1970s anime aesthetic - When illustrators live in a blade runner type setting while listening to Yellow Magic Ochestra.

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Alex Hogendorp

Alex Hogendorp

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I don't really see so many people talking about anime's that were released before the masses got aroused by Cream Lemon unless it's something like Kimba the White Lion which the Lion King allegedly ripped off because the 1997 Kimba film decided to steal it's plot 3 years after. Lupin the III, Ashita no Joe, and a handful of other mentions. Looking through to plethora of works released that decade you'll find actually a wide diversity of art styles of people deciding upon trying to find the ideal anime style. Some styles have become extremely outdated (notably the famous Rose of Versailles type style struggle to blend in the 1980s aesthetic(massive shame)) but a lot of other styles live through the innovation of future decades (Ringo Monogatari being possibly the best example).

With what's being said, it truly feels like an experimental era for anime in general in a similar manner to the era of electronic music artists such as Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. I'll give some examples to show what I mean. Bad news. People were experimenting with lolicon quite a bit this decade (fucking coomers tried to fuck this aesthetic up even then). Good news. Most of the designs are rich in aesthetic.
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Oh yeah, this was just the right transition from '60s to the '70s. The animation style is roughly the same between the two decades (especially when it came to Toei), but you saw more color in the '70s and you heard more bass lines.
 
Kari Kamiya dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCX77Je16fkOh yeah, this was just the right transition from '60s to the '70s. The animation style is roughly the same between the two decades (especially when it came to Toei), but you saw more color in the '70s and you heard more bass lines.
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Which reminds me.
Mon Cheri Coco has been lost media since the 2000s. I was actually thinking about asking the company for any remaining pieces of the episodes when I went to Japan but didn't bother considering I don't feel comfortable talking to a Japanese person directly unless I need help on something.
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I still find it pretty scary how people get sexually aroused by these designs years later, considering the classic 1970s child design. However she looks completely different in the anime adaptation. I didn't even bother looking for the copies of the books though. Seeing all those vintage books dating earlier than that costing thousands.
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This book for example costed me around 50 USD. But I bought it anyways considering the strong aesthetic and rather historical significance. There is something I love so much about the author. Mixing very cute anime designs with a familiar Rose of Versailles like style. It actually works very well.
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Pretty much the book that started my vintage manga collection. It was finished in 1981 but started in 1979 so it counts. But you could imagine working on something like this in high school which is what the author did. These 1980s like style actually dates back to the mid 1970s if not earlier, referring to that Ringo Monogatari manga released in 1977.
 
Lunar Eclipse Paradox dijo:
Looking through to plethora of works released that decade you'll find actually a wide diversity of art styles of people deciding upon trying to find the ideal anime style.
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And which would this "ideal anime style" be...?
Leiji Matsumoto's?

Hard to mention this decade of manganime without mentioning Go Nagai,
considering his monstrous influence up to this day in practically every mainstream genre.

No Go Nagai = No Magical Girl.
No Go Nagai = No Ecchi.
No Go Nagai = No Chokuzoka.
No Go Nagai = No Devil May Cry, No Shin Megami Tensei.

If Osamu Tezuka codified the dynamics of manga storytelling,
Go Nagai codified the 'mainstream edge' of Japanese works.
 
I always kind of like the older manga just because they're so different compared to the modern stuff. I haven't read much from that era but I have read
-Buddha
-Ayako
-Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu
That not too big of a list I probably should read more...
 
Sawamura Simp dijo:
And which would this "ideal anime style" be...?
Leiji Matsumoto's?
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Yes. (Although Matsumoto's manga style is somewhat different from how it came out in animation.)
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Sawamura Simp dijo:
Hard to mention this decade of manganime without mentioning Go Nagai
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Ah that's who the culprit is. Responsible for every sort of Anime Stupid except possibly "videogame reality".

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Matsumoto on the other hand... poor guy wasn't able to wrangle even his purported admirers profiting off his name, or sell toys (no wonder -- his #1 theme of growing up is antithetical to consooming), or oppose censorious international wokies, or finish more than one of the works he's most famous for (hell, 999 is technically unfinished too, he wanted to eventually set Maetel free and never* got to).

* please don't bring up dodge-chan and cousin itt

Matsumoto reminds me of that cheeky definition of "classics": something everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read: some writers, and even more j*urnos, are eager to credit him as inspiration to boost their credentials but no one wants to engage with even one of his themes. It seems to me that his most enduring legacy is the beautiful Russian lady in a humongous fur hat that pops up in manga from time to time (`Silver Spoon`, `Waves, Listen to Me`). (Thematically, the closest manga I've seen is Prisoner Riku -- alas, it's set in a men's prison so not many beautiful ladies in it, and only 4 out of 38 volumes are translated, good luck Google Lens warriors.)
 
Kari Kamiya dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCX77Je16fkOh yeah, this was just the right transition from '60s to the '70s. The animation style is roughly the same between the two decades (especially when it came to Toei), but you saw more color in the '70s and you heard more bass lines.
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Funny, I've been listening to this OP lately. Catchy as hell.

I dropped this in the 80's anime thread but if anyone wants 70's as well there was a magnet link with a 50, 60 and 70's collection here

Been going through Ashita No Joe and Rose of Versailles from it.
 
I really love the character designs of 60s and 70s anime. I like that there was so much more stylistic diversity then.

Man, Mitsuteru Yokoyama is one of the most underrated manga authors of all time, despite the fact that he first invented magical girls (Sally the Witch) and contributed heavily to super robots (Tetsujin 28, Giant Robo, and Babel II to an extent). I really like Babel II because it's so much fun. It has cool lore, and the scale of Yomi's operations and technology is just impressive.
 
Attack No.1 also comes to mind as a relic from this era.


The show was made in the boom of women's volleyball after Japan won Gold in the 1964 Olympics, and has a lot of tropes and trends that would be seen in later titles in the Shoujo genre, and others too. The show also has a German dub, and was also televised in several other European countries as well, i.e. Italy. Is the 104 episode length of it considered to be too long, since people have shorter attention spans these days? On the other hand, some other shows that are still running have had more episodes...
 
Not really a fan of most 70s anime's style but here, this recently gave me feels and people here may appreciate it:



It's probably one of those cases where the amv perfectly compresses and reflects the essence of the sauce and watching the actual anime will just take away from it.
 
Boy_Blunder dijo:
Oniisama e has the aesthetic of a 70s show but the animation and, for want of a better term, quality of life improvements of a late 80s/early 90s show.
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I want to robotech together Versailles, Oniisama-e, and LoGH OVAs
 
XYZpdq Jr. dijo:
I want to robotech together Versailles, Oniisama-e, and LoGH OVAs
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By adding that much shojo you will basically alienate all the autistic and incel-y nerds who have been busy eternally perpetuating LOGTH's glory for the past ~20 years.
After encountering it in such a shojo-maxx'd form, they surely will realize how gay it always was on their own, hence taking from us the greatest joy of LOGTH:
Pointing out all the gay shit which somehow flies over most of these guy's heads.
Like innocuously wondering how old julien actually is relative to yang wenli because you just wondered if it really is appropriate for yang wenli to... just wondering you know?
What you mean he isn't gay. Why, yes I know he's adopted, Liberace did that too... Me? A perv? Ok, ok, you're right.
But what about reinhardo-sama and kircheis, all that hair fondling. What you mean you didn't even notice that? Me? Gay?
Because I notice such things? Nah, couldn't be me, it is YOU who shilled me this gay japanese cartoon after all!

Ah yes, making the sperglords I hung out at school with uncomfortable... good times. Love 'em tho.
 
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One of the big cutoffs between 70s and 80s anime seems to be when the grey, blocky, and worn down aesthetic of the original Star Wars pops up like it does in every 80s anime ever (even some which aren't science fiction). 70s science fiction anime has that groovier old-school aesthetic with all the pointy space clothes and the Star Trek-looking interiors. That's because it seems to more clearly derive from 1950s futurism and pulp SF. Interestingly, the original Gundam is very much 70s in aesthetic (it did air 1979 after all). The newtype magic scenes toward the end with all the flashing lights and trippy visuals and sound effects feel 70s as hell and pop up in other 70s anime too.

I wish they did more with the 70s aesthetic, but outside of character design in remakes of 70s stuff like Yamato or Toward the Terra, I've never really seen it.
 
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