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.
Ninja Scroll
Fist of the North Star
Possibly the A-ko series.
Ninja Scroll and Fist of The North Star are some of my fundamental pillars of brain's understanding of anime.
I'll put this one on my watch list, looks old-school in all the right ways. Never heard of it, so eager to see what's going on.