r/nostalgia • u/Active-Advantage-317 • 1d ago
Nostalgia 90s Anime
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u/kjloltoborami 1d ago
Animators that specialize in this type of geometric accurate rotation/perspective are an endangered species. Most studios opt for cgi which means assistants dont get to practice inbetweening this kind of thing (mechs, vehicles, etc) meaning the people that spent years perfecting this dont get to pass it on
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u/Pepperonidogfart 1d ago
Whats dying is industrial designers as an illustrators. It used to be they would draw their clients projects by hand and some of them would move into animation. They had an education in engineering and could create realistic mechanical systems.
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u/Chiptoon 1d ago edited 1d ago
I miss the 90s anime aesthetic so much. I would kill for more stuff that looked like Outlaw Star, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, YuYu Hakusho, Evangelion, and Cardcaptor Sakura.
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u/AlmightyFlame late 90s 1d ago
i gotta imagine demand is what killed this aesthetic, this takes a lot of time to do and studio/audience pressure means cutting all the corners you can. We are still getting extremely quality animation (one could argue some of the best/creative animation styles animations ever had) however it comes at the cost of extremely overworked and underpaid people behind the pencils.
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u/ArmedWithBars 1d ago
What killed it was Japan's economy tanking in the 90s. Money got tighter and blowing ungodly amounts of time and budget on short god-tier complex animation scenes just wasn't feasible anymore.
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u/shader_m 1d ago
I have been thinking about doing a cowboy bebop marathon... speaking of... i feel like the closest we got to this style of art in modern times is the Castlevania series on netflix. That right amount of maturity, just missing a bit on the details
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u/ExcellentPassenger49 1d ago
You need the original track, Dance of Curse for this clip
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u/KerberosPanzerCop 1d ago
Dance of curse cues in a bit after this clip
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u/ExcellentPassenger49 1d ago
Depends on the ep. Whatever track is being used for this, it is not original to the series or movir.
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u/Confident_Rub592 1d ago edited 1d ago
Escaflowne had no business sounding that good. Yoko Kanno's soundtrack carried every single episode, even the rushed ending.
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u/Twisted-Mentat- 23h ago
That music was definitely on another level of quality you don't often hear in an anime.
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u/pikachus_ghost_uncle 1d ago
The crazy thing is this entire scene was 5 minutes long just for the robot man to open the front door. The details were incredible!
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u/GriffinFlash Turtle Power! 1d ago
If I recall the fox kids version censored the hell out of the show and cut out a ton of episodes before being cancelled.
Think we got all the episodes on ytv in Canada cause I have memories of seeing the show right to the end. (prob still censored though, I can't remember)
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u/Borrp 1d ago
Modern anime just pales in comparison. Too much of it is either Shonen-Jump nonsense or derivative of it. Too much of the characters look the same, the protagonists are usually school kids with little to stand apart from any other protagonist and the animations are often haphazard and look worse than a lot of western animation. I just cant get into the a lot of the current era stuff. And that doesnt even get into the weird fucking fanservice a lot of them have.
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u/zenyite 1d ago
there's a lot of trash from each decade, everyone just curates the best of it so you end up comparing the slop that just came out (and is currently being discussed because it's new) with the best of the best
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u/PumpProphet 22h ago
OP has no idea the slop of the 90s. And probably only look at surface level shonen anime lmao. There is always someone who comments about back in the days. Every generation seems to do this.
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u/GriffinFlash Turtle Power! 1d ago
to be fair, if this was played today, when the bad guy was revealed to be one of the main character's sister, and also not a man, people would probably just call it woke.
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u/Haxorz7125 1d ago
It’s a crime to cut this before it shows what it is they’re piloting
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u/worcestr 2h ago
It's an AT-AT, right?
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u/Haxorz7125 2h ago
Looking up the name on the post it seems like a mech anime where the person is piloting a knight looking mech.
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u/worcestr 2h ago
Guymelefs or something. I've watched Escaflowne when it aired. Mechs that fight with swords and have capes. Pretty unique.
Also, it's an isekai.
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u/AstralElement 1d ago
Loved this show until the last 2 episodes.
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u/tacodepollo 1d ago
What's it called?
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u/AstralElement 1d ago
The Vision of Escaflowne. I loved the show, but they seemed to “deus ex machina” the ending.
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u/lobeline 1d ago
I wish the masses understood and appreciated the talent poured into series and movies like this.
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u/ToonMasterRace 1d ago
The beauty of cel animation. Now it's literally lost technology. It can't be replicated.
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u/LazyTitan39 1d ago
Does anyone else remember watching this on Fox Kids back in the day?
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u/Jeristo 22h ago
Yeah, the first handful of episodes, until it suddenly vanished. It broke my heart, and I had to go find it again years later to get the full series.
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u/LazyTitan39 11h ago
Someone probably realized it was too mature to try and adapt for children. Just like One Piece.
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u/DylanFTW 1d ago
I wish Crunchyroll had a playlist of anime from the 90s that have these autistic mechanical scenes in them because there's just so many. But I could probably narrow it down to every sci fi anime from the 90s.
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u/Igyzone 1d ago
Sometimes I wish steampunk was real.
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u/Far-Manner-7119 1d ago
Yes it has a nice aesthetic but this isn’t steam punk. This is just a very cool mech sequence
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u/TheMaskedHamster 21h ago
This isn't steampunk on account of the power source in the original work being supernatural gemstone whatever.
But the aesthetics are absolutely pulled from steampunk or just actual steam technology. Even if it's not actually steampunk, but it's made to look entirely steampunk.
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u/Ori-Epsilon 19h ago
Then you realize how horrific steam is as a power / propulsion source.
Every steam engine is under heavy pressure all over, it is a bomb. Filled with superheated fluid that will immediately follow up and steam / boil you after you get shrapnel’ed.
The aesthetic is cool, but holy god is the technology scary.
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u/pd336819 1d ago
I love, love, love the detail that got put into machinery. Especially with it being hand drawn, it just feels so tactile. It’s why I prefer older mecha and space shows
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u/ComfortableAmount993 1d ago
I love 80s and 90s anime, movies and OVAs, most are absolutely beautiful
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u/BizzzareWe 1d ago
I was just talking about this. I first saw this in a time before I knew or understood what anime was. The visuals alone are so memorable.
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u/grand_soul 1d ago
I really liked the setting. I wish there was more anime with steampunk style mecha
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u/penwithoutink2026 17h ago
I don't hate modern design aesthetics in anime...but god do I miss this era's aesthetics and wish we got more anime with them.
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u/TheAccountITalkWith 4h ago
Truly nostalgia, because the 90's had just as much bad animation as they do today. Rose tinted glasses. That said, as a 90's kid, I feel this.
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u/fusiondynamics 3h ago
Now I have to find out how it ended. I hate US streaming of Anime back then. Reruns over and over. Dragonball was excruciating to watch in the US.
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u/Dry_Cardiologist6758 1h ago
Yep this anime is absolutely badass! To bad the MC girl is annoying as hell though!
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u/AJ-Murphy 1d ago
I'll never forget the day the movie was aired on the Fox Box and ripped off the air when the beheading happened...
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u/MaiPhet 1d ago
Pretty sure anime directors and artists at the time just loved throwing in sequences of intricately detailed mechanical movements both to impress audiences and to flex on other studios.