80s Anime Thread - 1980s anime

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I recently watched an OVA from the 80s called Dragon's Heaven. It was absolute kino. The opening sequence is a life action scene of an animatronic version of the main mecha of the show waking up from a deep sleep to find his pilot dead. The sentient mecha then finds a new pilot and resumes the war that he had lost a century ago, against brazilians in space. Definitely would recommend, it isn't too long.
 
I'm not an expert on the specific timeframes of anime series, so I'd have to look it up, but an obvious one would be "Hokuto no Ken".

Not a big fan when the protagonist is relatively overpowered, and the fun part of it is the fights/executions, but sadly the story isn't particularly outstanding in my opinion.
Everyone in that anime is like a Michelangelo figure/sculpture, and of course in there: physically ugly = evil/weak/cowardly; delicate features = good/powerful/corageous; it's so romanticised you can already tell the role of a character based on their appearance.

Another one would be Captain Tsubasa. Has been a long time since I watched any episode (not many), but leave it to japanese cartoons to make me slightly interested in soccer/football, only time I have been.
In my country (doesn't matter where, it's the same in a lot of places) old cartoons are not comparable to what Japan has produced (maybe because they focus too much on being (unsurprisingly) "cartoony" and less realistic).
 
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Legend Of The Galactic Heroes, an excellent space opera anime, beautiful animation, big gory battles, political machinations, big cast and characters actually die no one is safe.
 
I would actually like anime these days if it maintained the unique visual character of 80s and early 90s anime. Stuff like Akira and Wicked City has such a striking and stylish look. Then something seems to have happened in the mid to late 90s and really ramped up in the 2000s to give almost all of it this super samey streamlined flourescent lighting look that bores me to tears and makes me ultimately prefer western animation (pastel beanmouth calarts look excluded).
 
Dragonball was one of the shows that got me into anime as a kid but I probably wouldn't rewatch it.
An all time favorite is Midnight Eye Goku.
Let me sell it to you. A detective too badass for shirts is saved by a mysterious force. He gets a superpowered bo staff, gets his eye replaced with a cybernetic one that can hack anything, and has to save everyone from a megalomaniac plutocrat and his half woman half motorcycle stripper minion.

It's really silly but also really good.
 
Dominion Tank Police from 1988 has long been one of my favorites. It had a great story, went a bit overboard on sexual humor in the first two parts, and the animation was good, though pretty dark through most of it. I think you have to read the manga for it to explain why the city is under a bacterial cloud or why the buildings are shaped like coral.
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XYZpdq Jr. dijo:
there's a very noticeable difference from the first season and the rest
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I know right. The second season keeps a similar quality, but once you get to about episode 50-ish it starts to get a bit sloppy. I really notice that in the fight scenes. In the first season, you'd have these well animated fights with lots of movement and each punch animated. Then in the later seasons, not only do characters not really move, they just replace animating the punchs with flashes instead as if they got lazy or ran out money. This not even counting all of the boring filler that takes up three quarters of the episode count in the later seasons.
 
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