I don’t think I’ve seen one of these threads in a minute, so why not?
Here’s what I’ve had going on -
Completed:
Good:
Giant Robo: the Day the Earth Stood Still - Great OVA! I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys G Gundam since the first few episodes of this essentially helped Imagawa get the job as the first non-Tomino TV Gundam showrunner. From what I know, they didn’t license the actual stories from the manga, so Imagawa and crew made shit up whole cloth and use characters from miscellaneous Yokoyama manga. It gives it this really manic energy when guys with random super powers and Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters are all fighting each other like a kid playing with a box of their parents old toys. Very light on actual robot fights, but the animation is gorgeous.
Getter Robo: Armageddon - More 90s super robots. I didn’t like it as much as Giant Robo, but this goes pretty hard and was enjoyably edgy as fuck.
Rose of Versailles - Delightful 70s classic. It has me wanting to watch more Dezaki stuff - maybe Space Adventure Cobra will work its way in soon.
OK:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2 - Wasn’t bad, but it just didn’t have enough to interest me.
.hack//Sign - This was a favorite of mine back in the old days. It’s good for an advertisement/prelude for the PS2 games, but I don’t think I would recommend it otherwise. I also watched the Intermezzo and Unison OVAs - they’re eh.
Kill La Kill - I watched this on a whim after watching Cutie Honey (1973). It’s not bad, it’s just not really my thing.
Musha Knight Commando: SD Gundam Scramble - Probably cool if you were like 10 in Japan in the early 90s.
Bad:
Cross Ange - Please check CWs before considering this, but wow is this an interesting train wreck of a show.
Ongoing:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - 30/110 so far. Still liking it a lot, but I’m just slowly working my way through this one. I couldn’t imagine binging through it.
Per @Cromalin@hexbear.net recc in the anime across the decades post I watched keep your hands off eizouken this past week. Really enjoyed it. I’m totally about those “industry” behind the scenes/meta type shows. Also, it had some really entrancing scenes, would’ve been great if i was still smoking weed.
Hopefully gonna watch Space Dandy next, but I keep forgetting about it.
Shirobako is the behind the scenes show
It is top tier
I want to watch through all of the post-Champloo Watanabe stuff, but like you, I never get around to it lol.
lol. now that you mention it, I did watch Kids on the Slope some years back, so I guess I’m working on that.
At this rate we’ll both have watched Lazarus in like 20 years lol.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun!
It’s a comedy parodying shoujo romance stories and tropes (from an author who actually wrote one in the 2000s), but it’s just as much about the Manga production process.
Oh word. I’ll add it to my list, thanks!
i’m kinda surprised i didn’t have it in that anime across the decades post, but i 100% second that recommendation
also 2 of the movies in that list (inu-oh and night is short walk on girl) are by the same director as eizouken, so if you liked the style and cool animation you should 100% check it out
Noted and added, thank you!
hell yeah!