What makes an anime a classic?


I remember when one of Hayao Miyazaki's films came out, it was considered a
new classic. What makes the anime a new classic.




... Is this regarding Howl's Moving Castle?

It was based on a classic fantasy novel (by Diana Wynne Jones) so maybe some
people were actually referring it to a new take on a classic, or it was
classic in the sense that people knew it was going to be a classic because the
quality of that film was on that tier. Kind of like how in the same way Disney
movies turn out to be classics even when a new film comes out because of it's
rich history in making classic animated movies.

