History Main / OldSchoolBuilding

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': In the first anime, this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.

%%* ''Comic Party Revolution''
* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': The climax of the sixth movie takes place in the abandoned school building of the Reien Girls' Academy.
* ''Anime/HauntedJunction'' has a whole story where the Supernatural Student Council deals with one, which in reality [[spoiler: is a very old school in Aomori, which is about to be closed down and destroyed. Since the school ghosts know that this is a death sentence for them, they fall in despair and decide to start kidnapping students from Saitou High to forcibly enroll them in the school and survive. The Student Council manages to convince them otherwise, and the whole building is taken to the Saitou grounds.]]
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'': The [[ClubStub Earth Science Club]] is located in a neglected building at the back of the campus.
* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'': An old school building serves as the headquarters for the student council.
* ''Anime/LoveLiveSuperstar'': The School Idol Club room is located in the very back corner of the top floor of the main school building. Chisato takes the time to point out a few oddities, as every other club is in a brand-new club building elsewhere on the grounds, and when they get there an antiquated nameplate with their club name on it is already on the door frame.

* This is where most of ''Fanfic/AttackOfTheTeacherCreature'' takes place.

* ''VideoGame/{{Detention}}'' takes place in a haunted school.

* ''Manga/GhostHunt'' - Mai meets Naru when he is investigating the OSB at her school.
* In ''Anime/GhostStories'', the old school building is located behind the new one and it becomes a center of paranormal activities.
* ''LightNovel/GJBu'' - School clubs are located in one of these. As a result, the GJ Club's clubroom has no cooling nor warming, and leaks when it rains.
* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' - In "Smoke and Mirrors", someone trying to hide a DarkSecret in an old school building commits several murders to keep the truth from coming to light.
* ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}'' - Destroyed in episode 13.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' - In the first anime, this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.

* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' - an extremely dilapidated version used for an illicit {{kimodameshi}}.
* ''Anime/UtaKata'' - The show starts with Ichika and friends cleaning the OSB (which is rather pointless since it is demolished not long after).

* The climax of the sixth ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie takes place in the abandoned school building of the Reien Girls' Academy.

* In ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', the [[ClubStub Earth Science Club]] is located in a neglected building at the back of the campus.
* In ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'', an old school building serves as the headquarters for the student council.
* In ''Anime/LoveLiveSuperstar'', the School Idol Club room is located in the very back corner of the top floor of the main school building. Chisato takes the time to point out a few oddities, as every other club is in a brand-new club building elsewhere on the grounds, and when they get there an antiquated nameplate with their club name on it is already on the door frame.

* ''Literature/{{Another}}'' - this is where [[spoiler:the ApocalypticLog from the only class that stopped the disaster]] is located. The building itself is actually in active use for art lessons etc., but the classrooms moved to the newer part of the school some time after [[spoiler: Reiko was a member of the Class 3 that stopped the Calamity.]]

* ''VisualNovel/TheUnforgivingFlowersBlossomInTheDeadOfNight'': This is the building where Marie is raped by her teacher in the first story; and her "house" after she becomes a yōkai.

* ''VisualNovel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi'' - This is the building where Marie is raped by her teacher in the first story; and her "house" after she becomes a yōkai.
* A plot point in VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof. One of the school buildings was rebuilt after Sachi (one of the titular Kindred Spirits) died and as such she can't enter the new school building [[spoiler:unless possessing Yuna]]. And since the old building houses the third year class rooms Megumi, who died while she was still a first year can't enter the old building since she never went there in life. The roof of the new building serves as neutral ground of sort since it's the same height of the older structure from when Sachi was alive so she can visit it.

This trope is TheArtifact in most cases. In the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war era]], Japan went through an educational reform as demanded by the USA. This brought along an immediate need for new, modern school buildings, and most in use today were constructed during the Shōwa 30s (1955-1965 era). The new ones would be set up next to the existing old school buildings and sometimes the old building became incorporated into the new building. Either the old building (portion) would be abandoned immediately or become used less and less. Half a century later, they've nearly all been demolished or modernized. That said, new school buildings were only built where they were a sound investment, so many rural and suburban schools continued to make use of wooden buildings up until the early 21st Century. Nowadays, these are abandoned not because of any new buildings, but because there aren't enough children anymore in those areas to make it worthwhile having a school around at all. Some have been repurposed for other community needs, others are maintained by the locals just because, and again others are exactly the kind of place you'd expect to run into a ghost in.

* ''Manga/DuskMaidenOfAmnesia''

* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan''
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' - In the first anime, this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.
* ''Manga/OresamaTeacher''

* ''Comic Party Revolution''
* The climax of the sixth ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' movie takes place in the abandoned school building of the Reien Girls' Academy.

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* ''[[{{Literature/Another}} Another]]'' - this is where [[spoiler:the ApocalypticLog from the only class that stopped the disaster]] is located. The building itself is actually in active use for art lessons etc., but the classrooms moved to the newer part of the school some time after [[spoiler: Reiko was a member of the Class 3 that stopped the Calamity.]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' - In the first anime this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': The clock tower at Brentwood Academy is boarded up and no longer used. This makes it easy for the Langstrom family, who are all stuck as manbats without their memories of humanity, to move in which in which turn earns the tower rumors of being haunted.

* Shows up in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/90939/1/shell-shock/the-tower Shell Shock]]'' by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/kalash93 Kalash93]]. It's an interesting example, because it's a former monastery converted into a school that is now being used by the army as a watch tower.

* ''VisualNovel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi'' - This is the building where Marie is raped by her teacher in the first story ; and her "house" after she becomes a yōkai.

This trope is TheArtifact in most cases. In the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war era]], Japan went through an educational reform as demanded by the USA. This brought along an immediate need for new, modern school buildings, and most in use today were constructed during the Shōwa 30s (1955-1965 era). The new ones would be set up next to the existing old school buildings and sometimes the old building became incorporated into the new building. Either the old building (portion) would be abandoned immediately or become used less and less. Half a century later, they've nearly all been demolished or modernized. That said, new school buildings were only built where they were a sound investment, so many rural and suburban schools continued to make use of wooden buildings up until the early 21st Century. Nowadays, these are abandoned not because of any new buildings, but because there aren't enough children anymore in those areas to make it worthwhile having a school around at all. Some have been repurposed for other community needs, others are maintained by the locals just because, and again others are exactly the kind of place you'd expect to run into a ghost.

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 TheSevenMysteries and may be used for {{Kimodameshi}}.

* ''Film/JuliaX'': After escaping from The Stranger and fleeing through the swamp, Julia takes refuge in an old abandoned school.

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* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' has a haunted old school as the main setting. That school itself contains two buildings, one of which [[spoiler:(the wing that disappears and reappears seemingly at random)]] is in a noticeably older architectural style. [[spoiler:It's where Sachiko and her mother were murdered in 1953. Also, it’s [[GeniusLoci sentient.]]]]

* One of the buildings on the campus of [[ElaborateUniversityHigh Leafmore High School]] in ''VideoGame/ObsCure'' is a dorm that was left abandoned after students went missing due to Principal Friedman kidnapping them for his ''[[TheCorruption mortifilia]]'' experiments.

* ''Manga/NurarihyonNoMago''

[[IThoughtItMeant Not related to building things the old way, without concrete and lift cranes]].

* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' has a haunted old school as the main setting. That school itself contains two buildings, one of which [[spoiler:(the wing that disappears and reappears seemingly at random)]] is in a noticeably older architectural style. [[spoiler:It's where Sachiko and her mother were murdered in 1953.]]

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* ''VisualNovel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi'' - This is the building where Marie is raped by her teacher in the first story ; and her "house" after she becomes a yōkai.