Hi a(nother?) jaded 90s kid checking in

[vineomarm]

Hello,

As per title, I am a product of the 90s. Had a vague interest in anime/manga but very little access to it then, living very rurally, and of course pre-broadband internet. My main interests during that time would have been Warhammer 40k, in my earlier teens, before rave music took over for a few years (for better or worse) after that and DJing and such into the early 2000s then the usual University path.

Now in the information age it has been nice to mine the older series which I may have known about then, but not watched, or finding new ones from that era. I have enjoyed a couple of more contemporary anime such as Death Note in the intervening years which younger friends of the time may have recommended to me as 'anime' of their generation. It has to be exceptional for me though to want to try a newer one as the look and feel just aren't the same as those old school 80s and 90s ones I grew up on. I may not have watched many back them but I believe I was aware of quite a few more titles through things like games magazines. Remember those old fashioned things made of glossy paper!? They always felt out of reach to me because of not only the lack of access but also paying £10+ or so for a VHS seemed a waste of money to me for just a couple of hours entertainment. I would have rather spent that on some 40k model or games - oh games I forgot would also have been a large part of my life during that time.

Consoles for me were Sega master system then Mega Drive and then during the latter 90s PC gaming which I have stuck with on and off to this day.

I have started getting into anime again due to my distaste for society in general now. It is funny that I just noticed 'Hikkikomori' under my profile image but that pretty much sums things up for me now! I have had a closing off to society in general and wanting to bask and escape in the old ways to escape from this displeasing dystopian era.

 

[Neil.T]

Hello and welcome!

I'm another one who first encountered anime through games magazines in the 1990s but didn't venture any deeper into the medium until sometime later. In my case, it was the 2010s.

The games magazine of choice for me was Super Play, a magazine that covered Super Nintendo games and a bit of Japanese pop culture. I credit that magazine for sparking my interest in Japan in the first place, so my eternal gratitude to the writers on that publication.

Congrats, by the way. You might have noticed that with your increasing post count here, you're no longer a Hikikomori! You're now a Completely Average High School Student. Dunno whether you consider that an upgrade or a downgrade.

 

[vineomarm]

Hello and welcome!

I'm another one who first encountered anime through games magazines in the 1990s but didn't venture any deeper into the medium until sometime later. In my case, it was the 2010s.

The games magazine of choice for me was Super Play, a magazine that covered Super Nintendo games and a bit of Japanese pop culture. I credit that magazine for sparking my interest in Japan in the first place, so my eternal gratitude to the writers on that publication.

Congrats, by the way. You might have noticed that with your increasing post count here, you're no longer a Hikikomori! You're now a Completely Average High School Student. Dunno whether you consider that an upgrade or a downgrade.

Yes it is fun to watch these old OVA/movies/series isn't it? but also sad when they end. I just finished Armored Trooper VOTOMs.

I don't remember which magazines it would have been for me, probably Games Master as that is the one I recall mostly, though not sure if they would have been in that or it was from some other one. Definitely not Nintendo for me though! I was always a Sega guy. I always wanted to be different to what most people had. That also meant getting the ill fated Sega Mega CD.

I did have a friend who had an N64 at one point though and that was a cool system with good games from what I remember which I think had a short lived run with limited success but a good system which had other, perhaps more marketing related, challenges or strong competition blowing it out of the water at the time.

Console history is fun to look back on too. It is interesting to find out in retrospect what may have caused some console's or also companies' production issues and demise and things like that. Happy Console Gamer's youtube channel has been a great source of entertainment for me for that in the past.

As a fellow old-schooler, or anyone else who wishes to chime in, can you recommend and contemporary anime which matches up to the older stuff? Death Note I have mentioned so far on here as one newer one but I can't say I have looked very hard into what newer stuff might be about as there is still so much older stuff to get through but might be nice to see what modern day stuff of note is on offer too.