I just watched "Vampire Hunter D" for the first time. It rules, I can also see its influence in a lot of other anime, scifi, and other cool nerd shit. It's really a shame I have never sat down and watched it until now. It fuckin' rips!.

I need more animated films of that era that aren't made for the selling of toys. Doesn't have to be anime but really any sort of sleeper/underrated animated films from the 80s and 90s. I need more animated cinema.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Dallos (4-part OVA, but basically a film length): Mamoru Oshii makes space communism the anime.

    Dragon's Heaven: Cool one-shot OVA. Mobius vibes in the art and a banger scale model opening.

    Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01: Another one-shot mecha OVA. Simple plot, but a fun ride with solid animation.

    Space Runaway Ideon - A Contact and Be Invoked: a double feature movies by Gundam creator Tomino. The fist one is a compilation film - the TV version is better, but that's not the assignment here. The second is one of the best sci-fi anime movies of all time. Evangelion copied a lot of stuff from this movie.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Redline is so fucking cool. Get the og, don't get any of the "4k upscales", the hand drawn animation loses it's magic when an ai smoothes everything over.

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 months ago

        Redline rules! Love every frame of it, it's a little outside of my desire OG timeframe but it's worth mentioning because it fuckin' RIPSSSS! So good. It's also got a good message of following your dream and not letting anything get in your way and love solves most problems.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      All of these sound rad and I have zero frame of reference for any of them. Very exited to check these out. Thanks!

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        NP! Watching old OVAs can be a fun rabbit hole to dive down since there's dozens of them, and the time commitment is a lot shorter than watching a full show. Hope you have fun with it!