old school anime, its not the same as i remember!
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what i meant by "old school" is anything i used to watch back in the day, or to put a concrete date on my own encounter with the subject: anything BEFORE 1991 or 92.
as to the people who "dont watch anything pre-2000" you dont have a clue where the cartoons you think of as anime came from... there are some gem's that have been re-made since 2000 that would shock you at how much better they are in original forms.
as to the people who "dont watch anything pre-2000" you dont have a clue where the cartoons you think of as anime came from... there are some gem's that have been re-made since 2000 that would shock you at how much better they are in original forms.
I actually just recently noticed that certain fan-sites and such now have Anime divided into different eras. With your Silver, Golden, Modern, etc "Ages." I couldn't help but laugh at this.
Anime isn't like comic books were there's a specific "agenda" or theme (for lack of a better term) that segregates the different time periods. It seemed to me that the only criterion they went by was the quality or "look" of the animation and even that is a really blurred area.
Some of the big production shows of the 80s (The Gundams, for example) are of equal or better quality of a lot of the stuff that came in the 90s. OTOH, Strawberry Eggs, which isn't even ten years old, already looks really dated and the artwork "style" looks more early 90s than early 2000s.
If I were to divide anime into eras I think it would probably be like pre and post 1996 which is about when it really started to become globally ubiquitous.
Anime isn't like comic books were there's a specific "agenda" or theme (for lack of a better term) that segregates the different time periods. It seemed to me that the only criterion they went by was the quality or "look" of the animation and even that is a really blurred area.
Some of the big production shows of the 80s (The Gundams, for example) are of equal or better quality of a lot of the stuff that came in the 90s. OTOH, Strawberry Eggs, which isn't even ten years old, already looks really dated and the artwork "style" looks more early 90s than early 2000s.
If I were to divide anime into eras I think it would probably be like pre and post 1996 which is about when it really started to become globally ubiquitous.
Yea, who's in charge of that idea? Michael Powell, Mary Whitehouse?
Mary Whitehouse? 
People still pay attention to anything she says?
Ha Ha! Charade you are!
People still pay attention to anything she says? Ha Ha! Charade you are!
Maybe and maybe not.
When you look at the format of the particularly violent stuff, it was usually just direct to video mini-series (aka OVA/OAV). If an anime is released DTV it's really only for couple of reasons:
A) The content is to explicit for a TV broadcast
B) It exists solely as a sort of complex video advertisement for the manga adapting only a small amount so you have to go buy the books to see the rest
C) The company is unsure how it will sell
D) The company could not get the budget together for a full TV run
The main reason why they were picked up was probabally not because they were edgy, though that may have been a factor, but because they were cheaper to license and distribute than a longer series. When anime actually began to get a following here thanks to TV networks we started to see the number of genres available here and target age range diversify into what it now is today; a fairly well rounded medium.
I would agree to a certain extent. Sure it's good to check out older titles because you'll definitely find some good ones. For instance, I'm currently watching Your're Under Arrest! for the first time and it's a great show that slipped by me in the late 90s when I was watching other things. However, anime is not wine. It doesn't get better with age, it simply is. A bad title is bad title and a good title is a good title depending on one's taste, doesn't matter when it was made. It's not automatically good because it's old, just as all anime are not created equal. In fact many of them suck.
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Oh, I have it.
I'd still love to see the original again.
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