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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
2016-04-07 19:21:43
I haven't had an opportunity to check it, but an example recently added to The Air Not There suggests this was the 1970s anime Captain Future.

There was an anime I saw on Australian television when I was younger (early 1990s or thereabouts).
The main thing that sticks in my head was that there was a device that allowed a person to walk through solid objects like walls, but while you were using it you couldn't breathe because the air molecules didn't interact with you any more than the wall molecules did. I think one character got around it by wearing something like scuba gear, and there was a scene where the device was given to the hero's robot buddy because breathing wasn't an issue for him. I remember when one of the characters walked through a wall, while his eyes were inside the wall he seemed to be standing in a void full of swirling colours.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?