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Twenty Years Ago: The Best Anime of 1996 (And Some Others Too)

Actually, Those Who Hunt Elves is the originator of modern late-night anime.

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I was surprised that the article missed Evangelion which aired from Nov 1995 through Mar 1996 but maybe that was intentional since the premier was in 1995?

Others from that year that I like that have not been mentioned are Magical project S and Saber Marionette J.

Back then, anime characters still had visible noses, eh?

So probably, the American fans started noticing [the prominent noses in my character designs] with Escaflowne. It’s probably when they first thought about that...the concept of that came originally from shojo manga...Back then, big noses, large noses, was kind of like, the fad, the in thing. But it’s actually a little bit different in the fact that people who like animation...the type of manga that they read is actually quite different from what normal Japanese young girls read. The type of shojo manga that they read is actually quite different. And so, what I was trying to accomplish was drawing for the normal Japanese girls who are reading these shojo manga. Maybe it might be a habit, looking back. Yeah, I think the large noses might be a habit of mine. Come to think of it, I think someone else pointed that out to me before. “Yeah, your noses are actually quite large, aren’t they?” and “why do you do that?” Yeah, at the end of it, maybe it is my habit, my trait.

I was surprised that the article missed Evangelion which aired from Nov 1995 through Mar 1996 but maybe that was intentional since the premier was in 1995? Looks like 1996 was forgettable for anime I like...

And so Sailor Stars was never made available to American fans back then…or even right now, twenty years later, since as of this writing the uncut re-releases are only just now getting around to Sailor Moon S!

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Back then, anime characters still had visible noses, eh?

Pretty much the first thing I noticed when I popped in Escaflowne last night.

This does of course mean that the violent crime rate of Conan’s Japan is several times higher than New York City or Chicago

that weird and unnecessary Kimagure Orange Road sequel movie

All the later spinoffs, needless sequels that can all be summarized by the phrase “Tenchi meets another girl”

Back then, anime characters still had visible noses, eh?

Anime has never had noses like Escaflowne, Escaflowne was unique when it came to noses. 90s noses are small triangles.

The thing about discussing anime of the 1980s is that, relatively speaking, only a small contingent of fans from that era are still active online in anime fan circles to weigh in.

The hyper-kinetic shojo comedy that started on April 5th of 1996 let loose the floodgates for frenetically paced wacky hijinks for years to come, though it'd be a little while longer before choreographed group dance credit sequences would catch on.

Come to think of it, a lot of shojo romance back then featured handsome male love interests who were downright abusive bullies. Why, that one sentence just summarized Boys Over Flowers, also from 1996!

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The thing about discussing anime of the 1980s is that, relatively speaking, only a small contingent of fans from that era are still active online in anime fan circles to weigh in.

But we're clearly the best of the bunch!

Twenty years! The nostalgia hit me like a jackhammer reading this. I'm oooold in anime terms.