Little Dark Age - 90s Anime

[@bombomos]

80s-90s anime is the top of the mountain

[@gabeheartz13saravia97]

@@ulianasustav Do you think they will ever recreate the 90’s Anime Aesthetic?

[@turtlegaming4427]

@@gabeheartz13saravia97no

[@velo2431]

​@@ulianasustav Yeah :)

[@DukeGrandier]

80 ? Naaaah

[@peterdisabella2156]

You are heavily romanticizing it lol

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

Cowboy bebop has some of the most beautiful animation ever drawn

[@jakelynch5113]

Absolutely!

[@LubulaChikwekwe]

Ur absolutely right

[@Neymoiiii]

And with only 8-12 fps

[@Cafferssss]

Absolutely it's gotta be one of the top 10 best animes.

[@sadworldwide]

Cowboy bebop is below mid

[@mikedangerdoes]

I'm not going to pretend that there isn't any good anime these days. But damn, some of these are just straight genre defining.

[@rosybrown6235]

fr bro, some of these are on my top 10🍷

[@doomtoob]

Can you suggest some to watch?

[@peterdisabella2156]

@@doomtoob Perfect Blue and Akira were pretty good

[@mikedangerdoes]

Old or new? If you're looking for old, any of those featured here are great. My personal favourites are Neon Genesis Evangelion, Princess Mononoke, and Akira. As for new stuff, I know it's basic but shows like My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Demon Hunter are really top tier content. Mob Pyscho 100 is also S-tier and a perfect blend of heart, weirdness, and clean animation. @@doomtoob

[@doomtoob]

​@@peterdisabella2156Thanks for them recommendations my man.

[@OZTutoh]

0:52 Oh snap! The Lofi study girl just passed out!

[@Ez-Boi23]

My grades!! 😨😨😨

[@hilary-creator3970]

😮

[@Krachbumm-Ente]

Being a student in Korean is hard

[@kureijiotaku4988]

I think the presence of the very passion of making something spectacular with so little resource and technology is what makes 90s anime hit different..

[@MikeyJ1572]

this is a really interesting hypothesis!

[@giuseppeagresta1425]

Not necessarily I think, some of those were quite high-budget projects It's certainly the case for stuff like the Berserk '97 adaptation tho

[@PhantasmPhoton]

​@@giuseppeagresta1425 Yeah OVA anime had some huge budgets but they expected to sell tapes at the modern equivalent of like 80 dollars a copy with 1-2 episodes per tape. Can you imagine putting 1000 dollars into watching berserk today?

[@doctorcaduceus2672]

I mean, you say "so little resource and technology", but A) These were all high budget films, and B) The 90s were objectively the pinnacle of hand drawn animation. They had all the resources and technology you could possibly ask for.

[@tupll997]

@@PhantasmPhoton Yes

[@Raduldo]

One split of a second, showing Kintaro Oe's ear piece, made this 100x better.

[@patrickholt8782]

Princess Mononoke is an example of everything good about cinema.

[@adonaymacedodovalle3092]

One best of Studio Ghibli

[@danial8989]

​@@adonaymacedodovalle3092even Kiki's delivery same is also good example . Seriously every ghibli movie looks like it has soul

[@Absoluuttinen_Totuus]

It's such a beautiful and creative depiction of what we're doing wrong as a species💯

[@augmenautus]

Miyazaki threatened Harvey Weinstein with a sword in order for them to release the film without any cuts. Harvey backed down. 😅

[@stoyantodorov2133]

And also an example of the worst in regard to how poorly the artists were treated. Still my favourite Japanese film to those day though, so many great and. complex characters. Lady Eboshi is just perfection.

[@guyonbench]

When people say "They don't make em like they used to" This is what plays in my head.

[@marselo1316]

90s anime has grit and some of the more “dirty” aspects and intricacies of real life. Todays anime are leaning more and more towards saturated and sanitized looks that are thankfully getting more experimental but still. Really wish this feeling of realness and grit was brought back coming back to this comment months later I'd add that the "grit/dirt" in the visuals were complemented by the themes, too. not to say that modern anime doesn't touch on real subjects and issues (depression, overworking, finding purpose, etc etc) but subjectively i think the overall aesthetic complements the themes much better than today's anime aesthetic.

[@secretname2670]

Realness and grit are disliked by corporations because they cannot be controlled and tailored to mean something they don't, so they are removed for the sake of making the average viewer think what the author wants, not to think about what the author makes. The problem with todays anime and media is that the author wants to force thoughts into the heads of people, not to cause people to think outside of their heads.

[@marselo1316]

very good insight@@secretname2670

[@ms.pirate]

I just like the animation, colors, art, and dark themes. Also, more love than any current anime

[@ms.pirate]

​@@secretname2670 so, the authors are supposed to be slaves for their viewers? Then where is the love in that?

[@secretname2670]

@@ms.pirate I suggested the opposite, sorry to hear that I am not speaking on your level. It is important to state that I deliberately said that the author wants the viewer to believe what the viewer already does, not make the viewer change their way of thinking. It is by no means slavery, one way or the other. I simply dislike forcing an ideologion onto someone else instead of proving that it is valuable as an ideologion.

[@ferran7119]

I love 90s anime. I love everything about it. The deep stories that doesn't felt manipulated by big companies, the high detailed frames, the static frames, the beautiful backgrounds, the handmade-like lines on the characters, the little errors on the draws, and everything more. It was one of the greatest forms of art on the contemporary era

[@S1xroom]

80s-90s anime is just such a vibe

[@arbaguincci7591]

is your pfp a remake of the xbox 360 one

[@S1xroom]

@ yea

[@professional.commentator]

Damn 90's anime looked so real! It even had that 90's grittiness/urban decay vibe to it. Whenever I watch them, it's like I'm back in the 90's instantly.

[@JC-kl3uc]

90s & early 2000s anime were on another level.

[@billjones642]

00s was when everything went digital, but the technology was still new so it looks extremely outdated now. on average digital anime looks better now than it did in the 00s.

[@sebtheglitch147]

@@billjones642 What about FLCL?

[@TaoHanabi]

There's something so mysterious about this edit. It has to be my favorite thing on the internet. The way it so intensely captures the entirety of "being human" and the human experience, truly fascinates me.

[@IRRIRed]

the problem of modern anime is that they cannot convey the atmosphere of everyday life and everyday life, well, modern anime is dominated by the isekai genre, which even fans of this genre are already tired of.And before it seemed like art, but now modern anime has turned into a conveyor belt and is already more like cartoons than movies. Old anime feels like movies and more vital.

[@dixcy_parashar]

I would mostly agree with you but point out an exception. On the point of unable to depict daily life as an atmosphere, in chainsaw man the morning routine of aki is a great depiction of somewhat modern life, or the morning routines in your name. The thing is due to increase in popularity of anime and the sheer demand of the content has led it to become a huge pool of potential revenue. And with a potential cash cow in sight, production companies just follow the trend of what's most popular and there ends up tons of copies of same material. Earlier in 90s there would be 2-5 copies of same trope, but now there would be 15-25. Also the rise of streaming platforms where all episodes are released all together, all the episodes are needed to be drawn and animated at the same time, leading to coat cutting and reusing same models again and again. Also with cgi, there is no room for an error which used to be in 90s anime, an human error or irregularities in animation here or there, which you noticed but chose to ignore as a minor hiccup, made you feel that the product you're watching was made by a human. I am hopeful in future there will be a new trend of animation and we will look back at the present anime in different type of nostalgia

[@Skullbrothers]

so you dont watch slice of life anime?

[@animetamila7819]

Sure ignore every other genres 😊

[@GuremaManaba]

At least the modern anime took inspiration from the past, before the fanservice and harem of anime, try watch DNA² anime, that anime also had a 2008 flash game from Newgrounds called "SimGirls", a game tribute to the anime with a "twist"...

[@christianweibrecht6555]

This era had Isekai, difference is that back then it was girls going to the spirit or an actual fantasy world Instead of boys entering a JRPG

[@john80944]

Nicely done. Now I'm going to loop this about 1000 times to imprint this into my soul.

[@micow9951]

Old anime had more soul in its art Anime is still good and there are still good stories and animation today, but there's something about hand drawn animation that gives it more soul and more depth you can feel the effort in the details it had more personality and its beautiful aesthetics not to mention it's very nostalgic Old anime had an air of mystery in its art and a darkness that it shies away from today And one small criteria that is special for me where new anime can never win is drawing sunsets they used to do it so beautifully, every sunset in old anime was worth staring at

[@j.LuciusLark]

The difference between having years to make a project and couple months or year to make a whole 12 episodes, meanwhile doing other projects at the same time... :(

[@adonaymacedodovalle3092]

All cultural media are having the same problem. Older musics and movies have much more profundity than current ones.

[@dinorexy0078]

​@@j.LuciusLarkbruh it is their fault,now days studios only meant for milking the shit out from a single anime,I mean just look at the aot and many other new episodes but there are some exception of course but there isn't the passion, feeling at least I saw in new anime unlike 2000s even before 2017,it's all started with Kyoto ig

[@zobrowkowiec4731]

I agree. I currently watch ranma 1/2 and every sunset is very beautiful

[@jacob133]

It's almost like the anime back then was animated as in life put in it like the word reanimated

[@BaconBalling]

its insane how hard they tired to get the 3d to work and they did surprisingly well compared to current times

[@_kawaii_kowai_Kun.2004]

You can't imagine how much Neon Genesis Evangelion means to me. otherwise my favorites are GTN and Serial experiments lain

[@ElysianationTTV]

yes i can

[@admin-morres007]

How?

[@SelimMeric-le2eg]

Evangelion is a masterpice

[@roccobot]

Eva is life

[@rodrigonunez9451]

Evangelion is literally my religion

[@fish-kt4iq]

I rarely experience nostalgia but this gave me flashbacks of my childhood.

[@Nico1300]

90s anime artstyle ages sooo good. it just looks clean af, while keeping everything authentic, not gonna lie some modern popular show look worse than anime back then.

[@gbat]

some? Almost everyone. And have to mention this isekai shit and amount of mediocre every year.

[@Snooshy]

@@gbatI want what ur smoking 😅😂

[@ilikepancakes2368]

What I like about 90s anime is also how the characters sometimes look like actual people with each character having their own unique facial and body features. Nowadays, anime characters literally look like a copy and paste versions of each other with different hairstyles and colors. Plus, 90s anime always had series with meaning and depth while modern anime is just about awkward boys deciding who is the best girl in their harems.

[@amuroray9115]

@@ilikepancakes2368watch more 90’s anime. Many didn’t have much depth and looked similar. there’s many anime out there to choose from that isn’t harem

[@Snooshy]

Tell me you don’t watch modern anime without telling me you don’t watch modern anime

[@landonmathews6111]

The fact that there was no Berserk ‘97 in this montage is criminal. Apart from that though, pretty sick edit👌

[@Cafferssss]

1000% Berserk 1997 was amazing. the art in the eclipse is spectacular.

[@herohunted85]

Berserk (1997) is one of the best.

[@tommyp7651]

No Berserk..no Samurai X and Rurouni Kenshin?!

[@user-q018]

So true!

[@overman487]

Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop are absolute masterpeices

[@JPmax4ever]

💯

[@portela132]

eva is a masterpiece in animation only, otherwise is pretentious crap

[@drewliveryboy]

The style is just so god damn good. I would watch this all day long. The nostalgia and the feelings these animation styles give off are unmatched

[@Andres-ip5so]

80s - 2000s anime was pure quality.

[@thegodsofinfinite1668]

True and those are golden era of anime those anime create the anime industry

[@Zeep_goblin]

I think we should all give him extremely highlighted commend for stating the names of each anime that showed in 2 seconds of a clip.

[@sashajinky]

the peak of the 80_90s anime's aesthetic can hardly be reached

[@KiraFORTHEWIN]

0:28 Seeing that part in Macross Plus where Sharon Apple looks so defeated over everything crashing down made my heart swell :,) Thank you

[@Scout13]

animes 80s ou 90s passam uma vibe que os animes de hoje em dia não conseguem

[@adonaymacedodovalle3092]

Exato, principalmente nos traços.

[@FloraHarumiArts]

Realmente, quando vejo animes antigos, dá uma sensação de que estou vendo e sentindo algo mais vivo e orgânico

[@murillo1663]

Fora que hj em dia usam personagens e cenários em um 3d barato e feio. Os animes antigos tinham mais dedicação aos detalhes.

[@BayawJ2005]

The Golden age of Anime

[@ulianasustav]

Hello, As many of you have requested, I've added timecodes to the video. I'd like to clarify that the intention behind this video wasn't to feature every '90s anime title out there. It was created for fun, and I honestly didn't expect it to receive so many views. Thanks for your kind words, and be nice to each other : )

[@yusinu6642]

Thank you so much for the anime names. I truthfully didn’t expect them.

[@sofaking1611]

How could you not include Berserk in this masterful compilation??

[@ahmadjundi2578]

Why no berserk 1997?

[@mineralwater6736]

No ONE PIECE??

[@yusinu6642]

@@mineralwater6736 honestly since it kind of is a 90s 2000s 2010s and now a 2020s anime it kind of doesn’t fit in this compilation.

[@MegentaLive]

1:09 THANK YOU FOR SHOWING TRIGUN its one of my favorite animes and needs more attention

[@Dakota-nm8dt]

80s and 90s anime are the fathers of what anime is now

[@Red-Brick-Dream]

And they have a right to be disappointed.

[@shizukagozen777]

Even though I love anime from the 80s and 90s, every decade is the mother/father of what anime is now, not only those 2 decades.

[@badreality2]

​@@shizukagozen777No shit.

[@mrpushrod9279]

As a former anime watcher this hit me with some sweet nostalgia

[@Anika99356]

There's just something about 80's and 90's anime. What an era!!

[@Orestes202]

Beautifully done. Can't even begin to say what memories this bring back. It makes me want to go on a 90s anime nostalgia trip.

[@Schastlivy_Chelovek]

See you, space cowboy

[@sonicfanboy3375]

*Easy come, easy go*

[@KuroHebi]

My favorite era of anime. It is the decade of masterpieces. Handmade animation, stunning visuals, eye-watering storytelling... almost any anime that came after the 90s is standing on the shoulder of giants.

[@clipsforwattpad6999]

So beautiful, nearly crying. I love both old and modern anime but the art of 90's anime. Is just beautiful. Maybe I'm biased due to growing up with "old" 90's anime. This was a great Edit.

[@sabr4955]

They put so much love in this artwork. Miss those times. More emotions.

[@ArunKumar-xd3tl]

The vibes from 80s and 90s are something else 🥰✨

[@Urmom-n1q]

Just wanted to say i love how Only Yesterday scenes are in this edit, i loved that movie and it will always have a place in my heart ❤️

[@patrickholt8782]

I saw a comment from a Japanese guy on a di gi carat video saying “every decade is good but there are some good things only in the 90’s”

[@Peeps7468]

Anime, videogames, movies, and books. I feel really lucky to have grown up in the 90s

[@zam6877]

Damn...I watched this...then I played it again This is some incredible great putting this together The range and the choices you made pushed the experience on new level ...thanks I'm watching one more time....

[@TheTacoTruckSupporters]

End of Evangelion is one of humanity’s biggest triumphs, change my mind Edit: Misspelling of “mind”

[@radicant7283]

It's capital A Art

[@nightmarehous4762]

no

[@danyaljamil1677]

Shinji is one of the best written characters in fiction.

[@TheTacoTruckSupporters]

@@danyaljamil1677 he is definitely up there

[@admin-morres007]

Can I ask you, why you said that ? I'm new

[@tryptaminus]

I was having a rough day, but seeing all these anime that have brought me sm joy made me feel better. Thanks for putting this together.

[@MEMEMEME-dl8ii]

The dark theme and amazing animation in 90s were amazing

[@GarlicAvenger]

Every frame of this I've seen, each show/film that was showcased here. And every single frame is a memory I hold dear, as it showcases an incredible artform. An artform that takes incredible skill and passion to create this level of quality and the dedicated work of many together to make something this high quality. And the fact that it was all done before computers/technology made the job of animation easier. Thats why when new anime is made with the same skill and passion like these, it can and does look even better than these. There is amazing anime coming out every season and every year, but I will hold a special place in my heart for 90's anime. It pushed beyond the previous decades in quality and reached the peak of human artistic creativity, without digital assistance.

[@no-ld6mt]

I love how winderfully animated these are

[@thend4427]

That's 90s anime for u

[@SamTheWhoStan]

@@thend4427nah this is the high budget stuff

[@xandraeon]

Thank you so much for all of the work you did compiling this AND including the credits. I’m so excited to share this!!!!

[@toaquiroh3767]

08th MS team was honestly one of the best vibes for a gundam show I've seen other than maybe Turn-A.

[@atomspalter2090]

I can't express how much I love the style of the clips you cut together here. Great choice of music too. Lovely! Definitely one of my favorite videos on this platform!

[@thenewadventuresofhenry6998]

Japan was going through a massive economic crisis in the 1990s, something they've never truly recovered from. And yet Japanese artists created all these masterpieces for the world to see. Hollywood has ZERO excuses for poorly performing films these days.

[@bandit9686]

only missing berserk

[@BrPerera]

fr. i was looking forward to it

[@doctoroman1374]

And LoGH .

[@bamhamer]

There will never be an era like this. That's where the craft and art of animation peaked

[@Plunderer_9]

"The Golden Era Of Anime"

[@teacupanimates]

seeing Jin-roh again reminded me of that anime, such a great movie, so action filled yet so poetic

[@jackhandma1011]

I like that this video didn't degrade current anime, just purely appreciating old anime.

[@marselo1316]

Yeah exactly. Good and bad media exists in every time and year. Nostalgia goggles really be blinding people

[@mattia1026]

​@@marselo1316 The ratio of good media/bad media back then was much better though. You had less shows being produced, meaning a greater concentration of financial and human resources per project, less hyper commercial garbage being pumped out. Authors and creators could also afford to take more risks because the economy was good and still growing at a good rate, especially in Japan, media weren't as standardised as they are nowadays, and there weren't the tools to analyse the market nor the emphasis on market we have in the modern era, which made for greater freedom for creatives as executive didn't have the suffocating controk they have in the modern media landscape.

[@marselo1316]

@@mattia1026 wow thanks for the insight, i wasn't too knowledgeable on the nitty-gritty of the subject before. Its interesting to see how different combinations of restrictions, freedoms, and societal values can drastically affect the outcomes of creative works

[@miguelcontreras-rivera5245]

90s and early 00s anime will forever be a masterpiece

[@doomtoob]

Absolutely beautiful 🤍. Videos like these make me realise how precious humans are as in how only they are the ones who can capture such snippets in time. Gotta enjoy these till i can. Things don't last forever, especially the good ones.

[@jackfrostingtonerly1891]

I've been getting into older shows recently, and this video makes me want to dig even deeper.

[@joxerthemighty9148]

A nice little homage. thanks for your effort. 🙂

[@aerka0s760]

Thank you for putting all of those in the description, it makes it even better. Good work.

[@def3ndr887]

Never watched old 90s stuff but after seeing Transformers and Cowboy Bebop I realized I was missing out on a warehouse full of diamonds.

[@vincentshadetree]

Having Lain as the finish was a cherry on top. As a teenager when the internet first took off, there was so much information and access to anything you could think of, whatever you were into. It was a time when everyone started seeing what a world with that kind of potential could create 😎

[@ostavastora4693]

true definition of ART

[@Bukhari_Bukhari]

legendary video thanks alot!

[@krisl2838]

Better then modern day, just another level.

[@realityfocus]

I love that you included Utena. 🥰

[@kid_thegamer]

Amazing cut 🤩 This craft tooked a while, thanks.

[@Sherry_Moon2]

This video describes why I love animation

[@Samuil.A]

The quality of all those animations is just so unbelievably good. Its perfect. And somehow, i feel strangely nostalgic to times, in which i wasnt even alive. There wasnt even the idea of my existence.

[@Bluebunny807]

This video is so well made , I love how you added scenes in such way that they feel synchronised Example in 0:09 and in 0:17 (it looks like the white skin is turning into the fireflies)

[@whyisthisnottyping]

Thanks for the anime list on the description you earned yourself a hug

[@BenKIKON99]

_COWBOY PEBOB_ ❤ just made me tear up

[@neelzen9975]

Ah the gracefulness of hand-drawn, cell-shaded artwork.

[@MisatoBestWoman]

I’ve seen neon genesis evangelion and it is a masterpiece I want to watch more 80s 90s anime!!!!

[@ZKuran]

Never have I felt with such nostalgia and equally feeling old...thank you for that

[@JaceyMitchell]

I was born in 2000 but 90s anime is when the art was at its peak. During the 80s you can see the evolution coming, and a huge gap starts forming between the best studios (Gainax being one example) and those who can't quite keep up. Look at some of the mecha anime from the mid-80 and you'll see stuff like Dancouga which looks incredible even today, and Otokojuku which looks like it should be about a decade older, but Dancouga is in fact the older of the two shows by a few years (I love Otokojuku though, it's one of the coolest and funniest 80s anime in terms of story) There's still good anime being made today, but switching away from hand drawn animation has really robbed the art of a little bit of its soul, and character designs honestly look a little bland and boring today.

[@katsuyaki7605]

A lot of great memories in only a minute-and-a-half.

[@henriquecosta6227]

Assistindo esse video, da vontade de assistir todos os animes da década de 90

[@_Tapioca_]

Vim ler os comentários e do nada um Br no meiokakakakakakak Br tá em todo lugar mesmokakakakakka

[@DenisSouza-gc2zz]

​@@_Tapioca_🤔será mesmo

[@guilhermeneves9185]

thank you so much for including the anime sources in the description - life saver

[@thatguy7329]

Me in the 90's, finding an anime: "OH YEAH! IT'S ANIME! THIS GONNA BE GREAT!" Me in 2020+, finding an anime: "Ah... another anime."

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

it means u are growing old.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

​@@QWERTY-gp8fdSeinen is a genre.

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@davidwuhrer6704 its demographic not genre

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@QWERTY-gp8fd I think it's both, but fair. Point is, growing old is no reason not to enjoy anime. Just different ones.

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@davidwuhrer6704 i still enjoy anime

[@Hannah-t5z]

It really makes you appreciate it more when you think of how much time and effort and blood, sweat and tears went into a single scene.I’ve always respected animators for this reason. (Well, 2D, they’re the ones drawing like Mad.)

[@_stickmin]

Wait a second- at 0:18 that is a clip from Studio Ghibli's devastating film Grave of Fireflies-not Cowboy Bebop. It's a great movie but it was one of the hardest movies to watch because it is so sad.

[@cody2630]

This, it's the definition of perfect.

[@Lightmaster5]

Si bien hay excelentes animes hoy por hoy con una animacion epica como Kimetsu No Yaiba, la animacion de antes tiene un estilo que para mi es unico y refleja detalles, un arduo trabajo y unas emociones que los anime de hoy ya no tienen.

[@ezequielblanco8659]

Most of the scenes I did not recognize and I still get the chills. Excellent production.

[@Aiello_]

01:18 That's Macross Plus

[@DeJuanchi27]

You can see and feel the love, passion, and talent of the producers, writers, animators and directors. 😮

[@JoelitoStriker]

What about Berserk and YYH?

[@ianr7014]

Just in case anyone hasn't realized: a lot of these are either from MOVIES, OVAS, the OPENINGS of 90s anime, or were taken from episodes/ with very high production values--so, like all things, most 90s anime had lower quality than this.

[@jusuj5860]

Seeing Trigun in here really warmed my heart, I love seeing appreciation for the masterpiece that it is.

[@KestalDoern]

Showing the 1% of scenes that got money and time poured into it instead of 99% of still images, stiff animation and wonky shit is creating a fantasy world in your head. These kind of videos create a mythology out of something which doesn't need to be twisted.

[@Schultz20]

The skill and standards remain but not the hunger. The 80s and 90s was raw ambition for artistic brilliance, an expression of the author's vision without compromise on limited resources culminating into a true product of love.

[@wamenslot]

More more !!

[@nocturnalsunflower6512]

I almost thought you weren’t gonna include Trigun (which would’ve been fine, from what I understand not _too_ many people know it) but then the small clip of Vash played and it has officially made my entire week

[@Bungewehr]

Forgot Hellsing 1997

[@NERV_HQ]

An unforgettable era.

[@khursheedrind3232]

Name of the show in the clip where she’s white flying with wings holding a guys hand 0:22

[@metalgearexcelsus]

Read the description.

[@luna_nova_09]

According to description, Porco Rosso

[@jessfrisk3585]

its from a music video called “On Your Mark” by Chage & Aska it was animated by ghibli