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Nipple hard when cold, though

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Maybe you can go to German to watch the 'anti-nazis' marching



Nothing sus.

That is not a post about anime from the 80s and 90s, fren

This is sensual aids and mariens and cantelopes favorite song.



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That is not a post about anime from the 80s and 90s, fren

I liked this more than I should have.

My bad, here is some sick fabulous retro anime.



Lets kill some boomers.


Priss: The only good boomer is a dead boomer.



Hmm that aged like fine wine.

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My bad, here is some sick fabulous retro anime.

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Lets kill some boomers.
Priss: The only good boomer is a dead boomer.
Hmm that aged like fine wine.

Gorgeous.

I also like this song (and until my ipod's HDD died I had it on there). Maybe it's just the sort of sad/desperate yet frenzied feeling it gives me. Tonally it's definitely got a somewhat sad sound.
It also reminds me a little of the things I like about some eastern European/Russian music. Don't really know exactly why that is, though.

…I don't think we're ever going to get animation that good again, either. I really hope I'm wrong about that.

It feels to me like the shortcuts that you can take when using a computer for 2D animation make it so people don't want to take the extra moment to add that little bit of extra flair to drawings. Characters maybe look more consistent from shot to shot that way, but it also loses something in my opinion.

Anyway, it's a shame bubblegum crisis wasn't longer, like it was apparently intended to be.

Also: yeah, it did age like fine wine. In that it (and a lot of similar stuff) basically ruined other anime for me in the same way that really good 25 year old pinot ruined newer red wine for me.

It's just sad that now, with anime bigger than ever (and perhaps because of it) anime has (on the whole) gone to shit. I still can appreciate some things, but it's certainly not for the visual artistry.

Oh, hell; Artmic's been dead for roughly the same amount of time that I've been alive (± 3 years).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 13 2021, 10:26

This is sensual aids and mariens and cantelopes favorite song.

Not retarded enough.

Marien who?

Thinking about it more, to be honest I think animation as a whole fell off a cliff in the US around the same time anime did.

I still see some good stuff from France, occasionally.

It's a tragedy that Tezuka died in '89. I think he'd probably have worked at least another 20 years like Miyazaki is, if he had been able to live long enough.

It sort of feels like the industry has regressed in a lot of ways since his death; for a lot of purposes, the thoughtful/impactful, more "adult" storytelling he was doing in his later years tapered off after his passing.

Or maybe it was just because of the mecha trend and such at the time.

In any event, there's still good new stuff to be found of course, but it just feels like despite the huge amount of content out there it's like cable TV and 90% of it is crap. And now the rest of the "old crowd" artists are dying off (Kentaro Miura for instance)… The Clamp artists are all in their 50's now, so I guess they still might have a while left. Though I haven't followed their stuff recently… But I've said before - I read Chobits when I was 13 or 14 and it really made an impact on me.

…Well, I'm not working today. So I guess 4 AM on a Monday is as good a time as any to start reading Chobits again.

Update: Well, it's been so long since I last read this that I've forgotten almost everything except for major concepts. And possibly something about the landlord.

I love it when that happens.
Update 2: Finished. Still good.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 13 2021, 15:58

I had this on my wall when I was a wee lad.

This and Robotech basically got me into anime.

This is the late 80's DTP. Not the mid 90's DTP.

This poster came in a video game magazine and I still have it somewhere.

9:00 now, I finished Chobits.

Worth it.

Somebody tried to make a working model of Priss's holdout pistol from the first episode. It turned into a holdout AR pistol.


Much bigger & doesn't quickly break in two, but I like that they tried.

I remember going all the way down to #### in #### to pick up a special-ordered BGC CD. They were the regional specialists in Japanese import CDs, but the guy at the counter wasn't an otaku. He showed me a Ranma 1/2 Song Battle CD and asked, "Is this it?" I could have had any CD in the stack. I took the BGC OST.

I remember going all the way down to #### in #### to pick up a special-ordered BGC CD. They were the regional specialists in Japanese import CDs, but the guy at the counter wasn't an otaku. He showed me a Ranma 1/2 Song Battle CD and asked, "Is this it?" I could have had any CD in the stack. I took the BGC OST.

I am not 100% sure, I might have gotten the CD. The problem was normally the Japanese import CDs were sold for $50 which was crazy. Even if you are importing them, it was highway robbery back then.

Think I picked it up for 2.50 when the store when broke.

The original series had 10 CDs, one OST for each episode plus the two complete vocal collections. Once they started getting scarce, they went to US$100+ each at ebay prices, and I guess they eventually crashed once you could just download mp3s instead.

The original series had 10 CDs, one OST for each episode plus the two complete vocal collections. Once they started getting scarce, they went to US$100+ each at ebay prices, and I guess they eventually crashed once you could just download mp3s instead.

Ahh, I only got the best of and like OST 1 and 2. Not the whole set. I think I got one of the new Bubblegum crisis osts as well.

For evangelion I got most of the CDs but I was super bummed that the refrain cd was pirated, it didn't have the secret tracks.

Refrain was such a good cd




Loads of nostalgia. Its like 90s anime nostalgia the album.

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This was what I saw before the Street Fighter 2 animated movie back in the day.



Skip to 35 seconds unless you like old vhs rental images.

I remember that, Manga video was so hype. "Downloaded onto video, the future is now".


Looks like their parent companies were all over the shop though. They kind of peaked and died.

Madman took over in Australia.

Any of you guys on 'spleen, perchance?

(Not asking for invites, I'm already there; just curious because it seems like your kind of place)

Any of you guys on 'spleen, perchance?

'Spleen?

'Spleen?

Myspleen.
A private torrent tracker chock full of off-the-air VHS/Beta recordings from the 70s thru 2000's. Also laser disc rips and other uncommon things.

I got blu-ray quality copies of Mysterious Cities of Gold there, for instance. Also an off-the-air taping of Akira from when it was broadcast on BBC2 in the early to mid 90's.

The best tapes are things like the six hour long nickelodeon/cartoon network blocks with original ads, though. Or TV airings of movies. Or just tapes from around the world that you'd never have seen otherwise.

Also, lots of star wars edits and preservations for some reason. 35mm 4K scan of a technicolor print of the 1977 film for instance. I think it's where the "despecialized edition" edits were first released (alongside Usenet) as well.

Also lots of weird bootlegs.

The main rule is that you shouldn't put stuff up that is available retail. Although if you have, say, a criterion laserdisc of a film that has been issued on DVD but with different extra features, they tend to allow that sort of thing.

They also do have a soft "no anime" rule, but the admins have told me on IRC that the real rule is "ask first" because they don't want it to turn into animebytes or some anime-centric place like that. I've shared several anime things over the years. All stuff that hasn't been aired or for sale for a very long time, if ever.

So they've also allowed things like old DBZ fansubs, sailor moon VHS tapes of the first dub, and that sort of thing before. Oh, and LOTS of toonami recording blocks.
Have a sampler.

6 Hours of Sailor Moon w/o/c (Fall 1995) (VHS Rip)
Dragon Ball Z - 1997 Bootleg tape - 5 Episodes with Anime Labs Fan subs
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future (1985) [HEVC]
Bubblegum Crisis (1987 TV Mini Series) <== 1080p, with english subs
Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankel Cut (VHS Extended Rough Cut 1.0) Movie 1993
[WOC Custom] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 9 episodes from 1988
YTV - Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Thunderbirds, Xcalibur (May 2002)
Hackers-- Wizards Of The Electronics Age 1985 Documentary
Transformers 4 episodes W/O/C 1985 (CUSTOM REPACK) WOC
ABC Saturday Morning - 10-19-1985 - The Littles and Cap'n O. G. Readmore's Jack and the Beanstalk
Thundercats 1985 Soundtrack Leak (Bernard Hoffer) 320kbps MP3
Taro, The Dragon Boy w/Japanese Commercials (December 1983) <== Has a Game & Watch ad too
Roger Rabbit & The Secrets of Toon Town (CBS broadcast premiere, September 13, 1988 w/o/c)
MTV 1983-03-25 w/o/c
[Cartoons Restoration] Inspector Gadget (Complete 1983-1985 series with DiC/LBS logos)
Japanese Anime on VHS Vol. 1 (Cyberteam in Akihabara, Super Battle B Daman, AD Police, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040)
Ren & Stimpy Marathon MTV 1993 VHS Tape
Primetime/Japan (PBS, 1988) [VHSrip] <==== Sampler of 80's Japanese daytime TV, as shown on PBS
MST3k Turkey Day Marathon 1993 8 hrs (WOC)
Cbs M.A.S.H 1983 Series Finale (WOC)
BBC Engineering Xmas tapes, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1997
MTV 1993 Beavis and Butthead Moronathon (WOC)
Yu-Gi-Oh! (1998, Toei Animation, "Season 0") raws and soft-sub files [VHS/LDrip]
NOVA S11-S20 PACK (1984-1993)
MST3K - K01 - INVADERS FROM THE DEEP (540p) [1988] <=== That's a KTMA recording
1988 Garfield Christmas (WOC) FIXED

WOC == with original commercials

The quality goes all over the place.
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