80's/Early 90's Anime Appreciation Thread (Where Is The Love For The Older Anime)

I would consider myself an anime fan ever since I officially got into anime in 1995. The movie that got me into anime genre was the Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. Ever since then shows such as sailor moon and dragon ball z eventually made its way into mainstream television and I've been hooked ever since. I was even fortunate enough, I don't know if any canadians remember this but in 1995/1996 at least after 12:00 in the night columbia house use to run a commercial about signing up for their anime deal, and I use to get an anime from those guys once a month. The first anime they ever sent me was Akira, and ever since then I enjoyed a lot of the movies they sent me even though they were very adult in nature.

Its just I've been noticing especially over the last 5-7 years when popular series such as inuyasha, naruto, gundam seed, full metal alchemist, witch hunter robin, trigun, cowboy bebop, bleach and other series have been making its way into mainstream television I find a lot of my friends and fellow anime fans aren't even giving older anime a chance anymore.

I'm not debating that these new series are any good; I've seen the entire series of full metal alchemist, cowboy bebop and a few others. I'll admit they have a lot of interesting storylines and I would consider them very good, but my true love for anime probably extends from anything before 1994. Even when I did not know what anime was I still remember enjoying series I watched such as robotech and astroboy when I was a child. I just find with anime being more widely accepted around the world that a lot of people aren't simply giving older anime a chance anymore and are only liking anime thats popular.

Even my friends give me a hard time because they find my taste in anime is a bit dark, but my main priorities to me that define a great anime is telling a great story and music that sets the mood for the anime film or series being watched. I would like to tell you some of my favourite animated films and series from the 80's and early 90's and I would like to add a discussional value to this forum, based on do you think older anime deserves to have some recognition since anime has been gaining a lot of attention in recent years and should older anime make its way to mainstream television to broaden people's horizons.

Dominion Tank Police/New Dominion Tank Police
This is my absolutely favourite series of all time, and it hasn't changed ever since I was first experienced it watching it on the Space channel in 1998. I fell in love with the series. I loved the english voice acting, the japanese voice acting, the music and the overall humour of the entire series and not one anime has yet to change that. I'm a bigger fan of the older series over the newer one but I still enjoy them regardless.

The Professional: Golgo 13
A lot of people give me a hard time for this one. I understand this movie has a lot of over the top violence and a lot of nudity. This is still one of my favourites because of its story. I was captivated by its story and I think this movie had a great surprising ending that I didn't expect one bit. I recommend this film to anyoen that has an open mind, but some of my friends say they didn't like it because of the quality of animation. To me I'll watch anything anime no matter what syle of animation it uses. i want to get a chance to see the other films dealing with Golgo 13 but I really haven't had a chance.

Project A-KO
I absolutely love this film. I love everything about it. Its just so humourous and so action packed summed up into a 4 part movie series, with a two part interstellar series afterwards. Its very fast paced and you can't go wrong with aliens, space battles, robot suits, and overpowered schoolgirls.

Macross Plus
This 4-part series/movie has my favourite anime soundtrack of all time. This movie got me interested into anime music all together and it was my first experience to yoko kanno's style of music. I still classify this as one of the most beautifully animated films I have ever seen, even though its 13 years old.

Finally,

AKIRA
It really disappoints me, that as I'm meeting more and more people that are into anime none of them have ever seen this film. From my own personal opinion I think AKIRA is one of the greatest anime's ever made because I feel that it started that anime revolutuion in the western world. I just love the music and storyline from this anime and I even liked the original dub over the new dub for this film. I still own the original vhs film of this move when it was released in north america.

There are still other series, I love from that time frame such as 3x3 eyes, the original vampire hunter D, Venus Wars, Barefoot Gen and the original patlabor animated series. I thank U.S. Manga Corps, Manga Entertainment, and Streamline Pictues for introducing these older anime into the North American market. I will find time to watch the new anime that people consider popular but when the hype has gone down. So to the people of gaming force what are some of your favourite anime's from that time frame and do you think people that are getting into anime should give the older anime a chance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Spatula

Also, Angel of Light, so you did check out the SPACE CHANNEL - IMAGINATION STATION back in the days huh? Ever remember seeing Venus Wars? Yeah that's what got me hooked on. I was like, shit, this is from JAPAN?.

Yeah I did, I remember the Space Channel - Imagination Station is where I got my first taste of some of the anime from U.S. Manga Corps. They use to show an anime film every friday night at 1:30 in the morning, Newfoundland Standard Time. Its kind of a crying shame they don't do that any more. I also use to watch the anime that use to come on teletoon during the christmas holidays during 1999-2000. I remember watching anime such as venus wars, dominion tank police, and big wars on the space channel.

Its kind of funny, I didn't even know the space channel at that time showed any anime, and thats how I actually spent my high school graduation. While everyone use to go up to the bonfire and get absolutely wasted, I actually spent my graduation night getting fried chicken take-out and crashing at my older sisters house watching cool shows on her satellite dish, and I was fortunate enough to see dominion tank police on the space channel that night, and ever since then its been my favourite series of all time.

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