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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You can clearly tell the people complaining are the same type of people "trolling" good animation on /a/ (when really they're being completely sincere) and that others enjoyed this quite a bit.

Some random normalfag who's into Japanese games, the type of person who enjoys games like Okami, would instantly realize that this is meant to be sketchy and have a weird look to it. It's not the appreciation of "sakuga" that is a learned behavior, but the kneejerk negative reaction to anything that looks different. People read on websites like TVTropes that "off model" is bad, that sketchy art is bad, etc, so they suddenly start going "ANIMATION FAIL XD" when they normally wouldn't have done that or been seriously bothered by it.

In fact, the idea that you have to be a "sakuga expert" to appreciate such visuals seems more smug to me than just calling Naruto kids dumb. Even freaking mainstream music videos use artwork like this.