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.

Milky Holmes didn't really have many otaku pandering moments IIRC. If anything it parodied a lot of cliche'd pandering elements from other anime

on the subject of Milky Holmes, S2 has been good but it hasn't had any really amazing stand out episodes yet (well I guess episode 3 was kinda stand out). S1 had episode like 6 and 12 with all those gags and jokes stuck right in the imbetween animation which was pretty amazing. S2 hasn't delivered that kind of creativity yet but it seems to be building up to something. Hope the last couple of episodes are glorious sakugafests and whatnot