Really, the only episodes to really watch out for (in regards to garbage animation) are 15 and 19, the others are passable for their time period (and I can think of plenty of other anime that look worse from around that time too, like any of Tatsunoko's stuff).
No, I'm talking about their late-70s output. When they started outsourcing to crap animation studios, like Anime Friend, half the time
You seem to forget that Robotech (Specifically Macross) was error-riddled.
So tell me, what anime from that era would you say look like crap then? Or does everything from that era have "Style"?
So I see. I generally am too, but I'm a little more of the scrutinizing type as well, as I've been exposed to many a bad animation style in the past.
What kills me about modern anime us most of it just looks way too clean. The guy who animated FMA and the Sacred Star of Milos really drew me into that movie because it was animation that managed to be clean and acceptably rough, as well as fluid and extremely great to look at. The only flaw with that movie is the textbook example of a Mary Sue acting as the film's protagonist alongside Ed and Al.
What you're running into here is the Golden Age fallacy, I think.
I disagree. I'm just saying I like animation when it looks rough because that's my tastes as a consumer and as an artist. One of my favorite animators for DBZ, Minoru Maeda, would very frequently strike this cord with me by having animation with rough but interesting outlines. Shingo Natsume was the animator I was referring to before, and his rough style is something that always looks great to me.
Naoki Tate or Naotoshi Shida? Those are the two that come to mind.
Shida, that's my fuckin man right there. Still waiting for them to bust him out in Dragon Ball Super.
Oh yeah, I recall Anime Friend worked on Mospeda.
Yeah, they were also regulars on several of Tats'* 70s output, Macross and that infamous Gundam episode. Which is why I brought them up.
