I've been a fan of anime for a while now. I've always thought of Old School Anime as the stuff that came before my time, like Lupin, Speed Racer, Voltron, and Transformers. Lately though I started to question that assumption. I've heard people refer to anime like Sailor Moon and Tenchi Muyo as being Old School, too.
What makes an anime Old/New School? Is it just a matter of when it was made? If so, where's the cut off line?
2007-07-18 19:24:10 · 6 answers · asked by Fey Wind 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
It all depends on your perspective, so there is no real answer to this question.
Some people go by time, but have their own cut off between old and new school. I am old enough to remember seeing Astro Boy back in the 60's and I call that old school, but some people thing 80's is old school, and others 90's
Some people go by style, and that too is opinion, its hard to zero in on an exact style of animation and the style change to make it old or new school. Some people go by the art overall, some focus on characters (eyes, mouth, body proportions, hands, feet) some people go on context of the anime (samurais old school, giant robots new school) some people would say the genre (Sailor Moon was an old school 'Magical Girl' anime and the ones after that are new school) some people go by Series (all the Gundams except the latest Gundam are old school) and some people go by the manga publication (the manga is still being published now, so the anime is new school)
2007-07-18 21:02:35 · answer #1 · answered by Nikk Strife 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can distinguish between old school and modern. The new techniques that the artists use are top-notch. I'm not usually a praiser of Anime, but I will admit that the artists are very, very talented. The new Anime actually has a variety of looks. The old Anime made everyone look... like Anime.
Check out some old Dragonball episodes (different from Dragonball "Z").
Koreans and Chinese try to imitate Anime, as do a few non-Asian artists, but the Japanese just have a touch that can't be imitated. I'm not Japanese, by the way.
2007-07-19 02:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by perfectlybaked 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I refer to old school anime as the ones that started a new genre and the industry in Japan and US. The ones the 20+ yr otakus have grew up with.
Like Slayers, Saint Seiya, Devil Man.
2007-07-19 02:31:08 · answer #3 · answered by Raul T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hime-chan no Ribbon was made in 1992 and has 61 episodes it's really cute!
Marmalade boy is cute too it was made in 1995 and I thin it has 52 episodes.
you can find hime-chan no ribbon on crunchyroll.com you have to sign up but it's an awesome website
you can find marmalade boy on veoh.com
2007-07-27 01:31:33 · answer #4 · answered by Riss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think old school anime are the ones who seems like an old fashion way story...
2007-07-27 02:01:00 · answer #5 · answered by Chelly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for me every 90's anime and lower is old school
like yaiba
2007-07-19 02:45:33 · answer #6 · answered by Eternal Damnation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋