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.

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I think what other people were saying is that there are no consistently interestingly animated shows around, which I kind of agree. Sure I like all the bank animation and the fights in Smile Precure, Gundam Age had a string of nice episodes and there's as expected a decent amount of nice stuff in the Satelight shows but it's mostly just the usual short and impressive half minute bits here and there, much like Nisemonogatari which at least is a bit more solid than Bake and most Shaft shows, Madoka and Yet the Town Moves exempted. From the little I've seen AnoNatsu seems like the strongest contender, which is kind of given with the Nagai/Tanaka combination, but to be honest it's just more AnoHana and as a whole nowhere as interesting as let's say Toradora.

But I'm really not complaining here, most of those show are watchable (if I were to give a rating it'd be around 5-6/10) and the little sparks are nice enough to see.

That said I've not seen Milky Holmes 2 yet, which the first season of had some really interesting episodes - content of the show aside. One thing I definitely liked is the ending variation in Inu x Boku, albeit some of the content is more repulsive again.

Thanks for linking those videos anyway, will view them later. Condensed good animation is always a nice watch.