/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I found this great flickr with lots of old paper ads. Give it a look:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atb2005/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ogqjzseqo

Oomori didn't age very well. I wonder what she's doing right now. Last I heard she was a singer full time, maybe she quit, maybe she's dead.

Fuck off sean.

>>11764831
No idea who that is.

Ayukawa...

Shizuka Kudo for most unique singer of the late 80's/early 90's
Momoko Kikuchi for sweetest would marry.
Miho Nakayama for hottest of the 80's
Wink for best duo group.

some of the best idols came out of that era.

Bet this camera would still be a beast today.

I dropped Yawara, H2, Maison Ikkoku, The Kabocha Wine, Sailor Moon, Kodocha and Marmalade Boy.

This year will be different. ;_;

>>11765473
Greatest love story ever told. Everyone needs to watch it.

This site has a bunch of 80s idols and footage links.
fehyesidollica.tumblr.com

tsuzilla.blogspot

for some old albums. many links are old and dead though.

>>11765528
Does this have typical Rumic Shitty Ending (R), or does it actually have a decent end?

Fun fact: Rumiko Takahashi never married, and is now a bitter hag. Rich like a motherfucker though.

>>11765614

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KKzzGn4qndc#t=267

>>11765642
It's shit. Watch Touch or Cross Game.

>>11765614
Now THAT is a bike!

>>11765642

Maison Ikkoku actually did have a pretty good ending. Easily the best of Rumiko Takahashi's works, though I suppose that isn't too difficult.

>>11765642

How hard would it have been to write a good ending for Ranma?

"Tenchi solution. The end."

How do you fuck that up.

I like a big bush

A bit off-topic and a bit on-topic, I'm looking around for some site that has old japanese movies, I want to watch Nobuo Nakagawa's "侠艶小判鮫 Kyōen Kobanzame"

Pic related, it's a scene that got me interested on the movie.

Best idol, Yukifags need not apply.

Where do you buy your old OVAs? I am looking for Namu Amida Butsu wa Ai no Uta. Do any of you collect laser discs? thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqoEpRvqEY

Yukiko Okada is the eternal GOAT.

Yuki Saito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNmiE3GtGQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6okEfNOrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJ9wnhKVbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZ3pAnqig0

Two Yuki Saito NEC commercials

>>11767002
And the image I meant to post

>>11766867
>harlot
You talking shit about best girl?

>>11767008
Nah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS0BIXNRoE4
I like this song.

But 70s and 80s sucked. 90s was good.

Thank you /jp/ person who told me about Yukiko a while ago. Everything about her is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLeQ9HE5Mj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kssI7fhnGXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k78DJI_AHio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDG930h7dIg

Assorted Yuki Saito commercials

>>11766827
Have you tried searching in Japanese in Yahoo.co.jp? There might be something in PD/Share too, but a movie from 1958 you're probably out of luck.

>>11765614
>>11765639
Woah that bike is pretty crazy. Nice find.

i like this thread

Why is she so perfect?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXSOlxjs5e8

Feelio when gifs too big for 4chan.

And now for something different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z5zIFoGcg0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcGhFPIZd0
>>11767085
>hating on the 70's and 80's
how does it feel to have shit taste?

覚えていますか

Just searched for ８０年代 on Youtube.

http://youtu.be/2W_t92q5eoc

These ones are probably from the 90's tho.

Any Eurobeat Otaku here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmWjY0QyrRg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfimOg37cs

Assorted advertisements featuring Yukiko Okada:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjVksz1lQs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1vRiXHGTDw

Some footage of her much publicized trip to Switzerland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDGLfjPp9M

>>11767593
I'm familiar with the genre but I was under the impression that it was more popular in the 90s and early 2000s.

any Japanese 80's live-action shows worth watching?

>>11767614
Sukeban Deka is alright.

Has anyone noticed when watching videos from the 80's that people seem much more happy and amiable? It's hard to explain but I feel like people nowadays are more reserved and wary of other people and their surroundings. Always distrustful, like a pervasive population depression.

The 80's were an awesome time.

>>11767593
I like Eurobeat but it gets annoying pretty quickly if you listen too much to it. Good music to play on DDR, if anyone still plays that these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOXcptkKUDA

A youtube channel with old japanese dramas. I don't know if they're from teh 70s/80s but they sure are old!

http://www.youtube.com/user/zuuan01/videos

>>11767667
late 60s early 70s. but those are only clips and not whole episodes.

if you actually gave a fuck about showa era japan you would have posted a tribute for a fallen hero that we (and by we i mean i) recently lost

but no you couldnt give a shit because youre just a secondary weebaoo that clicks random youtube videos and has no idea what hes posting most of the time. thats why you got no clue who im talking about.

even fuckin /mu of all places had a thread for him. bite your belly button and die weeb asshole!

>>11764755
Just found this music. Quite nice. Ride on Bosozoku.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQV1_cB6gY

Japan was ready to take over the world economically and culturally in the 80s. Then everything went to shit and they've been in an extended recession since then.

The 1980s were truly the peak for Japan.

>>11768630

If you liked 70s folk, I would sincerely recommend Doji Morita, just like her story, the music is tragic but deep, powerful, hard-hitting.

http://youtu.be/4IKXYvD6NFA
http://youtu.be/LrATaqRrGK4

>>11767537
I like that they put boobs in gum commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcdQkla9JE&t=4m55s

>>11768602
Otaki Eiichi was obscure in the west for a reason

>>11768772
I like the girl's dubbed voices. They're so uncanny.

>>11767624
That's just culture in general. 80's was excess and rise of pop culture. 90's was recoil and nihilism (grunge movement). 2000's is a recoil of the 90's is about hedonism and social placement (not being social, but using social traits to further yourself).

>>11768880
>is
You mean was. 2000s is over. it's the 10s now.

>>11768889
>implying the 10s have changed much

It'll take a few years before some big change happens that you can identify the decade by.

Hell, what people remember as the 90's didn't really even start until 95.

>>11768780
he was technically in a sofia coppola film and that's about as mainstream and normie as possible in the west.

Didn't they have plastic surgery back then?
They were so ugly.

>>11768934
banned/illegal like organ transplants. they had to go to some other country to have it done.

俺たちの旅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy3WPxAAX0I

>>11765473
I quite like The Kabocha Wine

岡田奈々

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cjANpDNii0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomKJqdICUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6nAttwf_c

>>11769338

岡田奈々 50才

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pZAKyofl8

>>11769303
The fuck? Why did they ban organ transplants?

>>11769365
it was a religous thing. the law makers of the time were old fashioned so laws were mostly based on japanese religous beliefs. its fairly recent that transplants are allowed in japan. they're rather backwards in things involving the human body.

http://instasynch.com/rooms/dickbutt

Let's 80s, /jp/.

x japan - endless rain - 1989
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXhQ3t-qsoM

>>11769383
I think that a ban on plastic surgery is good because people won't mutilate themselves to fit popular trends. Maybe they're more forward than us.

wow so 80s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=witiRRDz1ts

>>11769577

I like it.

>>11769558
That actually looks pretty entertaining.

>>11769632

Yeah, seriously, imagine having that on electronics lab when in High School. It would've actually been engaging.

>>11769613
rip

>>11767624
I agree with you 100%. Watch this video of a 7-11 in the eighties and just witness how friendly and gregarious those strangers are. Makes you wonder how things can change so quickly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

>>11769632
>>11769558
>>11769658

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNkhFFeo5PQ

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1820712

Yamazaki Masao
http://www.geocities.jp/kitsuda501/y-n.index.htm

use to listen to the sw radio station tanpa.

Was wondering, were you vintage otaku(s) born in those respective eras?
If not, what first got you into it?

>>11770434
I already watched that one, not sure from where. There is also this one in Japan to stay on topic, and it's definitely noticeable:

http://youtu.be/MgDzmTj5tSM

80's were probably the peak for Japan. Hopefully the good times will come back one day, and by good times I mean not having to deal with this pervasive feminism and /pol/-garbage everywhere.

>>11768934
>ugly

What the hell did you just type, you little bitch? You have no taste.

究極超人あ〜る
there's anime ova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHmqNv0rqOc

>>11771269
I'm a 90's kid. I was born in the 80's but I consumed a ton of 80's Japanese entertainment growing up. 70's doesn't interest me that much but there are some songs and artists I like, like this genius:

http://youtu.be/hK1yHqVIpww

Scenery and Mellow Dream are two amazing jazz albums.

>>11771269
I was born in the early 90s but we had a large collection of 70s and 80s movies and albums growing up so my tastes just sort of developed in that direction over time.

>>11765642
>Rumiko Takahashi never married

So I still have a chance to become the boytoy of Japan's richest woman.

>>11768904
Except for American comics, in which what people remember as the 90s is mostly before 95.

>>11771314
You have superb taste.

>>11767455
>>11767248
>>11765614
>>11765442
>>11765528
>>11764923
>>11767467
>>11771657
>>11771197
>>11769558
>>11767624
>>11767598


I love these threads

>>11764923

Isn't she Madoka from Orange road?

http://blog.tatsuru.com/2013/12/31_1454.php

Translate this, weeb fuckfaces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLx6UvzEo8w
>>11767624
>>11770434
it's how things where in the 80's, for the first time in decades people had cash to spend.
btw if you're interested in the 80's, National Geographic did a documentary series on it.

>>11771269
No.
I was I was born earlier...

>>11771269
>pluralizing Japanese
born in the 90's but don't feel any special attraction to it.
Also don't confuse me for some idiot that thinks that the present is somehow inferior to the 80's.

No one in this thread knows how to properly use an apostrophe when referring to decades. :(

>>11772079
80s? 80's? I didn't realize.

>>11772079
that used to kill the server database. guess old habits die hard. plus its an extra keystoke.

>>11768602
was the thread archived? it's nice to know he got some recognition on /mu/. Happy End put those 4 guys on the map, in particular Ohtaki & Hosono.

>>11772331
It's '80s, a shortening of 1980s. You use the apostrophe to mark the omitted part.

It's more or less fine to not use the apostrophe at all, but it's not fine at all to put it after the number. The s at the end is just a pluralizing ending. There exists a possessive ending 's, and you could theoretically use it to justify writing "80's", but it's singular, so "80's thread" would instead be a thread belonging/related to (the year) 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6o4GWFIV8

required for the thread

Golden age of tokusatsu

>>11774905
'60s is the golden age.

>>11774822
never mind, found it.

this is what a kids allowance use to go to before the anime/idol stuff

>>11767598
fucking Yasushi

>>11774905

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaRVIRRAoVQ

Big sexy.

>>11774919
Do you mind sharing the link?

>>11775113
tfw no idol waifu...

>>11768904
Everyone is NEET.
Socialist uprising.
Calling it.

Are there any animes from the '80s/'90s era that you guys can recommend as a definitely must-watch?

>>11777736

Here are some popular shows of the time: Super Dimension Fortress - Macross, Maho no Princess Minky Momo, Urusei Yatsura, The Dirty Pair, Machine Robo - Revenge of Cronos, Kimagure - Orange Road.

You'll have better chances of finding 80's animes if you ask peoples in the 70s and 80s mecha thread on /m/, sometimes we tend to talk about not-so-/m/-related shows.

Anyone collect anime on laserdisc?

>>11777835

I have an LD player, but I don't hane any anime LDs yet.

>>11777835

I have an LD player, but I don't have any anime LDs yet.

>>11777790
Iczer-1, Cream Lemon and Lemon Angel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJD3_6QnsxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMycwLB3T1E

who baseball here

>>11765442
I actually have a Canon A-1. It's in storage for now, but it was a really great camera. Fully manual everything. It's what I learned photography on!

>>11771314
>>11767074
Loving this thread.

>>11765442
>>11778188

nah, the camera to have at that time was the canon ef.

>>11779176
I still want an EF-M. Manual focus camera with focusing aids and an EF mount. AF isn't possible with it at all, despite all EF lenses supporting AF.

>>11775134
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How many Jun Togawa fans do we got in here? I think she's a total badass, and I gotta give her props for simultaneously being punk as fuck AND an idol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c45a1WTr-wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxpylXf5fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpOITIZja30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Igs0clpUQ

>>11779219
I'm a big Jun Togawa fan, too. I loved the Suki Suki Daisuki video, but this is probably my favorite video she's done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFb2U5FbSds
What's your favorite album of hers? I can't decide between Ura-Tamahime or Dadada Ism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcYF8qg5J3Q

MSX-BASIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx30uhoglHk

>>11768656
Oh wow I thought this thread was daad.


Thanks anon

Who here Be Bop High School?
>>11767467
Still using those images I gave you? Classy.

>>11780564
Yeah, I just happened to save them that one time. I'm too lazy to look for stuff myself.

>>11769504
>Dirty Pair

Was 90's actually THAT bad for Japan?
I read that the great recession that we Americans experienced and started 2008 was similar to what Japan experienced in 1989.

I wouldn't be shocked when that spectacular bubble burst in the late 80s caused many jap youth back then to become NEET & hikky and became hardcore otaku for comfort... thus popularizing and mainstreaming the terms NEET/Hikikomori/Otaku to the jap news press.

>>11781453
If the only guy saying this is Eamon Fingleton, then run away.

>>11765528
I started watching that after Christmas. Its good.

>>11769383
>its fairly recent that transplants are allowed in japan. they're rather backwards in things involving the human body.
I remember reading late 90s manga where author decided to cover heart transplants. He mentioned that the whole thing is so new and weird in comments. And went all out with trippy soul transfer craziness with the otherwise normal cop story.

>>11780771
Like, you mean downloading the movies? Thats cool. I have yet to see one, but I did pick up one of the Movie's theatrical release programs. A nice piece to my collection.

>>11781404
God I love Dirty Pair

my favorite 80s books

>>11783025
sausage /jp/

>>11783031
sausage?

Any recommendations for Karaoke songs from this era?

I sang a bunch of 90s stuff and some older stuff like Active Heart (Gunbuster) recently. Older anison somehow feel more satisfying to sing.

>>11783062

The ultimate Karaoke song.

http://youtu.be/DrwbUoZsLEc

>>11781453
It was bad, but it was never ghetto bad. You gotta remember it's Japan. I went to Japan half a dozen times during the 90s, but it was just fine, just more sighing than during the 80s.

>>11783110

HOLD OLD ARE YOU? WOW

OLD MAN

>>11783329
23

I was a kid visiting family. I actually went more than half a dozen times, but I'd be too young to remember or it'd be vague then.

Any cheap laserdisc players?

>>11784843

Got mine for 35 bucks at a thrift store, it is a Pioneer CLD-950, a middle-end PAL & NTSC LD player.

I think you should check thrift stores around your area, you're more likely to find a cheap one in this kind of shop.

>>11783062
You will probably catch a few laughs with this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-POzIrRh0c

>>11783069
Yes.

>>11768904
in music 1991 was the best of 90s.

Picked up 20+ records in Hiroshima this week. I found a lot of cheap 7" singles by Momoe Yamaguchi which isn't too crazy since she's everywhere, but I also managed to snag "Tadaima" by Akiko Yano. I fucking love that album. Also some Maki Asakawa stuff.

(Not my pic.)

>>11784872
That's really cheap. I remeber going online to buy one when they died in 2011 and they were selling for $1000 brand new. I found a really old one at the pawn shop for $65 dollars and was blown away for them asking that much for such an outdated model. I want a laser disc for strictly Japanese movies.

>>11786745

>Maki Asakawa

Good stuff, big fan of Ms. Asakawa myself.

I'm guessing you live in Japan, do you mind me asking, would you know the availabilty of Doji Morita and Angel'In Heavy Syrup records? Maybe Yoshie Kashiwabara?

Those 3 are probably my favorite Japanese musicians and I'm really interested in buying their stuff whenever I manage to get myself in Japan.

>>11786758
I live in Kyushu and there aren't too many record stores that carry Japanese music near me. It's still seen as a DJ-related hobby, so you're mostly going to find club, reggae, and hip-hop stuff around here.

You'll almost certainly have luck with those artists in Tokyo though. Lots more collector-oriented shops there. There's a store in Ueno that almost exclusively carries 70s/80s music. I recall seeing Morita there. There are plenty of other hip places that would carry something like Angel'In Heavy Syrup. Tokyo is the place to be for psych/noise/etc.

>>11786745
Records are my thing. Good buy. Buying Japanese $17 dollar guitarist one who was under the wing of the great ones of America.I'll post it once I get it. Too bad we don't get any other Japanese movie Viynals here. That's my niche.

>>11786771

Amazing. Thanks. I know it won't be a few more considerable years until I get enough funds to make a trip to Japan worth its weight, I feel like I could spend days looking through the record stores, like a child at a candy store.

After all, buying some music is one of the reasons I long to visit the country, that, and meeting with my old Japanese teacher, how I miss that lovable woman.

>>11786803
Disclegend and Discogs are good resources in the meanwhile. Just make sure to order a bunch at once so the shipping rate is worth it.

But yeah, nothing compares to digging by yourself.

>>11786815

Well yeah, I could order them online and have them here by next week, but going over them and having to browse them, taking them to the cashier and everything is sort of a life goal of mine since high school, Japanese music was kind to me during those times, so I want to do that. I'll stop now, since I'm blogging too much.

>>11780771
Who is the girl in your photo? It looks familiar ....

>>11767170
No problem, man. I'm glad to see another fan of hers, the music she made really was amazing. Her death really was a tragedy, I must say.

For anybody that's interested, I had one of her best of compilations in my drawer and decided to rip it for you guys. Here it is: https://mega.co.nz/#!JYUgDIIb!TXjLWywNaio4rR8R6rVILyhwk-EzfoStKkGmdfbRoHk

>>11771810
What game is that?

>>11787485
I do not know!~

>>11787485
Boku no Bible Jikan just kidding it's Kanako-san no Yuuutsu

>>11786912
伊藤つかさ

80s was also the golden age of Japanese animation in the mainstream West

>>11767476
Holy shit, I never thought I'd see the day that somebody on 4chan would know about Wink.

>>11767614
If you like superheroes, I highly recommend the Space Sheriffs trilogy: Gavan, Sharivan and Shaider.

Also Metalder and Kamen Rider Black.

>>11767624
It's partly because Japan was on the rise in the 1980's. There was a legitimate belief that Tokyo would be the city of the future...until the bubble burst and they've been stuck in a recession ever since 1991.

>>11777736
Kimagure Orange Road, Touch, and Maisson Ikkoku are probably the best depictions of 1980's slice-of-life in Japan.

I also recommend Cat's Eye, City Hunter, Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Dougram, and Layzner.

>>11781453
It created a generation of post-high school people that work at dead-end jobs and just don't give a damn about rising high as a worker drone.

>>11788777
So it's essentially like the recession we have now here then? Also isn't Japan still in a recession?

>>11788762
I feel like Akira embodies that really well. '88, grand projects, Neo Tokyo etc and then downfall.

>>11788797
Yes, and the fact that the PRC is gaining more ground economically and recently displaced Japan as the #2 economic power isn't helping.

I remember growing in the 1980's (born in 1980) that everyone thought that Japan would be the next big thing in world affairs, technology, etc. Nowadays, nobody talks about them anymore.

>>11788804
When the bubble burst, there was a ton of construction projects in Tokyo and some other major cities that were yet to be completed. It's a living reminder of the dreams of yesterday being shattered.

>ctrl+f
>no Akina Nakamori
Plebs, plebs all of you.

This is my first time posting in /jp/ and I really like what I'm seeing here. Because the few times I've browsed through this board, it was usually just about waifus. 70's and 80's nostalgia is what one of my key interests whether it's TV shows/films, comics/cartoons, music, etc.

>>11764798
Speaking of '80s idols, Yoko Oginome still looks great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMadEXnbbqo

Also I'd say her voice now is better than it was back in the '80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxOZUseg5OI

I wish I had the chance to be part of an underground psych collective or maybe one of those avant theatre troupes around that time, glorifed NEETdom basically though the latter less so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr_j2dTQeDA

http://youtu.be/WjKxtLEdEOA

I think this would still be hip even for today.

>>11788838
Threads like this are why I even bother to look at /jp/ every few days.

>>11789091

>muh touhou

Guess what you do not define what otaku culture is.

>>11786745
Lucky! I wish I had some of Yano's records. I'm a big time record collector and have lots of Japanese pop and rock from the '70s and '80s (huge YMO-head too).

>>11788886
>Les Rallizes Denudes
This is great. I've heard of them lots before but never actually heard them until now. Really wonderful, thanks for sharing. I'll have to check them out more.

>J.A. Ceaser
Same for this guy.

Here are some of my favourites if you want to know the names just ask.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkhERE3CGSM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVlye2Uzd4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZO9BWUbIw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afQSudmzXo

>>11789564
Is that the diving princess? Her face looks familiar. I bet it is her.

>>11789585
Its yukiko okada.

>>11767593
It is my greatest guilty pleasure.

And only reason I even have the Initial D OSTs.

>>11784843
I looked at laserdiscs on ebay a while back, and my god, there are some amazing covers and box sets for anime even from the late 90s.

>>11789639
I think I likes 90's anime better. the anime now is too "shiny". It looked much better to me in the 90s.

>>11789598
I remember looking up Yukiko Okada stuff on Tumblr and I was actually really irritated that people were doing shitty "oh so artsy the beauty of death" shit with her suicide pictures. Partly because the fact her suicide pictures even exist sucks, mostly because it just comes off as massively disrespectful. There's nothing "beautiful" about her death or anything, she was a fucking kid thrust into the public spotlight, had a mental breakdown, then jumped from a window. It's tragic, not an excuse for your shitty teenage hipster-edge shit.

>>11789659
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think its inappropriate that her suicide pictures are on the internet. I think she should be remembered for her music not her death. I feel bad though because I have seen those pictures too. her death makes me cry so much.

Best '80s idols.

'80s AJW is fucking amazing and watching school girls lose their shit during Crush/Chigusa matches never gets old

I feel bad for saying this but I really dislike the "idols" or japanese singers nowadays they seem so fake. my favourite current singers of now would have to be rie fu or kokia alan or utada.

>>11789653
You could be onto something with the "shiny" bit: using actual cels instead of computer techniques probably resulted in that more matte image quality.

Not Japanese themselves, but they certainly set the stage for future Japanese groups with their amazing concert there in the late 70s.

>>11789689
I like hand drawn anime more than current anime. not too say that there isn't some good computer animated stuff nowadays.

Not Japanese themselves really, but they certainly set the stage for future Japanese groups with their amazing concert there in the late '70s!

>>11789687
But idols back then also had "characters". That's just your nostalgia talking because sometimes those old idols would go on variety shows and said they hated so and so, smoked, drank, and dated during their idol years.

>>11789715
I guess so. but I just cant stand groups like akb48 or morning musume. alot of them cant really sing. that's just my opinion though I feel like no real talent has come forth in a while.

>>11789687
Well it's not like the older idols weren't fairly cookie cutter themselves. For every Momoe or Seiko or Akina there's an endless number of one hit wonders and middling talents that never got anywhere. I'd honestly say Yukiko probably would've been in that list too if she hadn't died but I think she was one of the first idols with that real innocent moe quality where they could make her more of an ingenue type than what was done with Momoe early in her career (where they were really goddamn overt about the sexual aspect) so she probably actually would've done well until the end of the decade. Especially since they were getting big guns like Seiko and Ryuichi Sakamoto to write songs for her.

I guess it could all come down to the musical style in general too and preferring the '80s sound over the current sound. If you like '80s stuff you should definitely pick up Hitomitoi's last two albums (City Dive and Surfbank Social Club) because they're intentional throwbacks the '80s city pop sound and kind of early '90s summery sound respectively and they're both really great (having Ryusenkei and Dorian producing definitely helps).

>>11782609
Dirty Pair is legit one of the best anime ever created. It's also what got me looking into old J-Pop. The OP and ED are obviously great so I started looking up Meiko Nakahara's stuff and went from there.

>>11789687
>rie fu
Word.

>>11789723
http://youtu.be/_P-_X_b2CmE

I think these girls are good singers but they are not really popular. You're right the the most popular aren't necessary the most talented.

>>11789701
QFT

Cel anime was the best.

>>11789736
>Meiko Nakahara
Dance in the Memories from Kimagure Orange Road is glorious.

>>11789715
>That's just your nostalgia talking because sometimes those old idols would go on variety shows and said they hated so and so, smoked, drank, and dated during their idol years.
I guess things were really different back then because idols nowadays obviously wouldn't be able to do that shit (i.e. Ai Kago, Minami Minegishi). Well they might be able to get away with the sex thing when the creep-o producer or manager that's like 25 years older wants some sweet young idol poon.

>>11789746
I guess that IS something the '70s and '80s had over the current day stuff. Akina was (is) a crazy talented singer, could put on a really good live performance, and I like that she had no problem experimenting with her sound. Releasing a pseudo-Cocteau Twinsish dream pop album at the height of your popularity takes some balls.

>>11789748
But to be fair, I'm pretty sure modern animators are much happier with the final results translated from their original concepts.
Dust/scratch damage, improper movement, poor color matching/continuity, and lack of money to create moving backgrounds plagued cel animating studio processes.

>>11789760
Current animation also allows for more movement at a lower budget. I'm sure the Violinist of Hameln would be better animated today. Hell, you can probably do better in Flash.

>>11789760
I don't mind some CGI supplementing and helping out, but I view hand-drawn a lot like the old puppetry and practical effects for live-action films and TV. Computers can't do everything right nor are they able to emulate that certain magic that studios used to do.

>>11789746
I actually kind of enjoyed that song. but all in all I prefer different singers like hebe tian or chitose hajime. two pop artist that I kind of like are lee hi or IU. but they are korean and pretty cookie-cutter also.

>>11789765
Samefag but since I mentioned it, if more than Japan actually cared about J-Pop Fushigi would absolutely be remembered as one of the best pop albums of the 1980s regardless of country. It's Akina + Eurox, sounds really different from everything else that was coming, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPATH01zx4E

I love (thanks to the mixing of course) how ethereal and haunting her vocals sound.

>>11789797
I'm glad someone mention fushigi. it wasn't accepted for its strange sound. I personally really enjoyed the album even if it was kind of experimental.

I forgot to add minako honda's golden days to my video list here you go its my all time favourite =]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWRZSlCCxs&list=FLUto2NXOUjp5thShTKmFBcw&index=3

>>11789809
It basically sounds like Cocteau Twins lite to me which is a good thing; I really love the dream pop/shoegaze/etc. stuff so seeing her experiment with something vaguely in that direction was cool. I think that's why I really like Akina a lot: she wasn't content to coast off of what was working but was more than willing to experiment be it Fushigi's sound, the all-female (I believe) production of Crimson, the rock sound on Stock, Cross My Palm (an English album), etc. she always seemed to be trying new things and wanting to be an actual artist and not just an idol. Didn't always work out quite as well (and naturally went to shit once she tried to kill herself) but still. It's kind of funny, she was pushed as the new Momoe and really ended up being more like her in trying to do her own thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDe_tYo7bP8

Also she might not have been the most attractive of her era as far as pure looks go but goddamn did she have a sexiness that was really hard to match.

>>11789861
shes was pretty good but I think the whole incident with masahiko and her dropping her record lable probably really killed her career. she has been emotionaly unstable for a while now which makes me quite sad.

>>11789869
Is she still? It's really pretty sad. Masahiko was a philandering shitbag and the tabloid press were invasive assholes driving her over the edge to a suicide attempt and SHE'S the one who had her career ruined and was forced to apologize for being "selfish".

>>11789939
I actually don't really know if masahiko was the cause she could just be insane my other suspicion is seiko matsuda was jealous of akina and thus took masahiko there is alot of theories to her suicide attempt but I dont know which one sounds more plausible. her weight has been going down and up. heres the video of akina apologizing. the creepy thing is that shes smiling is some parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQiIYy6DlU

why you fags constantly posting women

>>11789978
I don't see anything wrong with it? I could post guys too but this is a female idol thread.

>>11789985
i was referring more to the cars, i'm not into the guy business, sorry.

>>11789993
well, I don't think this is the right place to be posting cars. Its a music appreciation thread. sorry =/

>>11789667

I mostly remember her of how pretty she was.

>>11790001
o-ok i'm off to /o/

>>11790006
she was very pretty I think that's why so many people adore her. that and her music is tops.

>>11789978
[EUROBEAT]

>>11790017
Yeah, she could actually sing, and pretty darn well at that. Some idol records are just painful.

>>11789949
I thought it was generally that the Akina/Seiko rivalry was a media creation and that both respected/liked one another.

I mean I guess she could just be crazy but I don't really think the idea of Masahiko sleeping around, tabloid invasiveness and contant public pressure driving her to an eating disorder/whatever until she couldn't take it is too farfetched. Especially in Japan where it seems like a guy sleeping around is to be expected or at least tolerated and as far as gender views go it's even today it's fairly regressive, especially as far as female idols go.

>>11790060
The only ones I didn't really like were noriko Sakai and onyanko club. again, that's just a personal opinion.

>>11790077
>>11790017
>>11789667
>>11789809
>>11789723
Yukko lookeed much better with long hair

It probably was. but if shes having problems even now after all this time she should get help. its worrisome. shes a great person and I hope she gets the help she needs.

>>11790060

Yeah, some of her first albums are really good. Yukiko and Kashiwabara are my favorite idols, only ones I can really listen to, not that into J-POP.

>>11790081
I kind of liked the short hair. but I can understand if you don't like it.

>>11790096
Where would Princess Princess fall in the J-Pop/J-Rock category? I honestly think they're kind of underrated. I mean as a rock band their stuff is fairly simple but goddamn if they didn't play it well and Kaori is/was really good at writing catchy, effective pop-rock.

Certainly can do worse as far as pop-rock bands go (i.e. Scandal).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNePIwIFVFw

>>11790052
[mistakes]

>>11790109
princess-princess Is definitely j-rock. (I think?)

>>11790130
I hope this thread doesn't die =[ I wanted to make some friends...

Maison Ikkoku is one of those animes i´ve been wanting to watch for a long time and i always seem to find excuses not to. So, it´s good? I watched Ranma like 10 years ago, and i ocassionally watch a random episode now and then and enjoy it a lot since, with the exception of the ocassional arc, there is not a plot once the characters are introduced. Also, the premise of Maisson.. sounds a lot like Love Hina, which i also liked but i felt dragged a lot in the Anime near the ending

Also, yukiko okada looks a bit like Momoko Tsugunaga, i can only imagine the shock of her death must have caused..
Lastly, any good dramas from that time? what do you think of Mama wa idol?

>>11790285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5Pm-L4r8U&list=PLcM1dPxDrB0njn9_EwqV_JGbHSFZwGNyh

>>11790285
I haven't ever seen mama wa idol. is it any good?

>>11790285
>Also, the premise of Maisson.. sounds a lot like Love Hina

They're nothing alike, Love Hina is your prototypical harem with one guy surrounded by plenty of girls for a bullshit reason. Maison Ikoku is a honest-to-god regular romcom.

>>11789978
GT-Rs were legendary performers, but it doesn't excuse how ugly as shit they looked (and still do to an extent). It's like they took a Nissan mid-90s sedan, hit it with a shovel several times and passed it off as sporty.

>>11790594
>ugly as shit
Says you. I think they're sexy as hell, particularly the R32.

>>11790687
I like them too. -up top-

if i get a gtr will it attract lolis

>>11790694
only if you have candy to give them. otherwise no. lol people on this site are strange.

>>11790702
i have tons of candy

>>11790723
then you are pretty much prepared.

Why is this thread exempt from certain rules? Can I post about 80s lolis here?

>>11777736
Gainax got their start in the 80s as DAICON Film. Watch the DAICON III and IV openings and Royal Space Force. Incredible work.

Hey it isnt fully possible for me to read kanji fully yet, so this seemed like the best thread to post it.

Here is my 1983 Kadokawa (Late 1970's - 80's movie and literature company power house) Legend of the 8 Samurai book. It comes with a great cover with actress/idol Hiroko Yakushimaru in character and other main actors in character on the back riding horses. The book comes with many pages of black and white still images from the movie as reference of imagery effect in visualization. It was a cheap and good find for a cinema collectable piece from the 80'

>>11791346
I'm not really sure how much something like this is worth, but I have a buddy of mine that specializes in this kind of thing so I'm going to give him a call.

>>11791353
Wow. I never would have expected to here t hat. How kind you are. Thank you anon. You could pass my name along if you like too, since there aren't many other pwople who share this sane interest. I'd be interested in sharing with him or hearing about his collection.

ANYONE

>>11791383
Is it a novel form or game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIRUohOqD4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHusymbHdDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNZ3JnUf6SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyXgRdhvztE

>>11791479
Game. Notice the icons on the top.

How far they have gone. And to think that Enix started out making eroge where you raped lolis.

>>11792257
They still hire artists who draw loli rape to do official art for some of their games. It's tradition.

Jun got all the love but her sister none （　´_ゝ`）

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUJTDa6q6F0

>>11783025
what's in them?

>>11792303

Jun Togawa has a sister?

>>11792587
yeah, but she killed herself unfortunately.

Is there a version of this without BRBRBR subtitles?

>>11792730
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20714730

>>11792730
You would either have to try and find a physical copy of the video or ask around.

>>11792758
Thank you

>>11790687
sexy....

>>11793066

I know its not a female idol but does anybody recognize this guy? I heard one of his songs and fell in love. anybody know where to get his stuff? any info on the guy whatsoever?

>>11783025
>>11792335
see for yourself. all 4 of those in these links:

http://www2.zshares.net/x2omx9aom3xb
http://www2.zshares.net/clpzgl2m90ra
http://www2.zshares.net/ido2qi5mn6lv

you'll want to use adblock for this filehost, sorry for the inconvenience

>>11792257
Yes I know those logos well, but they also put them on books too as sign that they run the show with licensing. It also was good advertisement.

>>11793234
Isn't that CP?

>>11793079

Man they really knew how to draw their cars back then.

>>11789473
Funny thing is that I don't even like YMO that much. The only thing I own by them is the Kimi ni Mune Kyun 7".
There's no doubt that the Sakamoto arrangements are a large part of what makes that album so special to me, but Yano's individual talent really shines through as well. Especially on that suite that's just her and a piano.

Chisato Moritaka is my favourite idol.
I guess she wouldn't really be classified as 80's but her early music very much feels like it.

>>11789687
>>11789723
Yesterday's idols were less outspoken and Svengali management had full control of everything and they decided her fate or what she should do next or they wrote the PR.

>no real talent has come forth in a while.
You living under a rock? In this current boom, some idols now break the mold of what defines them, and if you're looking for real talent, try to check out them underground idols.

Heck, someones one of two of Pink Lady comes out of retirement to have a little fun by appearing in a CM.

You need us to do your stuff!

>>11793699
>I don't even like YMO that much

>>11789473
>(huge YMO-head too).
yay!

>>11794052
>Yesterday's idols were less outspoken and Svengali management had full control of everything and they decided her fate or what she should do next or they wrote the PR.
Do you really think that current idols (the big, mainstream ones) are any different? Because from what I can tell nothing has really changed, it's just that idols now how more stock personalities to be assigned and in fact are even more expected to "conform" to the moe expectations of the wota.

Do you really get huge idols who actually do the kind of attempts at doing their own thing that Akina did? Or out and out telling the companies to get fucked and making the music THEY want to make instead of what creepers want like Momoe did?

Speaking of Momoe, why was she so perfect?

>>11795312
Also it's a shame that Junko got caught up with the Moonies. Masako just became an enka singer, right?

>>11795312
I have so much respect for momoe. I think she became a singer to help her family.

>>11766848
please respond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04XzVXALS3M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFOgMP_U-T4

>>11792234
Has this RUDE SEDUCER band done anything else? They're great.

>>11771314
This is great, anything more like it?

I was just visiting /jp/ and saw this nice thread.

>>11764755
>>11765473
>>11766876
>>11767364
>>11771280
>>11780771
>>11789949
>>11790091
Anyone else misses the natural look of Japanese women? I prefer the golden skin tone and the original beauty, rather than today's craze of colored leek hair and pale plastic doll skin. It makes them look soulless and plain.

I'm not really a pro like you guys and this is more towards 90s, but it always gives me a nice retro flash of better times. The kind that leaves you with a bitter sweet heavy feeling in your chest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-0Bag-HL4

>tfw I will never travel back in time to lick her pussy and asshole ;_;

>>11797903
Gotta disagree on the skin tone. I prefer pale, but you're pretty much right otherwise.

While you stay on /jp/, please refrain from >tfw greentext garbage.

>>11797903
>Not doing it in the present

You guys are like otaku timetravelers.

>>11796152
Not as far as I could find out, no. They remind me a lot of early Sex machineguns though, you could check out their first two albums.

>>11798221
yeap!

>>11798535

>>11798692
wwww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk2BGIcasRA

>>11798697
sparky!

>>11798762
^^

>>11798692
floppypunk style!

here's some more of my favourites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrsAP4zUhc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWf4n2Nyn7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmkG0DlRO8

>>11788886
Tenjo Sajiki is probably what I like the most from that time.

>>11798535

>>11764923
A-ayukawa!

Mai waifu.

(Seriously have about $250 worth of posters of her. ...and the low-quality figurine set that cost me $150.)

OVA vs OAV
KOR
AMG vs OMG
BGC
SM
VGA
Starry Eyes, Holy Eyes.
Who Censored Vampire Hunter D?
Anime Hospital.
Okonomiyaki Orgy.
Ranma: March of the pigs.

...just off the top of my head.

>>11801327

A friend of mine had a penpal in Japan who talked about dudes who got together to watch Michael J Fox videos together in the 80s.

Heh, nerds. Not like me, collecting my Psychic Girl Mai comics and writing UY fanfics.

A thing that exists: animepast.net

>>11801941

Heh, WTF. I don't even have that image. Is this because I saged, I wonder?

Image was a geezer-lady from Dragon Half manga in her magical girl outfit. Eh.

>11801946
It's a feature. When two images are posted at the exact same time, they swap places.

Flower Traveling Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtmEFj-NYU

>>11801941
>jpg
>animated

what kind of sorcery is this?

>>11802220

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9oQKSOd-1M

I just watched this

>>11802000

There's not many words to express how I felt towards this album but:

Hot damn.

>>11802531
I'd ride her bean if you have the slightest inkling of what I'm suggesting

>>11791369

I think he was making a pawn stars joke reference.

バンプ

How could I miss this thread for so long?!
Its pure gold. We should do this more often guys.

The third guy singing (Kei Ogura | 小椋佳) wrote this song around '91. In case you want to look up more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vsCdyaIII

>>11795312
>Do you really get huge idols who actually do the kind of attempts at doing their own thing that Akina did?
Depends on how you define "huge". BiS are pretty out there, and they're an "idol" group.

>>11802000
Stunning album, a true classic of hard rock if there ever was one. I have two of Joe Yamanaka's albums - he was a great talent and had one of the best voices in the world, I think (RIP).

>>11801941
That is an Egyptian Panda commercial.

I'm seeing a lot of images in here that I leaked. Here have another.

>>11803351
What a shame.

Miki Imai plus Yoko Kanno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj_64oJxk94

Ichiko Hashimoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrvF8r_K_k

P.S.
i've recently ripped 8 Ichiko's albums. Would be cool If you could make a torrent of them.
https://mega.co.nz/#fm/jEUBVI5R

>>11767085
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6o4GWFIV8

I dislike USA 1970s

but this is from Japan...

>>11805906
That link doesn't work, you need to include the share key or whatever it's called.

>>11805619
is this a game ad?

>>11807060
looks like it