Animation Appreciation Thread #9

The Sakuga Wiki [JP] - http://www18.atwiki.jp/sakuga/
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/

Other websites: http://pastebin.com/r2Vcy4b2

Animation on Twitter, Tumblr and Youtube:
http://pastebin.com/CQa8wU3q

Previous threads:
#1 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1291816034 | #2 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1314681601
#3 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1325612276 | #4 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1336754773
#5 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1346337747 | #6 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1349463339
#7 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1350859696 | #8 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1353020474

>>532

Hyouka was brought into the picture here just now plenty of times because it doesn't have only great animation (as do the dance sessions in idolmaster, which, if you look in the previous threads, were often talked about - I think they were done after references btw, not rotoscoped)  but also good colour direction and lighting, very nice effects, CG that blends in well, clever composition etc, or in short, what the average Joe would call "nice visuals" (can't really say that about idolmaster, can we agree on this? Even though I liked it quite a lot myself).

The general puzzlement was: if they don't care about animation per se, but visuals "as a whole", how come something like Hyouka which ticks all the boxes for that doesn't even get a mention?