Films and TV ok :thumbs up:
I am a very young millennial/boomer zoomer so the first 3 decades are basically wins by default. Anyway I got:
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70s: Belladonna of Sadness (‘73) by default. Watercolor hentai.
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80s: My Neighbor Totoro (‘88). Dope as hell.
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90s: Perfect Blue (‘98) maybe? Either that or G Gundam.
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00s: Gurren Lagann (‘07). Imaishi hasn’t missed since.
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10s: This one’s tough because most of the stuff I’ve seen aired in the last ten years. Think I’ll go with Hyouka today. The tone, characters, animation - it’s all perfect. It’s been hard to revisit this one lately since most of the leading staff who worked on this show were killed in the arson attack last year. Fucking sucks to think about.
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20s: I should probably finish Eizouken
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'70s: Castle of Cagliostro -- Miyazaki
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'80s: Nausicaa / Akira / Laputa / Totoro -- Really hard to choose just one for this group.
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'90s: Evangelion / Mononoke / Perfect Blue / Outlaw Star, while it has some problems around female characters I'm critical of I still like it a lot, I'm certain it had formative effects on Bebop in several ways.
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'00s: Aria / TTGL / Mushi-shi / Baccano / Cowboy Bebop
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'10s: Houseki no Kuni(Land of the Lustrous), hands down easily my favourite art piece of the period. Shinsekai Yori(from the new world) can't go without being mentioned for absolutely incredible world building. Kill la Kill honourable mention.
I really need to give Land of the Lustrous a shot. Seems like everyone’s favorite CG show.
I think it's hard to escape how influential and good Miyazaki has been, consistently, for many decades.
Land of the Lustrous isn't just "a good CG show", it's a landmark piece of progress in the industry. It's one of the shows with the most depth in art, allegory and intentional hidden meaning behind its work since Evangelion, but at the same time via use of CG. It's the piece that truly has driven the industry forwards out of just 2d art and showed everyone how anime should be using 3d in the medium if they really do it right. The CG doesn't just make the show possible, it complements it. It is good for it. That is arguably an industry first.
There are definitely scenes that will wow. The good thing about a completely CG show that simply accepts and leans into the fact it is CG is that it ceases to be distracting in the same way that a pixar movie's CG is not distracting. It is just good. But moreso than that, the material it is built on is absolutely phenomenal.
Also it's a communist society, so there's that too.
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I feel like a terrible anime fan lol. I have basically nothing before the 2000s/
80s: Grave of the Fireflies
90s: Revolutionary Girl Utena
00s: Gurren Lagann
10s: Kill la Kill Honourable Mentions: K-On!!, Fate/Zero+UBW+Heaven's Feel, Yuru Camp, too many other shows
20s: Either FGO: Babylonia, Wave Listen to Me or Kakushigoto
Fuckin love me some Yuru Camp. You should check out the manga if you haven't - super adorable, great art.
Imaishi hasn’t missed since.
I wonder if I'm the only one who found Promare underwhelming...
80's: Kiki's Delivery Service. I know I know it's a capitalist hellhole. But, idk it just makes me so fucking happy.
90's: This one's tough, I haven't even finished it yet, but I'm gonna have to say Sailor Moon cause I'm enjoying it so fucking much.
00's: School Rumble. No one has fucking heard of this anime. It's got a special place in my heart cause I binged all 60 episodes with my roommate after I lost my job.
10's: Madoka Magica. I really fucking love Madoka.
20's: idk, Tower of God maybe.
I could try and be cool and drop a bunch of revolutionary anime etc. But idk I've got basic tastes.
Basic taste is good! I used to be somewhat elitist or whatever up to my late teen years but now I try to look for anything positive shows can offer. Getting more into an art major/potential career probably helped with that. Anyway, what makes you happy makes you happy.
