He’s done some commissioned work such as Persona 5 in 2016 with Tetsuya Nishio and Satoru Utsunomiya

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The next year in 2017 he reunited with many of the Akira sakuga legends on Blade Runner 2022 Black Out directed by Shinichiro Watanabe.

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Four years, later Arai worked on what I would consider his biggest goof up ever on Evangelion Thrice Upon a Time where he was an animation director

So Arai was let on to the project serving as the primary animation director beacause Takeshi Honda was working on Miyazaki’s How Do You Live. Once Arai was finished correcting a good chunk of the movie, along with Masayoshi Tanaka there was a massive retake on corrections on top of the KA. Idolmaster and Darling in the Franxx director Atsushi Nishigori was brought in to make many secondary and even tertiary corrections on top of Arai and Tanaka’s work, being more in line with Honda’s work and fitting the story better.

This is one of the examples where it is extremely noticeable



This could potentially be Arai’s initial correction with then Tanaka redoing it, then Goripon finally realizing it at the end.

So that’s Kouichi Arai. A bit of an enigmatic vip in anime similarly to others like Ei Inoue just being top requested animators, but not exactly having an identifiable KA presence to be noticeable or popular. He’s definitely one of the most subtle animators to be brought on projects, but I believe it’s the adaptability of his work that has made him such a prolific figure. He can seemingly work with any design, and bring a lot out of his drawings even being more limited than Toshiyuki Inoue. Arai is probably the best preeminent mysterious animation goat.

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I should watch the Blade Runner shorts

Another great write up @MORPHE

I also lowkey dropped HP but want to finish just to finish. prob will happen this week

Zom

MC must've worked for Mappa

@Eleganza just finished ID Invaded gotta say thanks for the rec cuz i highly enjoyed this one.

glad the plot ended up getting way more complex after the first 5 or so episodes, i loved the random twists and turns it took otw to a pretty unpredictable conclusion. 7/10 for me

gunna try to find somewhere to watch Flip Flappers now

there’s only 1 post on the last page for me hate when that one dude posts a million GIFs in a row, like make your own thread or something

Zom 100 could be anime of the season and that’s a wild statement in itself

Nah let him cook. It's great content to read in a thread of rent a girlfriend and shonen takes

Bleach here though. ZOM 100 is easily a top 3 though with action anime

it’s great content that i’d love to see/read in a thread dedicated to said content lol

This was so good holy f***

Zom 100 is what CSM should have been

What happens in Zom 100?

Zombie apocalypse, oblivious protagonist etc

When they say horror in Zom 100, how scary we talkin? Cause i can't handle horror