorite anime of the 80s - and it got one of the worst game adaptations. In my deepest fantasies, there'd be a licensed port of Smash TV with the characters/setting. The premise lends itself really well to mindless shooting, bright colors, cute unlockable outfits, and co-op multiplayer.
Urusei Yatsura is close behind that. Its games were pretty meh - but good enough considering how the format didn't really suit video games. Ranma 1/2 was much more appropriate for games, and it had some good ones.
In terms of non-vidya: Project A-ko had an incredibly strong start, and I personally really like Dr. Slump, but it veers into lolrandumn territory at times.
Slayers is the best of the 90s, and got some nice games. I'm reminded of it a bit when I play Guardian Heroes or Mega Man Legends.
FLCL, Di Gi Charat, and Excel Saga are like the Dreamcast and GBA threads - occasionally considered the cutoff point for "retro", have cult/hipsterish followings, and can be pretty experimental. Especially Di Gi Charat and the Dreamcast - they're low-budget and not as strong compared to competitors, and couldn't last very long, but the people behind them were still incredibly idealistic and seemed to genuinely love what they were doing. Seeing old fliers for defunct Broccoli websites in second-hand mangas makes me feel nostalgic and sad, even if I'm a stupid /vr/ kiddie.
>>2909453
What are you saying? The Urusei Yatsura SegaCD and TurbografxCD games are good.
>>2909453
Urusei Yatsura is probably my favorite anime of all time. We any of the games actually worth playing?
>>2909467
Ah, I've only played Lum's Wedding Bells and The Hunt for Miss Tomobiki, and I'd heard bad things about Endless Summer. My bad. I don't know what I'm talking about.
>>2909471
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdjY_OB2z7Y
dat op
I'm no anime expert and I can count the number of series I've watched on two hands, but I am very fond of the Wild Arms one.
>>2909468
>>2909471
>>2909474
>MFW my introduction to the series was a VHS with Episode 78
>>2909357
The Famicom game is fun too.
but yeah, I actually played through the MD game recently, I enjoyed it a lot even though it has some issues. Liked how the story was actually different while still maintaining the same basic concepts of the series.
Comfy as fuck, too.
>>2909437
GITS is such an awesome game, it's also one of my favorites. Exact was a great developer. RIP
Also 10/10 OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avhp8QuAlk
I've seen good reviews for Cowboy Bebop's PS1 game, does anyone have any experience with it?
Best DBZ fighting game.
Hyper Dimension comes close but it lacks the split screen mechanic of Butoden games.
>>2909535
>Hyper Dimension comes close but it lacks the split screen mechanic of Butoden games.
Which isn't necessarily a fault since it makes the game faster paced. HD also allowed you to smash people into different parts of the map (including air battles), and allowed you to do counter special moves.
It also had a fucking awesome art style. I wish they made a new 2d-only DBZ game with that art direction, it looked so damn good.
>>2909542
Enter the cheat code for Turbo speed on Super Butoden 2 and it's even faster than HD.
Super Butoden 2 also lets you send opponents flying off further in the screen (and actually far away since the screen splits, including air battles or underwater), and of course also lets you do counter special moves, or block them/neutralize them.
Also dashing with L and R. Playing SB2 with a friends who also knows how to play is endless fun. HD is awesome too, but it's more of a traditional fighting game, SB2 feels more unique, and since you're dashing around a lot both on feet and air, it feels like real DBZ battles.
SB2 also has a great art style, although I'll admit HD looks much better, since it was a late SFC game, but SB2 still looks great.
I especially like the cutscene sprites, I wish they'd do a 2D DBZ fighting game using these.
Slice of life police comedy mecha. The best with no contenders. Don't know anything about the games though. I think this one is an RPG and looks kind of shitty.
>>2909509
>Liked how the story was actually different while still maintaining the same basic concepts of the series.
This is how you make a good licensed game, IMHO. Also, how is the Nadia game in terms of gameplay? Is it an action game? RPG? Is it kind of like Ecco the Dolphin, or something to that effect?
>>2909638
It's easy? I never could get past level 3, maybe I just suck
>>2910079
Yeah, same about all these licensed game threads, we should only talk about original IPs and nothing based on works for TV or cinema.
>>2909542
Hyper Dimension has some of my favorite 2D graphics ever. That color palette. Those sprites. As far as I know, there's no other game with a similar art style.
>>2909617
The Nadia MD game is kind of a story-based adventure game with puzzles, it looks like an RPG because of the overview and how the dungeons are laid out, etc, but there actually isn't any battles. You just go around, picking up items, talking to people, solving puzzles, getting lost a lot. I only died once or twice because some of the dungeons have traps that will kill you, but you just start at the beginning of the dungeon.
>>2909518
God, I love that track and the intro in general.
So glad I found a new copy of the game for a reasonable price, probably 10 years after release. Up until then I'd only played the demo as a starry-eyed child who thought it was the coolest thing ever.Nothing's changed.
>>2909437
The opening FMV to this is the best anime action sequence of all time.
>>2910127
Such a good series. Was it even pitched at kids? Was kinda dark from memory.
>>2909437
how did fansubs work in the 80's? as in, how did they actually get the subs onto a VHS or something
Any games based off Outlaw Star?
>>2909404
>Gunparade March
Game was retro, anime wasn't.
>>2910527
same equipment they used to do wedding/birthday videos
>>2910527
This answer varies depending on when (and where) you're asking, and can get very complicated... but to try and keep it simple:
Genlock (Generator lock). It's a hardware device that let you synchronize two video streams (e.g., an anime episode and a subtitle track) so that you could merge them and output them to VHS.
By the late 80s the Amiga was the subtitler's method of choice. It was cheap and had inherent support for genlock and since it was a computer you could buy/write/steal software that let you generate a subtitle track. Then, you just stuck a VCR between the computer and your TV and hit record. Presto, instant master VHS. From there, you'd just copy the VHS and mail it to whomever needed it.
That's very generally how it was.
>>2909340
I always like this dated anime look, but the story itself isn't that good.
>>2909453
>the foreign dubs improved the show's writing considerably
It's really largely the same thing. The original was full of puns, pop culture references, fourth wall breaking and adlibbing too. Now that the original show has actually been released with subtitles, I would have thought these old myths would have been dispelled. But it seems they just have too much momentum.
>>2909616
I fuckinglovePatlabor.
bump, how come /vr/ is so fast all of the sudden?
>>2910538
google it idiot
>>2909340
It's a crime that to this day there is only 1(ONE) Slayers video game translated to English, considering how many of them are out there and how popular the show was in the 90s.
Was old anime better or am I just nostalgic?
Also it's weird how Dirty Pair only got one game considering how big it was.
>>2911415
There should be more /m/ games with hot babes in general.
>>2911423
Devil Hunter Yohko. Pretty good game too.
>ctrl f
>no VOTOMS
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Lightning Slash for the PSX is a bretty gud arena fighter with Scopedogs.
The controls are a bit more complex than the average action game but not too hard to get used to after a few fights.
>>2909534
its pretty fun. really short but its a fun starfox type game
>>2909453
>because the foreign dubs improved the show's writing considerably
Teyandee>>>>Pizza Cats
Not even baiting
>>2910084
Man that VN was pretty underwhelming. The visuals and voice acting and overall faithfulness to the original animu were pretty great, but the story was just so uninteresting and short, and the choices just don't seem like they matter at all.
Everything about it was perfectly executed, except the actual story.
no>jojo heritage
no>gundam battle
no>tekkaman blade
no>devilman
no>digimon world
no>vampire hunter d
>>2910801
It's a comedy series, good story was never the main focus.
>>2911569
Well, I kinda agree with you, the quality of the production is great, it included staff from the TV series to draw the scenes, to all the original VAs, but the story is kind of tame for something like Evangelion.
I still love it because of nostalgia and because of Mana, but yeah it could have been better.
I think Girlfriend of Steel 2 has a lot more options and endings, but honestly I didn't want to play that game because it looks horrible, like a fanmade game, and also no Mana, makes no sense to have called it GoS2.
>>2910473
Yes, I think it was mainly aimed at kids and teens, but like many anime of the time it contained very dark stuff. The Megadrive game is the same, it has a lot of dark and violent moments.
Anime in the 80s and especially the 70s was even darker. Look at something like Kerokko Demetan and Hutch the Bee, they're shows aimed exclusively at kids and they're dark as fuck.
>>2910473
>Such a good series.
It's pretty decent.
>Was it even pitched at kids?
Definitely. It was even supposed to be one of the World Masterpiece Theatre anime, that's why it takes a lot of 2000 Leagues under the Sea and is generally considered to be family friendly. I mean, the basic story idea is from Hayao Miyazaki (just compare it to Castle in the Sky), who made mostly family movies.
>Was kinda dark from memory.
More or less. I'd say not much darker than your average Disney movie. Dead parents and death everywhere. Some parents think that's bad, like mine, others think it's character moulding.
>>2909375
There was another game and it's supposedly good.
Seriously? No love for pic related?
>>2910848
Me too anon.
>>2911659
That looks really similar to a show I remember in the 80's where the big guy was always talking about spaceburgers. But I looked it up and it's a little late, the one I'm remembering would have been more Robotech era.
Actually I'm pretty sure it was a different show, but there's a chance it was from the later Robotech episodes that weren't based of Macross. Any clue what I'm talking about?
>>2911679
The other 2 shows that formed Robotech were Southern Cross and Mospeada.
There was also Megazone 23 which was used as "Robotech: the movie" iirc.
>>2911681
Ohh I know that, but I don't remember if any of them had a big helfty guy like in that pic always going on about and eating space hamburgers.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't Robotech, that it was a show of a different name and most of what I remember in Robotech is the earlier Macross stuff. So if someone of that description fits, that would explain it.
>>2910127
this looks like an RPG Maker game
>>2911715
Yeah but it's not an RPG
>>2911415
>>2909453
I like to imagine the Battle Mania games were supposed to be Sega's own version of Dirty Pair.
I'm thinking to find the Gegege no Kitaro games at some point.
Pic related is my favorite anime-based retro game. It's a shame that no other Gundam game has come close to being a sim like this did. It's also a shame the DC died, because there were supposedly sequels planned.
This one was pretty good, albeit with longass cutscenes. It spoilered the entire thing before I watched the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGPzdlWENk
>>2912518
Some of the PS2 gundam games have a first person mode like this game does.
>>2912602
Holy SHIT that's a pretty fucking great recreation of the first anime opening. Right in the fucking nostalgia, anon.
>>2909638
>Blasting through the game Hardcorp style
>Nothing too troubling
>Get to the skyscraper level
>That one portion where you have to jump on those two beams to cross the chasm
>mfw
That one bit could fuck everything up if you were trying for a 1cc.
>>2911414
>attack 21
>magic attack 7
Sumpin ain't addin up here, boss.
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>>2909357
>>2909375
>>2911643
>Iria nigs
You guys are awesome.
>>2913208
There's a story reason for that.
No love for Vampire hunter D.
Where do you guys watch your retro anime?
All the streaming sites I know are just new stuff, or super mainstream stuff.
>>2913405
>streaming
Just find a DL link and watch it whenever you want.
>>2913405
I wish the big streaming sites did but you're stuck either buying DVDs or torrents.
>>2912602
It also has a mode where you can customize all those cutscenes. Basically make any character say any line. That became pretty infamous on Niconico Douga with people making all sorts of silly videos portraying Kenshiro as a brutal, water-obsessed thug, and the bad guys as helpless victims and such.
tfw saber marionnete fighting game sucks
>>2913405
as far as non-private trackers go Bakabt is your best bet for older obscure stuff
>>2913439
It's really sad there were a boatload of anime fighters but they're almost all complete garbage. Jojo is pretty great though.
>>2913405
Thehylia for some.
This license got a lot of games, like a fucking Pokemon clone on the GB, and I don't know how many are worth playing but this one, this one is good. Great 2D, sprite based sidescroller.
>>2916876
This one is also on Saturn, there's also a good sidescroller for Super Famicom.
>>2911618
>Kerokko Demetan and Hutch the Bee
My nigga!
Those shows were brutal, specially considering how cute the characters were, pic related
>>2917149
I think Demetan was the first anime I ever watched, my parents rented the movie when I was 4 or 5.
>>2917153
>ranita-demetan-adelina-ranatan.jpg
Right in the nostalgia.
I didn't even know there was a movie!. They used to air these shows on tv back during the 90s here in mexico >Saturday morning, 6am
>Gamba, Demetan, Hutch, Queen Millenia back to back
it was a great time to be a kid
>>2917179
I don't remember Demetan on TV, but I remember Hutch.
I'm from Argentina by the way.
Here's the movie complete, shit quality though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCFbQiJKUI
I haven't watched this in well over 20 years, and the first scene is recorded into my brain, these lizards eating up all these tadpoles. The movie was crude and dark from the very beginning.
>>2917190
You're my hero anon!
>I don't remember Demetan on TV
A shame, you can still find some episodes on Youtube, tho.
Here's the Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMDWe0sweGY
And the ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwe7EosnuM
Since we're getting off topic here, I'd like to at least mention the Famicom Captain Tsubasa games, they recreatd the show rather faithfully and were pretty fun too from what I remember.
I don't know anything about the Tenchi Muyo game, except that it exists.
>>2917543
There are actually several Tenchi Muyo games.
First, and most well-known is probably the TRPG for SFC (Tenchi Muyo Game Hen). It's like a really lightweight FE or FFT. Emphasis on the "really" and "lightweight" parts.
Then there's a puzzle game or two for Saturn (Tenchi Muyo Rensa Hitsuyou), and another ultra-lightweight VN-style game called Tenchi Muyo Toukou Muyo.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were one or two other titles; it didn't look particularly well-documented in the 5 seconds I took to look'em up online.
>>2909453
How do I Dirty Pair anon? I've always wanted to watch it and alot of other 80s anime
also no love for the best Yu Yu Hakusho game ever/best fighting game on the Genesis?
>>2909345
Back in HS, i tried watching Nadia but after like an episode I simply didn't like it. maybe cause it was the english dub or something idk didn't click with me. hows this >>2910127 game?
>>2912602
My African friend
>>2917606
There's a lot of anime/manga IP's that are ripe soil for video games, but no one picks up on them. Can't imagine why, either. Tenchi Muyo could fit in numerous genres.
>>2917627
Watch the dirty pair ova project eden. It has a great op.
>>2909340
Ruin Explorers.
>>2909380
there are a lot of anime histories, but the short version is that is slowly grew from the 70's until the massive boom with the release of Pokemon on TV.
1) Speed Racer and Astroboy, in the 70s
2) Voltron and Robotech, in the 80's. OVAs starting to creep in
3) loads of OVAs and direct-to-video releases, Sailor Moon, and Samurai Pizza Cats, in the early 90's
4)Pokemon, then Toonami picking up Sailor Moon and DBZ
all the while games were having progressively more "anime" stylings and retaining more of their original designs. in the 80's, no one knew that NES games were actually japanese. by the Playstation era, it was pretty common knowledge. if you played enough games, though, you could sorta tell. I knew that some games had a certain style, verve, that others didn't. I had already seen a lot of adapted anime, because my parents rented a ton of cartoons for us when we lived in Germany. I already had an idea what anime looked like, from Grandizer, Voltron, Robotech, and a bunch of other shows.
>>2917627
>How do I Dirty Pair anon
Start with the TV show then move onto the OVAs then movies in order of release.
>>2909370
This
>>2911594
VOLTEKKAAAAAAAARGHGHGHGHGHGHG
>>2917836
>then Toonami picking up Sailor Moon and DBZ
Spotted the underage. Anyone alive back when those actually went mainstream would have known those were picked up on other stations before Cartoon Network even came up with Toonami.
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I haven't played any of the To Heart games, but the first anime is great (haven't watched the others yet but they're probably not as good). Not at all what you might expect from an adaptation of a harem-type adult VN. Great direction, art, animation, music and sound design (mostly ambient sounds and diegetic music, which is unusual). Very underrated show. Seeing as how the studio and director never seemed to go places, it looks like people didn't take much notice of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1g9RqpcaEU
>>2918127
Hate to say it, but anyone watching Toonami is at least in their mid-twenties. I'm in my late 20s and was largely introduced to anime because of it.
>>2911414>EOP
>>2918150
>was largely introduced to anime because of it
>>2917627
>i tried watching Nadia but after like an episode I simply didn't like it. maybe cause it was the english dub or something idk didn't click with me.
There's DVDrips with japanese audio and subtitles available now. Nadia is a mixed bag but I think the good outweighs the bad. It starts off as a light hearted adventure series for kids, but then comes some darker and more twisted stuff, it's a good mix of both adventure and conspiracy/dark sci-fi.
The really bad episodes is the infamous "island arc" that's near the end of the series, basically it's 3 or 4 episodes that were animated in korea and are weird as fuck, characters act out of their normal selves and the plot is as stupid as it gets, most of it doesn't make sense. The very definition of filler, very bad filler. However right after the island arc come the last 5 episodes of the series which might as well be the very best on the entire thing, plot gets back on point and better than ever, the climax hits and everything comes to a conclusion, these last 5 episodes have excellent animation too (for TV standards at least). It's like they wanted to save up budget by shitting up the island episodes to make up for the grand finale.
I definitely recommend watching Nadia, it's one of my favorite series, even with its flaws.
As for the Megadrive game, as I said on the post you quotes, it's an adventure game with point and click elements. It's a nice little game and offers a different take on the story with many changes, it's not too long and good to play if you want more Nadia.
>>2917627
I know a bunch of people have replied before, but
http://vakarangi.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html
Still, like he says, you can pretty much start anywhere, since the series has a loose chronology. About half the settings/characters are permanently gone at the end of each outing, anyway, so things from the past won't pop up often.
I'd say start with the TV series if you don't mind some low-budget animation and filler episodes, but otherwise, do the OVAs first (generally all-around good), then the three specials. My experience states that the specials are divisive but worth watching. That blogger loved Nolandia, liked Flight 005, and hated Eden; another reviewer loved Eden, liked Nolandia, and hated Flight 005; I loved Flight 005, liked Eden, and hated Nolandia; nobody I've seen has disliked all three.
Flash is generally kinda bleh, Warren's comics change a lot of things in a way that divides people, and the original novels' translations are pretty lacking; but don't let that stop you if you.
>>2918150
i'm >>2917627 and I agree tho also Fox Kids, Kids WB, and Adult Swim also introduced me into anime. Though I remember whenever I visit family in Mexico, there was an anime channel that was subbed in spanish i think anyone got gueys got any info on that?
>>2918415
So kind of like Gunbuster? I just finished that and it was good.
>>2918443
>>2917806
>>2917838
Thanks guys! I'll watch all the 80s stuff as the art style from the 90s remake turns me off.
also another good anime made by a game artist Angel's Egg by Yoshitaka Amano who made the original art for FF which i like more now than Tetsuya's art and he made the art for Vampire Hunter D.
>>2918553
>So kind of like Gunbuster? I just finished that and it was good.
Well, I don't think Gunbuster has any bad episode or filler, then again it's just 6 OVA episodes.
But both GunBuster and Nadia were directed by Hideaki Anno.
But yeah, the Nadia ending is amazing, maybe not as great as GunBuster's but I think you'll enjoy it.
>>2918553
>Vampire Hunter D.
Also a good choice. First movie was a little mediocre, but the second one was great.
>>2918553
>Though I remember whenever I visit family in Mexico, there was an anime channel that was subbed in spanish
You're probably thinking about Locomotion
>>2918562
>First movie was a little mediocre, but the second one was great.
You got that backwards, mate. Bloodlust is worth watching only because it's beautifully animated
>>2918692
Man, 2000/early 2001 era Locomotion was probably the best TV channel EVER.
It had everything I could have ever wanted as a 14 year old back then. Movies like Akira and GITS, OVAs like Urotsukidoji, Ah My Goddess, Ellcia (anyone remember this gem?), motherfucking Dirty Pair was also on Locomotion. And TV series like Evangelion (I had already watched it on VHS years before, but seeing Evangelion actually on TV back then was mind blowing), Saber Marionette J, Lupin the 3rd original green jacket series, and many many others.
Also, the great thing about Locomotion was that it wasn't just anime, I remember there was also an 80s cartoon section in the morning with He-man, She-ra and others, which was a great nostalgia punch, and weird western adult-themed stuff like Aeon Flux, The Head, Duckman, etc.
And on top of all that, it also included obscure animation short films, possibly from independent authors. I remember one that was japanese, but wasn't anime (in the sense of traditional anime), it was about an old man and elephants... I wish I could find that again.
And on top of all that, the channel's layout and ID signals and shit was just so damn awesome, look at these id's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5kfkiEFK0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyz9tyvsro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhaahBkIMZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XRRWDjUiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zcuACes7A
And fuck, even the advisory before each show telling if a show was not suited for younger audiences was also cool as hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI0t9Pttfog
And of course, the memorable Evangelion promo with the carmina burana-esque music, this shit gave me the chills. Still does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBHZ_fN3ljo
Then Locomotion changed the layout around mid-2001, and eventually it became 100% anime, and around 2008, Sony bought Locomotion and turned it into Animax, which I really didn't care for.
I salute you, my old friend.
>>2912518
There's a trilogy of Saturn games that are very similar to rise from the ashes.
The combat was always too clunky for me. I'd always get stuck on the mission where you had to destroy the Gau. Cool mission though.
>>2909340
this thread was over since the OP. Slayers is the correct answer.
>>2918759
I didn't actually get Locomotion back then, the signal was only available through DirecTV so I was sutck buying low quality tv-rips from an anime store. A cousin did get the signal and he was always telling me about the cool stuff they aired.
Pic related, it's me when they started airing Evangelion
>>2918810
It's always nice beign able to help.
Also, you should watch Macross: Do you Remember Love? if you haven't already. Easily one of the most beautifully animated movies I've ever seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMX4UIrzW0E
One on the many problems with Toonami is that it never really showed the classics. They never had a good selection. Syfy channel, the international channel and local KTEH used to air retro anime and introduced me to many obscure classics like captain tylor and lain. Shit KTEH had samurai pizza cats and was the first to air evangelion on tv.
>>2918867
It was still called the Sci Fi channel before it became complete shit. Also I was introduced to many retro anime at the local video store before it closed. Rented the street fighter anime and saw chin li titties.
>>2911425
I saw this as a kid. I couldn't even. (I was 4 or 5 years old at the time)
I remember fighting anime games like the Butoden and the Ranma 1/2 game did got released in Mexico.... as bootlegs.
![Iria Zeiram the Animation - Episode 2 [OnDeed] [128B0D41] (V2).mkv_snapshot_11.05_[2015.08.09_22.41.43].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TujpLes.jpg "Iria Zeiram the Animation - Episode 2 [OnDeed] [128B0D41] (V2).mkv_snapshot_11.05_[2015.08.09_22.41.43].jpg")
>>2918867
I don't think you're being fair here. Toonami no doubt has stricter limitations placed on what it can actually show uncut so naturally their choices are gonna be a lot more limited.
>>2918851
HOLY SHIT! Thats absolutely gorgeous! I know theres a macross that Bryan Cranston did the voice of a character.
>>2918851
>Recommending DYRL without first making SDF mandatory viewing
>>2919207
>wanting to put up with 30 something episodes of Kyun Kyun
>>2919196
That was the improved American edition, Robotech.
>>2919208
>Hasn't actually watched SDF
Go back to /a/ kiddo.
>>2919208
I wish I was someone's hot shot pilot boyfriend.
And speaking of Macross, there's Scrambled Valkyrie for SFC (sidescroller), and Super Dimension Fortress Macross (top-down).
>>2918851
>Easily one of the most beautifully animated movies I've ever seen
Man, I love the way everything has this dark feel to it. Most of these futuristic geo-cityscapes of 80's/90's era anime have this grey color tone which in moments looks clean, but at the same time are drawn dirty, rough, and full of grit. It's really hard to explain what it is without sounding too convoluted. Regardless, it puts me at ease, and a sense of longing.
![[Snatcher] Bubblegum Crisis 2032 - 01v4 - Tinsel City [Triaudio][DAEBBABB].avi_snapshot_01.34_[2016.01.15_22.12.02].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dE1HV2F.jpg "[Snatcher] Bubblegum Crisis 2032 - 01v4 - Tinsel City [Triaudio][DAEBBABB].avi_snapshot_01.34_[2016.01.15_22.12.02].jpg")
>>2919207
I still haven't watched SDF myself, unless you count Robotech, but I'm guessing you don't
>>2919620
>Most of these futuristic geo-cityscapes of 80's/90's era anime have this grey color tone which in moments looks clean, but at the same time are drawn dirty, rough, and full of grit
I know what you mean, Japan's obsession with Blade Runner was the best thing to happen to anime, I swear!
>>2919207
>SDF
You realize there are literally like 3 shows with "Super Dimension Fortress" in the title right
>>2911414
And how bad that translation is, and how we had to wait almost ten years for it.
>>2919857
This is true, but only one of them is a Macross series. Orguss and Southern Cross are unrelated.
>>2919879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8wO3jG_hOA
I'm debating which dub to watch now...Both are really well done and the animation for a 90s anime looks beautiful. Also blows my mind that Bryan Cranston voiced anime characters!
>>2919857
You realize Orguss was "Super Dimension Century Orguss" and Southern Cross was "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
", neither of which had the word Fortress. Looks like your attempt at being a know-it-all didn't work out at all.
>>2919230
Oh right mix in some Little White Dragon AND THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE.
Macross sucked. Sorry to burst your poser retro bubble but it was complete shit.
>>2919898
>Bryan Cranston
>David Hayter
I can't decide.
>>2919898
>Also blows my mind that Bryan Cranston voiced anime characters!
He did a few MMPR monsters too. I'm pretty sure he voiced the pig monster early on.
>>2909380
Speed racer was the first I remember, then DBZ and Gundam.
Cowboy bebop is the only Anime that isn't absolutely gay as shit, so I guess it's the exception that proves the rule.
Amelia was my first fictional crush as a kid/teenager.
>>2919942
>Cowboy bebop is the only Anime that isn't absolutely gay as shit
yep nothing Gay at all about two guys living together in a beat up all space junker
>>2919948
Muh nigger.
>>2919916
>THIS SHOW IS BAD BECAUSE IT HAS CHARACTERS I DON'T LIKE >=(((((((
Definitely an /a/utist. Don't you have a waifu-circlejerk to be participating in right now?
You're definitely not in the right place to be discussing good anime since your taste clearly gravitates towards mindless pandering trash.
>>2919953
>Definitely an /a/utist. Don't you have a waifu-circlejerk to be participating in right now?
He said posting a waifu.
>You're definitely not in the right place to be discussing good anime since your taste clearly gravitates towards mindless pandering trash.
Oh yes I love watching an anime where the most powerful galactic army the cosmos have know completely lose their shit because they're too dumb to turn off the horrible J pop music.
Or how about the part where the bland main character fannies about between two women for the whole fucking series.
Why don't you go jack off to Max so more. Probably take you longer than he's actually on screen for.
>>2919867
Yeah, it's really unfortunate. There's some really bizarre flavor text and swearing in this translation for some reason which doesn't fit the Slayers universe. I also had to look up a walkthrough a couple of times because I didn't understand what was going on in the game and the context of the conversations characters were having was completely different.
>>2920168
>my point was saying "SDF" can refer to any of three different shows
Except the other shows don't abbreviate that way, shitface.
>>2919942
>Cowboy bebop is one of the very few anime I have ever seen
Fixed.
>>2920387
>swearing doesn't fit the Slayers universe
Didn't they say "damn" and "bastard" on occasion at least in the animie?
>>2920653
True, but nothing excessive. I'm not a prude, but it takes me out of the game and ruin the entire Slayers experience when characters start calling each other bitches, child molesters or discuss premarital sex.
>>2919942
heh, I love this /v/ meme
I guess you're correct though, anime is pretty gay
Apparently this was a mediocre/ok game, nothing particularly bad or offensive about it, but got branded as kusoge because the author of the manga really hated it.
>>2920689
The premarital sex thing doesn't seem that out of place with the humor of Slayers, depending on how much they dwelled on it. The rest of that kind of does, yeah.
Post your retro waifu
>>2913405
Kissanime works but UGH that watermark.
Just use Nyaa .se and download it
The Salamander ova is pretty good. I think theres 3 movies.
Also the final Fight ovas are fun
>>2919802
>Japan's obsession with Blade Runner was the best thing to happen to anime, I swear!
Can anyone give me anymore of these?
>>2922384
Genocyber
Someone post the webm
You know the one
>>2922384
>Can anyone give me anymore of these?
Bubblegum Crisis
Bubblegum Crash
A.D. Police (3-episodes, not the remake)
8-Man After
Darkside Blues
>>2920689
When does this happen? I played this when the patch first came out, and I don't remember any of that. Premarital sex wouldn't be out of place anyway. If it did happen it definitely wasn't prominent at all. I did finish the game and postgame.
>>2909370
What a fantastic game and terrible anime.
>>2913392
Was this during a segment where she's on her period or something?
>>2909340
If we're talking about /vr/ anime let's talk about the most intense /vr/ anime scene to date
>>2922664
Arc the Lad Collection was the release that broke the completionist in me
I just gave up forever
>>2922664
GALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>2922384
The entire Bublegum Crisis/Crash, including AD Police are basically a Blade Runner sequel/spin off
Everything Ghost in the Shell
Goku Midnight Eye
Cyber City Oedo 808
Darkside Blues
Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita
Parasite Dolls
The Running Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaIM4OOZB_A
Then, you have stuff that doesn't quite fit the tone, bus still retains some of the atmosphere
Dominion Tank Police/New Dominion Tank Police
Megazone 23
Robot Carnival
Venus Wars
>>2922384
>Can anyone give me anymore of these?
The Red Spectacles and Jinroh.
>>2909340
Reika is the sexiest bikini armor girl.
>>2923545
>Bubblegum Crisis/Crash
Why'd the animators have that dispute? They made some good shit.
Any other World Masterpiece Theatre game?
>>2926170
I love Moomin bro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOj1EyMLgg
Sega CD had a ton
>Cyborg 009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_J2UVvf1GA
>Urusei Yatsura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AM-B3DGZxw
>mother fucking Cobra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zc0WO_1yXw
>Captain Tsubasa >>2917242
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoTh080Mg84
Animelike games
>A-Rank Thunder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGinkNdOK4I
>Yumimi Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Q1a5qv6to
>& the Lunar games of course
>>2922664
That scene was great but It was lamed how they pussed out and gave the series a happy ending withArc and Kukuru surviving and the world not getting fucked sideways
Wow, so many memories: Demetan, Hutch! I remember early cartoons/anime with dwarves and a their pot of gold. Anyone know the name? Or any other 70's early 80's movies?
>>2909380
late 80s akira started it
>>2927698
>>2909380
Manga Entertainment opened up in 91
>>2909340
>postulating an initial open ended question then changing the question to one that seeks validation for your own opinionated answer to the initial question disregarding that the initial question is open ended and has no definitive correct answer
>>2929759
shut up
>>2929759
>being a nut-gargling pedant on an Ethiopian competitive-eating imageboard
>>2929759
I never understood why people do this. This shit is all over /v/.
>>2930006
Degradation.
>>2909340
Ys is quite nice too, especially since they are very close to the games itself:
https://anidb.net/a470
https://anidb.net/a471
>>2909340
How was the Panzer Dragoon anime? Seems kind of mediocre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPunDjK9EXk
>>2933178
I've heard it's really bad every time, but maybe it just got a bad localization?... or maybe it's just bad.
I want to watch the Goemon anime, but I'm also afraid I'll be disappointed. Anyone watched it?
>>2933191
The Goemon ova fared quite a bit better. Its funny and has a ton of references to other konami games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQm5EJFpffU
The tv series was not as good from what I've seen. ovas are usually better than tv.
>>2933221
Nice, I didn't knew there were OVAs.
I'm assuming there isn't subs.
>>2933229
i havent found any.
>>2933229
ova 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r79wTJrgSyQ
you should watch the tv series too. I just know the eng dub is awful.
![[SLAYERS EXCELLENT][らびりんす][OVA][01][BDRIP 1440x1080 x264 FLAC].mkv_snapshot_24.35_[2016.01.14_02.10.39].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Ifb6MTi.jpg "[SLAYERS EXCELLENT][らびりんす][OVA][01][BDRIP 1440x1080 x264 FLAC].mkv_snapshot_24.35_[2016.01.14_02.10.39].jpg")
I have both of the Saturn games but can't understand enough Japanese to fully appreciate them. Being able to use Dragon Slave right off the bat gave me the biggest boner I've ever hadand then using all of my mana for Ragna Blade made my dick explode.
>>2919916
macross 7 was even worst
It's excellent! I think. I can't play it. The first level is nice.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is dope.
why the fuck isn't /ar/ a thing yet
it would be about the same level of board activity as /vr/, maybe only slightly less. especially now that it;s getting easier and easier to find old good anime on youtube and the like
>>2919942
>Cowboy bebop is the only Anime that isn't absolutely gay as shit
I mean, I know this board is a spinoff from /v/, but really?
>>2938448
Have you looked up how much pre-2000 anime is out there compared to the amount of pre-2000 games?
Not to mention there's typically less to discuss unless you go to Eva levels of retardation.
>>2938467
>Have you looked up how much pre-2000 anime is out there compared to the amount of pre-2000 games?
Since there's anime since at least the 60s (and even earlier manga), there's probably more anime than there is video games.
>Not to mention there's typically less to discuss unless you go to Eva levels of retardation.
What?
>>2938475
>>Since there's anime since at least the 60s (and even earlier manga), there's probably more anime than there is video games.
There's 80 TV anime from the 60s, 210 from the 70s, 310 from the 80s and 450 from the 90s so a little over 1000 in total.
Compare that to 1000 licensed games for the NES or SNES or 2000 licensed titles for the PS1.
>>2938494
But there's loads of OVAs from the late 80s and 90s too.
Most good anime was OVA in that era anyway
>>2938494
So you're just talking about TV anime?
What about manga? /a/ is both manga and anime discussion.
>>2938508
I'm getting 1100 OVA from 1983-2000, including hentai. and most of those are only one or two episodes.
I've actually seen half of those myself.
>>2938517
Manga are hard to quantify. There's manga for every shit but they're hard to acquire and I'm not sure who cares about some three chapter tie-in.
Another problem is lack of translations. Some here obviously understand Japanese but the rest is limited to a small number of translated titles.
>>2938564
Maybe the board will encourage some new translations.
>>2922912
Why? Is it the Monster Arena stuff?
>>2923016
I want to replay this game, but there is no hope at the end and it makes me feel like shit.
>>2926864
I don't know, if I had to choose between "Everyone lives happily ever after because of asspull" and "Amost the whole world is destroyed and most of humanity dies", I might have to go with the former
>>2940838
One would certainly hope.
I always appreciated the work /jpc/ did with old Japanese compurer games. True /vr/oes.
>>2940838
Maybe it would encourage people to learn Japanese.
>>2919228
That's not an improved version, Robotech was (for the first 36 episodes) mostly a straight Macross dub with names changed and Protoculture becoming an energy source.
>>2919916
The songs are a core element of the show but it's definitely not 36 episodes of Lynn Minmay singing. It's 30% space opera with awesome space dogfights, 30% analysis of the culture shock between Zentradi (the vilains of the show) and humans, 30% romantic triangle Between Hikaru Ichijo, Miya Hayase and Lynn Minmay and the remaining 10% are about space politics and Lynn Minmay's song. This asshole doesn't appear very often in the show, calm your fucking tits.
