| 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? |
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| "Old Anime is pre-2015, what about you?" Hmm... Maybe pre-2010. Still not so old, but anyway. 🤔 |
SerafosFeb 12, 2025 11:00 AM
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| "Old anime" means before Evangelion. That's when it became possible to imagine anime doing absolutely anything. It's when anime changed from a still developing medium to a fully developed medium. |
logopolisFeb 12, 2025 10:56 AM
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"Old anime" means before Evangelion. That's when it became possible to imagine anime doing absolutely anything. It's when anime changed from a still developing medium to a fully developed medium.
| @logopolis Evangelion def looks old by 2025. |
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"Old Anime is pre-2015, what about you?"
Hmm... Maybe pre-2010. Still not so old, but anyway.
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Hmm... Maybe pre-2010. Still not so old, but anyway.
🤔
Hmm, yeah I think this is about the same for me. Maybe 2008? But yeah 2010 is when it started to get more refined and now easier to get into these days. This also rings true haha. I recently rewatched it and was blown away by how old it is and then felt old, in turn... |
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@logopolis Evangelion def looks old by 2025.
| @Nurguburu That's a very shallow way to judge. Compare the sophistication of its visual storytelling with something like Frieren rather than just the number of pixels. These things aren't just based on time elapsed. Like "old literature" I'd say would be more like "before WWII" because it's the appearance of broadcasting and cinema which was the last seismic event there. |
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@Nurguburu That's a very shallow way to judge. Compare the sophistication of its visual storytelling with something like Frieren rather than just the number of pixels.
These things aren't just based on time elapsed. Like "old literature" I'd say would be more like "before WWII" because it's the appearance of broadcasting and cinema which was the last seismic event there.
These things aren't just based on time elapsed. Like "old literature" I'd say would be more like "before WWII" because it's the appearance of broadcasting and cinema which was the last seismic event there.
| @logopolis Saying an Anime released almost 30 years ago is old isn't a "very shallow way to judge". I know Evangelion made a huge impact in the industry but it doesn't mean im going to act Evangelion was released yesterday. The only objective aspect to classify something old or new is how many years were released by the current year, in Anime such things are more obvious. You're mixing Anime who made a huge impact with things who have nothing to do. |
ToumaTachibanaFeb 12, 2025 11:24 AM
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| To me it's anything before digital animation became widespread, so around 2000-2005 |
ZarutakuFeb 12, 2025 12:33 PM
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| Old anime = cell Newer anime = digital |
| Old anime is 20th century anime, obviously. Cel vs digital, yadda yadda |
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Old anime = cell
Newer anime = digital
Newer anime = digital
| @watsym i know its a common argument too but even digital Anime released in late 00s look old compared to something released in the mid 2020s. |
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The last time anime changed significantly was about 25 years ago. There was a minor change going from 4:3 to 16:9 about 20 years ago and another minor change going from SD to HD around 15 years ago. Since 2010 nothing really changed.   Also, I still remember back in 2003 when most people wouldn't consider watching TV anime from the 1990s since it looked "dated". That's how big a change anime underwent in that transition. |
| According to me, old anime is 1960-2000. |
| Anything before 2010 is retro for me. |
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| Old anime is anything drawn using cels. The break in visual style and production was so big I think it's a good place to separate them. |
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| To me, I'd never consider anything post-2000/post-21st century as "old" or "old anime". But also for me there is a strange phenomenon at play, whereby since I only first started watching anime in 2016, anime from, say, 2008 or 2003 does feel oddly older to me than, say, live action American films released during those exact same years. I think it's because since I wasn't watching and largely completely ignorant and unaware of those series and of the medium of anime as a whole back during those years when they were being released, they represent an inaccessible past which feels even further away to me versus the somewhat more accessible past (accessible via direct memories of my own lived experience) of the films and TV series I did actually watch at the time during those years when they were new or newer. |
| Anything that's not current season, basically... |
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| For me old anime is probably before 2011-2013. Like I wouldn't call something like Food Wars, that was released in 2015, a "classic" but I could say something like that for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or Steins;Gate, both which aired until 2011. But for me 90s anime are simply older anime and have a very different aesthetic and feel to them. |
"Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness"  - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
| Does it matter? It is not like anime will prevent NTHE from happening. |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
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Does it matter? It is not like anime will prevent NTHE from happening.
| @DesuMaiden what is the NTHE exactly ? |
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@tchitchouan Nice Tits, Heavy "Extras".
| @Daviljoe193 That is something i can get behind. |
| 10-15 years ago is definitely not old unless you're a toddler. Make it at least a generation. That said the history of anime only goes back about a hundred years, so the cut-off for old anime should be around the middle of the 70's. |
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| I think there are two old styles, one is the cool type of old where the art has a different feel and fresh (90s or older), and the other is just modern anime but drawn worse (00s with exceptions). I say this as someone who has three 00s shows in my faves. |
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| Oh yeah, 2015 was 10 years ago. Thank you for reminding me >:( It would be a stretch to say pre-2015 is old. That would mean Sword Art Online and Jojo parts 1-3 are "oldies" which is off. I have heard that history is over 20 years from the present, and roughly 2005-2010 being the demarcation seems about right for a while. Try reposting this in 2030 or 2035. |
Baskarite said: I'd probably kill myself if fucking kyun kyun came on over the speaker while I was trying to fight. |
| Chobits defines the line between "old" and "new" anime for me. |
| The "kids today" would probably disagree, but I'd put the line at about 2012-13, for the time being. That's around the time of the Sword Art Online / Attack on Titan streaming boom, and when HD resolutions became more solidified. A lot of the late-00s/early 10s stuff was either upscaled for broadcast, or produced at mid-level resolutions in the 500p-800p range. |
| In video games it is generally agreed upon that things are considered "retro" after 15 years, so I would consider stuff from 2010 and prior to be "retro" or "old" in the case of Japanese animation. 2015 is still within the time period where its not really "retro" but not really "new" imo |
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| not the fossils in this thread thinking that everyone's definition of old is only gonna be anime from the stone ages. |
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| For me anything pre-2010 I consider to be old |
| Censorship is vandalism. |
| If the involved graphics changed a lot, I will say it is an old anime. I don`t think in the last 10 years there was a huge graphical anime update like 4:3 and 16:9 (low res to high res) division were. But I can accept that for some people anime that is one year old or more is old. It just does not feel old. |
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| Anything in the 90's or earlier. 2000's anime when i watch it feels modern, like it's the transitional point to what we have now. I've seem 2000's anime that i genuinely didn't know were older when i saw them |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Anything pre-2000 for me, or 2001 if you want to be more accurate. The diferentiation between cel and digital people pointed out is a good argument, I simply go by centuries. |
| 60s anime is very different from 90s anime. The problem with calling everything "old" is that it does nothing to distinguish between them. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| 20 years old is enough for a show to be old |
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| Old anime is anything that was made before 2000. |
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I'd say 2007 and below, i know 2007 is a very random year but it just sounds right if that makes sense. |
| The way I see it I feel like I personally sort anime eras into groups like this: * extremely-old stuff (like, early animation techniques) * 1980s/1990s stuff * late 1990s-2000s * 2010s to now I might split that last group up but I'm not yet sure when to draw the line. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| It feels like there's a difference between anime from before 2010 and after, so anything before 2010 just feels old to me. |
Nurguburu said: 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. Of course people are reluctant to classify stuff they watched when they were younger as old (myself included). It forces them to admit they are old too and now they must grapple with their own mortality. |
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