Favorite Classic Anime

[Wolf Kanno]

Let's get some old school love going here! What are some of your favorite old-school or "classic" anime/manga series you really enjoy. I'll leave it up to the poster to determine what accounts for old-school or classic.

[charliepanayi]

Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Blue Seed (1994-1995)

[Ayen]

Ranma
Record of Lodoss War
Sailor Moon
Utena

[Vermachtnis]

Cowboy Bebop
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Outlaw Star
Saber Marionnette J
Tenchi Muyo

[Forsaken Lover]

Anything pre-2000 seems fair game for this.

Dragon Ball (original, not Z)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Fushigi Yuugi

[G13]

I don't really watch a lot of anime but there are a few series I could literally watch over and over again. Cowboy Bebop is fantastic, I love every incarnation of Dragon Ball, and The Big O was a Toonami favorite. I don't know if 12 years is long enough to be old school, but the first series of Fullmetal Alchemist was great too.

[Forsaken Lover]

You're all forgetting Trigun and that makes me sad.

[Karifean]

Death Note (it's an absolute classic at this point as far as I'm concerned)

[Pike]

I'm not really a huge anime fan (aside from the childhood standards like DBZ/Pokemon/Digimon) but I did enjoy Cowboy Bebop and Trigun.

[Ergroilnin]

Slayers
Yu Yu Hakusho
Chobits

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Favorite = Akira, Evangelion

Honorable Mentions = Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Gunsmith Cats, Macross, Robotech, Bubblegum Crisis, Record of Lodoss War, Fist of the North Star, Dominion Tank Police, New Dominion Tank Police, Martian Successor Nadesico, Here is Greenwood

So bad they're good = Venus Wars, Maps, Project A-ko, Burn Up, different iterations of the Slayers series, Original Dirty Pair,

[Colonel Angus]

I haven't seen too much anime, but I do love the original Dragon Ball.

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[Mirage]

Ghost in the shell, evangelion, trigun.

an "overall favourites" list would look identical.

get in the fucking robot, shinji

[Zanmato]

I love Ghost In The Shell and Trigun - they're simply amazing! <3

[Shorty]

Cowboy Bebop forever.

[DMKA]

Cowboy Bebop is considered old school? :p

Sailor Moon is still my all time favorite, new or old. I also liked Ronin Warriors back in the day.

[krissy]

god you are all children aren't you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Pzsl6FKf8 general daimos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK5Ap_BC1f8 yatterman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDTdcgIIP8 mobile suit gundam

and ok its a little embarassing but this thing taught me how to flirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85p1KrTEeS8
and now you know

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

god you are all children aren't you.


You're calling me a child for liking Blue Seed? :roll2

[Wolf Kanno]

god you are all children aren't you.


You're calling me a child for liking Blue Seed? :roll2

Considering all the anime they listed is from two decades earlier than Blue Seed... :shifty:

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[charliepanayi]

Cowboy Bebop is considered old school? :p

In fairness, it is almost twenty years old at this point. Besides they said old school or classic and it's certainly classic anyway!

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Not all of us Krissy. I made an abbreviated list, but there's some old gold in there.

Admittedly, I had to restart my list and forgot Voltron and Ronin Warriors.

I mean I guess we can throw Astro Boy, Speed Racer, and a few others in there.

[krissy]

hahaha Johnny, i only meant chronologically! not thematically. i haven't even watched blue seed but i'm pretty certain it's dark.

[Fynn]

Cowbo Bebop, definitely. Or Wolf's Rain, if it counts. Wolf's Rain is actually my favorite anime of all time ever.

[Bright Shield]

I'll use my top 5. Some of them are still airing, but have manga dating back to 1997-1998.

Yu Yu Hakusho
Hunter x Hunter
One Piece
Dragonball
Rurouni Kenshin

[Rin Heartilly]

Neon Genesis Evangelion!!

Also...

Sorceress stabber Orphan
Ranma 1/2
Inuyasha
Cowboy beebop
Trigun
Pokemon kanto and johto
Rouroni kenshin
Berserk
Sailormoon
Oh my goddess!
Utena
Gunsmith cats
Ghost in a shell
Saiyuki
GTO
Akira
Robotech

[escobert]

Inuyasha, Outlaw Star, Voltron, Ghost in a Shell, Gundam Wing, Rouroni Kenshin and .HACK//sign

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I really don't know what's considered classic since I missed a lot of anime until more recently. I feel like a lot of the more classic stuff I experienced in manga instead, but I'm not sure.

Growing up, I watched Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Card Captors, and whatever else was on the channels I watched cartoons on. I can't remember if I watched these, but I did enjoy the manga for Ranma 1/2 and Ah! My Goddess back then. I had a cousin that was obsessed with anime and manga, and she was the one getting me into stuff like that.

Nowadays I've really enjoyed Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, all of the Miyazaki movies (I can't remember if Nausicaa is old enough to be classic), Excel Saga and a few others. I just don't know when everything came out so I don't what's classic.

[Leigh]

Anime was considered an exceptional rarity until the latter half of the 90s. You'd get animated films, usually the self-indulgent, philsophical ones like Ghost in the Shell and Akira, but TV shows didn't seem to arrive here. There were, of course, Gundam Wing, but you usually had to be loaded (could afford SkyTV) in order to watch that. I can't recall anything on terrestrial tv being imported from Japan until the arrival of Pokemon, then the onslaught of shows like Digimon, Cardcaptors Sakura, and Yu-Gi-Oh.

So I don't really have any 'classics' so to speak of. I have a list of shows that I watched in the mid-00s, when torrenting and fansubs were at their most prevailent. To Heart, Ah! My Goddess, Chobits, Bleach, Suzuka, Love Hina, but are all relatively recent in the grand scheme of the anime timeline, and I can't say that I found any of them particularly enthralling. I think Pokemon is as classic as it gets for me, but I wouldn't call it classic by definition. It's still too contemporary.

Studio Ghibli. A little bit of a love-hate affair with it. I like some of the films, but the majority of them I find underwhelming, which sounds like sacriledge because Studiop Ghibli is ordained by fans as being the pinnacle of animated storytelling. There just aren't many of the films that I would ever be tempted to watch more than once. Porco Rosso being my least favourite. Howl's Moving Castle probably my favourite.

[Fynn]

Howl's Moving Castle is like the best one and I will fight all who oppose :stare:

[Lazerface]

Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball +Z, Digimon (every season), Berserk, Serial Experiment Lain, Ghost in the Shell. The list goes on.

[Tyson]

Neon Genesis Evangelion is by far my favourite anime of all time. (So much I've seriously considered getting Unit 02 tattoo'd on my body haha)

Cowboy Bebop's great too, then theres all the ones I grew up watching as a kid. Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Digimon.

[Christmas]

Doraemon. :bigsmile:

[jowzi]

Dragon Ball and Ghost in the Shell.
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