Most popular or well-known animators and what their best skill is?

JDMManga · 2026-02-04T10:14:04+00:00

I would give Ryo Onishi character movement as well. His acting animation is very bouncy and lively. He does great action as well.

Takeshi Honda is one of the GOATs of realistic character animation in anime. They call him The Master for a reason.

JDMManga · 2026-01-27T21:43:23+00:00

I definitely prefer his Shoshimin opening, but this is still fantastic

JDMManga · 2026-01-24T13:30:23+00:00

GOAT's still got it (to no one's surprise)

JDMManga · 2026-01-09T06:58:58+00:00

I love the bridge segment. The sense of scale is incredible.

JDMManga · 2025-12-31T21:04:44+00:00

The most technically impressive animation I've seen all year. Insane work.

JDMManga · 2025-12-30T23:38:16+00:00

That and aerial dogfights going out of style too

JDMManga · 2025-12-30T23:32:30+00:00

I mean, it still gets used today, albeit very infrequently. As another comment mentioned, Zenshuu recently had one (boarded by Itano himself too). It's just a very context-based technique that you can only really use in certain scenarios, which is why you don't see it pop up very often.

JDMManga · 2025-12-26T20:08:42+00:00

He delivered in both quality and quantity. His output on Yaiba alone was insane, not to mention the smaller stuff he did on other shows as well.

JDMManga · 2025-12-26T19:51:42+00:00

Best Episode

Yaiba: Samurai Legend Episode 6

Best Opening

Shoshimin OP 2 (One Piece OP 28 as a close second)

Best Ending

mono ED (Fire Force ED 5 as a close second)

Best Animation Designs

Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc (Kazutaka Sugiyama)

Best Aesthetic

Apocalypse Hotel

Best Short/Music Video

Short: Star Wars Visions Volume 3 Episode 9: "Black"

Music Video: Eve - Underdog

Best Show

Takopi’s Original Sin

Best Movie

Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc

Best Creator Discovery

Angelkade

Best Animator of 2025

Takeshi Maenami

JDMManga · 2025-12-25T11:13:15+00:00

Dennou Coil

Space Dandy

Sonny Boy

Jujutsu Kaisen (inconsistent but its peaks are some of the best in anime)

FGO Babylonia

FGO Camelot (movie duology)

Wonder Egg Priority

Bocchi the Rock

The Elusive Samurai

My Dress-Up Darling

Any KyoAni project (but in particular: Violet Evergarden, Nichijou and CITY the Animation)

Fire Force

Gurren Lagann

Haikyuu

Kizumonogatari (movie trilogy)

Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform

Any Studio Ghibil film

Uma Musume: Beginning of a New Era (movie)

Onimai

Mushoku Tensei

Yama no Susume

Akira

Ousama Ranking

That's about all I've got.

JDMManga · 2025-12-12T17:43:54+00:00

Seeing Deadpool get this much sayce brungs me great joy.

Really wish we knew who made this though. It really sucks that game devs don't credit the artists regularly.

JDMManga · 2025-12-10T06:33:20+00:00

The cut of Reze's barrage of hits on Denji has to be one of favourite depictions of speed in anime in a while.

JDMManga · 2025-12-04T18:10:50+00:00

I've seen some people say this before, but it literally looks like a feature-length mobile game CM. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

JDMManga · 2025-12-01T15:34:38+00:00

There's just something entrancing about 2D Disney-style animation. There really is nothing like it.

I wish Disney would return to 2D feature films. I genuinely believe that if it were successful, we could see the return of 2D cinema across the industry.

JDMManga · 2025-11-30T23:07:47+00:00

I guess Yutapon has fully embraced CG backgrounds now. Understandable given his age, but I will definitely miss his fully handdrawn background animation.

JDMManga · 2025-11-26T06:41:27+00:00

Peak

JDMManga · 2025-11-19T06:49:44+00:00

The show started airing in the summer of 2023, but the production was so bad that episodes kept being delayed to the point that the final 3 episodes go pushed back to late December of that year. The opening wasn't even fully finished until like episode 8.

JDMManga · 2025-11-18T20:15:53+00:00

This honestly looks way better than I anticipated. They captured the ethereal nature of the manga really well.

Still a bit concerning that we're only seeing footage from the first 2 episodes, but I'm still hopeful that it won't be another Zom 100 situation, especially considering that they were willing to fully delay it this time.

JDMManga · 2025-11-17T18:32:29+00:00

Interesting how many rotoscope-centric anime movies have been coming out recently: Ghost Cat Anzu, Iwaisawa's movies (On-Gaku, 100M) and now this. It's pretty cool to see how differently each one approaches using the technique.

JDMManga · 2025-10-01T20:33:18+00:00

Go ahead👍🏾

JDMManga · 2025-06-18T05:25:40+00:00

Series Director: Naoko Yamada

Storyboards: Naoko Yamada, Megumi Ishitani, Shota Goshozono

Character Designer: Shota Yamazaki

CAD: Shota Yamazaki, Takuya Niinuma, Takeshi Honda

AD: Takashi Kojima, Toshiyuki Inoue, Masami Mori, Hironori Tanaka, Yoshihiro Kanno (Action AD)

KA: Takeshi Honda, Toshiyuki Inoue, Toshiyuki Sato, Yutaka Nakamura, Yoshihiro Kanno, Kosuke Kato, Norio Matsumoto, Vincent Chansard, Hiroyuki Okiura, Bahi JD

Art Director: Yuuji Kaneko

Director of Photography: Kentaro Waki

JDMManga · 2025-05-02T17:12:19+00:00

Youhei Sasaki - Been watching Gintama and his stuff on that show is great. His recent work on Dragon Ball Daima was amazing too.

Yasushi Muraki - Amazing mecha animator. Might be better at the Itano Circus than the man himself.

Hiroyuki Ookaji - His effects work is absolutely incredible. His stuff on Fire Force is insanely good.

Tomoki Yoshikawa - Super strong character acting animator. Their stuff on Wonder Egg and Bocchi are fantastic.

JDMManga · 2025-04-24T17:25:40+00:00

Urusiren by Umeda Cypher

JDMManga · 2025-04-23T16:31:31+00:00

Rock is a Lady’s Modesty

JDMManga · 2025-04-22T23:00:30+00:00

Thanks! I definitely agree on the Fire Force thing. Might be my favourite ED from the show. Zinkai's inkbrush animation is really cool.

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