Urushihara spinoff school lineage

The Urushihara Lineage 

Kurosawa school
Mamoru Kurosawa 
Hideyuki Morioka
Tatsuya Oishi 

*Do note that Mamoru Kurosawa still goes for a speedier direction more akin to that of Atsuko Ishida’s style instead. There also is a slight Masami Obari shade thanks to Urushihara being one of Obari’s friends, but it mainly feels somehow more similar to Norimitsu Suzuki’s own gliding school.

Urushihara School
Satoshi Urushihara 
Nozumu Abe 

*Urushihara is strongly influenced by Hideaki Anno’s, Akiyuki Shinbo’s and Masahito Yamashita’s early careers, but his style is otherwise more related to those of both Kawamoto and Hirata, even though it still stays rather close to Obari’s own. He also is one of the many unlikely influences of both Takahiro Shikama and the Suda-based Yutaka Nakamura. This likely means that most of the gliders are far more likely to be distant honorary cousins to at least 3 major processes; Norio Matsumoto’s speedy physics, Mitsuo Iso’s own solid full limited process and most importantly Ichiro Itano’s own gliding circus style, all via Masahito Yamashita, Hisashi Mori and Naoyuki Konno. He also is an oddly recurring influence on Nozomu Abe’s and Mitsuru Obunai’s crazy styles, themselves more inspired by Hisashi Mori, Masahito Yamashita, Hideaki Anno and Ichiro Itano, all via the Web-Kanada movement’s dad Naoyuki Konno.

Suzuki School
Moriyasu Taniguchi 
Kumiko Takahashi 
Norimitsu Suzuki

*Norimitsu Suzuki’s gliding direction style is based partly on both those of Shinsaku Kozuma and Ichiro Itano, as with his mentor Kumiko Takahashi. However, it’s originally grounded in more conventional realism, only to add in a lot of both Kanadification and stylised realism elements instead, since Moriyasu Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuo Komatsubara and Yoshinori Kanemori have all played pretty strong roles at the beginning of his own career.

Kuhara School
Norio Shioyama > Shigeki Kuhara 
Tsunenori Saito 

Nakamura School
Kazuo Komatsubara > Yutaka Nakamura
Katsumi Ishizuka 

*The Nakamura lineage is actually closer to Motosuke Takahashi’s legacy rather than to that of Yasuo Otsuka’s legacy. Though there are a lot of Hisashi Mori, Masahito Yamashita, Akiyuki Shinbo and Shinji Hashimoto elements in there (all via Masaaki Yuasa!), Nakamura’s gliding style is more likely to be rooted in a fusion of Motosuke Takahashi’s own action style with the sprawling effects library of the Yuasa School. Major Studio Break allies Naoyuki Konno and Toshiyuki Inoue also contributed to expanding Nakamura’s own growing effects library, which includes Yutapon Cubes and hybridised Konno/Inoue Smashes. 

Morita School
Mitsuru Obunai
Takeshi Morita 
Masayuki Kunihiro 
Kohei Hirota 

*Though Takeshi Morita is the current leader, Mitsuru Obunai is the oldest and most experienced of the bunch, thus his Masaaki Yuasa/Shinsaku Kozuma based hybrid style has become pretty famous internationally thanks to Demon Slayer. 



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