1980s anime aesthetic - I remember when they used to animate on ones

[Registration]

For those who don't know ARIEL predated Evangelion and roughly done the same super robot deconstruction shtick. Albeit as an affectionate parody instead of the edgelordish deconstruction that is Evangelion or the much older "Kill them all" Tomino's pre-Gundam deconstructions.

>evangelion
>edgelord deconstruction

what?

 

[Uranus Pink]

>evangelion
>edgelord deconstruction

Poor choice of words on my part.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The women in the menu screens of the "LazerBlazer" mode in Super Scope 6 on SNES look like '80s anime characters.

kind of obscure trivia

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

For those who don't know ARIEL predated Evangelion and roughly done the same super robot deconstruction shtick. Albeit as an affectionate parody instead of the edgelordish deconstruction that is Evangelion or the much older "Kill them all" Tomino's pre-Gundam deconstructions.

So what's it about?

 

[TurdFondler]

Like it matters? Robots, 80s aesthetic. Just soak it in. It's going on my watch list. The plot is probably going to be janky and retarded like half the shows in this thread.

Evangelion was an angsty deconstruction. Pioneering series with regards to depressed, angsty teens in robots.

 

[Uranus Pink]

So what's it about?

From what information there is and most of is from the OAVs and what I could make from the few manga volumes I have.
Quoting https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/ariel for the OAV.

Through a series of unfortunate events, Earth was suddenly attacked by Albert Houser, owner of the offworldly Gedo Corporation. To expel the beast-like invaders, one man created Ariel, a woman-shaped mecha designed to defend humankind! But this mecha required a special kind of pilot, and who better for the job than.. his granddaughters?! Now, to save the human race, Aya (who would rather be studying), Mia (who would rather be playing sports) and Kazumi (who actually likes the job) must pilot the feminine Ariel, before Houser can complete his nefarious plan!

Other than the manga running from 1986 to 2006 with 20 plus 2 side volumes. There is at least a few other giant fembots in the series addition to ARIEL herself. Aside from that I got nothing else on information on the manga as it is obscure AF outside of Japan.

 

[Bass]

Robot Carnival, Akira, and Project A-ko were the first anime movies I ever watched. Good times! Good memories!

I'm going to make a guess about you. I'm going to guess you first saw anime back when the Sci Fi channel used to run the festival of anime block. Am I right?

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

What really makes me irrationally angry is the fact that Lejiverse is not as big as or bigger than star wars. As a kid, I remember watching galaxy express 999 and not appreciating the context. As an adult, I've tracked down Leiji Matsumoto's anime series(s). His stuff from the 80s is probably my favorite, but I do enjoy the vastness of his lore. My problem is I don't understand why he's never gotten the respect he deserves. His stuff is way better than cheap crap like Star Wars, which is filled with recycled tropes stolen from British literature.

 

[XYZpdq]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2dtnupftMIs
What really makes me irrationally angry is the fact that Lejiverse is not as big as or bigger than star wars. As a kid, I remember watching galaxy express 999 and not appreciating the context. As an adult, I've tracked down Leiji Matsumoto's anime series(s). His stuff from the 80s is probably my favorite, but I do enjoy the vastness of his lore. My problem is I don't understand why he's never gotten the respect he deserves. His stuff is way better than cheap crap like Star Wars, which is filled with recycled tropes stolen from British literature.

it was big enough that it got TWO Christmas specials, one in Harlock SSX and one in the USA Harlock comics

 

[Registration]

From what information there is and most of is from the OAVs and what I could make from the few manga volumes I have.
Quoting https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/ariel for the OAV.


Other than the manga running from 1986 to 2006 with 20 plus 2 side volumes. There is at least a few other giant fembots in the series addition to ARIEL herself. Aside from that I got nothing else on information on the manga as it is obscure AF outside of Japan.

It isn't a manga, it is a novel.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2dtnupftMIs
What really makes me irrationally angry is the fact that Lejiverse is not as big as or bigger than star wars. As a kid, I remember watching galaxy express 999 and not appreciating the context. As an adult, I've tracked down Leiji Matsumoto's anime series(s). His stuff from the 80s is probably my favorite, but I do enjoy the vastness of his lore. My problem is I don't understand why he's never gotten the respect he deserves. His stuff is way better than cheap crap like Star Wars, which is filled with recycled tropes stolen from British literature.

The Space Battleship Yamato live action is really good.

 

[Uranus Pink]

It isn't a manga, it is a novel.

I would disagree as I have few of the physical volumes. Or it is likely it haves both a novel and manga line.

 

[Registration]

I would disagree as I have few of the physical volumes. Or it is likely it haves both a novel and manga line.

what you have is this?

エリアルコミック アンソロジーコミック If so, what you have are anthologies based on it, there is also other short series based on it, but nothing longer than the novel series.

Because there are some manga, but the main story are the novels:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIEL#%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

 

[Gutpuke]

This one might be a little older than most of the things you post here but goddamn, this thing still punches me in the heart.

 

[TheRetardKing]

The 80s had a lot of catchy anime OPs and EDs.

 

[LoFi_Bandit]

I really love the look of older anime compared to modern ones. Hand drawn animations looks more unique and authentic compared to digital even if the quality may not have been as great back then.

Same way I feel about new Simpsons episodes. Putting aside the crap writing, the digital stuff looks polished here and there, but it lacks the emotional resonance of the older stuff. Earlier Simpsons episodes had an atmospheric quality to them.

Been watching 80s cartoons lately (because I'm bored when I don't work), and I noticed more than a few of them, like Transformers and Real Ghostbusters, definitely have this aesthetic going on in several episodes (albeit with lower quality thanks to rushed American schedules trying to pump out 65 episodes). Anyone else ever notice this?

The Littles is one of the most Ghibli-like western cartoons ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ls5K0bSfj0

As an adult, I'm surprised that saturday morning shows like Bravestarr and The Littles had better morals and some shocking episodes. Both shows had drug episodes, but 'The Price' in Bravestarr is probably the darkest drug addiction episode of a cartoon I've ever seen.

 

[LoFi_Bandit]

Same way I feel about new Simpsons episodes. Putting aside the crap writing, the digital stuff looks polished here and there, but it lacks the emotional resonance of the older stuff. Earlier Simpsons episodes had an atmospheric quality to them.


The Littles is one of the most Ghibli-like western cartoons ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ls5K0bSfj0

As an adult, I'm not surprised by how 80s cartoons like Bravestarr and The Littles had better morals and more compelling characters than cartoons today. Both shows had drug episodes, but 'The Price' in Bravestarr is probably the darkest drug addiction episode of a cartoon I've ever seen.

EDIT: Accidentally quoted myself and posted. Sorry.

 

[Wormy]

I'm going to make a guess about you. I'm going to guess you first saw anime back when the Sci Fi channel used to run the festival of anime block. Am I right?

Either that or when TnT /WTBS ran a lot of Streamline pictures' stuff on their 1-5am blocks.

 

[skykiii]

Just a question, what does "animate on ones" even mean?

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Just a question, what does "animate on ones" even mean?

It refers to the amount of frames it takes to animate something. It takes 24 frames to make a second of film or animation, so in order to cut costs, animation is often put up at 12 frames stretched out, or even less. It's cheaper, but it makes for choppier animation.

Now when animating on ones, that's when animation is fluid and quick. However, it's incredibly expensive, and either saved for important moments in a show, or is the Akira movie in terms of budget.

To Sun: Animating on ones is more fluid but expensive, and anything else is the other way around.

 

[skykiii]

Gall Force: Eternal Story
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w3shPjw54z0This was regularly aired on the Scifi Channel back in the mid-90s, so it was probably the first anime for a lot of people.

I cried a little at the ending the first time I saw it.

I first saw Gall Force on DVD, and I do like it.

But funny thing is I saw Gall Force years after the fact, and for me it was a weirdly backhanded nostalgic experience. I remember describing it to friends as a "Hastings Anime."

Hastings was a video rental we frequented a lot, and when we first got into anime we would just rent whatever they had. This wasn't a huge library and tended to be just stand-alone movies or OVAs. The thing was though, we often wound up renting things that started out understandible but then ended up being kinda effed up, sometimes with endings I think were meant to be deep or profound. It's particularly the ending that puts Gall Force in that territory for me.

So, nostalgic not because I saw it earlier in life, but because it was the kind of thing I *might* have seen earlier in life.