/a/ - Animu & Mango

It was a popular anime in Japan and set the stage for the whole Imouto love triangle thing we see so often today, and the panties gag gets referenced every so often.

Orurorane the Cat Player is directed by the man who made California Crisis. He often made a lot of now obscure 80's OVAs. This one is about a lonely man stumbling on a drunk old man who feeds his cats booze and then plays the cat like instruments. It's 30 minutes long.

I'll seed for you anon. Thanks for the suggestions.

>>877125

Forgot to mention, he also happened to direct Miyuki.

His name is Nishikubo Mizuho.

Fashion Lala was the precursor to Fancy Lala. It's a short OVA episode about a cute loli showing a town gone mad with greed and pain the purity of a girl's innocence by becoming a magical cinderella idol for a night. It's super good.

>>877127

Thanks, buddy. We'll save the past for future anons yet.

>>877070

I have no idea how known this is. I don't think it's that obscure, but I rarely see it mentioned.

>>877135

I love this show so much. It as one hell of a comfortable ride from beginning to end. Every season. It holds a special place in my heart. Scene is from season 3.

>>877205

>>877129

I loved the African American robot.

Akazukin Chacha

An older style mahou shoujo comedy manga that was adapted into an anime during the 90s. A lot of the manga was changed for the anime, most noticeably the addition of a transformation sequence every episode to put the show in line with the then current mahou shoujo trends. However, the comedy remains the highlight and the fun is from how all the cast interacts with each other. And if you don't think the best girl is Yakko then you may have shit taste. Also notable is that ChaCha is the first role for Suzuki Masami, who also voiced Amelia in Slayers. It's a good show to watch an episode of here and there, but probably not suitable for binge watching.

Excuse me, just posting some more Miyuki.

Is Utena worth it? It seems to have a rabid fanbase and was something of a pioneer of its time. But nostalgia mostly clouds one's judgement.

>>877430

>Also notable is that ChaCha is the first role for Suzuki Masami, who also voiced Amelia in Slayers.

Will consider it, Amelia's voice acting is very good even for anime standards.

>>881586

I like it a lot so far, I'm on the second arc. The first arc was a lot more lighthearted than I would have expected.

>>881708

Almost every other episode a song like it is played as an insert song. I can't find most of the music and the Miyuki music album has no seeds. It's really troublesome.

>>877139

I saw Seraphim Call the other day and really liked it, although I wasn't a particularly big fan of the character designs. All eleven girls, except maybe the first one (it's the type of character I've never found very appealing), were cute and angelic in nature, their stories were interesting and captivating, and a remarkable aspect of the anime was how each and every story was presented in a distinguished manner with unconventional camera angles/perspectives and whatnot. Tanpopo-chan was the cutest.

I've been watching more Adachi anime and Nozomi Witches starts in a way that draws you right in. This is the first thing you see.

This guy loves short-haired tomboy girls and these girls are at the top of the league. Slow Step was a great ride. Adachi stories are shounen romance when you think they'll be sports anime. He has a very unique style.

>>882295

Forgot to not include the beginning logo and everything.

I watched Genocyber after a few years of putting it off. It's really fun and it has a great soundtrack. The gore scenes remind me of practical effects in horror films.

Koi Kaze

2005 anime about a 27 year old man and his 15 year old sister reconciling their love for each other. The show does an amazing job of characters realistically interacting with each other; to the point of bringing a sense of suspense to the viewer even with a plot so often produced in recent years. It doesn't cuck out and go the non-blood related root and doesn't hide the possibility of devastating the people involved. Slow burn; yet the the last 2 episodes are absolutely brilliant. Directed by Takahiro Omori; more famous for Durarara!! and Samurai Flamenco

>>882307

Okay, I just finished Nozomi Witches. While most Adachi Mitsuru stuff is romance feigning as sports, this one was the closest to actual sports I've seen so far. The fights are amazing. I won't cheapen the anime by making webms.

>Pic 1

<Me during the final third of that last episode

>Pic 2

<THOSE LAST 10 SECONDS

I cheered out loud. It just came out.

Bikers of Shounan, it's about a bunch of delinquent bikers who also like doing girly stuff I think. I wasn't able to find any subs for it. But there should be a torrent on nyaa.

The Daichis: Earth's Defense Family. It's about a dysfunctional family forced into becoming superheroes. Imagine the Incredibles in anime form. It was made during the age where a lot of anime was transitioning from cel to digital, so the animation quality is what I consider peak cel animation, at least for the first two episodes.

Okay, so, I'm in the middle of translating Hiatari Ryoukou! using the Russian subs as a base. I'm just mostly using their timing because I hate timing and their translation is terrible. Case in point, this is what the Russian comes out to.

Apparently ray=out has most of it translated already but refuses to release it for some reason. In any case, I got some of their later episodes and I'm subbing the earlier ones. I'll probably have a batch out and ready by the end of the week.

It's shitty subs, but it's better than nothing.

Tha manga is pretty fun.

>>886830

>What is labeled as underrated classic today?

I call Adachi an underrated classic because his stuff is altogether unknown in the west where his name is almost like a household name in Japan. He's underrated here by a huge margin.

>I have known mostly of titles like that from Vaporwave/future funk clips, I am ashamed.

As long as you get interested in the source, you won't be a filthy secondary.

>Also, this series is finished without a end.

Yeah, I noticed that, whcih is why I started on the manga after finishing the anime. What's more interesting is that the events are all switched around The final episode of the anime is like chapter 16 in the manga, for example. In any case, the anime actually did everything better, but it lacked the meta 4th wall breaking jokes with Adachi himself coming into the panel and such. I just wish the anime got to finish.

>Adachi never has done something similar beyond baseball?

Adachi manga is actually shounen romance masquerading as a sports manga. Miyuki is the only one that doesn't have a sport theme, which allows it an unique opportunity to poke fun at the fact and break the fourth wall as seen here. >>886635

But yeah, Nozomi Witches has a boxing theme, Slow Start has a boxing and girl's softball theme, Touch did both boxing and baseball, and Hiatari Ryoukou has male cheerleading and baseball. But in reality, all of these have nothing to do with any sport. His stuff is shounen romance comedy.

So, sorry, but I got autistic about my translating.

The batch will have only 2 episodes max. What happened is originally I wanted to only give the anon a basic understanding using the shitty Russian subs as a base, but the Russian subs were so damn bad that I basically said fuck it and translated it proper. I'm even going back to fix episode 1.