Top 10 best 70s anime worth revisiting

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Country: Japan
Airtime: 4/4/1978 – 31/10/1978
Genre: adventure, drama, science fiction
Status: complete
Future Boy Conan was a 70s anime series or only 26 episodes long, but it impressed in that short period of time and became one of the unique anime series ever released that decade. The series is set in a future when humanity is essentially extinct.

A boy born after the Great Disaster named Conan, he considers himself one of the last survivors until he meets a young girl named Lana. Conan and Lana set out to explore their current fractured and dilapidated world as their youthful, optimistic attitudes spark a glimmer of hope amid the darkness.

Director: Nobutaka Nishizawa
Country: Japan
Airtime: 14/9/1978 – 28/3/1981
Genre: adventure, drama, science fiction, space drama
Status: complete
There was a strong push towards science fiction anime in the 1970s and Galaxy Express 999 was an important 70s anime that helped the genre dominate throughout that decade. Galaxy Express 999 refers to a futuristic society that has figured out how to achieve immortality by transferring memories into a robotic body, but it's an expensive procedure only the elite can achieve.

The rich ideas, set in vast voids of outer space, inspired more than 100 episodes and several movies were released in the 1970s.

Director: Takeshi Tamiya
Country: Japan
Airtime: 2/10/1969 – 30/9/1971
Genre: drama, combat sports, shounen
Status: complete
Tiger Mask is the '70s anime series that helped kick off the decade — it was also one of the most memorable anime shows all the way back to the '80s. Tiger Mask shows a basic wrestling sports anime film centered on the character Naoto Date, also known as Tiger Mask.

Date is a brutal fighter who works hard to survive both inside the ring and confront the many assassins sent. A fascinating story put together, but the real attraction of this 70s animetha65p series is the beautiful, fluid fight sequences, which are still around more than 50 years later.

Director: Leiji Matsumoto
Country: Japan
Airtime: 6/10/1974 – 30/3/1975
Genre: military, science fiction, space drama
Status: complete
There are countless anime series exploring high-stakes space missions, but many of them would not have been possible without the framework established by Space Battleship Yamato. This 26-episode 70s anime series spanned from 1974 to 1975 but spawned several sequels and spin-offs that are still in production today.

There is a simple goal that Susumu Kodai and his crew aboard the Yamato need to get a critical piece of equipment that can fix the growing problem on Earth. The animation and characters aren't too complicated, but there's a lot of rich themes going on in Space Battleship Yamato

Directors: Masayuki Akehi, Tomoharu Katsumata
Country: Japan
Airtime: 8/7/1972 – 7/4/1973
Genre: action, horror, supernatural, mythology, fantasy
Status: complete
Link (eng sub): https://zoro.to/watch/devilman-6187?ep=77124
Go Nagai is an important voice in the manga and anime industry, and he is responsible for several major titles that have been around since the 70s. Devilman is a 70s anime franchise that continues to be relevant to the present, it receives new updates and reinterprets the original story.

Devilman features a mix of the darkness of the fantasy and horror genres, in which a gentle teenager named Akira Fudo, reluctantly claims the title of Devilman to ward off the demons that threaten Earth. Akira's struggle to retain his humanity while also finding someone he can trust helps give the Devilman a range of suspense.