I always come back here. I'm a sucker for nostalgia.

the first AMV created

I only meant to stay a while......

Thank you Jorgel

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That didn't happen he died from a coma...

I hope everyone who comes to this video realizes that this is, by no stretch of the imagination, the MOST important piece of animation under ten minutes long made in the last 40 years. All of the animation techniques and even individual sequences that Gainax became famous for (including the Instrumentality from space scene) are present right here, mature, in this video.

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ohhh joel WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing animation + amazing music = amazing video.

3:47 what a parade... i can't count all the characters here, from batman to mirai no conan's capitain, from suprman to tekkaman's alien ...

if only this were its own anime

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You did. 

could have sworn I saw sun Vulcan in there somewhere

Just about the most japanese thing that I've ever seen.

I'm still amazed at how they managed to animate this so well.

To this very day I have no idea what the hell is going on. But it is awesome anyway.

So this is how Gainax started. No wonder they referenced it in FLCL.

with the original gundam and gundam zeta in mind compared to 08th ms team and 0083: nope

What is utterly mind-bending is that not only was this 100% fan made, it was done in Super 8mm and used no computers! The attention to detail, such as the way her breasts bounce when she flexes her arms (1:55) or the way the tree branches bend slightly when they sprout (3:40), to say nothing of the explosion (3:04), puts some of today's animation to shame.

this was made by the Neon Genesis Evangelion animators when they were in their student days.

It's been a long time.

Is it so bad that I read your comment backwards? I don't suppose you remember what the comment you responded to said?

gunbuster 2 was pretty damn awesome, i dunno why soo many people are all over gurren laggans cock when this show was just as good.

gurren laggan did pretty well, pswg was hilarious, though I dont think they will do anything quite as good as flcl, im speaking in terms of post anno projects.

haruko can.

brilliant deduction sherlock, are there any other logical discrepancies in this video?

weeeelll, not so much. before the internet more people actually payed good money for anime, not so much today. what this meant was that studios had the budget to produce high quality animation, i will have to say 80's stuff seems to have better quality to most 90's works, i still love 90's stuff, I think that decade was the peak for cell animation.

daicon 5 anyone

Before 2000 Quality > Quantity After 2000 Quality < Quantity * I fixed it for you. The 90s had its share of things. 

This is my inspiration peice that continues to make me want to become an animaitor!

moe is the best thing that happened to anime

Uh, it IS the 80s. This short was the opening video for Daicon 4, a convention in Japan in 1983. It's not part of a series, or anything. There IS another short similar to this one, form the previous convention, though.

Sadly, the studio who made this, and the company that now owns this video, never did get the rights to use the playboy bunny image. So they never had an official DVD release of this. There was only ever a laser disc release, in the 80s, and only in Japan.

Mahoromatic is really good, have you even watched it

This is like a love letter to animation in the 80s, please tell me there is more like that.

Animation here is better than most things coming out today.

It has always been Quantity > Quality. You just remember the good things, take off your nostalgia goggles. 

エレクトリック・ライト・オーケストラの｢トワイライト｣を聞いて｢電車男｣(ドラマ版)を思い出すのは普通の人、｢セリカXX｣のCMを思い出すのはややマニア、そしてこの｢Daicon 4｣を思い出すのはかなりのマニアかも。

懐かしい！ リマスター版、作ってほしいです。

I love that show, but like you said, they're real hit an miss. For everyone show like Panty and stocking, we get moe fanbait like Mahoromatic.

I'm sorry, but in no universe could she kick Lord Vader's ass. She's the Ultimate Mary Sue.

Daicon 3 was about the same girl, but in gradeschool. 

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. They seem to be real hit and miss as of late.

Oh Gainax, where did you go wrong...why couldn't you stay like this forever T.T We need more like this again, not stuff like Mahoromatic

not really, more like 2004

The only Twilight I can stand.

Remember when ELO's music was used for awsome shit like this and not for a fucking Jack and Jill trailer?

I mean it started to bend towards that, when it was fully tilted it was around 2000 yes. :P

3:06 : N2 Bombing!!!

no shit shirley, Haruko even yells "Daicon 5!!!" during that part

FACT: This is is the homage that FLCL used for when Haruko was flying on her Guitar in one of the episodes in a bunny outfit.

I didn't realize nostalgiafags had a stick up their ass and it was this bad.

Wow, I didn't think they made a video of Mary Sue in action!

Imaginationland. 

Instead they're fighting crime and evil in playboy bunny outfit. I genuinely don't know which is more retarded.

Looks like you haven't watched much 80s anime.

Maybe if we make it 300 episodes long, people will think it is a better plot!

this has to be the coolest 5 minute video ive ever seen

Yes when they were still amateurs.

When I heard,saw this referenced in FLCL I shat myself!

I just watched a girl in a bunnysuit fight Darth Vader and soar into the sky on a flying sword. Life is awesome.

Can you spell Over The Top?

flcl

Everything old is new again

I think I just acheived enlightenment.

ここから全て、始まった。

FLCL

2:07 is that staryu or am I just being crazy?

The only twilight I can stand.

@Malrune Amen brother.

good times......I WASN'T EVEN BORNwwww

>sdf1 with harlocks ship and the yamato as arms. FUCK YEAR

Ah good ol' 80's anime fanservice, back when the girls weren't all still in grade school.

I have no idea what I just witnessed, but it very well may have been the best thing ever to happen.

I spent my teenage days in Japan through 80's to 90' , when a lot of great animation works were published . AKIRA , Nausica , Royal Space Force , Nadia , Gundam series , DB , City Hunter ... Now I can't help feeling lucky to experience the golden ages of Japanese animation in the same period...

@MrGatoChile That's the "vehicle/car version of "Voltron".

BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS, CHILDREN YOURS WILL BE THE DRILL THAT PIERCES THE HEAVENS

So, in this video we clearly see the point of Gainax - it's FUCKING AWESOME AND IT PWNS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. FOREVER.

No American fanboy has ever come close.

...........AND THAT'S HOW EQUESTRIA WAS MADE!

@ThePirateMD Before 1990 Quality > Quantity After 1990 Quality < Quantity

@ThePirateMD no this was all hand drawn 

@ThePirateMD To be honest, I really wish this was a series, and this was the opening, but no. It has to be a video for a sci-fi convention *AND THIS ONE HAS COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS AND STAR WARS >:O* and no, Even though The creators of this grew up to be Gainax, they still will never have a series like the amazement of the 4 minutes and 23 seconds i've seen today.

@ThePirateMD I don't actually fault the programs more like the companies that push out trivial franchises based on a decent hit or two. Just stick a popular name on it and push out whatever as fast as you can given the aid of the new technology. I have seen computer's actually "aid" as they were meant to , but they have become far and few between. Put the blame where it belongs on those who push out trivial bs for the sake of money. Not for the sake of art and a good story.

I wept manly tears of joy

@sacrisesma I don't believe you understand the value of hand drawn animation. Computer animation fails in comparision with hand drawn animators. Computers can never copy the same emotions as a human. It completely overfathoms my mind how animators can make every motion so organic like there is life in them. When I see computer animated anime I just want to throw up, everything about the story,char,scenes,screen play execution, acting is just so horribly done. Fucking fanservice everywhere.

@HeartlessAngel78 Not just Gainax but,Studio Ghibli ,Studio A.P.P.P. ,Studio Nue,AIC ,Toei Animation etc. and so many that no longer exist.

HERE COMES CHAR!!! ... There went Char...

A playboy bunny in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader. Your argument will forever be invalid.

my god. this animation is so amazing.

@kristell9 Yes,milestone,not "father". You're right.

This video is the father of japanese anime today.

@ThePirateMD A computer can never be as smooth as a human drawn line. Being imperfect has it's positive things.

Same opening that Densha Otoko

Animation quality was mostly shit in the 80s. I don't know why people are talking about this short, technical showcase, like it was the norm back then. If what you like is the blurry VHS look, you can run the new anime through a filter, o transcode it to 50 MB low res realmedia video.

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. Things change dude, deal with it, enjoy the memories, and realize you're making new ones.

When I was a child, this was exactly the kind of media I was exposed to, that I fell in love with. Fun Sci-Fi, with gratuitous giant robots and monsters, space planes and fighters, random bunny girls and great animation and acting. I grew up on Star Wars, Star Trek, Gundam, Outlaw Star, and everything you can think of with the same feel. My childhood, though a decade later, was filled with this video. I can't imagine where everyone that work on this has gone. Where is my Sci-Fi? Where?

As a lover of both anime and ELO, this is one of the most awesome things ever.

@ThePirateMD it's quantity vs quality, series are being mass-produced nowadays 

@ThePirateMD Space Thunder Kids. That is my response to that.

@arsoys Year of my birth. Yet I still recognise a lot of nerdy stuff, granted most are obvious, but some not quite so.

@ThePirateMD That and the desire to see young girls wearing nearly nothing. Yeah, I miss the days of classic anime. It LOOKED better, I think. I liked the grainy look.

Now I finally know what FLCL was referencing when Haruko was flying around on her Guitar in a red bunny outfit :D

@TotemoOishii whoa, whoa, whoa.. hey now. rebuild of eva does not look phenomenal. it looks completely mediocre. It has terrible 3d cg/animation, and not so great hand drawn animation. if you look at the original series, there are many instances where the original has better animation than the new movie.

@ThePirateMD For example: look at the growing trend of re-making or creating new animes in an OVA format. The animation quality is extremely high, and the production company sinking that kind of money into the anime generally takes the time to produce a good story and procure good voice actors as well. Look at Hellsing Ultimate, Unicorn Gundam, or Rebuild of Evangelion. They all rely heavily on computer-aided animation, and they look phenomenal.

@ThePirateMD I would say it has less to do with the computer-aided animation techniques and more to do with the over-saturation of dribbling, mindless options available in the anime world today, coupled with an ever-increasing demand for visual quality and cleanliness. Now the last guy to graduate from animation school can get a job drawing "Magical Schoolgirl for Middle-Aged Hikokomori #3687", and because there is a demand for this for some reason, it will be cleaned up in a computer and sold.

@arsoys Or unless you're a sci-fi/ anime/ history nerd. *cough*

The video is somewhat incomprehensible unless you lived through 1983 and still remember what that year was about, geopolitically.

fuckin cool!! :))

1:12 = best part

That means that at this time, japanese wanted to rivalise with american cartoons. I'm sure it's that !

Weeabo fags always complaining

The world became lazy and greedy. Money money Doomsday close) The Evangelion theme will be opened:P

これを見て当時衝撃を受けて僕はこの業界に入ろうと思ったってくらいこの動画に刺激をうけた。 庵野監督が学生の頃命を燃やして頑張ってるなという凄みをすごく感じた

@ThePirateMD Finally seen someone other than myself say this. Exactly..

2:05 Since when was Angry birds created?

Dang that's a sweet cross-over, getting a serious nerd-nostalgia boner.

@ThePirateMD It's because people used to put effort into making art.

@fattytheking but modern 2D animation that uses computers is also "hand-drawn" - they tend to draw out the keyframes on paper and then draw over them with a tablet. it's not like computers drew the cells in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt or Tatami Galaxy.

@fattytheking the only bad thing that computer use led to is cheap looking out-of-place 3D CG. there's nothing particularly wrong with modern anime; if you actually paid attention to (good) new shows/movies instead of assuming that everything made in recent years must suck you'd find tons of stuff to enjoy, but I guess being optimistic and positive on the internet is bad most shows from the 80s were... not half as good looking as this.

Having been an ELO fan all my life, I just now learned the significance of the song within the anime community. Chills.

ни фига себе ! 0___________0

@ThePirateMD I know, they just dont make them like they used to

dynarobo!

@RabiesBunny why did anime have to become so mainstream?

@ThePirateMD Yes it did, I believe all of this was hand drawn.

I saw SunVulcan!

@ThePirateMD No, it was the recession Japan's economy suffered when the bubble burst combined with the rise of Internet piracy driving down DVD sales that forced animation studios to cut their budgets. Besides, old anime suffered from QUALITY just as much as the new ones do. Does anyone here remember the WIDE Gundam?

Every so often I come back to this video and the robotic voiceover at the start gives me goosebumbs.

@ThePirateMD I assume you only watch funimation anime

SO MANY THINGS HAPPENING IN THIS! <3

4 billion dollars if you can name every last cameo in this video.

@uwontprevail It's still an AMV because it uses anime for a music video. Whether it's original animation or not doesn't matter. Even a-m-v.org agrees.

end of childhood.

this is and historic video for anime 

@ThePirateMD You have a limitation. 

LOVE this freaken song

so many wins in this vid.. from the phallic radish to the bunny girl

@Haku351 err laser lol 

Man if only i was there at the convention that featured this they even gave out a limited amount of lazer disk copys. can you imagine how much thats worth now? 

One word describes this video: Epic. <33 A shame that 27 people sneezed right as they were about to click the like button and hit the dislike button D: 

@pheenix42 yea they made the entire film in a room no bigger then a college dorm room and its still one of the best films of all time. 

The most awesome thing man has ever packed into the span of 5 minutes. 27 people missed the like button.

27 People don't know a good thing if it came up and frenched them in the park.

I remember back in 05 some gigantic nerd faggot tried to sell me a vhs of this for like 70 bucks saying "I'll never find it anywhere." BRB INTERNET

This is not an amv, the guys made this themselves. 

Those were the days.

I shiver everytime the robotic voice talks as the music starts

@Phlebas99 AMEN to that!!

@heavyoak IF I did not know already that it was made by Gainax and the music by ELO, I would definitely say IT WAS!

i lovr this Anima

the 26 ppl who disliked this are a bunch of fags :P.

The word EPIC was made of this video.

Gainax knows how to release your geek!

@heavyoak This song was made by god to show that he loves us and that there is hope for the human race yet.

I like these Daicon videos. It's like a time capsule, since the scenes or shows that were put into these videos were the popular ones of the time.

Oh my God they did it. They finally did it. Video = Epic Fail. Song = Epic Win.

@Phlebas99 amen brotha!!!!

goosebumps every time

The song's halfway catchy, but it's not nearly as interesting as watching people's reactions to watching it. Hee.

insanely awesome

And just a few short years later...they produced Royal Space Force-Wings of Honneamise. =)

The ffffffuuuuuuuuu-?! XD

i love it since it comprises everything great about the 80's

The animation tends to vary here. A lot of it's decent, and entertaining, but it goes to End of Evangelion levels (and items) around the end.

a classic!

This was such a cool work of anime for its time.

SOOOPAAH GIAAANT BUNNY NINJAAA!!!

3.44 Doraemon?

This brings me back to the 80's

"Weird Series from '95-'96 that nobody cares about"? That sir is Blasphemy

@IZEASGT some guys in dorm rooms --> one of the most respected anime studios in history

Wow, I've watch this about 20times now!

If that's 2nd best then what's 1st?! O_O

wat

It's a amateur animated music video made for the opening of a sci-fi convention in 1983. The attendees were duly impressed; the animators got enough attention to get funding to open their own animation studio the next year. They released a major feature-length film in '87, then a hit six-episode giant robot OVA series, then a TV series on NHK. They even dabbled in computer games. Oh, and some weird series from '95-'96 that nobody cares about.

yea.... This brings tears to my eyes too

This animation was made by the guys that nowadays we know as Gainax (aka the guys who did Evangelion).

A fucking genius made this video.

OMG so full of win oAo""

made me cry, it really did.

wow cool i love this anime but its a series o just a anime but its cool n_n

got to love bedroom projects XD

its great when my completely seperate interests in music and anime collide. :)

La cancion me encanta, esta muy buena

Electric Light Orchestra - Twilight You're Welcome :D

I wanted to watch this before but I never made the time for it and plain forgot about it, that is until my friend reminded me about it. I'm glad I watched this yeah, very insprational yeah. And uhh, does anyone know what song this is?

yes, is super sentai

I just love that 80's anime look. Has so much more character to it.

This is an epic celebration of everything we geeks/nerds love, this was clearly a labor of love by Mr Anno and his compadres.

this is like awsome for it beng made in 1983

lol she elbowed a z-gok how do you even do that XD

the admiral is a retard

Yeah, since the mid 70s as the Super Sentai shows.

daicon 3 and 4 pwns all this so epic

aw this is soo cool im only 13 never heard of this saw it on this guys profile, man i wish i lived back in the day :D

Damn, this is pretty impressive for 1983!

now now....it' 1983, it' amatorial project and it's GAINAX history.

Its like witnessing supernova... epic...

that was, in fact, a tribute to daicon IV. Haruco even shouts "DAICON V" as she shoots the slingshot while surfing on the guitar.

The only Twilight I can stand...

correct, check the wiki on gainax

Yes indeed. Funny to think that Sadamoto drew both Haruko and the Daikon bunny girl.

Is this how Gainax got it's start? I distinctly remember Haruko wearing that bunny outfit in FLCL :D

DAMN people must have appreciated sci-fi a little more back then. that looked expensive.

Because it's AWESOME. Really, that's the only excuse you should need.

They have to make a remaster on this one!

awesome

the copyright count...its...its....ITS OVER 9000!!!1one

Same here :')

This is SO ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! O_____O To think that such a small team produced it... I think Gainax wasn't even a studio back there, was it? ..so this was drawn on the knees... Amazing!

Scratch that, it's a Zaku II special, I spotted my mistake, sorry all.

Was that a...Z'Gok special...?

Expectations met, exceeded, and then blown to hell. Thank you Gainax for being awesome! P.S. and thank you for the return of guts being all you need to be a giant robot pilot!

the opening for densha otoko also features an updated bunny girl.

Rewatch episode 5 of FLCL then. They reference this video in the battle against the giant hand.

I've been a big fan of Gainax for years. They are by far my favorite animation studio. - I had heard of this a few times but didn't look it up until earlier this week. - I've watched it at least twice everyday since i saw it. hahaha. - Its epic, and just reassures me that Gainax is, always has been, and always will be damn amazing...

WANT!

I agree, and it's very odd! I find the video nostalgic and evocative, but I have NO IDEA what's going on in it. I barely know any of this stuff--why is it making me feel like I *miss* it?

Thank you gainex for producing this....

this video, was made by god.

Didn't it start with Gundam? And wasn't Macross the first series made "by anime nuts, for anime nuts?" (And I'm pretty sure it was the source of the modern meaning of "otaku.") Granted, Gainax has always been "the otaku studio," *gestures to video above* even before they were "Gainax."

Why is there Star Wars, Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aliens?

is that starfish thing a reference to hp lovecraft?

this is now my favourite thing ever.

I just came

What's the best?

favourited.

perdón ICHIRO ITANO^^

hideaki anno, Hichiro Itano THANKS!!!!! son unos genios ¡¡¡¡ITANO CIRCUS!!!!

This is the animation that gave birth to the Culture of Otaku. Did you guys know that ?

I love the beginning of the thing, where the robotic voice is talking... favorite part of the visuals is when the shockwave hits :) I love this so much.

By the way a big ,1,`_´,1, to rmcdowell64

This song is a perfect fit with the kind of thing you normally hear in the openings to Japanese anime series (meaning not the replacement themes put in when the series goes overseas). This track was used in Densha Otoko as well, wasn't it?

Well, not exactly. She yells out the name of a vitamin drink as a simultaneous reference to the commercial and this film.

;_; this is truly great

Thats Stormbringer shes riding right? The soul stealing sword from the Elric saga.

i know what you mean , it makes me feel like im from the 80's but im not :O

Song Is Twilight by ELO if anyone was interested.

Also, watch the buildings in this clip when the shockwave hits; then watch the buildings in Mabase when the shockwave from the baseball bomb hits.

yeah thats the one.

Otaku no Video?

GAINAX = FUCKING WITH OUR MINDS FOR OVER 25 YEARS... Here's to another 25 more =)

Geneon paid holmage to it, Gainax and Geneon are rival production groups and they paid holmage to Gainax's epicness which they admitted and Gainax allowed.

(laughs) I feel reassured that I don't remember too. TRUST me on that point (laughs)

somehow i feel as if this video brings back memories i never had, it's like the ultimate tribute. i'm kind of beating myself up for never experiencing it. believe it or not, i envy you for being into all this and at the same time am reassured that you no longer remember.

i think this should be part of AOTS as part of around the net segment.

they had a reference in one of there anime they made where one of the girls was cosplaying her. they did this a few times.

they also had a reference in flcl when Haruko wore the same bunny suit.

besides flcl??

When I was first getting into anime (Japanimation as we called it) in the 1986/87, my friend Mark Salisbury showed me this video he had gotten. Thanks for bringing back such great memories! And the scary thing: I used to be able to name about 80% of the characters.

Impressive!

the music and the girl DENSHA OTOKO

OMFG ! love that xDDDD

can you say........................EPIC?!?!?!

Gainax loves this opening so much that they reference it in most of their shows. It's that fucking epic.

this is the most awesome thing that exists. there can be no debating it.

this is my favorite thing on earth

This video is awesome, no matter how much years have paased! ^_^

FLCL!!!!!!

Now THAT'S an AMV. :D ...so many copyrights... Was it my imgination or was that Doraemon dressed as Char Aznable at 3:45?

what's the name of his anime?

This has to be the greatest animated video I have ever seen!

Hell yeah

So beautiful ;-;

lol...wow

ELO rocks. Gainax rocks (sometimes). Gainax stealing ELO songs rocks!