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.

>>396
We're talking about the story and writing of the show but about its animation and craft - which was the whole point of the notion above - and in that regard it was clearly more interesting than any of this season's shows or AnoHana/AnoMatsu for that matter.

There were episodes which delivered a strong emotional punch by using just the right animators during the right moments (in particular 13,16,19,23), there were episodes which succeeded at delivering a precise and nuanced storyboard drawing out the characteristics of the cast and setting (1,14,19,25), there were episodes which were simply fun to watch because of the lively and idiotic cast in motion (4,5,7,9).

I don't think it's a particularly good show but it is one that was well executed and interesting regardless of what one might think of it as a whole. The same also applies to Milky Holmes for example.

>>393
Yeah, seen the videos above and certainly it looks like Milky Holmes 2 delivers much like the first season. I wish J.C.Staff would make more such interesting stuff but tone down the otaku fanservice until none is left, which was what annoyed me the most about Toradora, Milky Holmes and Ookami-san.

Is Kill Me Baby actually as interesting and fun as the few bits in those videos made it out to be? Looks like it goes exactly in the direction I meant.