Topic: Retro Animation (Japanese) Discussion

I keep starting and never finishing Dragon's Heaven, which culminates everything about the animation of that Era into one beautiful package. For a movie featuring a whole lot of sand it really is just beautiful to look at. Any one-off or obscure Anime OVAs I should be watching?

Forgot to upload these last week.

InuYasha Set 4 - Finished this up over the weekend, and am over half way through the series now. Although it's one of my favorites from when I was younger, I will say it's starting to drag at this point (while most fans will say the series peaks during the Band of 7 arc, which started in this set, I think it peaks before that).

Urusei Yatsura: Only You - Took a bit of a gamble on this (the only other UY media I've ever seen was Beautiful Dreamer a few years ago on Prime), but I liked it well enough. I wasn't too familiar with the cast, but it was easy enough to get to grips with the core players. Will definitely check out other stuff in the franchise.

@MetaCrystal, most of the OVAs I could recommend are stuff I've already posted in my pickups, though before I started collecting stuff physically I watched Iria: Zeiram the Animation & Photon in relatively recent memory & enjoyed them (both sci-fi, the first more action, the latter comedy).

If it's available in your country you should check out Retro Crush, a streaming platform that has tones of old anime (mostly from the 80's-00's) legally for free. There are a handful of titles they have locked behind a paywall, but it might be a good place for you to browse around.

@RR529 Thanks for the info!

I just watched the AREA-88 OVA, seeing hand drawn dogfights is on another level of cool.

Update, I just copied the area 88 ova to a vhs tape, this is awesome to watch on my crt.

Got these in over the weekend.

Samurai Champloo - I haven't seen this since it last aired back on Adult Swim back in the day, and even then I don't think I ever finished it (or forgot how it ended). I had a similar experience with Code Geass which I ended up loving when I recently rewatched it on BD, so hopefully this plays out similarly for me. Not sure if it quite counts as retro, but it turns 20 next year.

Memories - I absolutely loved Robot Carnival when I watched it a few weeks ago, so when I heard the forces behind it did this later on I knew I had to get it. Can't wait to watch!

Small haul over the weekend.

InuYasha Set 5 - Started this up over the weekend, and am getting close to the end of the Bo7 arc.

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer - Watched this a number of years ago on Prime and remembered liking it, so I decided to nab it (thinking about collecting the series in general too, as I grabbed the first film already a few weeks ago). Probably overpaid a bit for it, but it's okay to splurge every great once in awhile I guess.

Newest pickups.

Akira - Just watched it on Friday. All these years later & it still looks stunning (especially cleaned up in HD). The ending is still a bit confusing, but each time I watch it I think I understand it just a bit more... maybe.

Ninja Scroll - It's been years since I last watched this, but I remember it having copious amounts of gore & nudity, so it'll probably still be a good time, lol. Also, the slip cover has a cool shiny holographic effect on the sword which is cool.

The other two aren't retro.

Bonus: Ninja Scroll & Expelled From Paradise outside of the slip cases.

@RR529 Nice. I picked up the Akira DVD/Blu Ray combo back in 2016. Both have really good picture for the formats. I'm not into the 4K stuff, but it's cool to hear that it looks good. Sometimes, they mess up the picture when they "upgrade" the format so it's not always a sure thing. I remember Akira being really confusing when I first watched it in the 90s. When I watched it last shortly after I bought it I understood it quite a bit more than I had before(I think). Either way, such a stunning work of animation. It's definitely something I look forward to re-watching sooner or later. The backlog is real.