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On 6/12/2020 at 9:20 AM, Ohiotaku said:

 

I bought the subtitled dvd collections a couple years back, but haven’t gotten around to watching yet.

Used to have the whole thing back in the day, unfortunately most of my VHS tapes didn’t hold up very well & didn’t make the cut for the downsize/move a couple years ago.

Despite being from the creator of Slayers, the look of that one never really appealed to me so never tried it.

Same here. Saw where it got added to CR not too long ago.

Maze was eventually released (once) on DVD in N.A. under Software Sculptors/CPM. Pretty much the same staff and studio in Japan that worked on Slayers Next (different directors, though). The English version was dubbed about the same time as Slayers Try was dubbed with Central Park Media, I believe. Some of the same voice-actors. The story didn't copy much from Slayers...but...some didn't respect Maze due to it being released at the height of the Slayers Japan popularity and not having quite the money or reputation to back it up. Its video only release in the U.S./Canada made it even more cryptic...due to it coming out (in North America) nearly 4-years after it's Japanese release. By the time it was on home video...people just weren't curious enough to watch it. However, 90's-2000's reviewers like Rowena Lee (former owner/founder of anime website Animetric) would buy these uncommon titles, watch, and review them. She would even share links where to buy them online. I feel they helped people find anime like that which would have otherwise remained entirely unknown I the West. 

Lost Universe I'll watch regardless. I hate sites like T.H.E.M. Anime where they will slam anime older than 10-years (unless it was one of the super popular titles). That site have 1-3-star ratings to some great classics. I tend not to trust modern anime review sites. They'll bash horror titles like Wicks City while praising modern horror trash like Ichi the Killer or Elfen Leid. 

I hope I get Kimagure Orange Road before it's out-of-print. 

Never finished the full 75 episodes of Monster Rancher back in 1999...so, that's one.

Others:

-Lost Universe (the second gen by Hajime Kanzaka)

-Maze: The Mega Burst Space (came on in the 90's and I watched episode 10-25...this was during the VHS years and I never had the first two cassettes of episodes)

-still Kimagure Orange Road

Those of you born in the late-90's or 2000's likely have no clue what these shows are

On 5/28/2020 at 10:46 PM, Beocat said:

@Koshigaya23  Haha, you have pegged me true.  I am definitely a Tenchi fan though my favorite "Tenchi" is Kenshi Masaki.  There was so much wrong with that boy...and yet I really bellylaughed at some of his misadventures (and felt his romantic interest to be more defined and less noncommittal).  I think they did the right amount of everything with him.  He basically was all the girls from the Tenchi OVA mixed together with a splash of Tenchi to round him out.  The multiple timelines/universes (not to mention the family relations...) have probably made it one of the most difficult series to explain to people.  Surprisingly enough, although my sister was not really an anime fan (she really only loved Sailor Moon), she did love the Tenchi OVA (was an Ayeka supporter from the start) and it really bothered me that they never went back to finish properly the OVA back in the day (I'm not sure what they released later on is a proper telling....it was missing some things and felt really rushed. Did not match the care and quality of the original OVA storyline).  To this day I am still aghast that they made Tenchi in Tokyo (the only Tenchi I never bothered to buy. I might someday get it via a used anime vendor if the price is right although I'll never watch it willingly).  The Tenchi Quiz was me alright    I should make another one.  I actually gave that quiz to a friend of mine and she was surprised how much of Tenchi she had forgotten.  I have to ask....do you cringe when you think of Daughter of Darkness?  And $120 for the OVA boxset...  I waited and waited for the pricedrop...then when I finally gave up on waiting they had run out of product.  Apparently, they knew we'd all eventually give in lol....  I have not managed to watch the Mihoshi Special.  It has been on my list for a while actually.  I do remember however downloading an emulator so I could play the Tenchi game on my computer (modeled after the OVA).  Even though it was all in Japanese I absolutely loved it!  Wow, I'm really showing my Tenchi obsession now...  

 

The YuYu Hakusho VHS were the dubs and I think I had around 5 or 6 of them.  I actually left them at my parents' home when I moved out since I never finished the series on VHS but I did actually get the entire series on DVD back in one of the RightStuf sales (likely a Christmas Sale),love me some Kurama and Kuwabara hehe).  I also just went through my collection upstairs and I had forgotten that I had come across a VHS boxset of Utena VHS too.  First season I believe (the Rose Bride arc?).  I saw that one and remembered it being rare.  Unfortunately, I have no way to watch my VHS anymore since our VHS player died.  So...it will remain unwatched forever.  FYE....I wish they were still around here.  I got so many good anime at FYE, and the random deals you'd find.  I remember finding Starship Operators in one and found Last Exile for 40 bucks (they had 4 of them, all 120 bucks except for the one lol).  

 

I too collect a lot of older series truth be told.  Tenchi, Cardcaptors, Solty Rei, Trigun, Big O, most Space Operas lol...a lot of the older series had great storylines and less filler/fluff.  These days there's too much distracting from the story (if there even is a story), not enough depth in the characters...I can't say that's true for all, but it is certainly true for harems these days and for most anime.  v_v  You'll have to share with me your purchase list....you share your collection with me, I'll share with you mine...    From one Collector to another.  I've got so much these days from all my years of collecting I have a list typed up by genre/alphabetical order so I can verify before I purchase if I already have it or not (this is important...I have bought the same anime twice before!  It happens...).  Still I like seeing what other people have.  It reminds me of things I've missed and still need to track down.

Tenchi in Tokyo wasn't the worst but there was so much cooler toward the end. I remember an episode about a guy being a runner (who was a human comet) with Kiyone and Mihoshi...I'm surprised I went that far. The spin-offs never sat well with me. I watched and owned all of GXP and when Tenchi finally appeared in a "back to Okinawa" episode...it was nothing but more fan service. Granted, Tenchi is known for having a ton of fan service...but I got tired of it after Universe. 

FYE closed!? Guess I have been out of the U.S. for a long time. 

Don't toss your VHS. There are a ton of decent VCR vendors on eBay. I bought one from a guy that was like brand new (Sony) and less-than $40 + shipping. Most modern TV's have no issues with VCR playback. 

Discotek/Eastern Star produces the majority of anything I find worth buying nowadays. I got into a dispute with the arrogant director of RightStuf back in 2017 and no longer do business with them. I don't have that big of a to-buy list this year. I'm planning on getting Kimagure  Orange Road the TV series on blu-ray and possibly Venus Wars for a movie. I own almost everything else that I could want.

10 minutes ago, Beocat said:

That's just it....

 

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Noboyuki is very much not "just a normal Earth guy". Even if you don't read the novels, it's clear from Tenchi Muyo War on Geminar that Noboyuki is a direct descendant of the Jurian Royal line (and you can assume from there Yosho's son.....let's face it, he's still young by Jurian standards and he got around). The big reveal for those who just follow the anime in Geminar was Kenshi's ability to make his own light hawk wings (though not as sophisticated as Tenchi's. Let's face it, the inbreeding that resulted in Tenchi probably distilled that ability down to it's truest potential.). You have to question after WoG, did Achika know that she was dating and marrying her brother (even if only a half brother)? Did they never mention it to her? So many questions.

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I must say, that DoD is a summary of TiT in movie form is an interesting thought to ponder.

I'd say Wolf Children. Only anime that ever made me cry.

One that made me cry was GoShogun: Time Etranger (A.K.A. The Time Stranger when released under U.S. Manga Corps). 

On 5/27/2020 at 11:42 AM, Beocat said:

I actually got the entire Tenchi Universe and the three Tenchi movies on VHS. Still have them too. They are my treasures. I think I had part of YuYu Hakusho on VHS too and my sister got quite a bit of Sailor Moon (movies included). I have a lot of good memories watching them.

 

My first DVD boxset was Escaflowne and I never went back to DVDs after that. I remember trying to get the Tenchi OVA series on DVD (then $120!) back then but it was on backorder.... never came in. Eventually when they rereleased it I got my chance to grab it and jumped at it.

Yu Yu Hakusho on VHS would have been exhaustive. Was that a subbed version back then or an Animax dub (I believe YYH at that time was not yet licensed by Funimation). I recall watching the sub-par/lackluster YYH movies on VHS and knowing that the series was much better. I had to wait I until 2002 when Toonami started airing the actual TV series. 

 I had assorted VHS of Tenchi Muyo (never found Universe, though on VHS) and I had the first two movies. I remember the OVA release being exactly that...120-frickin-dollars!!! Ugh! The first DVD release was beautiful, though. It had a transparent slipcase and they went as far as to master the stereo mix with THX. I ended up finally buying the Tenchi Muyo OVA in 2010 at an FYE on markdown from $116 > $49. I was happy with that and bought the blu-ray release in 2012. I have the Geneon release of Universe with a near stained glass mural of the characters for inner artwork in the case. Did you ever watch the Mihoshi Special? If not, you need to. Btw, I know you're a Tenchi fan like me because I'm pretty sure you're the bloke who made the Tenchi quiz here. 

My first full series purchase on DVD was YYH: Ghost Files (the release with like 6 discs all large clamshell). I collect classic anime exclusively and it was easy in the 2000's to find many relicensed older anime titles in Best Buy, Suncoast, Hastings, Sam Goody, and rarely in Borders DVD section. Those days are gone, though. Most of the old Western publishers have filed bankruptcy, been bought-out, or liquidated in the late-2000's (R.I.P. original ADV, CPM, AnimeWorks, U.S. Manga Corps, Manga Video original Chicago distributor, AnimeEigo, Urban Vision, Pioneer, and others).

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On 11/27/2019 at 2:10 PM, jaywolf1104 said:

I remember hearing about an anime/OVA that had a sort of gory/unsettling vibe about. The anime/OVA as far as i remember had a scene where there were 3 or 9 girls locked in a bathroom. I recall that these girls were trapped in the place and they were talking about their life dreams slowly giving up hope of getting out alive, one girl and another girl had a pretend wedding because it was a girls dream to be married. Eventually the anime/OVA ends with the girls going crazy and all committing suicide, with some slamming their heads on the floor, the wall, and some scratching at their throat till they died, one scene was a girl who helped drown another girl in the sink since the girl who wanted to drown couldn't do it on her own. afterwards the credits roll and afterwards one girl wakes up and screams as the camera zooms in on her face. I recall them wearing a uniform, and the uniform colors were either blue and white or plain brown. I remember the anime had an 80's-90's style to it. As of now i have had no success of finding it.

can anyone help me? has anyone else seen or heard of this anime/OVA?

It's a crypto-anime OVA (it likely never existed or was fabricated). According to lore, the fictional title you're referring to was called, Saki Sanobashi, also known as "Go for a Punch,"

All known lore indicates that someone on either 4chan or Reddit (or both), recounted this traumatic 80's OVA. Understand, everything animated in Japan in the 80's can easily be researched and found under any one of the many studio records for films made each year of that decade. I find it absurd that people say it does exist or that it's a "lost anime." Anime titles in Japan don't suffer the rough censorship as Western films does/ did and records of such an anime would be public. To help make stories of it actually existing even less likely are the poorly translated title (which has no context) and the fact that someone in the West made fake title cards. 

If someone had seen it in a Western country; it would exist in one database of the other. It's sorta like a creepypasta in the form of anime. There are indeed some very dark titles from the 80's which do exist with certain features of this description...but they're definitely different. @jaywolf1104

I joined this forum a couple weeks ago and I've been trying to submit information to those with questions regarding an anime they saw in the past (Recommendations Section). If you saw something in the early 2000's or 90's...post your question if you're looking for the name of or information regarding an older anime in the Recommendations section. I'll try to answer this week or next week if I recognize the title. Even if I don't recognize your description entirely; I can still try to point you in the right direction. If you posted 'looking for...' context in Recommendations; check to see if I haven't already written an answer. I joined Anime Forums to help people find or rediscover classic anime. I know over 300 classic titles by memory and have knowledge of some rarities which never made it out of Japan. If it's regarding manga, though...I'm not quite as helpful (I never read manga quite like I watch anime). 

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On 1/29/2020 at 4:47 AM, RZ. said:

I recently stumbled across a show from the (early?) 90s called Jibaku-kun (Bucky the Incredible Kid). I love the intro track. It sounds like the sort of thing you hear on urban radio stations at 3am here in the UK. Unfortunately, it seems like the show was only big in Latin America and so there's no English subs, only Spanish and Portuguese. 

I was just wondering on the off chance if anybody knew of it, or of an English sub (even a fan sub)

The English version was marketed as, "Twelve Worlds Story. " Not much information exists on who dubbed or subbed it. However, an English version does exist and I believe Funimation would likely be the only distributor with power to release it in North America or the U.K. Right now, the film rights are with Enoki. Funimation usually contacts Enoki directly to release anime which was made by TV Tokyo. The likely reason it hasn't been released yet is due to it's age and popularity in more Northern North American countries. It seems it was subbed and distributed widely throughout South America. Those were likely unauthorized subs and dubs by low-budget at home companies. I live in Mexico and most Spanish dubs/subs are made here for all Latin America (due to Mexico having the most elite Spanish dialect). This anime is virtually unknown here in Mexico and that makes it probably lesser known in the U.S. and Canada.  

I recall when Westerners really wanted a release, we would create a petition page and send it to the licensees/distributors (it worked to get Samurai Pizza Cats released). The issue is Funimation...Funimation are way too contemporary and they don't like to risk printing titles that aren't well-known or older. That leaves Discotek/Eastern Star...they literally go to Japan to buy the rights to older anime and they release regardless of national popularity. If Discotek/Eastern Star bought it from Enoki...you'd have it one way or another. 

I found this, too. 

http://enoki-films.co.jp/pro_bucky.phpformat

@RZ.

On 3/27/2020 at 3:00 PM, Snikos said:

Recently me and my mates talked about which animes we have watched as kids. And it turns out we vaguely remember an anime airing during the night hours of kids tv (it was probably Cartoon Network,but i'm not sure) .The only thing we can remember about it was that there was a woman with a hat who was a boss of some organization and there was this dude who didn't finish the job he was given, and as punishment the woman kissed him and bit off his tongue.(I mean who wouldn't have remembered such a scene :D)  I've done my digging and i think it was probably Lupin the Third, but considering the many different version of the franchise I cannot specifically pin it down. So any help is appreciated, thank you in advance.

It was Lupin the Third TV part 2. It's hard to say which episode.  Adult Swim aired about 27 episodes during their night schedule. I own most of series 2...it's over 70 episodes in it's entirety. You should be able to narrow it down from there. 27 episodes from Lupin the Third part 2. @Snikos

1 hour ago, Ohiotaku said:

I bought it some time ago, I just haven’t invested the time in tackling it

Yeah, that's the one. I would put it on your 'plan to watch' tab on MAL. I have many on MAL that I own and simply haven't gotten around to. 

6 hours ago, OtakuKid said:

Evangelion is really really good, hmm, classic anime I like? I’d say Yu-Gi-Oh, and maybe Pokémon Indigo League, although I’m not 100% sure Pokémon counts as anime.

Technically, Pokemon still counts as anime. They key is that it's made in Japan. 

15 hours ago, Ohiotaku said:

Currently watching Inuyasha. 

Loved Fate Zero but still need to watch Fate Stay Night & UBW.

Need to watch Saga of Tanya the Evil to be up to date on my Isekai Quartet references.

I keep hearing how much Black Clover improved after the early episodes so should really give it another look.

Would like to see the unedited original dialogue version of Space Battleship Yamato since Star Blazers is what hooked me on anime to begin with. Also watch the subtitled versions of Slayers, Slayers Next & Slayers Try since I’ve only watched the dubbed version.

Finally I wish someone would relicense Monster so I could finally finish it.

SBY may have a bilingual release. I have the Slayers Seasons 1-3 boxset; all of the original episodes on the Enoki/Funimation (this release has the original Japanese dialogue with subs). 

On 5/18/2020 at 5:50 PM, OtakuKid said:

Do you like those really extreme, fine, highly detailed ones? Or those ones where it’s basically kawaii?

I'll be frank on this topic even though it often offends someone...I feel style is only a micro -level problem of what went wrong with anime after 1998. Japan's economy started to dip in the late-90's and the quality never recovered, in my opinion. The golden era years of anime had style in the West because Japan was only sending their best over (mostly). After 2005...Otaku culture, moe, and loli started to become the demand and Japan started not only producing mass amounts of that type of anime, but, they just started sending everything to the West. Many say, "Well, it's better now because we have more variety." More variety, yes. Better quality, no. The characters and stories are proxy and CG-rendering has taken away the human feel of hand-painted cels and backgrounds. It seems anime culture today is catered 90% to fan service, repetitious stories, and otaku-culture. Compare the work put into titles like: Perfect Blue, Megazone 23, and anything Kawajiri to the "art styles" of the last 22-years and you'll see that anime really went downhill. This is opinion, so, take it with a grain of salt. I'm not here to demonize all modern anime. The same way people don't care for "gritty, violent, extreme 80's/90's anime style," I don't care for loli, moe, proxy anime from the past 2 decades. 

14 hours ago, 12canime said:

Which anime do you want to watch but haven't yet? Frankly, there hundreds if not thousand of anime movies and TV shows out that I've yet to watch. But I'm able to catch with of the shows up during this unfortunate pandemic time. I've re-watched Spirited Away. I must say that movie never gets old. The story-line and the realm of ghost is so majestic. Perfectly written script, story and everything! Tell me more about your choices of anime movies or TV shows. I'm anxiously waiting.. 

Here's my 'plan to watch' list https://myanimelist.net/animelist/koshigaya23status=6

I own most of these and am currently watching 3 series simultaneously, therefore...I haven't gotten to them yet. Of the ones on this list that I want to see this Summer or Winter are:

- Blue Seed

- Kimagure Orange Road TV series

- Lily C.A.T. (I'm a huge fan of the Alien movie franchise and this movie fits in with that genre)

- Ranma 1/2 OVAs and movies (finished watching the whole 7-part/160+ episode TV series of Ranma 1/2 earlier this year) 

14 hours ago, lelouchlamperg said:

Hi, I've been looking for this anime so much time that I don't really remember how long. So anime definitely aired before 2000. 

It had so much erotic content, but the main plot was so great that erotic content I don't really recall. I saw only one episode at my friends. Ever since I did not see anything like that.

What I remember is that, main plot was about some cult who was sacrificing ladies, piercing trough their bodies and so on. It was so epic, I've never seen anything like that.

So main heroine, wasn't really connected with that cult, and she fall in love with some guy, and for some reason she had been attacked. But she had some magical power which protected her, and she gave her earring to her boyfriend  (earring contained that power). So she fall in love and gave away her power. After a while, her boyfriend started using that power and saved her. But got into cult's hands and became a monster.

 

Anime had a lot of sexual content, Ecchi but not Hentai. A lot of violence, really good plot , and all that Japanese stuff, which we like.

If you've seen that, please let me know the name of anime.
Thank you!

Sounds like you saw one of the Violence Jack OVA's. It was written by Go Nagai and the second or third part of the OVA had a lot of what you're describing. It could be something similar, though. It's a 3-part OVA...parts 1 & 3 fit in with your description in partial. This was a post-apocalypse world and a biker cult was stealing and raping women. One couple decided to fight back and eventually Jack steps in to settle the score but the main male character does during the fight. 

If it's not that...I can always check back through my catalogue of classic anime. 

Here goes...

Classic anime movie recommendations for this week by genre:

Fantasy: Lensman: Secret of the Lens

Action: Riding Bean

Sci-Fi: They Were 11 

Post-Apocalypse: A Wind Called Amnesia

Romance: Marriage Kekkon

Scary/Horror: Genocyber or Laughing Target

Adventure: Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus

Funny/Comedy: Shinesman or Slayers the Motion Picture

Thriller/Psychological: Perfect Blue

Crap/Trash: YYH: The Movie 1 or 2...

On 5/6/2020 at 11:01 PM, boonanuh said:

so im looking for an anime that i watched a long time ago, it was like 2011-2013 maybe??? that i watched with my mom that we both wanted to see again. It was definitely around the PG rang and sci-fi. I think it centered around a boy that discovered aliens/angels/otherwordly beings and the boys attempt to save the world? It had a pretty small cast i think . It was a pretty dramatic anime with really beautiful graphics. My mom remembers there being a huge wall at some point and something floating in the sky(possible space ship). I remember the boy(or i guess kid i dont remember the gender exactly) having either a fight or some sort of discussion in this castle-type place and then i believe there was a flood…? it would have been on either netflix or crunchyroll at the time. srry this is so vague

Just a wild guess...It may have been Miyazaki's "Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (A.K.A. Castle in the Sky)."

 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092067/ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Tell me your top 5 bad/least favorite and/or worst anime you've seen. You can list in any order. Let's be honest, but not try to insult anyone and respect the mods if this gets controversial. 

 Here are mine:

5. Yu Yu Hakusho the movie (this is the U.S. Manga video release of a 30-minutes movie/special for YYH that was made sometime in the mid-90's). Lacks context/no coherent arc, had voice acting, bad ADR work, forgettable villians, and why was it called a movie if it was only 20-minutes of the characters running up a mountain, 10-minutes slow action.

4.  Mouse OVA (don't watch it...just don't...)

3. Tami no Shihosha Judge (A.K.A. Judge): I can't even imagine this one looking good in a trailer. Watch at your own risk. Poorly animated, incomplete story...if there really was a story, had voice direction (possibly scripting issues)

2. Magical Knights RayEarth TV series 1: I'm sorry, but I found it to lack context, it grew excessively boring, and the characters never seemed to fully develop. Maybe I was just not the target audience.

1. X/1999 (A.K.A. X the movie): Another Clamp title...this one has incredible animation...but the characters lack substance, story is generic recycling, and it bored me to no end. I was polite and tried rewatching it 10-years after its release to see if maybe I just missed something the first time...I didn't...It still just didn't move me. 

Disclaimer: I am a classic anime collector and have a leaning toward watching older anime. Most of the ones I listed came out in the 90's. I wouldn't use that as means of supporting the old argument that "anime from the 90's was terrible" ( which seems to be a common Western consensus nowadays). Plenty of great anime from the 90's if you haven't seen them such as: Ranma 1/2 OVAs, Gunsmith Cats, Perfect Blue, the Slayers and so on...

22 minutes ago, Ohiotaku said:

The only dub voices I really remember were Lisa Ortiz as Lina & Eric Stuart as Gourry. Though Crispin Freeman is one of the best english VAs. I pretty much bought dub VHS tapes when available because they were easier to find. But once I started getting DVDs with both tracks, I listened almost exclusively to the japanese version with a few exceptions (Cowboy Bebop & Steel Angel Kurumi (Kira Vincent Davis, Monica Rial, Lisa Calliene Black, Hillary Haag) come to mind).

Some anime works that way for me too. For example: EatMan, Cutey Honey OTS, Outlanders, and some others I preferred the original Japanese. I'm watching the Spanish dub of Inuyasha right now with my wife. I live in Mexico and almost all the anime here is dubbed in Spanish. Very few people here will listen to anime with Japanese audio. It has more to do with how anime has been marketed in Mexico since the 70's. A ton of anime was shown in the 70's in Mexico (more than in the U.S.). Common titles were: Candy Candy, Mazinger, Heidi, Swiss Family Robinson (yes, it was an anime), and such. However, they were dubbed and that led to later generations here insisting on dubs rather than subs. You can buy anime in Mexico on DVD bilingual...but the popularity goes with dubs. I don't feel one is greater than the other. I've heard terrible English dubs and heard Japanese VAs (eg -- YYH Yusuke  in Japanese) sound terrible. I know I'm deviating from their topic of the OP; but, shrill female characters (especially the moe blob ones) screaming in anime usually causes me to discard that anime regardless of what lies ahead. Which brings me to my next topic...Coming Soon!  

6 minutes ago, Ohiotaku said:

I didn’t buy all of Ranma 1/2, just some early episodes & a couple random ones with characters I liked. And the 2 movies & the various OVAs. I did buy all of Slayers, Slayers Next & Slayers Try. Switched to DVDs partway through Card Captor Sakura.

You were dedicated to buy all of the Slayers. I think the Slayers were sold in 2 VHS boxsets with 4-tapes per box. That was before-Funimation and would have been the original CPM/Software Sculptors releases. My wife and I are watching Slayers TV (first series) dubbed I English. Opinion time...remember that Zelgadis has a different VA in the first 11-episodes; good or bad when comparing him to Crispin Freeman who (in my opinion) saved the Zelgadis character voice? The first VA for Amelia wasn't too bad...not sure why she quit.  

15 hours ago, Ohiotaku said:

@Koshigaya23 I also started  buying anime tapes in the 90s. I was in my early 20s at the time & had my first regular job. Early series I remember include Ranma 1/2, Slayers, Project Ako, Tenchi Universe & Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Went to Suncoast weekly. As you said, proved to be a very expensive hobby.  I think my first DVD purchase was either Outlaw Star or Sabre Marionette J.

You went for the good stuff. Suncoast, too...they were like the go-to store for early anime collectors. How did you buy Ranma 1/2 and Slayers on VHS ? There are 70-odd episodes of the first seasons of Slayers and 160-some episodes of Ranma 1/2...

15 hours ago, The History Kid said:

The only anime I remember buying on VHS was DBZ.  I think I had four of them in all, three of them were movies.  I couldn't tell you what the episodic one was.  I think each were $20 too.  That's about the extent of my memory.  By the time I was actually "in" to anime, DVD's had pushed into the mainstream, and I was dealing with that.  Pilot Candidate, Gundam Wing, and Rurouni Kenshin were my firsts there.

That was the thing...a series like DBZ had an infinite number of episodes. So, I would buy mostly movies and OVAs. I remember seeing Martian Successor Nadesico in Sam Goody...like 15 tapes sold in 3 boxes. The price was like $199 for all. For series I never owned anything complete...just tapes with some episodes. It sucked because some tapes would end on a cliff-hanger two-part episodes...and I only had part 1; most tapes would show teasers of the next episode but that would be on the next tape. If the video store didn't have a tape, you had to mail order or search for the tape direct from the publisher (eg -- Animeworks, Central Park Media). That could take months for a tape to get out and required a credit card for purchase (I was a minor and couldn't do that). I don't recall eBay having much at that time and Amazon was still a growing co-op which was mostly in the media of books. Dark days. I bought all the Slayers seasons 1-3 in a single box set for $25 about 5-years ago...buying is much easier now...but...many older titles are yet to be released on BluRay. A lot of DVD releases have fallen out-of-print.   

I started watching anime in the late-90s when I was about 12-years old. I'm now in my 30's and grateful to be able to buy a complete series on DVD or Blu-ray for $30-$59. However, when I first started collecting, most anime being sold was on VHS and LaserDisc. It sucked. Look-up pan and scan for starters in VHS. I remember wanting to own a whole series and having to pay 25.99 for 1 video with only 3-4 episodes. There was also the subbed VHS versus dubbed debacle. A dubbed anime was about $20-30; subbed was another 5-10 dollars. If you wanted a series like Urusei Yatsura...good luck...that was like 50 + videos for the whole series. 

 What are your memories from the days of anime on VHS?

15 hours ago, DamianD87 said:

Dear members,

I hope that someone will help me to find anime I'm looking for pretty long time. I introduced myself earlier today in proper section . I hope that someone will be able to help me. I'm looking for anime from early 90s or late 80s. I remember only one fight scene. It was at night and two guys are fighting. At some point the villain detached something like a balls chain (or maybe it was some kind of a braid) from the back of his head and started to use it as a weapon against the main hero. This is all I remember. 

Thanks in advance for all help  and ideas. 

Strange you should ask a classic anime fan. I know of fights from 80's/90's anime titles that may match your description with: Ninja Scroll, Demon City Shinjuku, Shuten Doji, or possibly or Wicked City. It just seems like something that would be found in a Go Nagai or Yoshiaki Kawajiri.   

On 5/14/2020 at 2:43 PM, Ohiotaku said:

@Koshigaya23

The original A-ko was one of the first anime I bought on VHS & the soundtrack is one of the few anime cds I own. The follow ups didn’t have the same appeal for me though (Cinderella Rhapsody is probably my favorite of those). I’d love to see it get a reboot with modern production values, though I think Kill la Kill  is probably the closest we’ll ever get.

The 2nd Ranma 1/2 movie is my favorite because it dedicated a scene to each of the secondary ships (Shampoo/Mousse, Ukuo/Ryoga & Nabiki/Kuno). Plus the fanservice with the female cast mostly in swimsuits or harem outfits 

I’ve tried a couple times getting into the Lupin III tv series, but really didn’t click with me. I did like Castle of  Cagliostro though & intend to check out the other movies & A Woman Named Fujiko Mine.

A couple that didn’t make my list but still are really nostalgic for me:

Tenchi Muyo in Love

Dirty Pair: Project Eden

Devil Hunter Yohko

Looks like the thread came back momentarily. In my opinion, the first Tenchi movie was a little slow. I get the idea that it's a romantic tale of how Noboyuki met Tenchi's mom and why Tenchi has power if his father is clearly just a goofy earth guy. The second movie was much better. It was marketed in N.A. under the title, Tenchi the Movie 2: Daughter of Darkness. It is basically a summary of the story of Tenchi in Tokyo minus the 26 slow episodes and the whole Tenchi in college bit. I honestly think that Shin Tenchi Muyo was just an after marketing of the second movie with less guff. 

To get into the Lupin series and like it means to abandon the idea of friendly Miyazaki Lupin. The manga was dark and the show starts off with Lupin like so. However sometime during production of series 2...The writers/animators (one of which was Hayao Miyazaki) suggested to tone down Lupin. After the first movie was made Lupin just got softer and more friendly. Not bad...but I liked the original Lupin a bit more. 

Great topic...I hope to read more.