Animation Appreciation thread #18

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Appreciate animation pls

When was Imaishi's animation ever better than his storyboarding? People remember him for stuff like FLCL 5, RCH1, Dead Leaves and TTGL 8... but he didn't do a particularly high amount of key animation for any of them. All the key scenes were done by other people.

He directed Hideaki Anno's favorite anime OP of all time yet he didn't do any KA for it (Hiramatsu was AD): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM9_WHbm3OE