Animation Appreciation Thread #20

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The thing about Kanada "copy cats" is that they are very specific in what they copy, it is almost the very extreme kind of animation seen from the 80s, in things like Birth. Imaishi, Amemiya, Itsuki Imazaki etc.. do this.

We do know Kanada wasn't just a one trick pony he was always developing his own art and style, he even worked on several Ghibli movies. He even worked on the original Gundam where he channelled a lot more realistic style of animation which Ichiro Itano picked up on.

In my opinion, the Kanada style (as seen through Imaishi & others) has a limit. There is a reason animators in the past who were Kanada style moved on to become real style animators. Ohira, Iso, Hisashi Mori used to be Kanada style animators then they underwent changes and turned into great realist(surrealist?) animators.

If you want to continue doing that kind of action, then animators continue to develop the Kanada style into their own sense, Seiya Numata, Takeshi Koike, Masami Obari, Keisuke Watabe, even Kameda etc.. These guys transformed the Kanada style into something else.

Kameda already had a good balance of realism in his work but seems to want to push himself even further. Who knows, he could turn into a new Mori, Iso or Ohira.