he rlly ignored all the mid for Bleach

what does alt right mean

i see why lori harvey dumped his ass

I’m not American either I think it’s like you believe in conservative values but you’re like a new gen right

Ben Shapiro esque (or worse)

i blame 4chan for fostering that community

(mostly american) conservative white nationalist movement

Ah what a goat. F*** everything that's not bleach

I folded and started reading Vinland manga, I was too weak

Animator Spotlight: Shukou Murase

All gifs in order
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1992) Presumed
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) Presumed
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Presumed
Samurai Champloo (2004)
Ergo Proxy (2006) Presumed
Michiko and Hatchin (2008)
Dante’s Inferno (2010) Presumed
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Episode 3 (2016)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Episode 7 (2016)
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway’s Flash (2021)

Happy Early Birthday to Shukou Murase. One of the foremost important figures in 90s Gundam character design departments at Sunrise, and moving beyond to becoming an interesting director, Murase’s aesthetics ooze with a casual edginess that cannot be understated. The character designs from the 90s have such a rebellious no-nonsense look, and his modern designs maintain that but have evolved to be much more astute and realistic. He has directed various tv-series outside of Gundam and has made a name for himself by translating all of that into dark intrigue and impeccable vibes.

Murase started his career in the mid 80s working his way up as an in-between artist, though he initially was a hire in as a hand drawn illustrator. He got very lucky and was fast, and someone was able to land a role as a character designer on Samurai Troopers Gaiden distributed by Sunrise in 1989. He was also able to get key animation and animation director credits on Episode 1 and 2, somewhat of a prodigy despite being only 26 at the time.

From the jump its easy to see the uncouth and youthful rebellion in Murase’s designs, and it would start a trend going into the future.

After doing animation on Ronin Warriors and Nadia, Murase would debut on Gundam with Mobile Suit Gundam F91 directed by series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino released on March 16th, 1991.

Murase did about 2 plus minutes of KA and he really stands out. Though Murase would not consider animation his strong suit as an artist this opening scene says otherwise
sakugabooru.com/post/show/20694\. We get a great setup from the layout, and Murase’s attention to detail on each Mobile Suit is impeccable. He also did a fair bit of character acting with the floating in space scene being a standout sakugabooru.com/post/show/222538
Murase was also hired to be an animation director as well and helped correct some action sections including an animator around the same age as him, Tadashi Hiramatsu who’d go onto be a very successful animator and CD during 2000s Gainax sakugabooru.com/post/show/83805.

After F91 Murase was brought on to a tv-movie called Ai Monogatari as a character designer. This is pretty significant for Murase as on the “Let’s Spend The Night Together” segment he did KA, AD, and CD by himself. There is some especially raunchy and sensual animation in the segment sakugabooru.com/post/show/216366

Back to Gundam Murase would helm animation to two 0083 projects Stardust Memory and Afterglow of Zeon. On Memory Murase does a fair bit of Gundam sakuga, putting together a pretty nice fight scene on Episode 10. Though its unknown which cuts are his here. sakugabooru.com/post/show/156733\. Its is not known which cuts he did on Zeon

After doing an opening sequence, on Mama is a 4th Grader, Murase would be brought on to Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, though this animation is much more simpler and doesn’t contain the highs of F91 or Stardust Memory Murase is adept as hell and is decent pick for doing gentle character acting scenes, and rudimentary actions sakugabooru.com/post/show/189315\. He was also animation director on several episodes where he showed up.

On Street Fighter II Murase would pen down more of his head on designs, and get flexible with the real raunchiness and power of the characters from the franchise. Steaming up the provocativeness.

Then we get to Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and also Endless Waltz. One of Murase’s only contributions to the Non-UC Gundam timeline, specifically the “After Colony” timeline. Murase was brought on as the primary character designer, and his touch for the characters become more husky and jagged. Making for some his most iconic designs.



Murase also contributed a bit of KA to the show, importantly on the second opening “Rhythm Emotion”

Murase presumed 1:13 to end working alongside mecha animator Hirotoshi Sano one of the pinnacle mech animators of the era.

Two years later in 1997, Murase would return to his edgy side on Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge doing more character designs,

For the next couple of years Murase, mainly was confined to character design and not much key animation would come from him for a few years. He’d do character designs on Gasaraki and in 2000 would do his first video game CD on Final Fantasy IX.

Murase the same year did designs for Argento Soma

For the first time in a few years Murase provided more full KA movement to Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. He was assigned onto civilian scenes, from the aftermath of Vincent’s truck attack. With hazmats struggling to get civilians hospitalized sakugabooru.com/post/show/106852\. He’d do a rain scene later in the film but its mostly stills and limited motion sakugabooru.com/post/show/185911.

In 2002, Murase makes his directorial debut on Witch Hunter Robin, co-directed alongside Masato Miyoshi and Yoshiyuki Takei. Murase would not handle character designs on this show instead handled by Kumiko Takahashi one of the students of original Gundam mech designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.

The show is centered around Robin Sena who is a “craft user” of the Catholic Church who hunts witches. Though originally thought to be a monster of the week show it focuses more on the characters midway through, and the plot begins to formulate. While not received super well in the states, the show received relative success in the States.

Takahashi’s designs would inform Murase’s darker aesthetics going into the future.

The same year he’d do KA for the ending song on Rahxephon

Murase 0:24-1:10

In 2004 Mobile Suit Z Gundam: A New Translation mostly doing really subtle character acting. The same year he’d return to work with Shinichiro Watanabe on Samurai Champloo, under the production of the short lived Studio Manglobe. His first role of business would be working on the ending

Murase with the first shots of Fuu

Murase would direct Episode 14 of the show, and also did KA of the scene with Jin facing a man named Mukuro in the same episode.

Murase 0:48-1:20