Is this still the most soul crushing ending scene in anime? It is for me at least.

What's the single most obscure anime you know of /cel/?

This may sound like a weird question to some but is there anywhere or anyone that collects, catalogs or is knowledgeable with regards to anime vhs, specifically the covers?
Sorta in the realm of the laserdisc database that catalogs them, or just in general.

There was one guy on nyaa a few years back who made two lists of 10 movies and OVAs from the 80s as sort of a "starter pack" for retro anime.
https://nyaa.si/view/1289794
https://nyaa.si/view/1267525
I've been wondering what a similar list would look like for other decades, specifically the 90's and 2000s. For the nineties I was thinking
>Cyber City Odeo 808 (90)
>Roujin Z (91)
>Shōjo Tsubaki (92)
>Porco Rosso (92)
>Ninja Scroll (93)
>Street Fighter (94)
>Memories (95)
>Perfect Blue (97)
>Ghost in the Shell (97)
>Princess Monoke (97)
>End of Evangelion (97)
>Tekken (98)
>Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade (99)
There would be 20 entries in total, ideally with at least one from each year.

Are we really supposed to believe that hardened soldiers are going to defy their superior officers, whom they've been conditioned to fear all their lives, to defect to an enemy they've been conditioned to hate all their lives, just for the sake of some shitty pop songs? That would be like the Norks or Talibans defecting to the United States in mass because of Taylor Swift. And why would anyone in that situation even give a shit about gay idol drama anyway? They're supposed to be fighting for their lives, stranded in the outer solar system millions of the nearest supply base, and yet they have not only the available resources but also the audience for this garbage?

Or that the chief archivist whose supposedly spent his entire life studying combat footage, wouldn't notice that a goddamn martial arts movie was clearly faked? Actually zentradi in general seem pretty dim, the infiltration team is able to speak perfect Japanese with no effort, but somehow remain clueless about every other aspect of Terran culture. They really should have been caught right away, especially since they acted like total buffoons and Hayase actually saw them in the miclone chambers.

The way they handle romance was also pretty dumb. At most civilian workplaces its frowned upon for officers to engage in relationships, let alone in the military. And then there's the whole romance between Max and Milia. "I tried to kill you an hour ago, let's get married!"Yeah, right.

How is this garbage considered a classic in any way? My eight year old sister could come up with a better mecha show.

if reinhard is supposedly hitler, then would that make oberstien like von blomberg or himmler? Because I see him as more of a dirlewanger type figure. Also use this thread to talk about the '88 ova, because I need to catch up on that shit

Sup /cel/ let's have a nice little thread for hentai discussion. What are the pre-2000s classics? What are the must see staples? What have you watched recently?

What's your absolute favourite /ar/ anime, and why?

For me, it's Irresponsible Captain Tylor. I remember watching the first episode back in 2017 and finding it to be somewhat uneventful, and it wasn't until the fourth episode where the crescendo made me laugh for a solid ten seconds that I fell in love with it.

I found the anime to be incredibly hilarious and it had that charm of not knowing how the characters were going to get out of an impossible situation and then seeing them get out of it flawlessly. I do think it suffers from a few slow moments, some out of character moments for Tylor and a very lackluster, confusing final fight. I wanted to see Tylor and the crew get out of impossible battle situations and he's only in four in the entire anime, I get not wanting to make an anime that's all about winning impossible situations but I just wish there was more.

The crew are fantastic as well, great characters all round. The Mad Max style soldiers who are so stupidly dressed for their jobs, the android spy sent to kill Tylor who everyone falls in love with and even Yamamoto and Yuriko who are pretty normal by comparison are still great for being straight men to Tylor's idiotic ideas and escapades. As for the enemy alien army, there aren't that many but I did find the two main ones Azalyn and Dom to be pretty fun, although I did find Azalyn's obsession over Tylor a bit of a meh plot point since it doesn't really go anywhere.

This was probably the first anime where I saw my favourite trope of "underestimated lucky idiot" being put into full effect and I noticed that I LOVE that kind of trope. I saw it a few times in things like Ace Attorney and Index, but never pieced it together until this show. Worst part is, I've never seen another anime really do it again, although Golden Boy was close.

Surprisingly, I've never seen the OVA's despite this being my favourite anime. For some reason I just never had the drive to do it despite having no reason not to. I'll have to figure out a good time to watch them. I also kind of want to read the entire Japanese wikipedia page for Tylor since it seems to have the ENTIRE light novel up there but only in Japanese which I learnt from a quick google translate skim has Tylor be a 30 year old pedophile who is also sent back in time to WW2 to command the Yamato in one of the novels which sounds hilarPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Lum is used goods

How do you prefer to watch your anime /cel/?
On a computer screen booted up from a hard drive or the old fashioned way..