| To me it's stuff from the early-mid 00s and earlier. |
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| Anything before the 90s anime boom, though nowadays "old" varies to the point where it's more useful to refer to them by the decade |
| Well I started watching anime that exact year and like the differences in technology and style etc makes a bigger difference than perceived time. Yeah it was 10 years ago but nothing major has happened in the industry as a whole imo. I consider old anime stuff before 2010 and like retro in the best sense for anything before 2000s. That is mostly for stylistic and technological reasons. |
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| I don't like dividing this way. I'd divide by decade or by early > celluloid > digital > CG |
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| Though you can divide old and new by technical aspects, you can also use other criteria for it. For example, an epoch-making show drives a wedge. -If you are a SF fan, it may be Gundam. -If you are a fantasy fan, it may be Nausicaa. -If you are ... "isekai" also opened a new era. But I don't know where it began, since I'm not a keen fan. |
Nurguburu said: An Anime being old changes over time. It always depends the time where are you are right now. It doesn't matter when someone started watching Anime for example in the late 90s, early 2010s, etc and obviously it doesn't matter when you were born since by 2025 all Anime released more than 10 years ago is already old. All Anime considered new now is going to be old 10 years after its release. It doesn't matter if they don't "look" old, an Anime from 10 yr ago look different from Anime released now. I made this thread since some I read some people who started watching Anime in the 2000s or even in 90s are claiming such Anime "are not" old. I'm curious why they think like that since its obviously not true. Something released more than 15 years ago is def. old, no matter the reason. An Anime being old is obviously fine, its time to accept it as it should be. No need to be afraid of doing so. I love all Anime no matter the era. What is old Anime for you and why? The older one gets the passage of time starts to dilate in ones perspective. As an example when I was 21, I use to call someone my age a borderline pedophile if I saw they were dating a girl who just turned 18. Where today I am in my late 40s, I would think it being normal for someone who is 21 to be dating someone who was 18. I even think now it's normal for a man my age to be dating a woman over a decade younger then they are. Where I stand in the passage of time now, I don't normally think of something as really 'old' unless a few decades have passed by. So to someone who is relatively still very young even in their early 20s they would likely even see something like "Re:ZERO" as an 'old' Anime being just about 9 years old by this time. Even my daughter who is in her early 20s now thinks "Overlord" is a franchise for old people simply because it's over a decade old to her. lol It's like when I was still a teenage brat I use to call anyone who wasn't younger than being in their 20s some old geezer. lol |
ColourWheelFeb 14, 2025 8:29 AM
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Indeed, people need to get with the times. |
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| Well the newer anime shows are getting worse and worse. Of course, anime was never that good....to begin with. |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
| "what about you?" Yes, I am pre 2015, thus I am really really old. |
Reply to Kalisia
@Deathko
What's the picture in your signature from? Did you create it?
Also what I consider "old" anime is anything in 4:3 aspect ratio, I guess. I'm relatively new to anime.
What's the picture in your signature from? Did you create it?
Also what I consider "old" anime is anything in 4:3 aspect ratio, I guess. I'm relatively new to anime.
| @Kalisia It's from this manga: https://myanimelist.net/manga/89190/Deathco Atsushi Kaneko is crazy good but almost completely unknown, but Deathco has probably been translated. |
Prophetess of the Golden Era  |
| Old anime for me is anything older than 2 years. It doesn't make a difference if that's 3 or 30 years. At this point in time, the reviews were written, the youtube videos were made, and the reddit battles have raged. The show now in the cooldown phase. |
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| To me old is like when Dragon Ball aired. 80s. Time frame doesn't matter to me much at all really. |
Reply to inim
Old anime for me is anything older than 2 years. It doesn't make a difference if that's 3 or 30 years. At this point in time, the reviews were written, the youtube videos were made, and the reddit battles have raged. The show now in the cooldown phase.
| @inim Two years? Idk thats nothing - no time at all lol. |
| valid asf. people love the sense of superiority they get when they say they are "old anime watchers". that's all there is to the people who're against your opinion. |
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| If it's still in square box "fullscreen", now that's what I'd say is old. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| damn i feel old lookin at this lol. for me, anything before 2004 is old. in '05-'06 animation style started to change again, leading to shows like FMAB, Death note, etc. so id say that everything before 04 is now old. |
Reply to Shortedout
@inim Two years? Idk thats nothing - no time at all lol.
| @Shortedout I'm in the mid-50s now, and for all my life "old people" were people 10 years older than me. That definition never changed, just my own age progressed:) Each new day somebody watches his first anime, feels "new gen" and says: I won't watch that old shit, it was made before I even was born. Two years seems reasonable to me because it describes the trajectory of media on the hype cycle. Anything else is relative to the age of the speaker. @Kwanthemaster's meme expresses the same idea in a brilliant way. |
inimFeb 15, 2025 8:12 AM
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@Shortedout I'm in the mid-50s now, and for all my life "old people" were people 10 years older than me. That definition never changed, just my own age progressed:) Each new day somebody watches his first anime, feels "new gen" and says: I won't watch that old shit, it was made before I even was born.
Two years seems reasonable to me because it describes the trajectory of media on the hype cycle. Anything else is relative to the age of the speaker. @Kwanthemaster's meme expresses the same idea in a brilliant way.
Two years seems reasonable to me because it describes the trajectory of media on the hype cycle. Anything else is relative to the age of the speaker. @Kwanthemaster's meme expresses the same idea in a brilliant way.
| @inim Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable. I see what you mean. Cause new can be any anime made at any time just depends on the watcher/reader. I also think that's a good point about the hype cycle. You know what I think I agree now lol. 2 years isn't a bad gauge. Its also funny seeing the meme as I wouldn't have described those as old haha. |
Reply to Shortedout
@inim Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable. I see what you mean. Cause new can be any anime made at any time just depends on the watcher/reader. I also think that's a good point about the hype cycle. You know what I think I agree now lol. 2 years isn't a bad gauge. Its also funny seeing the meme as I wouldn't have described those as old haha.
| @Shortedout For shits and giggles, here are the release dates of S1 of @Kwantemaster's meme. |
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@Shortedout For shits and giggles, here are the release dates of S1 of @Kwantemaster's meme.
| @inim Lol. Beyond prehistoric is hilarious. Even funnier with the dates. |
| I jokingly refer to stuff from like, 2009 or so as "ancient" all the time, but in my head, anything pre-2000s is "older" and anything 2010s-onwards is "newer", pretty much. |
| Your planet is really bright. |
| I'll put my vote in for pre mass digitization (2005ish) is old school and post is new school. Maybe the next anime "era" would be the heavy involvement of AI in the production (god forbid). |
| Anything made before July 2004 (Girls Bravo) is old. Girls Bravo or newer is modern. I use Girls Bravo as the marker for the beginning of modern. I can't articulate the specific reasons yet. |
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| to me, anything before 2007-2008 is "old". Around that time, technology changed a lot...animation quality began to drastically change due to digital animation(still miss good cel though...), voice actors started to sound much more natural(on average), and it was the beginning of the end for continuous long running shows...anything after those major changes is what i'd consider "modern" anime |
| I consider shows before 2005 to be old, as that’s when cel animation was dying out and Sazan san and Inuyasha were the only series still using it |
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| The cutoff for old anime is before they figured out how to use digital color effectively. 2005 or so, maybe a little later |
| Perhaps pre-2020 anime is old, but some of them aged gracefully according to today's standards nonetheless. |
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Indeed, people need to get with the times.
| @Kwanthemaster Social media kids quite literally have that mindset |
Reply to Captain-577
ToumaTachibana said:
Anime from 10 yr ago look different from Anime released now
Anime from 10 yr ago look different from Anime released now
yeah things have really gone downhill
If you are talking about "old" simply as a reference of time then that doesn't mean much here. I could say anything from 2025 is old now because numbers, and that won't mean anything.
I think pre-2010s would be generally perceived as old these days. Early 2000s now seems to have it's own identity in the same 80s and 90s have. On the other hand, 2010s doesn't seem very unique compared to today.
It's also hilarious how many people are talking about "cel era vs digital era" when majority of animators draw on cel. There are rather few studios that have gone completely digital like Science Saru and Comixwave.
| @Captain-577 It's also hilarious how many people are talking about "cel era vs digital era" when majority of animators draw on cel. There are rather few studios that have gone completely digital like Science Saru and Comixwave I'm gonna have to ask you to supply a source for this claim. |
| Only thing I know is that old anime were way better than what we get nowadays. |
| I'd call anything before 2000 old and anything after 2020 new. I'd what to call the stuff in the middle |
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| Anything before 2010 is old in my book. |
| I would consider something old if it's pre-2000s... |
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves. |
| It doesn't look noticeably different to me until I get back to the 00s. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I said in another thread, but pre 16:9 TV anime being dominant, so around 2005-2007; or before digital coloring became dominant around 2001; or before Evangelion, that is before 1995. |
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