great tier

last 20 minutes of oshi no ko
heavenly delusion
skip to loafer

good tier

birdie wing s2
magical destroyers

mushoku tensei s2 died for this tier

idolmaster u149

not very good but at least its fun tier (aka isekai containment zone)

isekai one turn kill neesan
aristocrat reborn in another world
I Got a Cheat Ability in a Different World, and Became Extraordinary Even in the Real World
kaminaki

watchable tier

gundam
middle 20 minutes of oshi no ko
konosuba megumin version

whatever tier

boku yaba
insomnia
first 20 minutes of oshi no ko

boring tier

yamada lv 999
alice gear
jigokuraku
kizuna no allele
my clueless first friend

s*** tier

my home hero

ep 1 power rankings:
oshi no goat
skip to loafer
(big power gap)
boku yaba
yamada
heavenly delusion
demon slayer
birdie wing
konosuba megumin
jigokuraku
clueless first friend (dropped)

Didn’t know what to expect with Oshi no ko
Hype level
Heavenly delusion
Oshi no ko
Hells paradise
Skip to loafer
Demon slayer
Mashle
Gundam
Dr stone
My home hero

y’all really watching all that s***?

lmao i’ma peep Heavenly Delusion tho! and Gundam of course, gotta see my girl Suletta smashing s***

only watching G-Witch, Heavenly Delusion and Vinland Saga atm

sidenote: new gunpla otw

what in the hell is that tier list

i got

gundam witch s2
mashle
hells paradise
ousama ranking special
konosuba
my home hero
maybe oshi no ko idk anything about it

probably gonna do demon slayer too but havent seen the movie or s2 yet

My Star

Holy f*** they dropped a whole ass movie for a first episode?

damn how’d you miss s2 of Demon Slayer, that s*** was pretty nice

“mushoku tensei s2 died for this tier”

thought season 1 of demon slayer was alright so i wasnt really in a rush to see season 2

i’m with you on that. s2 is like a better and more streamlined s1 tho

damn i forgot about demon slayer slackin

like a year ago i listened to a podcast talking about oshi no ko, so i knew what the first ep was gonna cover, but i completely forgot about that part until just before it happened. i think the first volume ended on that part and that's all they discussed so i have no idea what comes next but i'm super interested

skip and loafer

oshi no ko

heavenly delusion

magical destroyers

insomniacs after school

cafe terrace

gundam

hell's paradise

i finally got someone to watch this s***

Animator Spotlight: Takafumi Hori

All gifs in order
Samurai Champloo (2004)
Redline (2009)
Omae Omasu Da Nae (2010)
Little Witch Academia OVA (2013)
Kill La Kill (2013)
Space Dandy (2014)
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade (2015)
Space Patrol Luluco (2016)
Steven Universe (2016)
Little Witch Academia (2017)
Darling in the Franxx (2018)
Carole and Tuesday (2019)
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Ok K.O.! Lets be Heroes (2019)
Promare (2019)
Lupin III: Fujiko Mine’s Lie (2019)

Time to cover Takafumi Hori. Yes this one is very late, but due to time and circumstances I couldn’t cover him last month on the 12th also due to him being born the same day as the super well known Takeshi Honda but here it is. Hori has been a saint in regards to fostering a streak of some of Studio Trigger’s best moments. He’s one of the top animators at and outside of the studio, also cumulating a resumé later in American animation like Steven Universe. So lets talk about his journey, what his strengths are and how he became an ace at Trigger and beyond.

Takafumi Hori from his inception wasn’t necessarily interested in animation from the start more so in film. He graduated from The Film Department at Musashino University of Arts, and won the Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival with a short called A Story of The Night’s Moon, the same year he would join Nippon Animation as an episode assistant director. Shortly after he’d move on to studio Madhouse, and this where he would come into his own as an animator.

Yes, Hori would have done some KA for Hajime No Ippo, but most would not be identified. I believe it was quite simple scenes. Throughout the years he’d do pretty trivial animation on some pretty basic titles for the time in the early 00s, but that would begin to change in 2003 when he would key animate on Takeshi Koike’s Trava Fist Planet. Though he wouldn’t have any standout scenes this would sow the seeds of fortunes by him meeting two of Gainax’s top animators Hiroyuki Imaishi and Yoh Yoshinari. Yoshinari’s animation in particular would start to have a big influence on him, and though this title wouldn’t have likely been his first exposure to Yoshinari’s animation it would it opened the door for him to animate with more identity.

His identity would start to come to fruition in 2004 with Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo, this would be some of the first truly identifiable KA we would see from Hori. From the get go his animation is very fast and quick. Being placed on sword fight scenes for such a young animator to be in charge of is a tough ask, and Hori pulled it off incredibly well.

Hori from 0:00 to 0:56

Hori from 0:49 to 1:01

The following years, Hori would do brief KA on several shows, Naruto Shippuden and Michiko and Hatchin are two noteworthy but the one he primarily worked on the most would be Koike’s Redline in 2009. Out of all the other animators who worked on Redline the animator with the most scenes credited would be Hori himself. Tangoing with a animation force that is Takeshi Koike I imagine is incredibly difficult, and the mind-boggling degree of consistency Hori is able to keep paced at with Koike is to be admired. Not only is he juggling crowd scenes, warping animation, and character designs but also staying on model with cars.

As for character designs Hori wouldn’t show any very obvious corrections by Koike, and had a bit more of a simplified look for most characters.

The next couple years Hori would make some subtle changes to his animation, but a major one would come on the animal movie Omae Umasou da na. An obvious Yoh Yoshinari influence would show in his animation on a dinosaur fight scene in the film, a lot of the grounded fight choreography would have shades of Otonari’s work on FLCL. sakugabooru.com/post/show/193683
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