Based Jury with MyGO at 1

Looking at the shogun show imo they should just make Vagabond life action if they nail the direction.

Impossible to make a solid anime anyways

i can fix her

obsessed with her

Tortured princess is actually anime of the season i love this s*** so much

end of evangelion in theaters hive

Ninja Kamui hours

till this day I have 0 idea why people are outraged at the ending (besides the obvious) literally my favorite romance manga

Animator Spotlight: Shun Enokido and Takahito Sakazume

All gifs in order
Fate/Grand Order Sixth Singularity Singularity Camelot PV (2016)
Fate/Apocrypha (2017)
Fate/Grand Order Fifth Singularity E Pluribus Unum PV (2018)
Fate/Grand Order Lostbelt 1 (2018)
Seven Deadly Sins (2018)
Fate/Grand Order GudaGuda Legend of the Imperial Capitol CM (2018)
Fate/Grand Order Lostbelt 2 (2018)
Fate/Grand Order Lostbelt OP 2 (2018) Solo Sakazume
Fate/Grand Order Lostbelt 3 (2018)
Black Clover (2019) middle cut is 0nepeach
Fate/Grand Order LostBelt 4 (2019)
Fate/Strange Fake CM (2019)
Fate/Grand Order Fifth Anniversary Trailer (2020)
Princess Connect! Re:Dive (2022) Solo Enokido
Hololive Alternative PV (2022) in order cuts by Kaito Tomioka, Kou Aine, Yohei Yaegashi, and Takahiro Ookawa. Sakazume and Enokido at the end
Fate/Strange Fake Whispers of the Dawn (2023)

Happy Extremely Belated Birthday to Shun Enokido and Takahito Sakazume, Sakazume born January 25th, and Enokido born January 26th. The dynamic duo of the Fate CMs, running spurts of glorious sakuga direction and quickly taking it away. Born out of the webgen generation, these two of course fell into the hands of working with Tatsuya Yoshihara going back to his directorial debut at Actas. From there they learned of Ryo-Timo joining him, Shingo Yamashita, and Norio Matsumoto on Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta a melting ground for webgen self taught animator. There they came in contact with Ryu Nakayama and many other gods of the rising wave of digital animators. For several years Enokido and Sakazume stood close to Yoshihara staying close with many of his projects as key animators and would work in a myriad of projects. Around 2014-16, Enokido and Sakazume started to get involved on animated previews for content on the Fate/Grand Order video game. Multiple studios like Drive, Wit, and ufotable were involved on these CMs, but the duo opted to work with A-1 Pictures and its sister studio CloverWorks. That ultimately would not matter due to their circle of friends being a sensational team of freelancers. For years Enokido and Sakazume have been the de-facto team when it comes to CMs, they have done an astounding amount, and its shocking to even say that these are moments that they took up in their spare time. On TV they have been equally as sakuga packed, being the action directors on Fate/Apocrypha in 2017, taking the stage as tv ADs such as Princess Connect! Re:Dive for Sakazume, and recently the two directed Fate/Strange Fake Whispers of the Dawn their directorial movie debut, and soon will helm a tv show.

This is going to be a joint spotlight, and since these two are so close to each other I won’t describe the discrepancies between their animation too much because they are so similar.

So due to the more mysterious nature of Sakazume (the member of the duo having the bigger output) I will discuss Enokido’s upbringing. Shun Enokido. He was very interested from animation at a young age and began to study it more once he got into university. From there he ran into future Chainsaw Man director, Ryu Nakayama, and the two began to frequently work together as friends. Now the timeline of Nakayama, Enokido, and Sakazume’s exploits can be explored separately. First to note that Enokido was the first to excel early among the three, first credit being on Milky Holmes then moving on to bigger shows like Lovelab.

The presence of Yoshihara is overwhelming in the upbringing of Sakazume/Enokido, and for his directorial debut on Muromi-San this was very apparent

Not exactly the webgen sausage fest Sakazume would usually be involved on now a days, but it was an interesting start. Sakazume on here displays a wealth of bouncy character animation that is especially good for a newcomer. He quickly combines motions on threes and twos in cuts like this very jerky Kutsuna-esque way, but having more of a Hironori Tanaka approach to effects, not crazy considering he was one of the most popular animators around this time. Sakazume was also heavily informed by I’m guessing assistance from Takaya Sunagawa, Shunji Akasaka, and Keisuke Kojima

The formal pairing of all three, Enokido, Sakazume, and Nakayama took place on Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta

This show, much like previous Timo series like Birdy Decode and the two prior Yozakura installments, were massive launch pads for the trajectory and success of several animators. Ryo Timo along with Shingo Yamashita, Kenichi Kutsuna, and mentorship from Norio Matsumoto, since around 2007 had all been affiliated in the burgeoning growth of Flash digital animation, and prioritizing its benefits into not only the workflow of animation, but the spectacle too. Timo had generated so much interest and attention bringing in a barrage of talent, and knowing it or not this was basically Timo’s last hurrah (for now) on 2D animation. The episode director list is absurd with the likes of future Eromanga Sensei director Ryohei Takeshita, future Saekano and Fate/Grand Order CD Tomoaki Takase, Witch From Mercury director Hiroshi Kobayashi, and one of the rare instances of Norio on directing duties. The 2D talent while not affiliated with Enokido/Sakazume formally, the webgen affiliates such as Tatsurou Kawano, Shingo Fujii, Shin Ogasawara, Kenichi Fujisawa, Ikuo Geso, Keiichiro Watanabe were all involved, even young guys like Takumi Sunakohara, Kazuto Arai, and Trigger’s very own Kai Ikarashi had their early in-between animation roles too.
The “TakaRyuShun” team were able to finally flex their guns here, and thanks to the help from the brightest ADs at the time they could make cases for being some of the future’s best animators. The trio had a small involvement on Episode 6, but it was Episode 9 under the direction of Yoshihara and AD by Sunagawa that they were able to bloom. Sakazume is great here selling a lot of Yoshihara and Tanaka influence, Nakayama does unabashed fanservice, and Enokido shows a wealth of ShingoYama influence. The Kutsuna Lightning, the advance character acting, and all spell out a future flash ace.

Moving on from here, Sakazume, Nakayama, and Enokido became stellar freelancers, joining up on, Hunter x Hunter, Ping Pong, and many more. Around this time the Fate/Grand Order CMs were just beginning and Enokido was one of the first to join on as early as CM3. Sakazume would be soon to catch up a little later. After some stellar work by Taka, Ryu, and Shun, two thirds of the trio went on to work on two of Yoshihara’s shows in 2015, Yatterman Night, and Monster Musume.


Yoshihara was and still is a truly insane workaholic, and have no idea how he could manage a schedule like this. One show in January, the next in July. It’s crazy. Yoshihara had a lot trust in trio TakaRyuShun and as a first had Sakazume on prop designs for Musume, with Shun Enokido on OP direction for Yatterman

A very very early stage of Enokido’s production stage with him KAing a majority of this, working with a more Tanaka oriented approach to animation, this minimalist kagenashi take for Enokido wasn’t the norm all things but would come back occasionally. Nakayama was also the main animator for the series, and clips likes this shows. This show marked the arrival of young animators like Itsuki Tsuchigami

Now on Monster Musume withe Sakazume’s weapons designs and CD by Sunagawa it made for a rather bonkers anime, and something I cannot imagine Yoshihara would ever return to today.

KA portions by Taka Ryu Shun
For most episodes it was Sakazume’s time to shine as the series main animator, and he had quite the scenes he was placed on. You want to see a lewd bike chase?, realistic sniper scene?, flash animated montage?, background animation?, unnecessarily good character animation? Sakazume could do it all. The animation just goes to hard for a monster harem/ecchi show.

The last series the trio and Yoshihara involved themselves in was of course Shingo Natsume’s sakuga opus One Punch Man S1.

The ultimate play of “I have connections”, Natsume and former Gainax animator Chikashi Kubota crafted and uproarious show of the industry’s greatest animators introducing so many new, and old faces into the fray. With heavy involvement from Bones affiliated staff, and freelancers it was perfect for the Yoshihara cadre to make show. Enokido, Kojima, and Nakayama came in first doing the mosquito fight, and Sakazume and Yoshihara were involved towards the back end with Saitama taking on the alien ship’s projectiles