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NEWS: RetroCrush Streams Cyber City Oedo 808 OVA

In wonder if there's renewed interest in the anime because Hideo Kojima referenced it.

In wonder if there's renewed interest in the anime because Hideo Kojima referenced it.

In wonder if there's renewed interest in the anime because Hideo Kojima referenced it.

Hellsoldier wrote:

In wonder if there's renewed interest in the anime because Hideo Kojima referenced it.

Right on the heels of Cyberpunk as well. It adds up to renewed interest.

I mean when it comes to older classic anime and younger viewer (teen & people in their 20's), they're almost very rare & very hard to find

mdo7 wrote:

I mean when it comes to older classic anime and younger viewer (teen & people in their 20's), they're almost very rare & very hard to find

That's the case with all media; Films, TV, Video Games and I assume novels. How many people in their 20s have seen landmark titles like Lawrence of Arabia or The Godfather. Or played Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy 7(original). Even the people who grew with these titles, won't touch Anime that came before in the 60s and 70s.

There two things that you have to keep in mind. One is that as we move further into the future, there will be more and more older Anime, I wouldn't be surprised if someone in their late teens considers titles like Gurren Lagann and Death Note classics. Two, a lot of them are a hard sell outside of their core audience. I mean no offence to the people who enjoy these titles, but they are pulp material that's enjoyed more as trashy fun, even down to the juvenile dub where they fit in as many swear words as possible.

Regarding the bold & underline part, I expect memorable classics like Dragonball, Naruto, & One Piece to lived on for many years. I expect Evangelion, Gundam franchise, Cowboy Bebop, Akira to be still engrained in every anime fans list of anime to watch. Do I expect Inuyasha, Ranma, Fist of the North Star to get that same love in the future? Well, not that much, I would expect maybe some open-minded younger Gen-Z anime fans to maybe check those out (I know there are Gen-Z anime fans that may have a fascination with older animation).

I didn't explain that right, my fault. I'm not saying landmark titles like Bebop, Dragonball, Evangelion, Akira etc will be forgotten about. I mean 15+ years ago getting the younger generation of Anime fans into the type of older Anime you are talking about, late 80s and early 90s cyberpunk would have been simpler, because at that time Anime after around say the mid to the late 90s would be modern.

At this point in time, the pool of what can be considered older Anime is expanding to the point where for younger people looking back, there's an overwhelming amount of old Anime to choice from, 60s-00s. So even if you can get Gen-Z into older Anime, the odds of them watching certain titles from one specific time frame is pretty low. This isn't to say that none of them will get into them, but I can only see a very small amount.

You are right that at this point in time, there are a lot of Gen-X working in the industry who are influenced by that era of Anime and will promote it. Whether or not they take to them, well that's another matter. And even they will slowly get replaced by Millennials who are more likely to promote Anime from their generation, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo!, Medabots, Digimon(they were the shows that were on TV when I started watching Anime).

Regarding the part I bolded & underlined. It depends on the titles, like for example anything done by Yoshiaki Kawajiri will probably get a Gen-Z's anime fans attention because of the beautiful artwork and character design, no young anime fan I've met would be turned off by it (Ok, there maybe some that would be turned off due to preferences & bias). But my point is that there's going to be a young anime fan that is going to be attracted by older work because of the artwork and character design look unique from other "current/modern" anime today. But I expect there will be some younger anime fans getting curious about past anime.

Also Marshal, were you aware there's been a rise in popularity of Adult animation?

I wanted to add something that I didn't get chance to put on my recent post regarding younger anime fans and older animation especially the 80's/90's anime OVAs I keep talking about on that thread.

I need to mention that although I cited this Reddit thread as a source, it's not 100% definitive and conclusive. You have to remember that I'm basing from the trends amongst younger anime fanbase demographic. But, it's possible we could be wrong and there could be more younger Gen-Z anime fans out there watching older anime from another decade.

We don't have true and real number of younger anime fans that have confirmed they watch older anime. We don't know the true number on that one. I also like to say that there maybe a sizable Gen-Z anime fans out there that don't have ANN, MAL, or Reddit accounts to confirm it, even if we did a survey amongst Gen-Z anime fans, that survey will not give us a definitive & conclusive number out there because there maybe Gen Z anime fans out there that don't have access to that survey to give us real numbers. For me, I have ANN, & MAL account to validate my anime knowledge, & confirmed my authenticity when it comes to anime, but I don't have Reddit (& I have no plans to set up an account in the future).

So yes, it's possible the number of Gen-Z/younger anime fans watching older anime including old anime OVAs could be much higher then we originally thought. Also factor in the popularity of adult animation made in the US, that could lead to those old 80's/90's anime OVAs (the one that are ultra-violent/ultra-gory) finding a new audiences for those hungry for more adult animation that are similar to the one we have like Legend of Vox Machina, & Inside Job and the like of those on streaming services.

In other word, Cyber City Oedo 808, and other old school stuff like Record of Lodoss War OVA, Genocyber, MD Geist, and anything like that could find new life thanks to adult animation's popularity in the US. I expect Yoshiaki Kawajiri's works could find new life today thanks to whatever I just said.

mdo7 wrote:

Also Marshal, were you aware there's been a rise in popularity of Adult animation?

That's two different versions of adult animation with two different audiences. Anime like Genocyber, Angel Cop and Violence Jack are firmly rooted in Grindhouse style exploitation. Where as the current trend adult aimed animation is going for something every differently(which I'm clearly too old to uundertand). Even titles that act as Pastiches of that particular era of Anime, like Blood of Zeus, are too different for there to be a direct bridge between the two.