I want animators to be paid more for less work, and i'm not kidding

80s and 90s anime movies are an unbelievable aesthetic

I highly recommend Penguin's Memory, Robot Carnival, and Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer for anyone who hasn't seen them

Another reason is the colours. When you use natural paint pigments you get a wide but subtle spectrum of hues within a single colour. Whereas digital colurs feel flat because they lack those variations of hues. Fill a screen res and every pixel will be the same red. Paint a page red with natural colours and there will be small variations if you were to zoom in with a microscope

Another thing about 90's anime was that it was allowed to be edgy, the subject matter, the fight choreography, and etc and none of it felt alien to the story. The gore, nudity and political themes of Ghost in The Shell is still being discussed to this day or how about in Spriggan where we were introduced to probably the best car chase scene in anime history.

enjoying the look of 80s and 90s anime is like enjoying the look of faded polaroid pictures. You can put as many filters on a normal picture as you want, but there's no replacing the real thing.

My favourite thing is seeing an old anime I never caught in the past, and having this intense nostalgia fill me. It's just too fucking cozy.

There's an episode of Cowboy Bebop where they have to deal with a guy who hoards antique VCRs and tapes and talks about how 20th century media was superior and so much more sophisticated to what they had in the future. I was watching to the end to see if we'd at least get a clip or a still shot of that guy. This video has unironically replicated a phenomena that cowboy bebop predicted almost 30 years ago.

"...the work culture in modern anime..." Bro, this is the work culture in modern JAPAN. Now imagine the same oppressive atmosphere and culture except you're also an accountant... or a janitor.

For anyone wondering, the thumbnail is from an anime called "Cyber City OEDO 808" - as a lover of that specific style of late 1980s/early 1990s anime art, I had to find out.

if i were to own an animation studio, I would hire animators to do all my cartoons the same way it's done in the 80s/90s AND pay their weights in gold. and would give them humane working ours AND paid vacations.

i mean in the 90's u got like 10 animes per year now we got 20 animes per week, that's the biggest problem i think.

They need to fund a trust to all animators that will pay them dividends for life, and also do everything hand drawn as it should be.

The 80s and 90s have the most awe inspiring aesthetic and let’s be honest, story telling. The graphics and the look of the shows are simply fantastic. I remember growing up as a kid watching Transformers Armada and you can still see how that aesthetic in the animation passed over. With over the top animations towards machinery, and it’s just ughhhh amazing!

Im 50 years old and used to buy imported vhs tapes of Anime and manga that was made to look like traditional comic books. It was beautiful time as a kid loving first Voltron and then Robotech. My favorite in the 90s was Cowboy Beebop. I always had dream of developing my own anime but life marches on. I now have a family and anime while still loved by me is no longer the focal point of my life anymore. The amazing thing is having my 15 year old daughter obsessed with it and reliving the magic through her eyes. She is even a better artist than I was. I was able to see her fall in love with all my old stuff and share the same passion with her.

The correct answer why retro anime looks so good. NO CGI CROWDS, NO CGI CROWDS, and NO CGI CROWDS. But for reals cell animation really is peak anime.

Daft Punk knew that songs and anime formed a really strong bond and vessel for our memories of our childhood/youngness, they made "Interstella 5555" because they loved watching Leiji Matsumoto animes on TV during 80, and pop/disco music was surely playing in the background in their home, the "audio video Madeline".

The background art for Vampire Hunter D and Akira are truly works of masterpieces.

Even the Disney animators in 50s America went on strike for better conditions. All those hand animations were animated by someones sweat.

I think a large part of the appeal of older anime is it's very flowing animation that you don't commonly see even in high budget anime anymore.

Yup, the 90s were something else for anime. I never forget that aesthetic: rough edges, big triangular mouths, even the single fang girls were something else. Man, makes me wanna hunt anime on VHS. Thankfully I have a VCR from my late grandma that I could use to convert.