I wanna start watching anime, where do I start?

[pokoko]

KylieDog said:

pokoko said:

Old anime is mostly crap, too.  People just tend to forget things like MD Geist or Eiken.  Actually, thinking back on it, the magical girl era was a lot worse than the moe period.

 

What was wrong with MD Geist?  I've not watched that for about 20 years but I don't rememer anything especially bad about it, just didn't appeal to me.  I mainly remember the asshole moment at the end of the first, then again at the end of the second.

It is worse now as the net means more of bad stuff leaves japan.

I hated MD Geist, it was like watching a bad direct-to-video action film except animated.  It usually ranks as one of the worst ever.

I used to trade VHS tapes online, a lot of the time you'd end up with a bunch of random stuff, much of it bad, so I saw a lot that never left Japan.  I had Tonde Burin on VHS, which is the magical girl anime where she turns into a pig.  The period where you had a lot of stuff trying to be the next Fist of the Northstar was especially awful.  The period where everything tried to be the next Sailor Moon was fantastic in comparison.  At least the ecchi harem era brought in more comedy.