Not sure if it counts as Anime but is anyone watching Harly Quinn on 4od? first two episodes up now. Funny violent and better than any DC live action tv show I've seen.

It me, back in the thread with barely relevant content. 

Anyway, a long, long time ago, probably 20 years now, the sci fi channel was making a big fucking deal about how they were going to show this movie on TV. Pretty sure the version they showed was cut to ribbons because this film was the definition of gratuitous. It was a pretty rough watch even as an 18 year old watching the version that got shown over here and I came away absolutely confused about what I just saw. 

Anyway here's a review many years later that turned up the other week of Urotsukidoji - notorious poster child for tentacles - that actually frames the film in quite an interesting manner. The review is censored but like, fairly warned be thee, says I. 

Having seen the cover of this film many many times since the late 90s/early 2000s, I've always been intrigued but brushed it off with the other ero stuff.

Thanks for sharing the video, not something I'll probably watch (I mean, it will will take my wife some convincing...) but interesting to know what it's all about.

hylian_elf wrote:

Heh I had the trilogy on VHS. I’m sure it was heavily cut. So many anime were. Even Wings of Honneamise, which is mostly kid friendly, had a scene cut from UK version I found out many years later.  Imagine my surprise at the bits that were cut out of Ninja Scroll which actually helped explain the female lead or how a couple of the demons actually died.

I get why they made the cut to Wings, it was a sex scene in what is otherwise a totally-suitable-for-kids movie, I think? The cut was to bring it to a PG, rather than for any obscenity. That's a cracking film, proper my era of anime that, buying Manga Mania every month, handful of VHS releases pcm. Great days.

I had it taped off telly with subs back in the day, which was the UK cut, would like to pick it up again. I'm not really into modern anime but there are a bunch of ones from that era that I'd love to have again.

Ah, Urotsukidoji! One of the all time great love stories. Takes me back to more innocent times.

I am also the same, fond memories of stuff like HNK, Guyver, MD Geist, Detonator Orgun and all that 80s/90s B-Movie esque anime.

I keep meaning to get back into something, but just never seem to find the time. Last thing I watched was the first season of Attack on Titan, but I didn't like the way it kind of just reverts to what feels like another series that's going to drag on for a million years about halfway through the season.

Yeah, I'm just a sucker for the way 80s anime looks, stuff like Wicked City and other Madhouse stuff that all had that blueish tint to sleek cities.

When anime was still good.

This is just the way of things. One of us must be the bright spear of justice, the other a salacious opportunist making his foul calls for attention from the gutter. 

Do not be angry with the others, it's not their fault - would you be mad at the flies that descend to feast on fresh excrement?

Did I mention Golgo 13? Ah, sweet memories.

And of course Roujin-Z itself.

Does JoJo count as neo old. Get that in his veins. Strap him down.

Golgo 13 was one of the first I bought, loved it and yeah, the manga is still going.

Enjoyed the bits of it at the Manga exhibit last year (was it last year?)

Bollockoff wrote:

Does JoJo count as neo old. Get that in his veins. Strap him down.

Jojo is actually the one thing I said to Temps that will draw me back in. I'll get there eventually. It's like 40k, after 18 months of seeing Temps smelly nurgly lads I decided enough was enough and I dove back in.

I guess im weird like that, I go through cycles of being into things, then drifting away to concentrate on something else for a while and then eventually coming back.

I will go on record though to say I was wrong when I said words to the effect of "old anime is better than new stuff". I've been giving it a lot of thought and here is my reasoning:

1. When I first started watching anime, it was the first time I'd seen it, so I had nothing to compare it against, therefore everything I watched felt new and fresh and different and cool.

2. When we started getting it on cable, we got shown ALL of the classics and cult classics from the 80s and 90s in one big lump, there was just a deluge of good stuff that got shown in a relatively short period of time.

3. All of the harem/schoolkids/non action/comedy/whatever stuff that seemed to appear in the early 2000s with lower quality animation and "uninteresting" themes to me, wasn't actually a change in direction for the medium, it had anyways been there, however it never really crossed the pond in the 90s. What we saw was all of the anime that already did well in Japan that people thought would appeal to western tastes. In some way that's kind of sad to think about, that we were thought of as only really willing to watch the more action orientated films and anything else was something we wouldn't like, and clearly they were right. I smdh at my younger self, so certain he knew what he liked and wouldn't like.

4. The number of quality productions did not reduce from the 80s/90s into the 2000's, we just saw all the other stuff that got released alongside it because the internet opened the floodgates.

Tl:dr - Gonna watch Jojo at some point. Anime was not strictly better in the past.

Baki part 3 is out today on netflix. Would have preferred kengan ashura part 3, but i will have to wait for that.