I know people often use the late 90s as the cutoff point because that was when studios started switching to digital in droves, but there were cel holdovers that were produced in the 2000s (2010s if you count Sazae-san), like the 2003 Astro Boy reboot and the first season of Mahromatic
anything older than 10 years is retro
>>291324137"Retro" does not mean "old".
If your criteria is cel-animated, then just call it cel-animated, no need to overcomplicate your language.
Anything on cels is retro
>>291324137if you have to ask the answer is no
Anything older than one generation is retro. So 20-30 years. So, yeah more or less.
i just hate when people use the word cel. Fuck off.
>>291324137Anything older than Madoka is retro
>>291325029But that's literally the proper name, isn't it? They used cels for the animation.
>>291325029Autism
>>291324137Yes.>>291324330>zoomerslop like Steins Gate, SAO and AOT are retroNo.
>>291325289Zoomers are approaching their thirties now
>>291325029
>>291324936retro anime is synonymous with digital still. that won't change for a while longer
>>291325592non digital*
Physical Cel animation = RetroDigital animation = Not Retro
>>291324137By now, I would say that retro covers up to when widescreen took off. 2005 where just about everything was 4:3 is definitely retro, 06-07 where you got some shows made in widescreen 480p are edge cases, 08 and on where high definition took off is still relatively modern. It also fits the general paradigm shift that Haruhi caused in the industry.
>>291325029want to call it trad animation?
>>291325289>_____slopYou're younger than the people you're mocking>Steins;Gate/SAOThe target audience of these shows when they released are 30-40 years old now.
>>291326901someone a few years ago called me a zoomer because I mentioned Gundam Seed being my teenage-defining anime
>>291326944>that 55 year old zoomer who watched robotech
>>291326944well what do you expect when anyone older than 30 is called a boomer.
>>291326096i propose boomertech
>>291325750Excel Saga is retro though.
>>291324137it's called uncslop and you're cringe and gay for liking it
>>291324137a certain board goes with ps2 being retro, meaning essentially 06 and older, however the limit was dc and older beforeanother board is described by "shit at games"that stems from ps2 players and newer, who can look absolutely retarded trying arcade/dc gamesthus an era can relate to what is used, but retro is a timeframe
>>291325592No, I'm half saying that retro isn't a useful term. The other half is, as you've outlined, that retro has more criteria than just being on cel and that it's not strictly a reference to a particular time or method but rather a term of convenience based on the state of the industry.
>>291324137MA HO RO
>>291324137Yes, but only the portions that are made in Cel, like how Mahoromatic and Galaxy Angel only used cel in season 1 but dropped it in season 2, so only season 1 counts, other anime series used cel untilm 2002 like UFO Baby which used cel animation during it's entire run and looks like an early 90s anime as a result
>>291328871>>291328932Only season 1 was any good, the cel animation looked way better and it was pretty funny, season 2 went full anime original with it's content and retarded "End Of Eva" style anime original ending on top of having worse animation and looking cheaper after they switched to digital paint
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>>291325750>silent movies = retro>talkies = not retro
>>291326096Machi in 99 HxH is so fucking hot, like fuck
>>291329048>>291329062For me it was the big titty teacher
I love this era
>>291324137Whys it so fucking impossible to find footage of that last cel animated sazae san episode
>>291324137Everything from before 2020 is already retro
