The thing i loved about 80's 90's anime is how adult themed and mature it was it felt like something you could watch with your dad whereas modern anime makes your dad want to disown you out of disgust
You see how anything going mainstream also completely ruins it? I wonder what that says about most of the population and their tastes. Currently, most animes released are ridiculously shallow, badly written and mainly focused on cheap eroticism because guess what: That's what happens when something is democratized.
@@resonanceofambition This is what happens when the people running mainstream media decide to replace an emphasis on storytelling with an emphasis on activism. It has nothing to do with content accessibility or government form. The media has grown into a mccarthy era cult where either you help push the message or youre the enemy.
@@resonanceofambition most animes released in the 80's and 90's were ridiculously shallow, badly written, and mainly focused on cheap eroticism lol. You just don't know about them because they're all down the memory hole. It has less to do with anime "going mainstream" (anime is far from mainstream, even in Japan) and more about the Japanese anime-watcher's tastes: that's what happens when something has to make a profit.
My Dad still loves these older anime and some new ones. He is in his 50s, I am in my 30s. Lol he watches alot of anime with my brother that he lives with.
@@exu7325 Agreed. If you cherry-pick only the best anime from the past you can push the viewpoint that anime was better then and that modern anime sucks. But the reality is we're just seeing more anime being produced these days and it's mostly hyper-targeted to that niche anime watching audience. There's still some excellent stuff being made, you just need to work a little harder to find it.
@@samueleu6362 Please. Make recommendations? I have a pretty decent anime collection, but it is pretty clear to see, i think, that anime is about 90% nonsense and filth, 8% genre hero, set in a school type stuff (Even something like Jujutsu kaisen is that).... and 2% is the gold that is being discussed here. No? And that 2% gold... we exhausted that a long time ago. I'm always looking... but I love the old 80s/ 90s art style the most, and if theres something in the right criteria, and i've missed it... then please, recommend what you can? I'd not heard of this before for example. Even Guyver has school children for gods sake. ... Whats the one that inspired Inception... I think that was Perfect Blue? No.. Pineapple something? Paprika! That's what it was, it was Paprika... And Paranoia Agent was great. Castle in the Sky was great. Ghost in the shell.. the old Berserk series. Claymore... Whats that serious space one.... Planetes? Not much point bringing up Cowboy Bebop or Ninja Scroll.. Pumpkin Scissors is from the same era at least? Monster is a great, dark sci fi story... But i've not seen much like what is shown here.. Akira and the original GITS and Paprika aside. So hit me..
The Magnetic Rose is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling. The score, pacing, voice acting (even in the dub) and slow reveal of the story underneath are all done phenomenally well. It's easily the best part of the Memories triple feature.
I once played this for my dementia patients and watched it with them, it was also the first time for me and we LOVED it! My old people were saying how amazingly drawn and mature the story was and didn't make them feel like children. They may have forgotten this film already, but I will remember this forever because how they felt watching this part of Memories :) some of them even cried during the scene with the girl and father, even I was tearing up!
Even back then, this kind of production quality only exists in experimental works or anime movies from specific writers (namely Oshii Mamoru and some others.) When you switch to more popular titles that's aired on TV? Boy, it's like being sucked into a different universe all at once.
@HuntShowdownEnjoyer True, I guess studios have transitioned to mostly computer generated stuff because it's faster and more cost-effective. The amount of crunch animators underwent to produce a masterpiece like this would have them literally in a dark room working for months on end. It's similar in the gaming industry, where they're phasing out crunch as well because devs used to have to sleep at their office desks just to get a game out on time, often they were incredible games as a result of this care. It's overall good for the employee to not be worked to their absolute limit, but often just leaves developers/designers/artists taking the easiest route. Everything nowadays is also either a reboot or spinoff too, studios back then took way more chances with their releases even if it didn't follow market trends. Now everything mainstream, including anime, television and gaming are following 1-2 of the most popular trends instead of branching out and doing their own thing to succeed.
If they were drawing on tablets, they didn’t have an autocorrect or something like that like the last 25 years which removes the imperfections and with it, the human drawn line. The hand drawn lines are unique in in their own style. Their organic qualities add up to a more fluid, flowing anime presentation, the action scenes bursting with a dynamic energy that has become sterilized by computers... (of course it depends on whether it is a big, feature length film, or a tv series episode as to the budget at play) But sometimes animé films like “Sword of the Stranger” (2007) and especially more “Redline” (2009) break the mold!
This one really stuck with me. Really liked the salvage ship. Had a real “Alien” feel of truckers in space. The story was solid too. Wish this one got fleshed out a bit more but loved it regardless.
this is actually fairly common for older anime before the industry really kicked off, sadly the industry cutts corners (3d animation instead of traditional or even cell based animation for example) and underpays its artists now a days to turn increasing profits
it's kinda frustrating. we got so many questions whisch will never find answers. yeah the japanese loves mysteries. by example for which purpose an opera singer would build a space station? because she was rich? was it some kind of space concert place? what happened to the wife of Heinz? why him and Miguel haven't seen earlier the corpse of the singer? what purpose serve the AI of her station? what will happen to Miguel and Heinz? does they will be back one day to their loved ones? ok no sequel. big finger to us. otherwise the animations are made by Otomo, the dude behind Akira
One of the coolest things about this, and the other shorts in Memories, is how the shots use zooms and pans the way a physical camera would be used. I find that nearly all modern animation forgets that there are more options than a still frame.
Anime from the 80s and 90s just seem more detailed. They seem like the artist(yes I know its animator, but these things are works of art, I said what I said) put the love and passion for their work into every frame. The writing, the stories, the plot all seem more imaginative, more adult(in good ways). Todays anime is slapped dashed together and it shows.
Man i wish we could get some more heavy sci fi anime like this again. . . The artwork looks amazing with sick level of attention to details. Writing is just clean and straight to the point with great focus on delivering a story. I thought the entire point of digitalisation was that we could keep this level but it became cheaper to make...instead the artstyle in majority of anime got cheaper. And if it happens to look good "like nature shots" its mostly just stock footage that is reused and rarely contains more than one fancy nature scene. . .
Pluto 2023 (Netflix) looks promising. It's not Magnetic Rose but it's very clearly inspired by 80's/early 90's animation styles while using contemporary techniques. It's also giving me 2001 Metropolis vibes, so if any of that peeks your interest, maybe that's something to look forward to.
Incase people are wondering. It's call Memories (1995 film) Memories (also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories) is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film.
Two things you never want to hear when you're all alone in space prospecting asteroids; Getting a distress-call from a deserted cargo ship and they ask for you by your maiden name, or the entry-cycle of your air-lock has just been activated from the outside. Good night!
One of my favorite anime stories. Such a great SF concept and excellently executed. I could easily see this being translated into live action for a full movie.
The part where he discharges his pistol into the robot eva is super clean. Old anime's really were true works of art with amazing stories. I never knew as a kid that I was literally watching during the golden age of anime. I couldn't comprehend as i grew up and kept searching for animes how it seemed like they kept getting sillier and sillier and raunchy. Now i understand.
@@jjcoola998 *Jormungand* *Black Lagoon* (in English dub is the best version, even its creators say that), *Vinland Saga* *Goblin Slayer* (not to be confused with simpler & childish _Demon Slayer_ that rode upon its coat-tails and similar name)... *Planetes* (a great anime that is mature and well written, that is a story less known about ..Space-Debris Collectors at work) *Aldnoah Zero* (has some great emotive music) *Blame* ..& the first series of *Knights of Sidonia* (the newer reworked) *Evangelion* all are fairly mature in story, plot, often in language too (..the first four I listed are classed over 18 for language, plot and more mature graphical violence 7 themes,) often with good to exceptional voice acting and emotive music and all aren't too long their number of episodes to suffer from excessive 'filler' crappy content like many of those series do that go past 48 towards 800+ episodes do.
This is the only 'anime recap' channel I'm actively subbed to because it's the only one I care about. (I went to uni in Aus for 2 years too so uh, that may have something to do with it. I'm from Canada.)
Wow, the animation quality here is shockingly impressive not only for the drawing, but the fluidity of motion… feels like they’re actually animating on twos the whole time or maybe even 1s in some places!?
We will never see this kind of love and effort put into an anime again. I remember growing up in the 90's and just being completely in shock and awe watching these, the magic just isn't there anymore :\
I think this is a case of survivor bias. 1. There are tons of movies coming out that we don't know about 2. We remember the movies of our youth, because those were OUR first impressions of specific themes or settings. 3. Due to nostalgia, its made harder to capture the same feelings for newer movies. I feel you though. Mid-90s has a unique style and feel that's different today. Doesn't mean no great movie will ever come out again, or that kids these days are not developing their own favorites :)
Today anime is too bland... Everything is either isekais, or some sort of school drama. Only a few good ones like Demon Slayer, Overlord, One Punch Man, Dr Stone. Goblin Slayer brough back bit of that 90s anime feel, with the gore, violence, and rape... and yes i said rape... that was a common trope back then, when the bad guys were always actual scum and would try to rape women... think Fist of the North Star, or Ninja Scroll... That reminds me.... Netflix is working on a new adaptation of Bastard! .... let's see how that goes.... P.S. I just saw the 1st two episodes of Skeleton Knight, and to my surprise, theres an attempt of rape in there! And for the record, is not that i wanna see rape scenes, is that i am glad they arent affraid to represent the villains as actual bad people. The fact they have the guts to say: These bandits are scum... will steal, kill and rape woman because they are, well, evil!
This animation was really beautiful. I watched the movie because of this video, did not regret it. The art alone is worth the watch, you can really tell the effort put into this.
The design in this, and many 90s anime, is just fantastic. The costumes, props, mechanics, and ships, all astounding. Was Katsuhiro Otomo involved in this one?
There was this one short anime where a tailor or woodsman was seeking refuge from a storm when he went into a hut. When he awoke he was transported to a different room where a fox lady demon tried to bewitch him. He went through 3 trials before he escaped in the morning. It was beautifully animated…. If anyone can remember this with minimum details I owe them one. Been searching for it for 10 years…. It wasn’t a film, it was a short episode if that helps
I agree with Dixon, it sounds like Short Peace, which was a series of short films that were sold alongside Rinko Tsugikime's (I think that's the name?) Short Peace, which was a side scrolling shoot 'em up. It's a seriously good deal if you can find it.
All the little details put in to each scene as well tell a story of its own, nowadays it's mostly just a copy+pasted digital background with no real character, and its so ingrained in modern anime that you can't avoid it. To make up for the bland animation the writers have to handhold their audience through literally every sequence of the plot, instead of letting the audience form their own perspective on the story. Compare this to alot of modern anime, it's purposely mysterious to make the audience actively pay attention and formulate their own thoughts about the intentions of characters instead of being spoonfed character motivations etc. This is a recurring theme in alot of mainstream gaming and movie industries nowadays as well.
Good god! The animation and artstyle here looks great, I haven't watched this before so it can't be nostalgia, everything just looks amazing... 1:12 The way this shot looks freaking great and how it has so many details while moving... 1:48 We see the character moving through this painting of a background just looks amazing... 3:00 I've watched some animes today, and the debris aren't this detailed, it's random shapes of squares, but the way every scrap here is drawn is just great... 4:33 That dancing animation is just sublime... 7:06 Again, the debris animation here is just muah...
This was my favorite of the Memories DVD, and one of my all time favorite short films of any sort. Animation is phenomenal, and the story is a perfectly executed psychological thriller.
The quality of art and animation here is absolutely superb. Man, I would give anything for anime to be like this again. I hope someone with real talent can take inspiration from what these studios and teams managed to achieve and start making new anime to this level of quality. Crowdfund it if none of the big studios are interested, plenty of people would pay for this level of quality, myself included. I haven't seen an anime that even comes close to this in a long time. The 80s and 90s were an absolute treasure trove of stuff like this, anime was at its best and even in the west we had things like Batman: The Animated Series. Bring back that passion for the artform!
This makes me glad that I have a copy of Memories as well as Robot Carnival, Neo Tokyo, and a few others from that era saved on a flash drive. 😁 They might not be HD copies, but I think that adds to the nostalgia a bit, it lets you watch them like you did all those years ago.
Pass that drive down to educate the new generation when the time comes, they can pass it down in return so these shows are always remembered and hopefully influence the style of future animators.
Beautiful frames of animation, raw gritty but also fascinating rendering pieces of technology and mechanical understanding. Its something we don't even see with modern cg or anything. The imagination of the formed plastic and masking was an awesome feature. It really transports me to what anime can really do. So awesome, it gives me a vibe like nothing else can. That dark gritty nightmarish dream alternate reality. I love it.
12, 15, WOW! 17 or 18 years ago I read a story like this in Heavy Metal. A salvage crew in space follows a distress signal to a huge derelict vessel in the Asteroid Belt. Computer records show it as a mining transport, last loaded with incredibly rich minerals. Half the crew boards the wreck and keeps finding anomalies from other ships. They enter a cargo hold and are attacked by alien globes that absorb and digest a couple crewmates, which leads to them firing at the globes and the walls moving around. The wreck comes alive and grows limbs to attack the salvage vessel, and one crew member manages to get in her spacesuit and escape before her ship/home is consumed. Then the Scylla/ Siren of Space morphs into her ship! She only has 30 minutes of air left so she records a warning for future salvagers, then passes out.
That sounds badass! I forgot how awesome Heavy Metal was. I hope to find a box of them at a yard sale one day because they are pretty expensive to buy separately.
Event Horizon, Sphere, Alien, Pandorum, Titan AE, Sunshine. The list goes on - its a very common premise in Sci-Fi that is recycled and never get's old.
I got memories on DVD in a used disc sale at Hollywood video ages ago. Had no idea what to expect going in, this "Magnetic Rose" was probably my favorite short of the lot. The last short presents an interesting and somewhat depressing commentary on human nature and warfare in a fantasy WWI era setting which I think is also a pretty strong short. Stink Bomb, the first skit was more frustrating than funny, but at least the folks responsible get their comeuppance I guess.
This is such an incredible short film. Absolutely amazing visuals and moments. I don’t think the music holds up. It’s this really loud saxophone jazz and it just feels out of place in some moments. But wow, there are some sequences that feel and hurt unlike any other piece of media I’ve ever seen. It stuck with me a long time. Worth a watch.
It’s so strange seeing old anime. It’s almost like remembering something from another life. They way things are drawn give so much more emotion and feeling it’s unreal.
Omg, I saw this waaay back and I completely forgot the title! I've been wracking my brain ever since trying to remember it and I happened onto your channel by sheer chance. Kudos to you for doing this recap. 😍
Thank you for sharing my fav movie!! this is best korean style animation ever!! This is a masterpiece of Korean craftsmanship and a work of which I am exceptionally proud.
Wow. Anime version of Event Horizon or Solaris! There should be a law in sci-fi shows. Mysterious deep-space distress calls are always bad news. Remember the Nostromo. Remember the Canterbury.
And if you find any kind of pods, eggs or cocoons especially if they are green, glowing or in any way pulsing, then for the love of God and everything Good, Green and Environmentally Friendly *DO NOT STICK YOUR GORRAM FACE IN IT!!!*
But how the hell did she end up in space on a huge derelict ship lost and forgotten in a dangerous zone where she died with a supercomputer that's imitating her ???
I guess that's what happens when the simulation takes over while she was on her death bed? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that this was some kind of homicide-suicide. She could have traveled on her ship right after the funeral, which at that point in time the ship is a luxury possession of the ultra rich. The computer would just take over during an S.O.S. while setting a calming scene in the middle of all that distress like in the movie Titanic. That being said, as time goes by perhaps the simulation loops over and over until someone answers the distress call. The true horror would be the synthetic manifestation. Almost seems like the ships primary objective considering the ship belonged to an opera singer traveling solo... The next step in technology could be autopilot with synthetic simulation integrated into the passenger's head like neurolink. The horror of course lying in a "haunted ship" where nothing is as it seems for the protagonists answering the distress call. But that's my wild guess. What do you think?
@@kingofstrangeness7014 A graphic novel of collected short stories called Memories to be exact, this is the title story. The original author is Katsuhiro Otomo, best known as the writer of Akira, which you probably have heard of.
"Memories", Magnetic Rose Episode. "Memories" still is an amazing anime feature, it brought to light a whole new generation of brillant writers, animators and directors in partnership with "Akira"s Katsuhiro Otomo.
Depends if he had a Transmitter in his suit for emergency situations like this. Pretty sure being sucked into space in a suit is a common enough danger to warrant it.
well the send the coordinates of the sos signal to the official sides. a rescrew ship is most liket allready set. and as Silver hawlscape say. most liket his suit hase a shortrange SOS tranzmitter. on the other side that look more realistic so i assume the filter units of his suit and the oxigen will run out after a few hours. He know if rescrew was send they will not find him fast enough...space is big. So i speculatet He will kill himselfe.
it totally freaked me out when I watched it for the first time after looking for other animes I might like from that era, and the fact that it was from 1995 freaked me out even more because I’m old now hahaha and I was but young boy at that time
Nostalgic. I remember watching this on an actual disc from Netflix, back when they mailed you DVDs hahaha. Seems so quaint now. Thanks for this great recap, read by your own seemingly human voice ❤ it would be especially tragic if this recap were read by a soulless AI, given the plot of the story.
This was so creepy when I saw it as a kid. I thought it was going to be a fun little space adventure, I didn't realize I was watching horror and it disturbed my child self
Damn this goes hard. I wish they kept the genuine detail of late 80s early 90s anime Yeah I know it was painstaking ... bit look at the payoff! It looks awesome and still holds up decades later
It's kind of sus how many of the themes of this film were repeated in the Expanse series. While certainly different, the very beginning is almost a direct copy of the beginning of the series.OF course Memories came first but, still...Also the hallucinations, the love fixation, floating alone in space with no one to help you...All themes and ideas explored in the Expanse later on. I wonder if the creators ever watched this anime? Instead of going dystopia though, the Expanse went more cyberpunk noir.
Imagine being a spirit so alone in the space, but with such a tragic story. Eva needs to open her heart, because she’s refusing to let go of her oast that caused her much anguish. The pain of losing someone so similar to you, but it wasn’t even that. Eva took a plot from Madara Uchiha, the one where he says, “wake up to reality, nothing goes as planned in this accursed world,” and “the most painful thing in the world is not a cut, nor a bruise. No, the most painful thing in the world is watching those you made memories, slowly become memories..”
@@viacheslavlopatskiy2203 yes no yes yes yes yes but… is this not a testimony of a supercomputers loneliness via drifting through space? I mean, look at the symbolism, why a huge rose? Out of everything an AI could build, it chose a rose. I think its because a rose is the front for love and passion, something that the AI could never explore yet yearn for so much. AI’s CAN be curious
Damn, all of this reminds me of a show i saw as a kid back in the late 90's/early 2000's. It was something about astronauts and space monsters, and on RTL II in Germany i guess, but i cant recall details. Just this group of sad astronauts, the tentacle of a spacemonster and i guess in the end the rocket flew with an heroic suicide astrenout which made the others cry. If someone recalls the show... LET ME KNOW PLEASE THIS HAUNTS ME FOR 20 YEARS NOW!
Surely you can't be talking about LEXX? Certainly had plenty of monsters in it. The main characters were on an organic spaceship that eats planets. The last episode features pretty much what you just described. Said heroic suicide guy was basically riding a bomb. th-cam.com/video/W21ulYjXn08/w-d-xo.html This is the ending of the last season with this scene.
the writer for this film is Kon Satoshi, only for Magnetic Rose tho. that's why the other ones look mediocre. i truly suggest checking his other films, they're very great. too bad he left us too early. edit: in case you don't know, Kon Satoshi is the one behind Paprika, Perfect Blue, and Millennium Actress. the way he blended reality and illusion is so mesmerizing and beautiful. i read the original manga of Magnetic Rose, it is.. fine, but not too special. in his hand, that manga becomes art.
The thing i loved about 80's 90's anime is how adult themed and mature it was it felt like something you could watch with your dad whereas modern anime makes your dad want to disown you out of disgust
You see how anything going mainstream also completely ruins it? I wonder what that says about most of the population and their tastes.
Currently, most animes released are ridiculously shallow, badly written and mainly focused on cheap eroticism because guess what: That's what happens when something is democratized.
@@resonanceofambition This is what happens when the people running mainstream media decide to replace an emphasis on storytelling with an emphasis on activism. It has nothing to do with content accessibility or government form. The media has grown into a mccarthy era cult where either you help push the message or youre the enemy.
@@resonanceofambition most animes released in the 80's and 90's were ridiculously shallow, badly written, and mainly focused on cheap eroticism lol. You just don't know about them because they're all down the memory hole. It has less to do with anime "going mainstream" (anime is far from mainstream, even in Japan) and more about the Japanese anime-watcher's tastes: that's what happens when something has to make a profit.
My Dad still loves these older anime and some new ones. He is in his 50s, I am in my 30s. Lol he watches alot of anime with my brother that he lives with.
@@exu7325 Agreed. If you cherry-pick only the best anime from the past you can push the viewpoint that anime was better then and that modern anime sucks. But the reality is we're just seeing more anime being produced these days and it's mostly hyper-targeted to that niche anime watching audience. There's still some excellent stuff being made, you just need to work a little harder to find it.
I miss old anime like this.
Not some super power boy who saves the world with his harem but
Normal cosmic psychology horror movie in anime style
Name?
@Mythic not cosmic psychology horrors, but definitely messes you up a little, but I'd recommend Perfect Blue and Grave of the Fireflies.
Lol just started watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and that reminded me of Hamon 🤣🤣🤣
Superweeb and harem saves world is kids anime. Not their fault for most ppl wandering into the kiddie section.
@@samueleu6362 Please. Make recommendations?
I have a pretty decent anime collection, but it is pretty clear to see, i think, that anime is about 90% nonsense and filth, 8% genre hero, set in a school type stuff (Even something like Jujutsu kaisen is that).... and 2% is the gold that is being discussed here.
No?
And that 2% gold... we exhausted that a long time ago.
I'm always looking... but I love the old 80s/ 90s art style the most, and if theres something in the right criteria, and i've missed it... then please, recommend what you can?
I'd not heard of this before for example.
Even Guyver has school children for gods sake.
... Whats the one that inspired Inception... I think that was Perfect Blue? No.. Pineapple something?
Paprika! That's what it was, it was Paprika...
And Paranoia Agent was great.
Castle in the Sky was great.
Ghost in the shell.. the old Berserk series.
Claymore... Whats that serious space one.... Planetes?
Not much point bringing up Cowboy Bebop or Ninja Scroll..
Pumpkin Scissors is from the same era at least?
Monster is a great, dark sci fi story...
But i've not seen much like what is shown here.. Akira and the original GITS and Paprika aside.
So hit me..
90’s and 80’s anime are just built different
Back when people still could still think
True. The art and the story were more important than projected profits
The golden age my friend
@@ThatShadowPrism its always the early years that are golden.
Like the Internet in the early 2000s
Cowboy bebop
The Magnetic Rose is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling. The score, pacing, voice acting (even in the dub) and slow reveal of the story underneath are all done phenomenally well. It's easily the best part of the Memories triple feature.
This is what I came for a name and this dude delivered thanks hero
@@dedmanzombie glad I could help! I hope you enjoy it!
Magnetic rose and stink bomb are fantastic, cannon fodder is just a bit boring but still animated very well lol
@@hajimekajiura92 all three are great in their own way, and feature such a variety of styles and themes, but Magnetic Rose is my favorite by far.
I thought magnetic rose was the best. Stink bomb was just too stupid.
I once played this for my dementia patients and watched it with them, it was also the first time for me and we LOVED it! My old people were saying how amazingly drawn and mature the story was and didn't make them feel like children. They may have forgotten this film already, but I will remember this forever because how they felt watching this part of Memories :) some of them even cried during the scene with the girl and father, even I was tearing up!
you're doing gods work, you have my respect
What a sweet story.
You'll remember it... Unless you get dementia. If so, hopefully someone else plays it for you as well.
I mean, you can watch it every other week right? They will always enjoy it like they havent seen it before 😏
@@drohnendodo good ending, unlocked! Lol
The old anime styles truly were special and of a totally different breed
90s was the best idk why people call it with 80s because 80s anime had the worst plots lol
Even back then, this kind of production quality only exists in experimental works or anime movies from specific writers (namely Oshii Mamoru and some others.)
When you switch to more popular titles that's aired on TV? Boy, it's like being sucked into a different universe all at once.
Older anime were *_SO_* well drawn. What a lost art form.
The previous generation were people influenced by great drawings.
@HuntShowdownEnjoyer True, I guess studios have transitioned to mostly computer generated stuff because it's faster and more cost-effective. The amount of crunch animators underwent to produce a masterpiece like this would have them literally in a dark room working for months on end. It's similar in the gaming industry, where they're phasing out crunch as well because devs used to have to sleep at their office desks just to get a game out on time, often they were incredible games as a result of this care. It's overall good for the employee to not be worked to their absolute limit, but often just leaves developers/designers/artists taking the easiest route. Everything nowadays is also either a reboot or spinoff too, studios back then took way more chances with their releases even if it didn't follow market trends. Now everything mainstream, including anime, television and gaming are following 1-2 of the most popular trends instead of branching out and doing their own thing to succeed.
Just wait for the generation that grows up with ai. All they’ll be able to do are stick figures.
People had to be real artists back then to make animation, now they have computers that do it for them. More so now than ever with AI..
If they were drawing on tablets, they didn’t have an autocorrect or something like that like the last 25 years which removes the imperfections and with it, the human drawn line.
The hand drawn lines are unique in in their own style. Their organic qualities add up to a more fluid, flowing anime presentation, the action scenes bursting with a dynamic energy that has become sterilized by computers...
(of course it depends on whether it is a big, feature length film, or a tv series episode as to the budget at play)
But sometimes animé films like “Sword of the Stranger” (2007) and especially more “Redline” (2009) break the mold!
This one really stuck with me. Really liked the salvage ship. Had a real “Alien” feel of truckers in space. The story was solid too. Wish this one got fleshed out a bit more but loved it regardless.
This Almost has an Echo/Event Horizon feel to it.
it's dissapointing how the othger animated movies from "memories" arent as good as "magnetic rose"
Planetes has the same feel
Reminds me of Warhammer somehow.
@@NK-qn6pq I can see it.
Even though it's from 1995, the animation looks amazing. The story is pretty intriguing too!
Kinda wish Heinz is able to meet his daughter at the end
Heinz tomato sauce
Actually, he will somehow...
this is actually fairly common for older anime before the industry really kicked off, sadly the industry cutts corners (3d animation instead of traditional or even cell based animation for example) and underpays its artists now a days to turn increasing profits
it's kinda frustrating. we got so many questions whisch will never find answers. yeah the japanese loves mysteries. by example for which purpose an opera singer would build a space station? because she was rich? was it some kind of space concert place? what happened to the wife of Heinz? why him and Miguel haven't seen earlier the corpse of the singer? what purpose serve the AI of her station? what will happen to Miguel and Heinz? does they will be back one day to their loved ones? ok no sequel. big finger to us.
otherwise the animations are made by Otomo, the dude behind Akira
I think it looks amazing precisely because it was from the older era. Different standard.
"Captian! There's a distress call coming from the eroding space station! Should we move in to investigate?"
"You know.... No."
*Good ending unlocked*.
Dead Space, Event Horizon, Prey, Doom, literally countless anything anywhere in warhammer. Nah fuck that they can fire my ass we are leaving.
@@danteellerbe3461 And of course the original Alien.
Same rules as at sea, you cant ignore SOS call
@@danteellerbe3461 in dead space they were fucked no matter what.
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It's so unfair, tho.
It would be like loosing your driver's license because you didn't pick up a stranger on the road
Another Masterpiece touched by Satoshi Kon....... He was taken away from this world too soon.......
Wow he made this too? Man was beyond talented
@@Sol_Protege he write it
This short haunted me for a long while, and is the most memorable of the three shorts from Memories. I still think about it occasionally.
One of the coolest things about this, and the other shorts in Memories, is how the shots use zooms and pans the way a physical camera would be used. I find that nearly all modern animation forgets that there are more options than a still frame.
the new generation never started to care about the art of it and are just stuck in the cheap tricks/fan service being "top tier"...
Anime from the 80s and 90s just seem more detailed. They seem like the artist(yes I know its animator, but these things are works of art, I said what I said) put the love and passion for their work into every frame. The writing, the stories, the plot all seem more imaginative, more adult(in good ways). Todays anime is slapped dashed together and it shows.
90s was the best idk why people like you call it with 80s because 80s anime had the worst plots lol
Man i wish we could get some more heavy sci fi anime like this again. . .
The artwork looks amazing with sick level of attention to details.
Writing is just clean and straight to the point with great focus on delivering a story.
I thought the entire point of digitalisation was that we could keep this level but it became cheaper to make...instead the artstyle in majority of anime got cheaper.
And if it happens to look good "like nature shots" its mostly just stock footage that is reused and rarely contains more than one fancy nature scene. . .
Pluto 2023 (Netflix) looks promising. It's not Magnetic Rose but it's very clearly inspired by 80's/early 90's animation styles while using contemporary techniques. It's also giving me 2001 Metropolis vibes, so if any of that peeks your interest, maybe that's something to look forward to.
@@whataweirdrequirement Oh hell yes that sounds promising
Everybody wants supernatural isekai high fantasy anime now a days
Horror anime is gone
SciFi anime don't hit the same
Incase people are wondering. It's call Memories (1995 film)
Memories (also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories) is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film.
Two things you never want to hear when you're all alone in space prospecting asteroids; Getting a distress-call from a deserted cargo ship and they ask for you by your maiden name, or the entry-cycle of your air-lock has just been activated from the outside.
Good night!
'Shave and a haircut' tapped out on the external bulkhead is also cause for concern.
One of my favorite anime stories. Such a great SF concept and excellently executed. I could easily see this being translated into live action for a full movie.
The part where he discharges his pistol into the robot eva is super clean. Old anime's really were true works of art with amazing stories. I never knew as a kid that I was literally watching during the golden age of anime. I couldn't comprehend as i grew up and kept searching for animes how it seemed like they kept getting sillier and sillier and raunchy. Now i understand.
Yeah i think we must be around the same age as I remember constantly trying to find good amines to watch and most were just shit or soft core porn
@@jjcoola998
*Jormungand*
*Black Lagoon* (in English dub is the best version, even its creators say that),
*Vinland Saga*
*Goblin Slayer* (not to be confused with simpler & childish _Demon Slayer_ that rode upon its coat-tails and similar name)...
*Planetes* (a great anime that is mature and well written, that is a story less known about ..Space-Debris Collectors at work)
*Aldnoah Zero* (has some great emotive music)
*Blame* ..& the first series of *Knights of Sidonia*
(the newer reworked) *Evangelion*
all are fairly mature in story, plot, often in language too (..the first four I listed are classed over 18 for language, plot and more mature graphical violence 7 themes,)
often with good to exceptional voice acting and emotive music and all aren't too long their number of episodes to suffer from excessive 'filler' crappy content like many of those series do that go past 48 towards 800+ episodes do.
The best of the best worked on this anime. Kon, Otomo, Morimoto, Seyama, Kanno. Even the original voice actors are top of the line.
This is the only 'anime recap' channel I'm actively subbed to because it's the only one I care about. (I went to uni in Aus for 2 years too so uh, that may have something to do with it. I'm from Canada.)
@M is for soup I... I'm not Australian, but I lived there for two ye... nevermind.
Weeb weeb weeb
Where from Canada are Youu from eh ?
@@RaisedxFist Saskatchewan my friend!
he make no sense.
Wow, the animation quality here is shockingly impressive not only for the drawing, but the fluidity of motion… feels like they’re actually animating on twos the whole time or maybe even 1s in some places!?
We will never see this kind of love and effort put into an anime again. I remember growing up in the 90's and just being completely in shock and awe watching these, the magic just isn't there anymore :\
I think this is a case of survivor bias.
1. There are tons of movies coming out that we don't know about
2. We remember the movies of our youth, because those were OUR first impressions of specific themes or settings.
3. Due to nostalgia, its made harder to capture the same feelings for newer movies.
I feel you though. Mid-90s has a unique style and feel that's different today. Doesn't mean no great movie will ever come out again, or that kids these days are not developing their own favorites :)
Today anime is too bland... Everything is either isekais, or some sort of school drama. Only a few good ones like Demon Slayer, Overlord, One Punch Man, Dr Stone. Goblin Slayer brough back bit of that 90s anime feel, with the gore, violence, and rape... and yes i said rape... that was a common trope back then, when the bad guys were always actual scum and would try to rape women... think Fist of the North Star, or Ninja Scroll... That reminds me.... Netflix is working on a new adaptation of Bastard! .... let's see how that goes....
P.S. I just saw the 1st two episodes of Skeleton Knight, and to my surprise, theres an attempt of rape in there!
And for the record, is not that i wanna see rape scenes, is that i am glad they arent affraid to represent the villains as actual bad people. The fact they have the guts to say: These bandits are scum... will steal, kill and rape woman because they are, well, evil!
@@NostraDavid2 I didnt watch most 90s 80s anime, but when I tried watching them I love them more than recent animes..
Redline begs to differ
@@tarman123 was looking for this
I love the completely authentic classical paintings with a 80-90s style anime guy standing in front of it.
This animation was really beautiful. I watched the movie because of this video, did not regret it. The art alone is worth the watch, you can really tell the effort put into this.
A work of art from the Japanese is this short, completely drawn and painted by hand.
That was a really sad story, but awesome video keep it up man ! Two in few days, thx a lot !
The design in this, and many 90s anime, is just fantastic. The costumes, props, mechanics, and ships, all astounding. Was Katsuhiro Otomo involved in this one?
This type of anime art style is so mesmerizing to look at even after all these years.
I LOVE the idea of 1800's aesthetic in space. So much so that I, too have taken up this aesthetic in my work. Bring back the old anime styles!
There was this one short anime where a tailor or woodsman was seeking refuge from a storm when he went into a hut. When he awoke he was transported to a different room where a fox lady demon tried to bewitch him. He went through 3 trials before he escaped in the morning. It was beautifully animated…. If anyone can remember this with minimum details I owe them one. Been searching for it for 10 years…. It wasn’t a film, it was a short episode if that helps
Short Peace?
I agree with Dixon, it sounds like Short Peace, which was a series of short films that were sold alongside Rinko Tsugikime's (I think that's the name?) Short Peace, which was a side scrolling shoot 'em up. It's a seriously good deal if you can find it.
dunno about this, but i may suggest one i find very beautifully animated, robot carnival series
Lol Desert Punk 🤣 fox lady demon episode, but obviously not what you were thinking
i remember when dead space came out, it bought back "memories" of watching this as a kid.
Tragic how atteociously animated most modern anime is compared to the classics
All the little details put in to each scene as well tell a story of its own, nowadays it's mostly just a copy+pasted digital background with no real character, and its so ingrained in modern anime that you can't avoid it. To make up for the bland animation the writers have to handhold their audience through literally every sequence of the plot, instead of letting the audience form their own perspective on the story. Compare this to alot of modern anime, it's purposely mysterious to make the audience actively pay attention and formulate their own thoughts about the intentions of characters instead of being spoonfed character motivations etc. This is a recurring theme in alot of mainstream gaming and movie industries nowadays as well.
aight grandpa 😝
Mass produced with no love or passion.
Good god! The animation and artstyle here looks great, I haven't watched this before so it can't be nostalgia, everything just looks amazing...
1:12 The way this shot looks freaking great and how it has so many details while moving...
1:48 We see the character moving through this painting of a background just looks amazing...
3:00 I've watched some animes today, and the debris aren't this detailed, it's random shapes of squares, but the way every scrap here is drawn is just great...
4:33 That dancing animation is just sublime...
7:06 Again, the debris animation here is just muah...
This was my favorite of the Memories DVD, and one of my all time favorite short films of any sort. Animation is phenomenal, and the story is a perfectly executed psychological thriller.
I completely forgot just how cool anime could be. So nice to see something that isn't all cute.
The Animatrix and Heavy Metal are in this style
@@alexojideagu I have Animatrix. I love it.
@@romakrelian Yeh I love that creepy style of Anime. it's scarier than the actual Matrix films.
@@alexojideagu watched that shit for the first time on shrooms. Wouldnt recommend doing that lol.
This is how i would imagine a Ghostbusters anime would be like, but instead of being in space, it would take place in a city
The art style looks the same as the 80s cartoon
Eh, sorry but I disagree.
u doesnt makle sense
@@dusktodawn3796 you cant "disagree" with a fact
You defy logic.
One of the craziest scifi stories I've ever seen in any media, I wish it was longer than 40 minutes.
Lol "even in space we're not safe from corona"
The quality of art and animation here is absolutely superb. Man, I would give anything for anime to be like this again. I hope someone with real talent can take inspiration from what these studios and teams managed to achieve and start making new anime to this level of quality. Crowdfund it if none of the big studios are interested, plenty of people would pay for this level of quality, myself included. I haven't seen an anime that even comes close to this in a long time. The 80s and 90s were an absolute treasure trove of stuff like this, anime was at its best and even in the west we had things like Batman: The Animated Series. Bring back that passion for the artform!
Is it just me or is his voice just so satisfying to listen to
Why does this look so good, the animation etc?
I really love the art style of this anime, I wish it was used more often nowadays
This makes me glad that I have a copy of Memories as well as Robot Carnival, Neo Tokyo, and a few others from that era saved on a flash drive. 😁
They might not be HD copies, but I think that adds to the nostalgia a bit, it lets you watch them like you did all those years ago.
Pass that drive down to educate the new generation when the time comes, they can pass it down in return so these shows are always remembered and hopefully influence the style of future animators.
Hmm... Am interested in knowing the names of the other anime you have in this drive of yours.
That's nice... As a superfan of "Memories", I'm just gonna wait for HD 4K bluray.
I have been trying to find this damn anime again for years. Bless you sir.
80s and 90s anime and even early 2000s anime is just on its own level. Nothing beats it.
Beautiful frames of animation, raw gritty but also fascinating rendering pieces of technology and mechanical understanding. Its something we don't even see with modern cg or anything. The imagination of the formed plastic and masking was an awesome feature. It really transports me to what anime can really do. So awesome, it gives me a vibe like nothing else can. That dark gritty nightmarish dream alternate reality. I love it.
The rawness and grittiness are what I absolutely love about late 80s-mid 90s animes
I feel like beyond the Aquila rift was a love letter to this movie lol such a great classic
80s-90s anime rocks! The stories have something meaningful as regards morals and virtues. And social commentary.
12, 15, WOW! 17 or 18 years ago I read a story like this in Heavy Metal. A salvage crew in space follows a distress signal to a huge derelict vessel in the Asteroid Belt. Computer records show it as a mining transport, last loaded with incredibly rich minerals. Half the crew boards the wreck and keeps finding anomalies from other ships. They enter a cargo hold and are attacked by alien globes that absorb and digest a couple crewmates, which leads to them firing at the globes and the walls moving around. The wreck comes alive and grows limbs to attack the salvage vessel, and one crew member manages to get in her spacesuit and escape before her ship/home is consumed. Then the Scylla/ Siren of Space morphs into her ship! She only has 30 minutes of air left so she records a warning for future salvagers, then passes out.
Sounds like a standard si-fi horror
That sounds badass! I forgot how awesome Heavy Metal was. I hope to find a box of them at a yard sale one day because they are pretty expensive to buy separately.
@@ikasando Never go to the Bay and sail the high seas, that would be bad.
this kind of sci-fi story never gets old
Event Horizon, Sphere, Alien, Pandorum, Titan AE, Sunshine. The list goes on - its a very common premise in Sci-Fi that is recycled and never get's old.
Why does older anime look so soulful
I got memories on DVD in a used disc sale at Hollywood video ages ago. Had no idea what to expect going in, this "Magnetic Rose" was probably my favorite short of the lot. The last short presents an interesting and somewhat depressing commentary on human nature and warfare in a fantasy WWI era setting which I think is also a pretty strong short. Stink Bomb, the first skit was more frustrating than funny, but at least the folks responsible get their comeuppance I guess.
Event horizon vibes + 80s animation = perfection
Imagine this good imagery and more back in those days
It would be nice to see a revival of this anime art style and story telling. CG is cool but this feels so much more tactile and organic.
This is what makes Animes better and different from western cartoons.
This is such an incredible short film. Absolutely amazing visuals and moments. I don’t think the music holds up. It’s this really loud saxophone jazz and it just feels out of place in some moments. But wow, there are some sequences that feel and hurt unlike any other piece of media I’ve ever seen. It stuck with me a long time. Worth a watch.
Magnetic Rose is the shit. this was one of the introductory anime's my dad was like "lets watch this!" wasn't disappointed.
Is that the name?
@@Stitch-mc7pk its from a collection of short anime movies called 'Memories'
One of my favorites. I miss this animation style.
Oh I loved Memories. It's one of my fav classics
It’s so strange seeing old anime. It’s almost like remembering something from another life.
They way things are drawn give so much more emotion and feeling it’s unreal.
Omg, I saw this waaay back and I completely forgot the title! I've been wracking my brain ever since trying to remember it and I happened onto your channel by sheer chance. Kudos to you for doing this recap. 😍
Yeah me too. I remember someone did a nice phantom of the opera AMV using this back in the day.
Thank you for sharing my fav movie!! this is best korean style animation ever!!
This is a masterpiece of Korean craftsmanship and a work of which I am exceptionally proud.
OMG i love so much this old school animation style!!!!!!
this isnt just old school, this is something else.
@@CD-BVL xD
The memories of the 80/90s anime really sticks in your mind.
Wow. Anime version of Event Horizon or Solaris!
There should be a law in sci-fi shows. Mysterious deep-space distress calls are always bad news.
Remember the Nostromo. Remember the Canterbury.
And if you find any kind of pods, eggs or cocoons especially if they are green, glowing or in any way pulsing, then for the love of God and everything Good, Green and Environmentally Friendly *DO NOT STICK YOUR GORRAM FACE IN IT!!!*
Yes. This is a somewhat stolen idea from Solaris.
Genuinely one of my favorites. Magnetic Rose. Man, it was wild watching it for the first time.
I saw this a long time ago... the animation and art style is so good
90s anime movies had it going for them man amazing this and vampire D had nice animation
But how the hell did she end up in space on a huge derelict ship lost and forgotten in a dangerous zone where she died with a supercomputer that's imitating her ???
That's the creepy part.
She isolated herself deliberately, at least that`s clear in the manga version anyway.
I guess that's what happens when the simulation takes over while she was on her death bed? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that this was some kind of homicide-suicide. She could have traveled on her ship right after the funeral, which at that point in time the ship is a luxury possession of the ultra rich. The computer would just take over during an S.O.S. while setting a calming scene in the middle of all that distress like in the movie Titanic. That being said, as time goes by perhaps the simulation loops over and over until someone answers the distress call. The true horror would be the synthetic manifestation. Almost seems like the ships primary objective considering the ship belonged to an opera singer traveling solo... The next step in technology could be autopilot with synthetic simulation integrated into the passenger's head like neurolink. The horror of course lying in a "haunted ship" where nothing is as it seems for the protagonists answering the distress call. But that's my wild guess. What do you think?
@@AbelMcTalisker theres a manga?
@@kingofstrangeness7014 A graphic novel of collected short stories called Memories to be exact, this is the title story. The original author is Katsuhiro Otomo, best known as the writer of Akira, which you probably have heard of.
remember when animation was this wavey . . good times
The details of this art is amazing.
"Memories", Magnetic Rose Episode. "Memories" still is an amazing anime feature, it brought to light a whole new generation of brillant writers, animators and directors in partnership with "Akira"s Katsuhiro Otomo.
that was absolutely fucking beautiful. Love and Robots did a short that was not dissimilar to this, love these both
The quality of the animation. The style.
I wish at least some of the new anime looked this good.
Maximalist anime’s are the best. The details and grittiness ❤
So its not the typical cosmic horror story but rather sad one with a bad ending for the characters. Nice anime.
Depends if he had a Transmitter in his suit for emergency situations like this. Pretty sure being sucked into space in a suit is a common enough danger to warrant it.
well the send the coordinates of the sos signal to the official sides. a rescrew ship is most liket allready set.
and as Silver hawlscape say. most liket his suit hase a shortrange SOS tranzmitter.
on the other side that look more realistic so i assume the filter units of his suit and the oxigen will run out after a few hours.
He know if rescrew was send they will not find him fast enough...space is big. So i speculatet He will kill himselfe.
Hand drawn animation with back lighting is peak animation.
I love this kind of animation gives me nostalgia. Cowboy bebop, evangelion, gundam wing etc.
3:03 the Great and Amazing idea
it totally freaked me out when I watched it for the first time after looking for other animes I might like from that era, and the fact that it was from 1995 freaked me out even more because I’m old now hahaha and I was but young boy at that time
I'm a 21yo zoomer and I keep telling my friends to watch serial experiment lain and ergo proxy.... they call me a boomer fir that lol
Nostalgic. I remember watching this on an actual disc from Netflix, back when they mailed you DVDs hahaha. Seems so quaint now. Thanks for this great recap, read by your own seemingly human voice ❤ it would be especially tragic if this recap were read by a soulless AI, given the plot of the story.
That was beautiful. Please do more retro style anime
Anime from the 80s and 90s is so much better then 90% of the newer stuff.
How do u do these recap?
I can't even make a book recap.
Anyway cool recap i liked it 👍
“You cant even avoid corona in space”
😂😂😂😂
This was so creepy when I saw it as a kid. I thought it was going to be a fun little space adventure, I didn't realize I was watching horror and it disturbed my child self
Damn this goes hard.
I wish they kept the genuine detail of late 80s early 90s anime
Yeah I know it was painstaking ... bit look at the payoff! It looks awesome and still holds up decades later
Loved this trio of shorts. I missed this style of animation
the quality of this anime is outstanding
I watched the whole memories movie,all chapters,I would say the first one,which is this one messed me up psychologically, chapter 2 though
I can’t believe how good the animation is. It blows my mind how clean 80s 90s anime was
It's kind of sus how many of the themes of this film were repeated in the Expanse series. While certainly different, the very beginning is almost a direct copy of the beginning of the series.OF course Memories came first but, still...Also the hallucinations, the love fixation, floating alone in space with no one to help you...All themes and ideas explored in the Expanse later on.
I wonder if the creators ever watched this anime? Instead of going dystopia though, the Expanse went more cyberpunk noir.
Every once in a while, the Memory of this anime creeps back from the subconscious to the waking thoughts and, gods, what an amazing story this was.
Imagine being a spirit so alone in the space, but with such a tragic story.
Eva needs to open her heart, because she’s refusing to let go of her oast that caused her much anguish. The pain of losing someone so similar to you, but it wasn’t even that. Eva took a plot from Madara Uchiha, the one where he says, “wake up to reality, nothing goes as planned in this accursed world,” and “the most painful thing in the world is not a cut, nor a bruise. No, the most painful thing in the world is watching those you made memories, slowly become memories..”
Are you high?
@@oweneldridge9060 I think he's missed the part about the supercomputer)
@@oweneldridge9060 very high
@@viacheslavlopatskiy2203 yes no yes yes yes yes but… is this not a testimony of a supercomputers loneliness via drifting through space? I mean, look at the symbolism, why a huge rose? Out of everything an AI could build, it chose a rose. I think its because a rose is the front for love and passion, something that the AI could never explore yet yearn for so much. AI’s CAN be curious
No, but imagine having a short attention span.
Maybe you should finish watching before trying to sound deep. It makes you seem stupid.
It's wild that most anime nowadays don't look nearly this good
Damn, all of this reminds me of a show i saw as a kid back in the late 90's/early 2000's. It was something about astronauts and space monsters, and on RTL II in Germany i guess, but i cant recall details. Just this group of sad astronauts, the tentacle of a spacemonster and i guess in the end the rocket flew with an heroic suicide astrenout which made the others cry. If someone recalls the show... LET ME KNOW PLEASE THIS HAUNTS ME FOR 20 YEARS NOW!
Surely you can't be talking about LEXX?
Certainly had plenty of monsters in it. The main characters were on an organic spaceship that eats planets.
The last episode features pretty much what you just described.
Said heroic suicide guy was basically riding a bomb.
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This is the ending of the last season with this scene.
Farscape?
Was it an anime?
@@NostraDavid2 Anime or comic, it was drawn and not real, that is what i can recall
@@DGneoseeker1 fits the description and it's a German/Canadian (and partially British) production too.
and this is better than all the modern hollywood movies.
the writer for this film is Kon Satoshi, only for Magnetic Rose tho. that's why the other ones look mediocre.
i truly suggest checking his other films, they're very great.
too bad he left us too early.
edit: in case you don't know, Kon Satoshi is the one behind Paprika, Perfect Blue, and Millennium Actress. the way he blended reality and illusion is so mesmerizing and beautiful.
i read the original manga of Magnetic Rose, it is.. fine, but not too special. in his hand, that manga becomes art.
The animation is incredible.