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 his Okiura and Takahata-based junior 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. He also is an oddly recurring influence on Nozomu Abe’s and Mitsuru Obunai’s crazy styles, themselves more inspired by both Mitsuo Iso and Ichiro Itano. 

Suzuki School

Moriyasu Taniguchi 

Kumiko Takahashi 

Norimitsu Suzuki

*Norimitsu Suzuki’s gliding direction style is based partly on both those of Mutsumi Inomata 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 

Nakamura School

Kazuo Komatsubara > Yutaka Nakamura

Katsumi Ishizuka 

*The Nakamura lineage is actually closer to Tsukioka’s and Inano’s shared legacy rather than to that of Yasuo Otsuka’s legacy. Though there are a lot of Mitsuo Iso, Yoshinori Kanada and Akiyuki Shinbo elements in there, Nakamura’s gliding style is more likely to be rooted in a fusion of Reiko Okuyama’s, Sadao Tsukioka’s, Toshiyuki Inoue’s and Kazuo Komatsubara’s own different action styles with both the stylised realism of Yoshinobu Inano and especially the highly expressive gliding of Ichiro Itano’s directing style. 

Morita School

Mitsuru Obunai

Takeshi Morita 

Masayuki Kunihiro 

Kohei Hirota 

*Though Takeshi Morita is the leader, Mitsuru Obunai is the oldest and most experienced of the bunch, thus his Mitsuo Iso-Ichiro Itano based hybrid style has become pretty famous internationally thanks to Demon Slayer.