Animation Appreciation Thread #3

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

Animation Blogs [Eng]:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/

Animation Twitters [Eng]:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

Previous threads:
#1 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1291816034
#2 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1314681601

I want to move away from using the term "Sakuga" as it often alienates people and can be misleading. There has been a bit of backlash against the Sakuga movement lately, and I'd like to think many people come to this thread to talk about the animation and visual aspect of anime, which is something that often gets overlooked elsewhere. It would be nice if we could get a wider appreciation of visuals in the anime fandom without being seen as elitists.

I'm sure nobody here watches Gundam Age but the last episode (20) was really good, Tanaka Hironori made an appearance out of all people.

He was responsible for the high speed duel part I guess since the suits were disproportionate and unusually agile, the trajectory of the laser swords was also pretty stylish, very Tanaka like drawings in any case. It didn't look like something you'd usually see in a mecha show but really gave the scene a nice touch there.

Overall a really good fight, even for the usually high Sunrise standards that was upper level. Some other parts I liked were the "Buster Kick" cut and Ootsuka's signature pose and attack at the end.