Being an anime fan in the 90s

>discover anime on cartoon network in mid-90s
>blows my mind: "wow, it's like cartoons for adults"
>sci-fi channel and MTV follow suit in promoting anime in the US
>it's all 80s kino: akira, vampire hunter D, demon city shinjuku, etc.
>start buying box loads of anime on VHS from AnimeNation and RightStuf in late 90s as a teenager
>god this shit is amazing
>show all my friends because nobody really knows what anime is at this point
>go into anime chatrooms on yahoo in the late 90s
>everyone is just RPing as their favorite sailor moon/DBZ/tenchi muyo characters
>"hey anybody here like akira?"
>nope, they're just RPing about low-taste crap
>fast forward 10+ years, circa 2009ish
>"oh hey, Zig Forums has an anime board!"
>endless pages of moeshit, one-piece-tier crap, RP BS
>mfw
>my fucking face when

There was never really a place for people like me. The best I found was some "vintage anime" group on FB that was run by some fat fucking autist on a power trip. I got banned for interrupting his circle jerk. Christ, I wish I could just find a place where I can enjoy my kino vintage anime shit. Fist of the North Star. Golgo 13. Vampire Hunter D. MD Geist. Demon City Shinjuku. Wicked City. Ninja Scroll... There's gotta be at least ONE person here that enjoys that kinda shit... Right???

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that onions face

The 90s were very aggressive

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I remember going in AOL chatrooms around 1998 and the opinion was predominantly that anime was hardcore porn and nothing else.

You're awakening, run while you still can.

I watched it on SciFi when it ran way early in the morning on weekends. Iria, Venus Wars, Lodoss, Tenchi/Lum movies, what else, a bunch of stuff you mentioned too. But their roster of OAVs and movies wasn't very large so it repeated often. Still, at the time that's all there was.

none of those are that obscure so to answer your question, yeah probably

Nice to see there are other oldfigs here.

Yeah, I was going for surface level/top 20 type shit. If you want me to dig deeper, how about: Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma, Goku: Midnight Eye, Mermaid's Scar & Forest, Angels Egg is mainstream now but nice, Neo Tokyo, The Curse of Kazuo Umezu, Midori (also kinda mainstream from being cult), Roujin-Z, Kimera, Doomed Megalopolis, Shuten Doji (but only the first episode), Ping Pong Club, Dark Myth, Harmagedon, Violence Jack... etc...

It wasn't so much about obscure as it was about oldschool. It's kind of annoying that vintage anime is liked by so many pretentious hipsters but simultaneously annoying that it is virtually unknown to modern anime fans.

more moeshitters

get taste fag

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>yet another 90s teenager Zig Forumsutist that feels mature because he sees uncensored blood and swearing for the first time in a mongolian cartoon complains about popular shonen and moe
we dont need this thread every single day

>Another whiny cunt whines

Maybe there should be a /va/ board for the discussion of vintage anime if the subject is so popular. This board seems like it doesn't really deviate from moeshit or low-taste NPC-tier shit like one piece, my hero, no game no life, or whatever is popular on netflix or among the virginal zoomer anime scene.

>kino
and this is how you lose that part of the audience and attract Zig Forums adjacent shitposters

>he thinks generic blood and gore and sex "the REAL world is unfair man, deal with it, shit sucks" garbage with autistic animation production values is good
>gets triggered when someone tells him he has shit taste
cope, your favorite 80s """kino""" is only good for "what went wrong???" gifs to complain about modern anime quality and it has shittier writing than the shonen you cry about

If it's important for you that your cartoons are manly and mature you should try yaoi

>watching ANIME of all mediums for the fucking story

Holy fuck, talk about outing yourself. Nah son, that 80s shit is exceptional for its superior hand-wrought art and production. Who actually watches anime for the fucking STORY... lmao, holy fuck. That's real cringe, bro.

>buzzwords the thread

There's a board for you newfags. It's called get the fuck out or lurk more.

>that 80s shit is exceptional for its superior hand-wrought art and production
stiff shit with autistic levels of detail that only shit taste Zig Forumsutists care about because
>OMG LOOK AT THIS OBJECTIVE HIGHLY DETAILED WORK
>THIS IS REAL ART AND NOT DIGITAL SHIT YUCK
i have seen bricks with more fluid animation than 80s anime

Enjoy your soulless shit that was produced outside of the economic bubble that fostered the golden age of anime and only caters to pedos, manchildren, and NPC-grade weeaboos because of "muh animation" that is riddled with slapstick and slice of life bullshit centering around 13-year-old girls that are saving the world from the same big bad villains every time. Yawn as fuck. Congrats on your Neolithic taste I guess.

Judging by those posts you're not aware of this, but you aren't just a fan of 80s anime, you're specifically into 80s horror. The 80's is much more diverse than that. Maybe you didn't find a place to discuss those shows because you're looking for the wrong thing? Just a thought.

fuck off granpa

I understand your pain OP, I'm a 70s, 80s, 90s retro animefag myself but there isn't an active place on the internet to discuss that shit. Even Zig Forums has /vr/. I would live on an /ar/ board. I'm sure there is some discord out there somewhere at least.

use /m/, they'll discuss any old anime if it isn't moe

>spergs out about sol, moe and shonen (with a side serving of "muh teenagers in anime") when his retarded soulless 80s """kino""" gets insulted
>only argument is B-BUT YOUR FAVORITE ANIME SUCKS TOO, YOU PEDO MANCHILDREN NPC WEABOO
>using weaboo as an insult unironically
>in this mongolian paper making website's chinese cartoon bo/a/rd
overdose on your meds

>Mature animayz for a mature person like myself
How about you grow up. No wait, just grow. Any little amount will do instead of stagnating, only liking one tiny genre of an entire medium and complaining you're not getting catered too when the market changes.

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>must consooooom

30+ here, so the 90's era anime airing on television are still in the mind. Problem is that the preference toward 80-90's anime could've come from foolish youth or if that decade was genuinely better. Brand New Animal for example was absolutely beautifully animated and had a good story. So can't say for certain that the quality of an anime is dependent on its' release decade.

I know the feeling
even worse if you are into semi-obscure 60s/70s stuff

>had a good story.
oof

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even if the market changes, niches never die they just become slightly harder to find
all im seein is OP crying like a bitch they need to be spoonfed shit to watch

I'll say that I have been enjoying the art of Dorohedoro and another one I almost got into was One Punch Man. But it's terribly a shame that the same low-taste consoomers that make all this other boring shit their entire identity also watch these anime just because they're anime and new. I just want to see beautiful, intricate, and highly detailed art in the context of atmospheric shit that's not afraid to be more ambient. I'll look into the one you mentioned, thx.

>first exposure of anime is akira
>anime is cartoon for adults

What a pleb, first anime for most people is Doraemon and Ninja Hattori and we grew up with the knowledge that anime is for kids while eventually discovering more shows with mature themes

>doesn't really deviate from moeshit or low-taste NPC-tier shit
You say that and yet the same few popular 90/80s anime/ova are constantly jerked off in these threads. You fuckers aren’t any better

Do these people even read manga?

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anime is dead
it's full of moe and self insert shit
I miss real mature anime for adults

Zig Forums is full of secondaries

>the same few popular 90/80s anime/ova are constantly jerked off in these threads.
yeah because they're good

We've had a ton of normalfags lately making garbage threads talking about how bad anime is now when they've seen maybe 15 anime. These retards always think old anime are nothing but GARshit because they're too retarded to fucking use google. It's actually quite stunning how many braindead retards still manage to think like this, it amazes me. OP, do this board a favor and lurk moar, you and the rest of your faggot band of facebook kids trying to LARP as "cultured" should do the same. I bet you haven't even watched all of gundam yet, bitch.

Why can't you people ever just say "90's anime" or something. Not your blog

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moetrannies on the seethe

The first anime I saw and recognized as "anime" or more specifically "Japanese animation" was Vampire Hunter D (1985). Akira was probably the second or third one I saw, actually. I'm not counting Twilight of the Cockroaches even though it premiered during the same promo as Vampire Hunter D.

Zig Forums is full of illiterate normalfags nowadays, if you tell secondaries their favorite anime comes from a manga or vn because you got sick of their daily "season 2 when" crying they will refuse to read it

If it were any good, people would't talk about it all the time

>60s
Like what?

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Niggro I've been an anime fan for 25 years, probably longer than you've been alive. I've seen hundreds of films, OVAs, and TV shows from the 80s up until current. I've ranked and catalogued everything I've seen and streamed it for the past 10+ years. You can't even touch my knowledge and depth of what anime is. I'm saying that nothing I've seen from the current generation of anime even comes close to capturing what made 80s and early 90s anime so good. It's not even comparable. It's almost a totally different medium, and it's a shame that it shares the same namesake.

reminder no "muh mature manime, shonenshit and moeshit BTFO" retard can summarize the plot of the shit they praise without the help of google or tv tropes
in fact more than half of them have to go to reddit or tv tropes to understand what the fuck it was about because they were watching with their brain off enjoying the gore, landscapes and mindfuck visuals

you're projecting really hard in this post

Well you can’t talk about the board not being divergent enough and exclude these threads then. Since they’re even worse with that

>larps as an oldfag
>admits to having a MAL and streaming like a fucking zoomie
i hope this is pasta and i got baited

I legitimately cannot tell if this nigga is being ironic anymore holy FUCK

>feel personally offended
>b-b-but p-p-projecting
you are fooling nobody, not even yourself

I'm not offended at all, it was a bizarrely specific post which obviously came from your own insecurities

I feel like you basically want this place to be nothing but 80s/90s anime discussions, which it is not and was never ever meant to be. There are all kinds of people with different tastes and preferences that come here to discuss anime/manga. Naturally, newer stuff are more popular here but nothing forbids you from creating threads about those old shows you liked. You will definitely find people that will discuss with you, and you might even get people that never watched them to take a look.

Or you can just keep feeling sorry for yourself, whatever works for you.

literally everyone has MAL, who cares

>Consoom
I thought this only applied when you actually purchase the product.