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More people need to watch 70s anime. It can have it's fair share of problems, but it's great
Please give me as many recommendations as you have immediately, subtitles preferred. Any genre is fine. Doesn't have to be specifically of the 70's, will take earlier or later, and doesn't have to be universally acclaimed or good, just artistically interesting.
I'll edit later to fill in some details, but here's a list of 70s-ish stuff I've seen and enjoyed. Bold on the must watches! I have a bias towards mecha/sci-fi.
Space Battleship Yamato (1974)
Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V (1977)
Invincible Superman Zanbot 3 (1977)
Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 (1978)
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Rose of Versailles (1979) Shojo drama set during the events leading up to the French revolution. Super cool, moody show.
Aim for the Ace! (1979) - I've only been able to snag the movie version of this one. Classic sports anime - Gunbuster is a direct homage to this.
The ones below are early 80s releases, but to me we're not quite into the look of 1980s anime™ until stuff like Super Dimensional Fortress Macross and Dallos. These shows have the old-school look imo.
Space Runaway Ideon (1980) and the movie double feature A Contact and Be Invoked (1982) This is what Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino made after Gundam. The movies in particular are super-influential on Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's best to watch the TV series before the movies, but A Contact is a compilation film of the series with Be Invoked being the sequel/reworked ending. Be Invoked is an amazing movie.
Fang of the Sun Dougram (1981) I'm almost finished with watching this one. What if you took Mobile Suit Gundam but the protagonist is a class traitor who joins the side of the anti-colonial guerillas.
Armored Trooper Votoms (1983) Probably one of the latest "70s anime" I've seen. Mech focused sci-fi series with an adult cast (no teenage killer robot pilots here!). There's a lot of cool sequel OVAs and spinoffs that go on throughout the years (with the last one being made in 2011!!) - I'm pretty fond of Armor Hunter Mellowlink, but it's an extremely late 80s OVA.
I'm sorry to place you in the role of load-bearing anime advisor, but are any of the follow-ups to Space Battleship Yamato worth watching, or is the Iscandar arc best left on its own? I really enjoyed it, but modern times have made me wary of good media and franchises getting poisoned by slop.
I've surprisingly never watched the sequels to Yamato. A copy of season 2 has been sitting around here longer than I'd like to admit, but I just haven't watched it yet.
I guess we'll be going on this adventure together then.