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Comment on Top 20 Anime You Wept Over by Anonymous:

@gutsyfrog

What, are you trying to prove my point or what? Kanada style evolved out of necessity. The budget given to Japanese studios for domestic shows is a fraction of that in the west. It was even worse in the late 70s / early 80s. Given that, it’s almost natural to tackle the problem by giving action scenes crazy movement (it lessens the impact of lower framerates) and allocating high framerates to those parts in a sequence where it has the most impact. It very much is a race for fluid movements. I’m not trying to play down Kanada’s achievements, mind you. He IS the one who had the greatest share developing the style.

If you read my post again, you’ll notice that I wasn’t talking about artistic merit though. It was about hard, measurable quality. Even in your vid there are significant differences in framerate and animated detail between the sequences from different shows. A direct consequence of budgetary differences. No matter what you say, it is harder to animate more movement of more objects that are more detailed at higher framerates. Of course it all varies depending on the artistic style, which can be easier or harder to animate (see Shin-chan), but that is besides the point. All the animators deserve praise for what they managed to squeeze out of the frames and the time they were given, but if you’re trying to argue with the old-anime-look-so-bad crowd, you’ll have to point at titles that made the distinct achievement of presenting nicely drawn anime characters in detailed, fluidly animated sequences; i.e. score high in the hard quality measure that I outlined.

The fact that Kanada style has been largely replaced by CGI is the main reason why anime has lost much of its visual edge over western animation.

Also, have you taken a good look at the vid you posted? They’re almost all 80s shows. With this, I rest my case.

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