While there are many anime and aesthetics out there, these series are perfect to set the mood for those chill retro vaporwave vibes! By Demi Leverett. May 14, 2025, 7:00pm. Comments .

But there is also an aesthetic connotation: anime is usually hand-drawn and two-dimensional, unlike the photorealistic 3D animation that has grown more common outside Japan.

On the other hand, the writer argued that the somewhat more realistic aesthetic and vehicle modes in Macross could be a bigger draw, especially among today's audiences.