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

Why no one here mentions You Are Umasou? I think its animation is terrific. Is it true that Ajia-Do only uses its own key animators and not freelance ones? Keeping all that work in-house (except for some secondary contract work) for such a good movie is mighty impressive.

>>521
I watched a few episodes of the TV series, and I thought it was quirky and cute. I haven't watched the movie, though.

Hmmm, I only know Masaaki Yuasa debuted on Ajia-Do, but nothing else. I would think they'd only use few animators on their projects, though, since they strike me as the ultimate "limited" animation studio along with Shin-Ei.

>>521

Wasn't a subbed movie just uploaded today?
Will check it out.

>>523

>>521 here. Yeah, this is why I mentioned it. I've seen the movie today and it is really good. It has that A-Pro charisma that also shares with some of the Shin-Ei Doga works, after all Ajia-Do and Shin-Ei are like brothers, no?

March '11 Sakuga summary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkBfbrzuZ6o

>>524
More or less, yeah. Ajia-Do and Shin-Ei share similar stylistic approaches in their anime after all.

I remember only Shin-Ei split from A-Pro, but maybe Ajia-Do did that as well.

>>526

>>521 here. Some related information from Ben of AniPages Daily:

"Shin-Ei lost a number of other key players from the A Production era at this time. Yoshifumi Kondo, one of the studio's star animators, left with Otsuka to help on Conan, but also wound up never coming back. Osamu Kobayashi and Tsutomu Shibayama, the two figures who helped to create what became known as the A Pro style through their innovative work on shows like Dokonjo Gaeru and Ganso Tensai Bakabon, left in 1978 to form their own studio, Ajia-Do. In addition to the above-mentioned Nippon Animation shows, Shin-Ei had also subcontracted some work on Group Tac's Manga Nihon Mukashibanashi, and Ajia-Do is the collective pen-name under which Shibayama and Kobayashi had been credited for their work on the show, hence the new studio's name. Both would, however, continue to be intimately tied to Shin-Ei. Other animators who left with them to join Ajia-Do included Michishiro Yamada, Hideo Kawauchi and Yumiko Suda."

So, it is something like this; A-Pro > Shin-Ei Doga > Ajia-Do. And since then, the last two have collaborated regularly. Pretty cool, eh?

>>527
Oh, wow, thanks for that. Ben's post on A Pro's history is just incredible. It's pretty cool for splinter studios to still work with their parent companies every once in a while.

Like how Kusube continued to work with Toei even after leaving, and working for TMS.

That's how the industry works, often staff members just stay in touch.

Xebec was founded from Production IG members. Both have done joint anime productions in the past and right now. Nadesico movie was a joint. Break Blade is a joint.

Bones was founded from Sunrise. Cowboy Bebop movie was a joint.

Gonzo was founded off some Gainax members. Both have helped one another out in the past.

That's true. Of the three examples listed, it seems Bones is the only considerably successful one. They retained the original 90s Sunrise flavor in their works, which is nice. Great production quality too.

Manglobe is like that, only with a higher "cool" factor, but it seems they're stuck in a rut of adapting uninteresting manga/LNs at the moment.

X-MEN episode 1

Opening Animation:
Yutaka Minowa
Iwao Teraoka
Hiroya Iijima
Kunihiro Abe
Keisuke Watabe
Junichi Hayama
Sushio
Chikashi Kubota
Takanao Akai
Ai Yokoyama

Ending Animation:
Hiroshi Nagahama
Hiroya Iijima

Animation director:
Michinori Chiba

Key Animation:
Soichiro Matsuda
Yutaka Minowa
Keisuke Watabe
Kenichi Shimizu
Katsuya Kikuchi
Hiroya Iijima
Iwao Teraoka
Daiki Harada
Shigeki Kuhara
Se Jun Kim
Ai Yokoyama
Shin Wakabayashi
Pil Kang Kim
Shinji Itadaki
Yoshiaki Kyougoku
Kei Tsuchiya
Shinya Segawa
Ryouko Nakano
Yu Kato
Masaharu Tomoda
Hiroki Ikeshita
Junichiro Taniguchi
Koji Odate
Takanao Akai

2nd Key Animation:
Mai Tsutsumi
Mika Yamamoto
Miho Kato
Ryota Azuma
Shotaro Shimoda
Studio Wombat

Another March MAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOuq3iBKB5o

>>531
Wow, episode 1 of Wolverine looks good. Sushio working on the OP is a nice surprise.

>>533
Ah fuck, X-Men. Shit, sorry about that.

Finale of SRW OG Inspectors aired today.
It looked very good, probably the best looking of the series.

Staff:
Storyboard: Obari Masami, Masakazu Obara, Oogomori Yukihito
Director: Obari Masami, Nobuta Yuu, Oogomori Yukihito

Character ADs: Kabashima Yousuke, Oogomori Yukihito
Mecha ADs: Obari Masami, Okuno Hiroyuki, Yamane Masahiro

/Pretty much every main staffer was working on this.

Key Animation:
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7766/20110402015519703.jpg
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5371/20110402015626750.jpg

Can't really read it but some names that I can recognise are:

Katoki Hajime
Oogmori Yukihito, Kouno Sachiko
Yamane Masahiro, Kabashima Yousuke
Hamazaki Ken'ichi, Obari Masami

Kouno Sachiko is interesting as she is SRW's main character designer for the video games. Mostly likely got roped into doing a bit of animation almost 20 years after she retired to do Character Design and Artwork. Her last work was on Gundam 0083 OVA.

Another surprise is work from Mecha Designer Katoki Hajime, again, this is probably the first anime he's actually done animation drawings, his debut being in episode 8.

If anyone can spot any interesting names in the genga credits feel free to post about it as I'd really like to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiSpxVkmFzA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfF7HqZm_vA
Nichijou OP

THIS THREAD IS NOW LOCKED. Please refrain from further sakuga posts.

the deadman wonderland pv looked great, this season looks good in terms of animation

Ootsuka Ken is working on the Star Driver finale. This is going to be awesome.

very impressed with X-men's first episode, the animation was fantastic all around.

Sakuga MAD March Notes

http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/sakuga-mad-march-notes/

Such a shame I've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to discuss things in this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79LfWlQ9UWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA55bdHJhLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKXsatxLzY

Star Driver final episode is awesome.

Star Driver finale's notable key animators - Takahiro Komori, Soichirou Matsuda, Jun Arai, Hiroshi Tomioka, Hakuto Sakiyama, Takashi Hashimoto, Hironori Tanaka, Akira Amemiya, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Yasushi Muraki, Shingo Abe and Ken Ootsuka.

from liborek3's twitter

After SD and SRW, there won't be any awesome mecha animation for a long while. Until more Unicorn and Break Blade is released.

The first episode of nichijou has an interesting animation.
Nice to see KyoAni doing effect animation once in a while.

And people on /a/ still saying the animation is cheap because the show has a simplistic design.

>>546
I've already seen a few gifs of it. Its very good quality as always.
I just wish they made the final FMP season or some other action show..

>>546
>And people on /a/ still saying the animation is cheap because the show has a simplistic design.
Those guys are just trolls though.

>>545
Holy shit, that's an amazing line-up. I'm expecting 4 of those guys to come around for Nakamura's C soon.

Kou Yoshinari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXH_UFNarR0

>>550
Despite that nice scene, I don't have much intention to watch it. Doesn't seem all that good.

[gg] released yet another one!
http://www.ggkthx.org/2011/04/03/young-animator-training-project-%E2%80%93-wardrobe-dwellers/

I haven't seen the first 2 yet, has anyone been keeping up?

Gamers Heart Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVihDspGt6k

>>552
I've watched Telecom's Ojisan no Lamp and found it surprisingly layered. I'm planning to watch Mitsuru Hongo/Yuichiro Sueyoshi's work soon. Personally, I'm quite pumped for it.

The whole project looks good so far.

>>552
I watched Kizuna Ichigeki.
It's quite good, IMO.

>>552
Watched Kizuna Ichigeki as well. I enjoyed it alot.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck sakuga. Its trash

SAKUGA FANS ARE ALL DOUCHE BAGS<-This

>>558
I have to ask.. why do you hate this thread so much?

I'll tell you why I hate it. I used to be a Sakuga fan. You know, anime, manga, inuyasha. I liked all that shit. Then it all changed. I was posting in this thread. Then I got trolled. Now I hate sakuga as well as 4chan. That is why I troll.