classic

The back-and-forth between Hidoshi of That’s Not Kanon and the anonymous author of Ani-Nouto about classic anime made me think about not exactly what should be consider a classic, but rather how old must be something be before becoming a candidate in the first place. The argument over what is and is not a classic is a subjective one while devising a method for making something a candidate for classification is a step toward objectivity. So the following is my suggested method of qualifying anime for consideration of classifying them as classics.
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