Old School Building
One of the staples of school settings in anime and manga is the Old School Building (Kyuukousha), an old wooden building (or wing) on the grounds that is often used as storage, for clubrooms, or just left abandoned, seemingly left behind when the rest of the school was at some point renovated or rebuilt. If derelict it is most likely haunted (or believed to be), so will be the subject of at least one of The Seven Mysteries and may be used for Kimodameshi.
Not related to building things the old way, without concrete and lift cranes.
Examples of Old School Building include:
- Comic Party Revolution
- Ghost Hunt - Mai meets Naru when he is investigating the OSB at her school.
- Ghost Stories
- Haruhi Suzumiya - The SOS clubroom is in the old wing of the school.
- Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni
- High School DxD - The location of the Occult Club.
- The climax of the sixth Kara no Kyoukai movie takes place in the abandoned school building of the Reien Girls' Academy.
- The Kindaichi Case Files - A murderer trying to hide a Dark Secret in an old school building commits several murders to keep the truth from coming to light.
- Maburaho - Destroyed in episode 13.
- Manabi Straight! - The student council re-opens and renovates the OSB after the original council room is destroyed by lightning.
- Nurarihyon no Mago
- Mahou Sensei Negima - In the first anime this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.
- Ore-sama Teacher
- Tasogare Otome x Amnesia
- To LOVE-Ru
- Uta Kata - The show starts with Ichika and friends cleaning the OSB (which is rather pointless since it is demolished not long after).
- Another - this is where the Apocalyptic Log from the only class that stopped the disaster is located.