Thread 279910295

How many 70s anime do you need to watch to be a real otaku?

No one that casually consumes extremely old things likes anime

anime peaked in 2000s

>>279910295 (OP)
All of it.

>>279910295 (OP)
Definitely zero

>>279910331
What are you talking about? You people got me on a fucking Time Bokan/Tatsunoko kick.

>>279910504
go back

>>279910295 (OP)
Watch Yatterman, It might be a mindless slapstick comedy, but it is a good break from so many plot heavy shows, plus Doronjo ends up naked a lot

>>279910295 (OP)
Of the anime in your OP
>One is 80s
>One is 70s
>One is half 70s half 80s
Try harder.
Anyways, 70s anime is antithetical to the modern conception of otaku as it is used in relation to anime.

>>279910295 (OP)
None of it

I watched the original Cutie Honey and I honestly thought it was fucking unbearable

>>279910740
>>279910295 (OP)
As an addendum, here are anime that I would consider quintessential, spanning from the 60s to the end of the 70s. Reasoning or episode guides included
>Tetsuwan Atom
Specifically the key creative episodes, your Dezakis and Tominos and whoever else you're interested in.
>Dororo to Hyakkimaru
First TV anime that makes great leaps in pursuit of a form of artistic integrity, like the B&W used for both censorship and as an artistic statement.
>Ashita no Joe
Should be obvious.
>Lupin III Part I & Mystery of Mamo
Quintessential early Lupin, just well rounded and highly influential works in general.
>Ace wo Nerae
>Gamba no Bouken
>Nobody's Boy Remi
>Takarajima
All incredibly significant Osamu Dezaki anime.
>Rose of Versailles
Dezaki and Nagahama work.
>Kyojin no Hoshi
The quintessential Nagahama work.
>Voltes V
>Daimos
>Combattler V
The Robot Romance trilogy, highly influential and significant to the burgeoning 'maturation' of the mecha genre.
>Zambot 3
Also plays a role in this and shows the roots of Tomino's more aggressive stylings as a writer. Adjacent to that are
>Daitarn 3
>Mobile Suit Gundam
Further quintessential Tomino works.
>Moomin (1969, 1972)
>Rocky Chuck
>Apls no Shoujo Heidi
>Dog of Flanders
>Rascal
>3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
>Anne of Green Gables
These are the most significant WMT works outside Dororo to Hyakkimaru of the 60s-70s. It's a lot, but WMT is fairly backloaded in significance- in particular, Heidi, Flanders, and Anne are key works that you see influencing a lot to come (in particular, Anne's characterization holds a lot of influence in later works like Doremi or Princess Tutu, for example).
>Uchuu Senkan Yamato
>Captain Harlock
>Galaxy Express 999
These are the key Leiji Matsumoto adaptations of the 70s and probably the first instance of a stylistically consistent and driven creative mind backing a set of projects.

There's far more works than this, I only offer a mere taste.

>>279910909
I said all that but forgot two anime I initially wanted to include in particular.
Sasuke and Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden. You need to know Japanese for this one, though Sasuke is getting an English BD in October.
Two incredibly important early anime that have been overlooked due to a lack of access in the west. Sasuke is more well known now than it has ever been in the West and that is simply due to a meme clip that got posted a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6qK4i7BpI
1.2 million views, and maybe a dozen people watching that clip know what the show even is because it is THAT unknown in the west.

>>279910504
Good taste. How much did you watch?

>>279910295 (OP)
>How many 70s anime do you need to watch to be a real otaku?
If you've watched one you're already in the top 10%. Top 0.1% if you mean here on /a/.

>>279910295 (OP)
Ain't watching old chinese cartoons to look cool

>>279910740
>>279910909
>>279910949
Ashita No Joe's anime is from 1970
Lupin the 3rd Part 1's anime is from 1970
and the first Gundam anime is from 1979
all of the are from the 70s
OP did use Red jacket Lupin instead of Green jacket Lupin but even that one was from 1977 so they're all from the 70s still

>>279910545
>>279910557
>>279911918

>>279910295 (OP)
>to be a real otaku
If you consume media solely to get yourself some kind of subculture badge, you're a retard.

>>279910795
Shit taste, Cutie Honey is amazing.

>>279910295 (OP)
There is no set goal, just the drive to keep watching. When they click with you, you're in for a good time. Pretty legendary decade.

>>279910909
I watched most of those and loved them, but some of my favorites were Candy Candy, Perrine, Attack no. 1 and Future Boy Conan.

>>279910909
>Gamba no Bouken
>Nobody's Boy Remi
>Takarajima

I've watched most of the others on the list, but I haven't even heard of these three.

sorry but pirating old/new anime doesn't make you an otaku. You need to actually be involved in the culture to have that title

Only one.

>>279912664
What if im just broke? I cant be an otaku?

>>279910295 (OP)
As much as you can stomach
They can get kinda repetitive so it's okay to put them on hold or stop when you've ghad enough

>>279910295 (OP)
watch these

>>279913619
seems like a boring list

>>279913619
There is less than 5 people on this website who have watched all of these

>>279910795
a remake will salvage it

>>279913619
OP said 70s anime
Many of these are post-2000 (not saying they're bad, they're good too)

>>279911918
My point was more that what was chosen wasn't representative of the 70s.
I put Gundam in my list, for example, but it is an anime that 'foreshadows' the 80s, similar to how Doremi started in 1999, but is evidently more a 2000s anime than anything.
As for Joe, that was just Joe 2 in the OP. It's the shot from ED1.
>>279912568
Those are all classic Dezaki titles, show him shifting his stylistic identity from Ashita no Joe and Ace wo Nerae to Ashita no Joe 2 and the second half of Rose of Versailles.

>>279915230
>it is an anime that 'foreshadows' the 80s
I'd argue the spirit of 0079 is very much 70s, and it didn't really carry over into its 80s derivatives. It only 'foreshadows' the 80s in a superficial way, which is admittedly the kind of moronic shit an otaku would obsess about.

>>279910909
>Part 1 and Mamo
>no cagliostro
I know Miyazaki himself says he didn't do anything new in cagliostro that he hadn't already done in Part 1 but I feel like it's too influential to omit.
Also noticing no dynamic planning works?
Also no Cyborg 009? I know it technically ended in 1980, but the majority of its run was 1979.
Is there a reason why this list is almost entirely TV focused? Toeis theatrical output at the time is pretty important, isn't it?
Also no Tezuka beyond Atom?

>>279910295 (OP)
As much as possible

>>279913619
there's so much mid in this chart and i hope the anon that likes to post galaxy angel images reads this

>>279913619
this is a list that chatgpt would spit out if you asked it to recommend old anime

>>279916551
>I know Miyazaki himself says he didn't do anything new in cagliostro that he hadn't already done in Part 1 but I feel like it's too influential to omit.
I don't really view it as too relevant to the identity of Lupin in the original TV anime and the first film. As a more biased aside, I also just don't think it's too interest.
>Dynamic Planning
I should have included a work like Mazinger Z/Great Mazinger, but I don't typically consider them because their works lack as much innate interest when talking about that era compared to the other mecha I listed. Getter Robo in particular is something that is far more interesting as a manga than it is as an anime- could also call that a bias, but I never really saw much in its anime version.
>Cyborg 009
I legitimately forgot about it as well, but it's a hard one to list for similar reasons to Kyojin no Hoshi or Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden since it's a grander reiterated franchise work like Moomin or Tetsuwan Atom.
>Is there a reason why this list is almost entirely TV focused?
The majority of otaku culture and behaviours that came from the era can be pinpointed back to TV anime. Theatrical stuff is important, but a lot of Toei's output could tend to drift away from the more foundational aspects of what began to makeup anime, and that's because they were already an established animation force prior to Tetsuwan Atom in 1963 establishing the groundwork for anime's identity as a separate medium.
>no Tezuka beyond Atom?
Another mistake.

>>279917115
>>279916551
Made a mistake in my post.
>but it's a hard one to list for similar reasons to Kyojin no Hoshi or Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden since it's a grander reiterated franchise work like Moomin or Tetsuwan Atom.
What I was going to write was "It's not fully translated and probably won't be", but then saw you were talking about the 1979 version and not the 60s version, and both are ones I kind of have issues with in that sense.
To be completely honest, there's a lot of anime I would like to list that I wouldn't for various reasons like that. You can't pin down a specific era of Gegege no Kitaro to recc because all of them are good and someone might like the 2018 version, someone might like the 80s version, someone might like 60s. The same is true of Cyborg 009.
Tetsuwan Atom gets away with being listed because it is THE foundational anime, and even then the 80s and 00s versions are far more interesting as individual works disconnected from a greater culture.

>>279910295 (OP)
I binged a ton of old shit during pandemic
> Lupin part 1-3
>Getter Robo 1-3
>Ginga Tetsudo 999
>Future Boy Conan

>>279916551
>>279917115
Toei is definitely important. It's good to be aware of the general nature and identity of otaku culture and history. But the idea of a great rift between old Toei and Mushi is not only exaggerated (as far as I know it was a small industry that shared staff and even some ideals despite the clashing methods, that simply fused with a strong inclination towards Mushi, overshadowing Toei's legacy which mattered to the industry even if not to fans) but also greatly impoverishing. Those old Toei works were really good, and there's no need for a fan of anime in 2025 who is already open-minded enough to get into older works to fall into all of the same trappings as an old otaku. In fact we can better judge their legacy now, not just as a strand that got fused into otaku anime but as a predecessor to old Sanrio and ultimately Ghibli. I'm aware I'm arguing against a certain otaku cultural 'patriotism' and nostalgia, that even I might feel sometimes, but I think it's worth to do.
Ok now back to tribal shitposting...