80s Anime Thread - 1980s anime

[Red flaming panda]

The word "anime" in Japan means animation so I can post about the 1980's cartoon show, Garfield and Friends on this thread.

 

[Commander X]

The swankest OP for one of the swankest anime TV series.

Xabungle is a blast and it's really funny to see some of it ideas appear in later Tomino works. I also find it amazing I keep coming across new Xabungle fan art, it has a niche following now in Japan but they stick with it.

A series I turned my attention to after taking in the the two sequel OVAs back when, and I'm glad I did.

Adaption of a manga, all about a kid who seeks to become the greatest Formula 1 driver around, and boy is it steeped in Formula 1 detail.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

I thought we already had one of these, but whatever.

 

[Safir]

The word "anime" in Japan means animation

The English word "anime" means Japanese cartoons. Kiwifarms is not in Japan, you're not in Japan, and you're writing in English.

and characters actually die no one is safe.

I've never seen this show but I've a feeling the gay blonde is definitely safe. I hate it when people hype up their husbando protagonist by saying "no one is safe".

The truth is that, like in astrophysics you need to heat up a star so as to cool it, in storytelling you have to lower the stakes to raise the stakes. Only in actual history "no one is safe", and even then by distilling history into a narrative, a historical fiction writer typically also picks out a "safe" protagonist. There are very few works of pure fiction that actually follow through on the "anyone can die" and rotate characters as they bite it.

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

I'm kind of surprised nobody has mentioned the original Dragonball yet so I will. It's the only one of the Dragonball shows I've ever watched and I remember liking it a lot. The german intro is also pretty strange and completely different than the original one: (because we can't help ourselves and have to make every shonen anime intro weird for some reason):
This is how it was shown on TV

and here is the extended cut/music video

 

[LazyLizard]

The English word "anime" means Japanese cartoons. Kiwifarms is not in Japan, you're not in Japan, and you're writing in English.


I've never seen this show but I've a feeling the gay blonde is definitely safe. I hate it when people hype up their husbando protagonist by saying "no one is safe".

The truth is that, like in astrophysics you need to heat up a star so as to cool it, in storytelling you have to lower the stakes to raise the stakes. Only in actual history "no one is safe", and even then by distilling history into a narrative, a historical fiction writer typically also picks out a "safe" protagonist. There are very few works of pure fiction that actually follow through on the "anyone can die" and rotate characters as they bite it.

i'm not gonna spoil who lives and who dies but when i say no one is safe i mean it and like you say in history no one is safe and the anime is set up as a documentary, there's a narrator talking about this historical part of their history known as the Legend Of The Galactic Heroes.

 

[Lurkin' 'n' Jerkin']

I really like the look of 80s anime: more naturalistic character design with neither the exaggerated cartoony proportions of 70s anime nor the angular faces of 90s anime. I second Devilman and Wicked City, mentioned above. Among more famous titles, Bubblegum Crisis is an aesthetic treat despite being a bit of a mess story-wise, and Gunbuster is also great, being a proto-Evangelion with more heart than the latter.

Among more obscure titles, I watched 1983's Harmagedon/Genma Wars recently; the story and characters are OK, but the animation quality is great, and the character designer, Katsuhiro Otomo, went on to direct Akira, so it's in interesting artifact in the development of that style.

Though stylistically more of a 70s anime, I'm inclined to mention 1980's Space Firebird/Phoenix 2772 whenever I can for having one of the most insane waifus in anime history. Who wouldn't want a robot mommy girlfriend who can transform into a plane and a car and can fold up into a suitcase for convenient storage?

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

i'm not gonna spoil who lives and who dies but when i say no one is safe i mean it and like you say in history no one is safe and the anime is set up as a documentary, there's a narrator talking about this historical part of their history known as the Legend Of The Galactic Heroes.

@Safir Is somewhat correct, even if not technically, as you know. But the cool thing about the show is that there's dozens much more intersting characters, who will die which then bums you out for a short moment. But I have to be honest: as an adult the show feels kinda cringy. To me it seemed way smarter than it actually ever was when I first watched some of it way back in school. But it's very meme-y and unintentionally funny too. And you have to appreciate that Dostoevsky tier character overload and autism.
Never seen that anywhere else in anime.

 

[Fougaro]

YOU WA SHOCK!

 

[Der Kommandant]

Forgive me for sounding like a Autist but everytime I watch KaiserBeamz I feel at ease.


Here's the video that introduce me to him (And Project A-ko): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGKOzLG1g8s

Are there any YouTubers that talk about 80s Anime?

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The word "anime" in Japan means animation so I can post about the 1980's cartoon show, Garfield and Friends on this thread.
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That's a cartoon, it's for children, this is what real anime made for adults looks like, Kinguobuzahiru: