Only takes shows I’ve seen into consideration, so maybe one day I’ll do another, more comprehensive one. Make it a collaborative effort maybe?
Whatever, it was fun to make this afternoon.
And Dirty Pair is doubly hilarious to us Star Trek TNG fans. The TNG writers were themselves fans, so there’s a ton of subtle references throughout the show. For example, in the Star Trek universe there is canonically an element “keiyurium” which is, as one might expect, highly explosive.
Dirty Pair has references to TOS in it!
It’s quality Sci-Fi, but the authors being Star Trek fans makes it even better. They probably went :soypoint-1: :soypoint-2: over seeing the show they worked on referenced in TNG.
The art director, Micheal Okuda is of Japanese descenet if the name didn’t tell you and was an 80s weeb. That’s why there’s an Akira class starship and a a bu.ch of other little names from anime here and there which was unusual as hell for a late 80s early 90s American Sci fi shoe
Oh, yeah, Akira should definitely be on this list. As a story it’s iconic, as art the hand drawn, 24 fps frame rate in important scenes is beautiful.
Red Line is another one that’s worth seeing as art. It’s a wild labor of love personal project that took like seven years to finish. The animation is just incredible. Highly stylized, creative, energetic, and gorgeous.
Check the CW on both; Akira is very violent and emotionally heavy, and Red Line has some cheesecake nudity and exaggerated, cartoon violence.