i want ur fav 80's - early 2000's anime rec's!! >:]

if you like shounen, yu yu hakusho has that PRIME retro art style, and tbh the characters are great and i'd die for them. also fushigi yuugi is pretty widely available and defined shoujo for a while.... i can't say it's GOOD, necessarily, but it's fun to watch.

I haven't watched that many but my favs are:

Oh one of my favorite has to be “Ranma 1/2” 1989, It’s basically this boy fell into some cursed pond and now can change into a girl when he touches cold water. 

cardcaptor sakura!!

Perfect Blue, Sailor Moon, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, Higurashi: When They Cry, Soul Eater, Ouran High School Host Club and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

I totally recommend Shamanic Princess!! It can be found on YT and CrunchyRoll!! Its a rather short series, being about like 7-8 episodes I think? But they're all about 30 mins long :] It was made in 98!

I watched Inuyasha awhile back, the episodes drag sometimes since there’s a lot of battles, but it’s full a lot of cute and funny moments! I do recommend it for the nostalgic feel and story. :D

Serial Experiments Lain!! 

More modern feeling would be something like Escaflowne or Fushigi Yuugi (maybe the mother of all shoujo).

You've prob watched before but evangelion is the GOAT of 90's anime

Wolf's Rain if you want to be sad :D

Ranma 1/2!!! It has a lot of action, humor, and romance all with the early 90s nostalgic feel. I really love the art style and first opening. It can get a bit raunchy at times because of one character, but I think it's a good watch. It's a classic and it really is hilarious.

Urusei yatsura is definitely up there for me, even just the openings by itself are a masterpiece. Very catchy! By the Same person as ranma 1/2

ouran high school host club and kiki's delivery service!!!

one piece started on the 90s if im correct..but yeah maybe cowboy bebop? i actually rewatched it sometme this year and it still holds up. and maybe rorounin kenshin?

Fruits Basket (not so much of a Shoujo but the animation style is there), Sailor Moon obviously, InuYasha, Code Geass

my personal favorite is slayers

 ZATCH BELLLLLLLLLL 

Definitely Evangelion! The artwork is still supreme

Cowboy Bebop is so good if you love action, sci-fi and anything involving cowboys.ni highly recommend watching it in dub.

Zatch Bell without a doubt. Still annoyed that the anime never finished.

Ouran highschool host club, Heidi 

World of Narue is great. Watching Happy Lesson right now and it's pretty good too! Kanon (2002) isn't as bad as everyone says it was, and if you want more romance, I've got His and Her Circumstances, I heard that one's pretty good.

for movies i would recommend:

for movies i would recommend:

Prob Perfect Blue (1997)

FLCL and Black Lagoon

♡ INUYASHA ♡

ik this is an old forum but shiki is a rlly good horror anime from that time period !!!! i reccommend it sm !!!!!

I'd also like to suggest Serial Experiments Lain. It's not gonna be for everyone, but hey, it ain't a cult classic for nothing. If you want an anime that will inject a retro future aesthetic right into your blood stream, this is it. Thematically, it's primarily about how advanced technology's presence in the real world blurs the line between reality and virtual reality. It's trippy at times and even more often difficult to follow on your first viewing, but that's what gets you to revisit it again and again.

Both the opening song "Duvet" by Boa and "Lain's Theme" slap, so I also recommend listening to those songs from the OST, if nothing else.

Rose of Versailles is 1979 so not technically 80s but utterly gorgeous. First eps are a bit boring, twiddling its thumbs to set up a really compelling and subversive shoujo tale. 
Revolutionary Girl Utena is my personal favorite anime, an aesthetically marvelous, rich, complex narrative. It's really really heavy though, not just in narrative layering, symbolism allegory etc but also in its... content-warning meriting aspects. Don't worry, they're all engaged with with tact, but they are very raw. There are many CW guides all over the net. 

one of my friends is constantly raving about Kite, i only watched some clips and read some reviews and it seems really good.

I like evangelion, Dragon ball, hunter x hunter. But my favorites shoujo are Kodomo no Omocha, Gakuen Alice, Marmalade Boy, Aishiteruze Baby :)

 I recommend this series from the 90s called Magic Knight Rayearth. This anime is basically a magical girl anime, an isekai, and a mecha anime all rolled into one. It was made by CLAMP, so the art style is awesome, has great fight scenes and characters, and some good plot twists you won’t see coming. Its 2 seasons long, with 49 episodes total, it’s one of my absolute favorites (I also recommend the manga too, it’s even more stunning visually and it’s only 6 volumes long so it’s a quick read)

Neon Genesis Evangelion. Its basically a psychological horror disguised as a mech anime. 

Serial experiments lain and Ouran highschool host club for sure !

super gals is really good and super underrated!!

super gals is really good and super underrated!!

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

LUCKY STARRRR one of my all time favs!!!!!! here's the link to its wiki page