Manga: The good ol' days

Remember when anime was new and exciting, and barely anyone had heard of it? Back when people still nick named it 'Japanimation'? Remember how we dreamed that one day anime would become mainstream? Now it very much has, we are getting sick of it. How ironic.

Anyone that was British and into anime back in the 90's will remember this at the start of most of the videos released at the time.

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Film & Animation

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• anime
• manga
• akira
• project
• ako
• fist
• north
• star
• blue
• sonnet

[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

[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]

@MrSmellyMeat thank you!

[MrSmellyMeat]

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

[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]

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?

[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.