Baki, if you havent peeped yet

I don’t like the art style. Haven’t even finished Jojo

But thanks for the rec

understandable lol

comedy konosuba or grand blue dreaming

sports aoaishi or haikyuu or bluelock

or medaka box

happy to see 100 kanojo getting love

this is a rom com anime thread tbh

as it should be

Watch Houseki No Kuni, Isekai Ojisan, or Kiss him, Not me

can anyone explain why Disney is licensing/getting the rights to these new popular anime, but not putting any of it on the American Disney+??? like it doesn’t make any sense and almost seems malicious the way Crunchyroll had Tokyo Revengers s1 but now since Disney bought the rights but doesn’t have it on their service, i gotta watch TR s2 with commercials on Hulu

OMG NO WAY IS THE LITTLE GIRL IN GHOST IN THE SHELL S2E11 MOTOKO??? YOOOOOOO this is way more emotional than any other episode, goddamn

Ghost in the Shell really just almost made me cry yall, that’s wild

Hey.. um, goblin slayer is back

I’m back

Watching Hajime no ippo

This ain't a romcom bro

Romcom szn soon brother

Animator Spotlight: Shinji Hashimoto

All gifs in order
Akira (1988)
Tenchi Muyo in Love (1996)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Spriggan (1998)
The Animatrix (Kid's Story) (2003)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Naruto: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005)
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Ping Pong (2014)
Nishi Ogikubo Station (2014)
Autopanther (2016)
Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)
Modest Heroes (2018)
Misaki no Mayoiga (2021)

Happy Belated Birthday to Shinji Hashimoto Coming from Telecom, it was a bit wild that Hashimoto became such a skilled animator and apart of a legendary staff of animators. Following Akira, Hashimoto and his closest friend Shinya Ohira both effectively changed the nature of untraditional animation in anime outside of usual auteurs, a prime example being one of their (and every other animator at the time’s) biggest influence Yoshinori Kanada. Much like Ohira, Hashimoto’s animation has that strong sense of unstableness, that is largely stooped in a wobbling and ghostly like fashion as applied to characters. Yet unlike Ohira Hashimoto is a much more realistic animator and pays more respect to the directors and ADs vision and model sheets. From The Hakkenden, to the Junkers Pilot, to Black Heaven to Kids Story, to Princess Kaguya Hashimoto has exceeded at pushing his respective style further and further.

This is a redo of my first ever spotlight

Hashimoto’s early days do not represent his work really at all. While Ohira was a well regarded mecha animator at the time, Hashimoto was very much a character animator. His earliest work was credited on the first City Hunter show, Kimagure Orange Road and The Samurai. On The Samurai Hashimoto’s quick and fluid action got him a lot of attention sakugabooru.com/post/show/24164 fun and snappy action with playful and funny comedic timing. It wasn’t until dirty pair that we started to see more qualities that would become common in his work in regards to effects being the opposite of Ohira with minimal shading drawn in big rounded tufts sakugabooru.com/post/show/164464.

While Hashimoto might have been doing more non credited work it is impressive how fast and significantly he was improving as an animator, this would lead him to be hired on the OP of then Urusei Yatsura director Mamoru Oshii’s Mobile Police Patlabor series

Hashimoto 0:32-0:48
Only four other animators were credited here being future Production IG director Hiroyuki Kitakubo, future softcore character designer Takahiro Kishida, and lastly Hiroki Goda who was a mecha animator at the time. Hashimoto recalls this scene vividly by animating Noa’s big “mickey mouse sized gloves”. It is a really cute display of character acting filled with perfect 80s tomboy bishoujo.

Kujakuou was I believe the first meeting of minds between Ohira, and Hashimoto, as Ohira’s efforts lied possibly in this scene with Hashimoto doing some unknown KA sakugabooru.com/post/show/67192

Finally after a long display of efforts Hashimoto along with his Telecom seniors was brought on to Akira

I have mentioned already in great detail to how this film has had great looking key animation, but let’s give a quick rundown.
Basically after a speed run of some of the highest quality animation of the 80s on Genma Taisen and other ventures on Nausicaa AD’s Koji Morimoto and Takashi Nakamura helped shape Katsuhiro Otomo’s masterpiece. The majority of key animators placed on this project were split into three separate camps. You had then already established set of key animators several from the Telecom branch where Hashimoto hailed from including Shinji Otsuka, Kitaro Kousaka, Toshio Kawaguchi, Makiko Futaki, and Masaaki Endo several of which had been previously working on Ghibli movies, this also comes with the addition of Yoshinori Kanada who’s inclusion was basically a formality. Then you have the more experienced gen from the past few years affiliated with Nakamura, Rintaro and other: Yasuomi Umetsu, Atsuko Fukushima, Kitakubo, and most chiefly Osamu Nabeshima. And then lastly the quote on quote “Akira Generation” consisting of Hiroyuki Okiura, Toshiyuki Inoue, Satoru Utsunomiya, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Kouichi Arai, and Hideki Hamasu. There were some outliers to this generation one being Telecom counterpart Hiroyuki Aoyama, and of course then Shin-Ei employee Yoshiji Kigami who would go on to become the top animators at one of Japan’s most legendary studios: Kyoto Animation.

Hashimoto was brought on along with his older brother, Kouichi Hashimoto (unknown scene) and the scene Shinji did is one of the most mellow and mesmerizing in this post-apocalyptic cyberpunk world sakugabooru.com/post/show/14248 even though it only lasts for about 16 seconds the background animation and attention to detail in the bikes is phenomenal. Now compare this to Okiura and Ohira’s scenes which are way more involved in effects and violence sakugabooru.com/post/show/133909 sakugabooru.com/post/show/14233\. It is crazy that Ohira, and Hashimoto had both been animating for only 2 years and got such big parts on one of the greatest films in animation ever.