5 '90s Anime That Were Decades Ahead of Their Time

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The 1990s produced anime that remain strikingly contemporary decades later. Comic Book Resources identifies five series from that era whose storytelling, themes, and visual approaches anticipated trends that wouldn't dominate the medium until years afterward. Revisiting these classics reveals how their creators pushed boundaries in ways the industry took time to catch up with. The piece argues that the '90s were transformative for anime's mainstream appeal, and some titles from that period have only grown more relevant as their prescient ideas have become industry standards.