Welcome to the Classic Titles board — home for everything that does not have its own dedicated board but absolutely deserves to be talked about.
Working definition of a classic for our purposes:
Pre-2006. Historically significant. Either directly influential on what came after, representative of its era, or simply excellent and underseen.
Series that belong here:
Cowboy Bebop. Trigun. Outlaw Star. Rurouni Kenshin. Yu Yu Hakusho. Sailor Moon. Card Captor Sakura. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Ghost in the Shell. Akira. Bubblegum Crisis. Macross. Mobile Suit Gundam (the original). Samurai Champloo. Inuyasha. Vision of Escaflowne. The Big O. Serial Experiments Lain. Berserk 1997. Blood+. Gundam Wing.
OVA discussion very welcome:
The OVA format produced some of the best anime ever made precisely because it existed outside the broadcast system. No network notes. No timeslot. No filler arcs. Gunbuster. FLCL. This is the right place for all of it.
Start a thread. Make the case.
Working definition of a classic for our purposes:
Pre-2006. Historically significant. Either directly influential on what came after, representative of its era, or simply excellent and underseen.
Series that belong here:
Cowboy Bebop. Trigun. Outlaw Star. Rurouni Kenshin. Yu Yu Hakusho. Sailor Moon. Card Captor Sakura. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Ghost in the Shell. Akira. Bubblegum Crisis. Macross. Mobile Suit Gundam (the original). Samurai Champloo. Inuyasha. Vision of Escaflowne. The Big O. Serial Experiments Lain. Berserk 1997. Blood+. Gundam Wing.
OVA discussion very welcome:
The OVA format produced some of the best anime ever made precisely because it existed outside the broadcast system. No network notes. No timeslot. No filler arcs. Gunbuster. FLCL. This is the right place for all of it.
Start a thread. Make the case.
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