Anime from around this or last decade that are set in the 1990s or 1980s

[0cean]

I know that there's Higurashi (2006) which is set in 1983 and there's Kara no Kyoukai (2007) that takes place around the 1990s. Technically Meitantei Conan is still set in 1996, but somehow they managed to update the year without aging any of the characters. That's not what I'm interested in.

Anything else?


[2006](1983) Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
[2006](199x) Black Lagoon
[2007](199x) Kara no Kyoukai
[2009](1987) Umineko no Naku Koro ni
[2009](1986) White Album
[2010](199x) Shiki
[2012](1998) Another
[2016](198X) Boku dake ga Inai Machi

[MisaoFan]

Umineko no Naku koro ni is from the same creators as Higurashi and it's set in 1987.

Shiki is set during the 1990s.

Another is set in 1998.

[RichardFromMarple]

Black Lagoon is set in the early to mid 1990s.

[BWTraveller]

Erased springs to mind. True, it starts in the present and comes back here from time to time but the majority of the story takes place in the 80s.

[0cean]

Any more ideas on this topic?

[SeijiSensei]

Some aspects of Fruits Basket (2019) like the material on girl gangs ("sukeban") suggest it takes place when the manga was written, 1998-2006, or even earlier. Other times it appears the story takes place in contemporary Japan given the use of smartphones.

Showa Monogatari, released in 2011, is set in 1964 when the Olympics came to Japan.

[Dawnstorm]

White Album (2 seasons) - 2009 - set in the 1980ies (e.g. at one point someone receives an answering machine for present) [Note: White Album 2 is not the second season of White Album, and it definitely plays out later, but I don't know when.]

[0cean]

As far as I know the Japanese still are using answering and fax machines today, so that alone wouldn't be an indication of the time.

[Dawnstorm]

Originally Posted by 0cean

As far as I know the Japanese still are using answering and fax machines today, so that alone wouldn't be an indication of the time.

Yeah, but it couldn't have played that particular role in the plot, if everyone had a mobile phone or access to e-mail. It's definitely set in the 80ies (I googled it quickly, and the precise year appears to be 1986, but I'm not completely sure.)

[0cean]

Anything new this past year that would fit?

[Heep]

Originally Posted by 0cean

Anything new this past year that would fit?

Sing "Yesterday" for Me

[SeijiSensei]

Looks like Toilet-bound Hanako-kun takes place in 1969. We see a calendar from that year at one point. I thought it might have been an even older setting given the objects we see like the radio.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

Looks like Toilet-bound Hanako-kun takes place in 1969. We see a calendar from that year at one point. I thought it might have been an even older setting given the objects we see like the radio.

That's the year Hanako died IIRC

[SeijiSensei]

Ah, you could be right. Still the styling of the anime suggests a fairly older time period, so the seventies perhaps?