>>3223
Thanks anon,i know i may sound like a retard but the last time i watched anime, i would just go to animetake and it pretty much had everything.

>>3170
>City Hunter 3's OP has her doing shit I'd LOVE to see her do in the show
Yeah, that great intro really set up something that never happened. Kind of odd how different it is from the other intros, with its narrative.

Although I don't agree that Kaori should've been using her hammer in actual fights. It belongs to the comedic sections of City Hunter, which are sharply, and loveably, divided from the serious ones. I think I can vaguely remember her trying to use it once and immediately gets dommed by a criminal, as a kind of meta joke about the hammer not actually being real. It also fits in with the hyper-masculinised men and hyper-feminised women of the 80s aesthetic. Kaori is the frail, innocent woman that needs to be saved by the strong, heroic man. In commercial American tv and film from the era this may have been vulgar and shallow, but it works in City Hunter.

>the less said about the amount of children/teens that fall for him the better. While those were some pretty funny jokes of desperately trying to not seem like a pedo, it felt like it happened WAYYYYY too often.
I think the same reason City Hunter could happily include gay people and transvestites was the same reason it could show Ryo lusting after teenage girls. It is completely without an agenda and is simply motivated by Hojo's objectivity and desire to create an entertaining world. Sometimes he uses the ridiculously masculine traits of transvestites for comic relief, another times he uses the passableness of a transvestite for comedic relief. I didn't see anything wrong with the many teen romance subplots; it is typical of Japanese culture and Ryo always ends up running away from them anyway.

>>3377
Yeah that's fair about Kaori. I was just trying to spitball some ideas here to make her more than what she is. She's a terrible shot with a gun from what I recall and the few times she does try and do things by herself other people have to help her and it's a real shame she can't have some moments to shine. Even a bit of luck could take her a long way with a few clients and that's pretty much all I wanted for her where she can handle herself but obviously gets overwhelmed and requires Ryo's help in the end especially near the end of the series.

As for the lolicon angle, I actually quite enjoyed those jokes. They were always pretty funny since everyone can understand *not* wanting to seem like a pedo and it's made even worse by the fact it's always the kids/teens initiating it and Ryo desperately trying to remedy the situation.

I also did find the use of gay and trans people to be surprising as well. Ryo frequents gay bars, dresses as a woman in a few episodes and jokingly convinces other people Kaori is a man much to her displeasure. It feels both progressive and mocking but I honestly liked that aspect of it. You never really knew what kind of angle each episode would take and it was always pretty funny.

I just finished watching the fourth series. City Hunter '91. I think it took a while to grow on me because my expectations were that Ryo would be a badass with a goofy side rather than a goofball with a badass side. I think the first series drags a bit compared to the follow up three, which I much preferred. Although it's episodic, they do show other sides to Ryo's character as it goes along and some of his backstory is fleshed out which is good. Kaori also takes quite a while to realise she's in love with him. There's also some soft continuity with occasional episode material and characters reoccurring.

The basic gag of Ryo reacting to mokkori babes and then getting the hammer never got old for me. I like the style of how women are drawn in this show. It's a bit odd that Kaori is mistaken for a boy in some episodes and then characters will call her pretty in others. Tomboyish sure, but she always comes across as cute and obviously a girl to me, and her seething over Ryo never gets annoying because her voice actress is very endearing (Kazue Ikura). I guess the "looks like a boy" thing is a bit of comedic exaggeration at her expense.

Ryo being played by Akira Kamiya is also interesting because for a character who looks so much like Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken, it's fun for him to have the same voice actor yet give such a drastically different performance as befits such a drastically different personality. It shows his talent.

My one real complaint about this show is similar to my one real complaint about the Space Adventure Cobra TV show; it's that although there are characters who are near equals and times when he seems seriously in danger, there isn't really anyone who gives enough doubt about whether Ryo will prevail. No one ever really gets hyped up even when there's a two parter either. I get that it's not that sort of show, because it's episodic and more light hearted, but the moments when it gets serious are very good precisely because of the contrast. I liked the face off with Robert Harrison, and the one with Umibozu in the cemetary. I really feel like the show could have used a consistent rival, in a soft continuity way. Umibozu occasionally dips into that role but overall he's on too good terms with Ryo and Kaori. A character like Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken may be overpowered on paper, but because it was serialized, his villains got to have some build up and although he usually dispatched them easily, the few times he Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>4212
That's an interesting take, I always liked the laid back nature of it and how every new case was someone new for Ryo to go up against.

They do somewhat play with the idea of there being people better than Ryo in the show, Umibozu is his obvious equal and I vaguely remember that american but you are right in there being no real antagonist in the earlier parts (they do reveal one later on that's implied to have a connection to Ryo and Kaori iirc) but beyond that there's nothing.

Personally, I never minded because most episodes were entertaining enough. They do a good job of making plot points that have weak characters thrown into the mix that makes Ryo's job harder by them existing. Like I always have a soft spot for that two parter with the girl in the wheelchair since it's both sweet and also a VERY difficult person to try and protect but Ryo does it flawlessly (it also has a hilarious ending).

As for the movies, they're alright. None of them ever reach the heights of City Hunter 2 imo.

>I guess the "looks like a boy" thing is a bit of comedic exaggeration at her expense.
I still laugh at the amount of times Ryo just annoys her by telling everyone around them she's a guy and then her finding out and getting mad. It's so hilariously childish.

I've been meaning to watch Paris no Isabelle. Simply because I think it is neat that there is an anime set during the Franco-Prussian War.

so sick of otaku shit. i like histirical shit.

>>164
Having already watched a few episodes: don't. It's slow and boring and all the characters suck.

It's too bad, because the historical period is interesting, but the actual show is shit

The hard part for me is finding period anime that does justice to the setting. Often, historical periods in anime feel like backdrops for what are ultimately very 21st century characters. This problem plagues historical fiction.

I like Paris no Isabelle. The ending is pretty crazy.
Though Kinpatsu no Jeanie is more solid. That one's great.
I think Hidamari no Ki is also great. And I've enjoyed all the old Sangokushi films that got subs.

>>4219

Endless waltz was never in theaters so how is it returning?

I haven't seen any old anime in theaters but I did get to see a whole bunch of old Hong Kong films when they came to the IFC here in new york last year. I think they're bringing back Hard Boiled again this year too, very much worth seeing on the big screen

I am due for End of Evangelion for the 3rd consecutive year
which may sound like a lot, but I also celebrate easter every year and I definitely like eva more than I like easter

one of my biggest regrets is not seeing the recent end of eva re-release (early 2024?) because my ex was working at the theater at the time

All of the openings for Taiho Shichau Zo are so good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUkw0DUrRjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeLME4bRNao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3y9sbfgTKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LEycm5gIf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfMNQpAAABg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4R5OlJeRvk
I love City Hunter so much

recently started xabungle, immediately fell in love with this op
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oToxXgQHQV8

>>1960
It does have an amazing soundtrack!

Yes, although very basic.

Nah it's bad, I spent too much time looking at vtubers, but I recently picked up NHK Ni Youkoso, I still have to start reading it. But I like sad shit like Oyasumi Punpun and Citrus

What's the site for those charts, again, it escapes me at the moment

>>4190
Do you mean 3x3 charts?
https://topsters.org/
https://zopsters.com/

I don't have "good" "taste", I'm just picky

>>4102

Is doremi a /cel/ anime or a /digi/ one, i dont actually know.

>>4105
would be /cel/ since it started airing in 1999 and it was originally done on cels

I need to rewatch the first series.
>>4108
I don't think any Doremi stuff was cels. Toei was already doing digital stuff in 1999 and there's quite a lot of sloppy digital animation errors in the first season you can see if you're paying attention.

>>4112
>I don't think any Doremi stuff was cels
all 4 seasons were cel

Forehead

I'm more of a guy who wants the quality of the eras
Modern anime is almost too clean for me. Lacks that grit and effort.

maybe im a fan of the casual anime from then
chibi maruko chan is funny and wholesome in a stepping-on-ground way
tokimeki tonight has an awesome ending i think
mahoujin guruguru is great in every aspect

mmmmmm
maybe im a fan of the retro-cute?

>>3911
u q

"Gun obsessed weirdo" describes me perfectly. My introduction to imageboards were the /ak/ threads on /k/, which heavily influenced the first anime that I really got into.

too broke for guns, too scared of drugs to be a junkie, but I drink so I guess in the end it all wraps up

I mean by the time he would’ve flown out from Jupiter the movie would’ve ended already

Too busy fucking Roux on Jupiter
>Jupiter's gravity is 2.5x Earth's
Gravity powered thrusts

I've never understood the target demographic for these. Film novelizations make sense because there are a good number of people who only read novels and hate cinema, but even those of us who prefer manga to anime would rather see the film than read a bunch of screenshots.

At first I thought that was an illustration book until I noticed the text bubbles. I really can't imagine buying one of these…

>>4149
These are called コミックス・アニメ版 (anime version comics) and seem to be largely targeted towards young children. Tokyopop brought the style over to the west in the mid 2000s and called it "Cine-Manga" but it never really caught on.

>>4159

Oh, I remember seeing some Pokemon-based ones in Nintendo Power! Great way of catching up on something if you didn't see the episode on TV and didn't have a VCR.

Ive been going on a nostalgic toonami and adult swim binge lately watching some shows and finally caught up to cowboy bebop and have come to some conclusions.
For years ive heard about them changing the songs, sound effects and redoing the dub on these modern releases and after watching some of them i kinda see why people now really dont get into these older shows, its because you literally arent getting the same product we were exposed to years ago.

Example: here is two videos of the same iconic scene from episode 4. One is a simple vhs tv rip and the other is from the old blu ray.

https://files.catbox.moe/mdqgzt.mp4

https://files.catbox.moe/4d9zvb.mp4

Ignoring the quality of the vhs rip why is the audio so different between them?
Why did they feel the need to redo the sound effects and bgm? Some are completely missing and some are completely different.
Someone that never seen it when it was on tv wouldnt know there was ever a difference but someone that did would hear it immediately because you dont just remember seeing it but also HEARING it.
Depending on your perspective this isnt as bad as what was done to other shows like gundam 0083 for the modern releases, where they redubbed the ENTIRE THING over and both gato and kou now sound like they are out of breath with all the emotion sucked out and all the sound effects feel like they were royalty free stuff taken from youtube.

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An example of an update actually improving stuff. Though, the original isn't really as bad as the description implies IMO.

>The 4th episode entitled Yashigani Hofuru (ヤシガニ屠る), lit. "feasting on coconut crab"), which aired on April 24, 1998, was initially worked on by a South Korean animation company, San Ho Studio. They only had basic manuals of the characters. The result was so dismal in quality that it was later reworked for the Laserdisc releases.
Source: https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Lost_Universe_(anime)

Video taken from here, I couldn't find part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNim__gY28o

Here is the clip from the dvd since its hard to make a point with a blurry tv rip, the first dvd for america if im correct.

https://files.catbox.moe/or2y8w.mp4

Notice how Harrisons breathing can be heard, you can hear the glass break when Murdock presses the button, Spikes mouth isnt out of sync with the audio when he says they wont bitch about them blowing up the missile, you can hear the sound of the missile release from her ship, Spikes cannon sounds arent different nor is the display making any sound when it pops up, his cannon sound isnt different, the BGM isnt out of sync, Fayes missiles make a sound when they trail after firing, Spikes alarms arent different and niether are the sounds as they exit the gate.

Does the terrible redub of FotNS count?

>>4138
Video/DVD releases improving the TV airing isn't a rare thing at all. It's been a cost/time-cutting measure for decades. Even with that LU E4 is infamous for looking like garbage.