Video was taken down for some reason. It might still be up on his website.
There was a video rental store near where Bennett lives that managed to stay open in spite of Netflix thanks to stocking rare movies. It went out of business in August due to profits dropping after last year's fires in Northern California.
Edited by Karxrida on Sep 7th 2018 at 4:58:58 AM
I know I'm late, but I'd like to add to the discussion of old/new shows from a year ago: it is true that the old shows he covers were more experimental, but they were from a limited time period: OVAs from the eighties to early nineties. The economy was booming, and the animation industry had discovered the otaku sub-culture. Otaku became both creators and consumers on a large scale. The result was plenty of artists who had only done animation work were given free rein to direct their own projects.
This gave some unpolished works of genius, some schlocky gorefests like MD Geist, and a long, long list of softcore pornography. Television was far more constrained, and usually badly padded-out with 52 episodes as standard, but did give some notable dramas that did well abroad (especially in Italy and France).
Before the eighties, the OVA market was far smaller. And around 1995, it shrank from file-sharing, while studios found they could make money off 12-episode series with tie-in merchandise.
Now I don't want to say the shows made since have been less creative, but they do have a problem of looking far too similar. This was especially a problem around 2010, with every studio chasing a very narrow segment of the market; I think it has improved since. The eighties' OVAs had more range of character designs and were certainly better animated.
Now I don't blame Bennett because he makes it clear that it's a matter of taste for him and he has never hated on other fans. He also makes clear the failings of the old stuff he watches. (Any old-school otaku who bemoans the "rise" of ecchi shows really needs to look at what was being made twenty years ago.) But we have to be aware that there is more history than just old-versus-new at play here.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrX-afnve78
- Anime Abandon: Hellsing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfgGr-VwxI
- Anime Abandon Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Feeling kinda bummed out from other Oldtaku videos to watch this one. Mostly because I feel like he is really stubborn about "Raw, my old days are gone and they will never gone back" thing. Though I would assume that even if he likes gorey stuff, he probably wouldn't like the vampire court pacing problem subplot

Wow, that store held on; can't believe the fire of all things killed it. Sucks that it had to go.
Nice new intro. Makes me want DIESELDUST to come out soon.
Little Nemo might be a mess, but it's a pretty mess. Though it does not look at all like an anime. Maybe I'm just used to modern anime art styles.
Edited by Karxrida on Sep 3rd 2018 at 3:34:17 AM