Forum - View topicThirty Years Ago: The Best Anime of 1988
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Rekishika
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Funny that nobody mentions "Doraemon: Nobita's Version of Saiyuki (movie)" (as it is called in the ANN Encyclopedia) anime#1895. While this would hardly qualify as the "best" anime movie in 1988, it was the commercially most successful one that year.
And "Totoro" was the first (and for a long time last) anime to top the Kinema Junpô's list of best Japanese movies. |
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Lemonchest
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1988 was the year of Ganpachi
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Ouran High School Dropout
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Or Koro-sensei's, for that matter... 
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I_Drive_DSM
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There was some comedy and gag series; mostly forgettable. Ah! My Goddess' manga debut was 1988. Compared to most everything made during that time that's probably the most light-hearted of light heart. I believe Wataru Yoshizumi who drew more well known stuff like Marmalade Boy & Ultra Maniac also had a rom-com series either in 88 or 89. Remember also that in the 80s manga was still mostly piece-meal in that the various titles that were brought to the US were often drastically altered and even colorized (I have a lot of "manga" from the 80s that's done in this manner; it's ultimately more interest material than anything since it often really bastardized the source material). VIZ and later such publishers like CPM & Dark Horse did a lot for manga in the US. It would be nice if ANN would someday do an article on manga before manga really became what it has since roughly the mid to later 90s. It has gone through a very interesting period in the US as a whole in such a very short time period.
Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers, later known as Ronin Warriors in the US in the 90s, was originally released in 1988. When it came state-side in the mid-90s not much was changed from the original Japanese broadcast sans primarily the name and opening & ending sequences. It's a proverbial "classic" from anyone that watched anime during Sci-Fi's Saturday Anime days (if memory serves me right it was shown either directly before or after Saturday Anime's spot for whatever movie was shown that weekend). |
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Alan45
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@I_Drive_DSM
I started buying manga in 1997 and I would estimate that it was closer to 2000 before manga settled down into the current standard of digest sized unflipped graphic novels. I do agree that we could use an article or two covering the comic book era of manga sales in the US. |
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Zeino
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The real winners is terms how well they hold up here are Totoro, Fireflies and Akira. (even if does pale in comparison to the manga) Legend of Galactic Heroes also does as well but... it's ideals are rather fascistic in the light of today. Ask for Char's Counterattack....
Char turning out not to be noble, badass anti-hero/villain as the fandom tends to view him but extremely petty and pathetic sociopath isn't the problem with the film. It's everything else around. The lack of context and explanation for events as is often par for the course with Tomino. (Seriously, where did Char get the people and resources to make a second Neo-Zeon movement?) The terrible Quess and Hathaway subplot that does nothing but eat up screen time and amounts to nothing more then "Isn't tragic that something like Lalah's death is happening YET AGAIN?" and the ending is one of the worst cases of Deus ex Machina ever as well as being vague and unsatisfying in the conclusion of it's themes. It should have been an OVA series and focused completely on the conflict between Amuro and Char with a proper resolution. |
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pachy_boy
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I like Akira, but actually prefer Steamboy--the latter is fun, epic, and told a vastly more coherent story.
Another option would be watching it in the second dub, which is both well done and faithful to the Japanese. If it still doesn't make sense to viewers, that's really the fault of the source material. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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It's not super light hearted I guess, but compared to the other mentioned titles, I'm counting it that there were also a few Bubblegum Crisis OVA episodes that were released in 1988.
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Compelled to Reply
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I assume Daryl didn't include the final chapters of Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku, and the first Kimagure Orange Road movie because they're installments of series which were running for years. Akira began serialization as a manga in 1982, but of course the movie is famous on its own right. Fun fact: Akira actually flopped at the Japanese box office, and didn't become appreciated until home video releases.
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relyat08
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I get that it was the time, but I'm kind of confused why Ebert said they had "eyes like saucers" in Grave of the Fireflies. He saw the movie. They don't. Their eyes are pretty dang normal looking. If anything, significantly more realistic than most American cartoons from the time.
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MrBonk
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Yes this just reminds me I wish we had gotten some translation of the Char's Counterattack novels, especially the alternate take.
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russ869
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YES!! Somebody finish a subtitled version of F, please! I saw the complete series DVD box in a Mandarake while I was in Japan (might have been Shibuya) and was very tempted to buy. |
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