Manga: The good ol' days

[danrocks1981]

I'm Thirty and the Manga scene in the UK was a great thing to be part of when it first started. I remember watching Akira for the first time and I though to myself I must own this. I nearly never returned it to the video shop I first rented it from. Then Akira and a few more VHS tapes started to pop up on the Manga label and I remember spending every penny I owned on them when I was at school. It was like a secret club nobody knew about. I wish it was still like that sometimes.

[ErickDamon]

I miss the old art style

[subs2witch90]

theres a movie in that clip that ive seen before but cant remember the name! one part of it is a motor cycle and it looks like something locked on to it and another scene is when the guy slides down the stair case banner.does anyone remember what its called?

[MrSmellyMeat]

@subs2witch90 the one you're after is called venus wars... it kicks arse... i was thinking about it earlier today too, thinking the only thing that lets it down really is that the animators didn't have the foresight to know that hand held video camera's would be as tiny as they are now, never mind in the distant future... still, if that's it's only detracting point, so what, right?

[subs2witch90]

@MrSmellyMeat thank you!

[DudeJericho]

Fuck thanks for this man, brings back the memories, I was apart of that generation when anime was barely known in the UK. I remember the "big" anime movies that impacted here like Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Ninja Scroll and Street Fighter 2: Animated Movie etc, but still things were quite underground. Anyone else remember watching anime on the Sci-Fi channel fridays at around midnight? Those were the days :)

[mccoyca112]

Best thing about the oldschool shows. Hand drawn, and batshit crazy. There are a few modern ones I enjoy tbh, but the oldschool ones I find much more brilliant. Shame I wasnt old enough to grow up on them. I've had to do research and find em myself

[RagingKnight]

Anime has gone so mainstream that its no longer hand drawn, instead its done on computers. It also doesn't seem as fluid as back then. There's also not a lot of gritty dark stories anymore, its all about school life, moe/ero trash. Gone are the days of power armors and mecha and girls wearing armor that isn't just a skin tight leotard. 

[MrSmellyMeat]

@RagingKnight yeah, i hear you... yurotsuki and stuff like that rocked... since it went mainstream it went all softc0cked...

[kibateo]

lol this is like a hipster video

[jeditenihongo]

One thing that I noticed between today's English dubbing and '90s English dubbing, was that anime back in the early to mid '90s was geared towards adults, so that's why you would hear ridiculous amounts of cursing, lots of graphic violence and so forth. Now anime changed its age group in terms of marketing, now it's marketing towards kids to late teens. Which is why today, you don't hear much cursing in dubs, and as much violence. There's anime that's like that, but it's not marketed as much.

[mightygee]

yup the good ol' days for sure! It was only because of my aunt and uncle and the sci-fi channel that I managed to gain an appreciation of anime/manga it's still good to this day (I love BLEACH!) but I suppose looking back to the past it does seem a bit better...because let's face it, if you were watching all this as a kid chances are you'd be easily impressed by something new and edgy...I suppose now that anime and manga has become so mainstream (and it really has!) that were so used to it now

[DiscoLeumas]

all I know is that thanks to manga Entertainment the 12 episode Guyver series as well as the original vampire hunter became massive influences on my under 10 year old mind back in the ninities, for most people in their early 20s/late teens their first anime was dragonball z or yugioh but not me.

[navigatorhat]

Sweet sweet nostalgia. I'm 27 and these were the videos of my teenage years. Sure Japanese animation was available in the UK before but it was in the 80s/90s that it because outrageous, scary and full of filth.

[boru25]

Audios too low!

[goremetalfan]

whats the anime @ :29?

[Amongenshiken81]

@goremetalfan If you mean guy looking at the jars its' Akira, but if you mean the bike it's Venus Wars.

[RunningWildVidya]

I am gonna be 27 this year, and man... I love the 70's, 80's and 90's of anime. It was so damn good. The art, the substance, the music, the characters and stores.

Today's shit can't even compare. Everything today is moe and lolicon, and emo guys.

[chiquiIicuatre]

ah memories

[316929855]

I'm looking for the Fist of the North star trailer. He is not on youtube. Trailer was before the movie ninja scroll. Where can I find it?

[WaffleCakeSyrup]

It's the stupid ass fangirls that ruined anime!

[geekgo4]

But it wasn't always mature. Thanks to Tastunoko Productions and Saban Entertainment, there use to be Japanmation for the whole family and little kids/children, Lile Adventures of Little Koala, 80's AstroBoy, The Littl' Bits, etc.

And majority of them were shown on Nickelodeon Junior. Strange, huh?

People always get this idea that Japanimation were for teens and adults only, and not for kids at all.

Back then, there was something for everyone. Nowadays, it's mostly for otaku.

[l33tmaster104]

HOLY SHIT GAGAMAN?! Wow! I remember I read your comic which I found out from your 100th comic flash movie on newgrounds. That was a long time ago!

[RedlineAngel]

Man, I used to buy Manga Mania every month - started on issue 6, I think, with Street Fighter 2 on the cover. They serialised some awesome comics in there; Akira, Bubblegum Crisis, Striker... I miss the days when anime seemed dangerous and dark, and we weren't swamped by mass produced shite churned out by studios who know idiot Westerners will buy anything with a short-skirted, puce-eyed girl on the cover.

I can't stand modern anime. If it isn't prefaced by Celtic Frost, I don't want to know.

[ROGERDERBY]

back when anime wasnt for fags.

[Cajaquarius]

I remember those days! I grew up in the US but it was in the bible belt so it might as well have been Mars for all the anime they had available there at the time. The old anime had that hand draw charm to it that you just don't get in new anime with all the computer overlay bullshit stuffed in. Much like my preference of old style special effects over CGI. CGI and computer graphics have no soul. Maybe we are just old and preferring old stuff to the new because of nostalgia. Still, good times.

[OMorty]

UH UH UH UH UH UH UH

SO FUCKING EDGY

[jlenoconel]

America ruined Anime in my opinion, like they do with everything. Anime is shit now in my opinion as well, since it became bastardized and Americanized. I'm 26 now so I remember a lot of the old school stuff on TV when I lived in the UK. It started getting shit when kids got into Pokemon and all that. Anime is totally tailored to kids now and its frustrating.

[sirvaughn16]

@jlenoconel in some ways but their is still alot of great titles like elfien lied, rune soilder, hellsing, gantz, dont get me wrong i still remeber when i first saw md geist on vhs it was the begining of my sweet anime addiction

[Cajaquarius]

@jlenoconel I wouldn't really blame America entirely so much as I would blame the western market in general. Before anime was huge in the west manga artists were selling to a smaller group (just the Japanese) and it weeded out the bullshit. Crap sank, cream rose to the top. Expand the markets out to hundreds of millions of fans and you will find someone willing to call a cartoon about a ninja in an orange jumpsuit who shouts every other line high art. It is the nature of capitalism.

[wartarot]

@jlenoconel

America had nothing to do with it. Anime went to shit when it moved from OVAs that pushed the envelope to Made By Committee TV series that played it safe by rehashing the same stories and genres.

You want to blame the fans then go after the little shits who download without paying for it because they figure there will alway be anime regardless.

And if people won't buy it and are okay with mediocre then why should it improve?

[ABUNAI888]

i remember a manga scene back in the days i was kid.

there was a spider-robot that was getting inside peoples head when they was sleeping the theme of that manga was about robots taking control of humans.

anyone knows where i can find that manga any title or something similar ?

i realy miss it..so please if anyone knows something reply...

[adeellime]

@ABUNAI888

how u doing friend there is good few manga's like that i have huge colloction so if you know roughly the name of it or what happens in it i mite be able find it!

[bountyhunterdarkness]

I feel the same way

[feargrim]

used to love this intro back then. I watched legend of the overfiend when i was like 12 i was hooked ever since shame its all becames so stale over the last few years even the stuff everyone goes on about "you should watch bleach" give me cyber city or devil man any day violence jack or mad bull now they where good

[sirvaughn16]

@feargrim md geist and geno cyber were what got me hooked

[LittleSn00py]

Could someone list all the animes just seen?

[remco11]

hahaha i live on island in the Caribbean ,and there was this video store that had these anime video's and allot more ,good times ,i'm trying 2 find them even from manga that don't come up on they're website anymore =/ would be really cool 2 find most of them =P

[DanTheWarder]

I've not seen that many Manga's but the ones I've seen on here are only Fist of the North Star and Akira. I think there's dominion tank police on here as well though.

[iLain2772]

Who knows what anime used in this movie?

Thanx.

[feargrim]

akira dominion tank police venus wars fist of the north star project ako are the few i know ;) i used to love anime back then now its so dull

[K1productions]

Looking at it now.... becoming mainstream is probably the worst thing to ever happen to Anime. Much like becoming "marketable" is the worst thing that could ever happen to an art form.

OMG... Venus Wars, I had completely forgotten about that one. Project A-ko gets a nod too (but that was practically my first anime, so I cant ever forget that one). Wait a sec... did I just see "Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight" in there too? My GODS, total nostalgia trip.

[sirvaughn16]

when I was little I remeber M.D. Geist 2 Death Force was my first Anime back when it was still on Vhs man that was some amazing stuff

[K1productions]

OMG, I have so many old anime on VHS (especially ones from Orion/Streamline... which has gone bankrupt, so we'll NEVER see them on DVD. Lamesauce).

Gods I miss the original dubs of Akira and Dirty Pair, and I wanna see Lily C.A.T. again, dammit.

[LoffleMe]

I'm only 16 so I wouldn't remember the 90's that well y'know :p I'd kinda love anime to be not-mainstream haha. At least, because when you mention anime all anyone ever thinks of is Pokemon, Naruto, Bleach, etc. Fff what about all the other animes akjfh.

[dustinmorning]

There was a different audio version of this clip originally... the imagery was slightly different too, it wasn't celtic frost... I wish I could remember what it was... anyway, better than this version... I was shattered when I found out they changed it around the time ninja scroll was released. Does anyone know the version I mean?

[DeejayLIX]

love this clip from the old VHS Vids! the song is Celtic Frost - The Heart Beneath

BRING BACK THE CLASSICS!!!

[h86obsid]

"UGH!"

HAIL FROST!

[aggradef]

"Remember when anime was new and exciting, and barely anyone had heard of it?"

At the age of 22, you were born a couple decades after all that, sorry

[gagaman]

The UK was really behind when it came to anime, it only really kicked off here in the late 80's/early 90's, unlike America and most of Europe who had been enjoying anime for much longer.

[DanTheWarder]

Very true, I'm 27 and can remember Manga was very much underground when I was growing up but I always felt it was cutting edge and being ballsy when everything else was just soft. That intro was rewound on everyones VHS too many times I'm sure lol

[soundbeans]

@aggradef You ingnorant piece of shit cocksucker.

[OkageX]

OMG! The memories! O_O Good ol time :)

[h86obsid]

Ah, Celtic Frost and anime, I love you Manga Entertainment!

And I love you Aaron even when you're puttin on your whingy nostalgia glasses!

[sumrandombing666]

yay akira! im british but i'm only twelve so i don't remember the nineties that much

[shimsham6]

Oh the memories that came flooding back to me after watching this! I remember it well and really miss he piss poor dubs and over the top animation of japanimation.

Thanks a bunch for putting this up.

[Lupni3rd]

lol I ripped this promo years ago off of the Urotsukidoji UK dvd didn't think some one else ripped it as well and put it on Youtube:P.

At least we will always have the dvd's and laser disc's of retro anime that gets shunned now.

Yes sci-fi UK piss me off with cancelling their anime block they used to do, for years I wanted to see Amnesia Wind as I missed it the 2 or 3 times they played it, luckily he bought the dvd and I was finally able to see it.

[VendavalEste]

Didn't think I'd see this promo ever again.

[Iwantpies1237]

I basically only watch these old animes..all the new crap is aimed at kids..

[Zaothus]

Elfen Lied? Gantz? Speed Grapher?

[Iwantpies1237]

Good point..I correct myself..less old animes were aimed at kids compared to today.

[VendavalEste]

Elfen Lied is pretty shitty though.

[HeyArnoldsspleen]

Most kids were actually watching these. LOL

[Iwantpies1237]

Yea...but the good thing is that they weren't AIMED at the kids..so they wree good

[seishun12]

can i get a list of these animes

[NarutoDKurosaki]

You only need to know Project A-ko and Akira.

[seishun12]

na i can tell thers more anime in ther id like

[NarutoDKurosaki]

There's Angel Cop and Fist Of The North Star, but that's only if you like to hear "EAT SHIT!" every other second.

[geebee2501]

Shit, I miss those years of one good anime coming out after another.

[HyperGogeta]

Guyver....damn right

[evilmadeflesh]

i remember the gd old days when not many people knew about anime and manga entertainment was the driving force behind us and uk released anime. i first saw that intro when i was nine years old and it sent shivers down my spine all my favorite animes were released by manga entertainment.

[Cyproduction]

@ gagaman

It's because today there's a lot a computer generated stuff. back then a manga was almost entirely handmade, and the stories/concepts were unique and original, unlike today.

It was new, fresh and far ahead of western animation.

Good days pass so fast :( I still enjoy old manga today ^___^

[jb7254]

i want this song, anyone...

[LakesShooter]

Violence Jack... That is all...

[nemesis908]

Ah, the good old days.

Old anime is the best anime, the vast majoity of new stuff is emo shit, like most of its new "fans".

[BronzenRevolver]

Yeah, the old stuff was more badass and wasnt emo and annoying

[theuprightman83]

*grunt*

[tissuekins]

This is what anime was made for, blood, violence and sex!

[trickyfoshow]

does anyone one knows all the mangs in the trailer? special 47 secs in some space style manga. got dominion tank police, akira, f.o.t.n.s, venus wars, project a-ko, need to find the rest! Anyone help?

[chickenbone]

i thought that was all of them, was ultimate teacher in there?, im not sure?

[Cyproduction]

I recognize "Fist of the North star"

[Riptide555]

Those series and movies, names are mentioned by other below, were the first batch to arrive in the US and Europe in the late 1990s.

Classics today that set the stage for the invasion that was to follow once the internet became readily available.

[Greeendragon7s]

I've only been really into anime for a couple of months so I don't know most of these animes.

[AnimeQueeny]

omg thank you for uploading this I totally favorited this!! do you have much louder version of this clip?

It's a bit quiet for my taste. I want to hear this clip at full blast man!!

[SpairoG]

i have been looking for this trailer for a long time :)you make my day

[Shahamu]

manga mang

[Tornfromreality]

It'd be awesome if someone posted a vid of them selves playin that on guitar!

[OMGmyFACE]

Apocalyptic future dystopias, sandy badlands, cyberpunk detective noir... man, I miss the 80's to early 90's anime, the kind of shit they made Mekton Zeta RPGs out of. Darkside Blues, M-66, Geist, BGC(!!), BurnUp, Dominion. Hell, even up to a bit after Gunsmith Cats. The good times.

[timduncan69]

I feel the exact same way, I was born in 89 and in the nineties i ploughed through all this stuff at my video store when i was a kid.

[badwolfvlm]

Haha I got them long ago when I was kid been borrow some vhs tape from my mates at school. Doomed Megalopolis, AD police, Bubblegum crisis, Venus wars, FOTNS, Ako project, Genocyber, Patlabor, Dirty Pairs, etc...

80's kids were luck cos this manga isnt children hehe. XD

[badwolfvlm]

But I always love Cyberpunk thing!

[SayVarRee]

Whoa. I fondly remember this trailer. Loved the song and it wasn't till many years later till i discovered Celtic Frost by then my love for Anime was as brutual as my love for Metal.....

...whats Happening....???

[essexjoker]

reminds me when i was at school, and buying manga videos back in them days 15 years ago...sweet

[Yaaka]

yes... I miss the shit out of those days... the "What's Ranma... 1/2..?" days...

[BigSteve300]

Yes, this was back when Manga Ent. was called Manga video. This was on their video releases.

Gotta love that music.

[GokouX]

That was awesome. I remember this back from the old days when anime definately was exciting. While I still love anime, it obviously doesn't feel "new" like it used to be....I miss that feeling, either way, nice one mate.

[ProductionX]

Too bad the American Manga Video promo was far more insipid! Love noticing the CPM and Streamline titles the UK Manga Video got otherwise. Of course one that should always be forgotten is "OOOOODDDIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN­!!!!!!!!"

[tinshibuya]

this takes me back! i made it my aim to get every single film that was sampled in this intro looked like it was loads at the time but turns out there where only six! in order: akira, dominion tank police, venus wars, fist of the northstar, odin and project ako

those ere the days

[selecio]

yeah man this intro was jokes!

haven't seen it in years even though I still got my manga vids from back then.

i had to buy akira few months back just for quick reminisce, even now i don't really understand it lol

[wateeer]

OMG what is the anime at exactly 00:29 plzzz help!!!

[hsdkahkjcbaksc]

It's Akira I think. It kick the shit out of any other bullshit anime >:)

To the creator - there is a great difference between anime and manga. And this here is all anime ;)

And yeah I miss those old animes... Nowadays every anime looks like Naruto for fucks sake ^^ And there just isn't much of an art in newer animes. It's all easily formulated and aimed at teens ^^

[Wolfgangh]

He's probbably well aware of that, but its an ad for the company Manga. Who relesed anime.

[DownloadingUploads]

"dun dun dun dun dun dun....URGH!"

(who didn't do that at least once when watching it)

[gentlehoover]

Cheers for putting this up dude It's been years sinse I've seen this, funny aswell because I was watching Project A-KO on DVD the other day and I thought how much I miss this ad at the beginning of all my Manga experiences! Also not heard The Heart Beneath by Celtic Frost for years neither so I'll be getting hold of that!

Cheers again

[ruchan0143]

y ni que decir de la calidad de la animacion... han pasado muchos de aquella calidad de animacion que lindaba con lo artistico a hacer ahora todo con la computadora... lo que en su tiempo eran efectos visuales hermosos como en saint seiya ahora se hacen por computadora y todo se ve tan mal.... una pena

[OMGmyFACE]

Anime was fine and dandy when it was just blood, machines, and 80's. Anime was like inked metal. Bust out some Megalopolis, AD Police, Black Magic M66, BGC style, Fist of the North Star. I mena, you had your comedy and romance but it wasn't JUST versions of Sailor Moon. Now if it ain't Black Lagoon, it's all kinds of Naruto, believe it, and too many kinds of EVERYONE love it and annoy you with it. Still got my VHS bootlegs of Burn-Up and Plastic Little. Those were the days, bro.

[Slonie]

Awesome...Totally brings me back to those first few things I saw in high school. I really agree with the description, gagaman!

Also, Venus Wars is dope.

[PirokuTehL33tFox]

So much stuff, cant remember all of it x_x

[videoslacker]

The majority of animation coming out of Japan these days is basically a rehash of another plot, just with a new coat of paint.

[gagaman]

Especially the anime they publish here in the west. They do have a lot of unique stuff that never see the light of day over here, though, like the works of Studio 4oC.

[videoslacker]

I'll agree. I have seen some quality titles, but as you said the western market is being flooded with alot of half baked ones. One thing I like about Manga Entertainment is that even though they have few titles, their titles are of extremely high quality. I found Karas and KaiDohMaru to be the best ones they released yet.

[dbzbabe58]

Blue SonneT:D:D:D:D:D:D

Sci Fi Channel abandoned all its anime

[gagaman]

Yeah, it's a real shame. The Sci-Fi Anime night every Thursday was what got me into anime in the first place.

[meka703]

yup. i remember watchin the anime block on saturdays. shame they took all their anime off.

[Kainlarsen]

Holy crap! I feel like I just discovered manga for the first time all over again!^_^

[CopernicusSmith]

Now THAT brings back memories!