Sakuga Thread #1

So here's an attempt at to get some long term Sakuga discussion going here.

Some Links:
The Sakuga Wiki [JP] - http://www18.atwiki.jp/sakuga/
ANN - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/

English Sakuga Blogs:
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/

English Sakuga Twitters:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

To start things off, here's a Summer Wars MAD with Key animator's listed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpoHxWV3IG0

Houkago no Pleiades was reasonably disappointing. Shouji Saeki's storyboards and scene compositions were really nice, but his script was certainly lacking in punch. And the animation was spontaneously good (in obvious places) but mostly very limited, with some obvious shortcuts.


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Tanaka Hironori doing uncredited work seems very unlikely to me. The effect animation is similar to his, but it's also a style shared by a number of animators. It was actually the hair in some places that made me think of him.

Genga list for this anime:

井畑翔太　池田志乃　大杉尚広　清水空翔　徳永さやか
山崎愛　堤舞　相澤澄江

河野恵美　横山なつき　坂本勝　岩崎将大　春藤佳奈
三宮昌太　米山舞　小野田将人

ANIHOUSE SUN
金鐘憲　李成鎮

Notables:

Shimizu Souto
Kouno Megumi

..really nothing in the way of prominent Gainax animators. Either they saw this as an opportunity for some less experienced animators to handle something, or they didn't care much for this project.

I would do a blog post on this, but it doesn't seem worth it unless we get some more info on who did what scenes, because they're hard to place with all these unfamiliar faces at the top of the genga credits. The only thought I've heard was Kouno Megumi handling the fireball scene in part 4.