i'm somewhat obsessed with animation quality and key animators not too much of course story matters aswell but i love seeing different styles of animation and cool things that certain famous animators do heres an example of what im talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86joWzmE_r4 and heres an another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwORRFIiuE
as much as i like selector its an card game series not a magical girl series, as for my favorite magical girl show that would be yuuki yuuna wa yuusha de aru that show while being somewhat depressing doesn't fall to nihilism like certain other shows...
ali project sadly has not done made many soundtracks but those they have made are absolutely beautiful
i hope they would do more soundtracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjNx5U8SlKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6lYUrXBwbc
music plays a big part in making certain scenes work in anime so what is the soundtrack that has left the most impact on you?
i personally think the soundtracks of these two anime play a big role at creating the atmosphere for the scenes they are used in
here is a clip from katanagataris final episode the soundtrack was done by iwasaki taku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV1WtZreqQ4
and here is a clip from the second patlabor movie the soundtrack was done by kenji kawai you might have heard his music if you watched gundam 00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsMTpSDAGxM
the dirty pair movie is a must watch just for this opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM3O_EX1hCI
hell everything that has kōji morimotos name in it is a must watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVbibEoF9M
yeah this is p.a. works first mecha anime but they are putting a lot of effort in to making it as good as they can p.a. works even hired tensai okamura who has worked on a lot action shows as a director i think its impressive that the studio is willing try something new
you are right old anime does not always look that great they did not have any computers and everything had to be hand drawn animation back in the day looked like ass because of this but i think its just a matter of just dealing with the fact that animation cant always be perfect there are many great stories that people miss because the animation looks old
evangelion was pretty impressive the fact that they even had animation at all at in the show was impressive gaianax was almost bankrupt at the time they made the show its a miracle that they had good looking scenes like these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4x9gfI0xw
the other anime featured in the video are hayate the combat butler and kyōran kazoku nikki both have pretty good animation especially hayte the combat butler where the director does things like hire animators that worked on gurren lagan to animate for an episode
the naruto vs pain fight in shippuden is a good example of people having drastically different views on what is good animation and art the reason why the characters were off model was to give the animators more freedom to portray movement altough the off model part might just be studio pierrot being studio pierrot
i could not find a video of the naruto vs pain fight but this is also a good example of animation styles that divides opinions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fonv0BpUnSo