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.

Since this is no longer a sakuga only, but an anime appreciation thread. Now that pretty much everything this season is out, what anime do you think have the best overall animation quality (not only best sakuga)

I'd go for Hyouka, Lupin and Apollon a distant third. Lupin's been talked before I assume so it's self-explanatory. Hyouka only got one episode out but the motion was pretty fluid throughout with few stills, also using nice looking computer rendered backgrounds (in that scene where Hotaro meets Eru for example, the desk and those book shelves and the room as a whole didn't look bad at all). Not to mention that really good hair tangling scene etc

Apollon has mainly the performace scenes going for it, and the crowd scenes (especially from ep, 1). The fighting is kinda derp with frame skips at times but eh. It works. Backgrounds are nice and all.