>>4068459They still kind of do. Fafner comes to mind immediately. Also Ideon (the OP gif) didn't really have great animation.
>>4068496>60s-90sTry 80s. Japanese animation in the 60s and 70s was piss-poor compared to Western animation at the time and the only thing it had going for it was the creativity and writing. The best 80s OVAs will always be better animated than modern TV anime, but modern TV anime is objectively better animated than most old TV anime.
>Today its more of an advertisement for the manga/vn/toys/ and making money off of it.Most anime in the 70s, 80s and 90s was literally an advertisement for merchandise, nothing's changed.
For the most part, the anime industry really stagnated in the early 90s (not to say that it was bad by any means) and OVAs were getting generally smaller budgets than 80s OVAs and only the extremely successful studios from the 80s were shitting out great-looking 90s OVAs. It wasn't until the mid-90s when TV anime started booming again and effectively killed the OVA market and revived new life into the anime industry.
