Yuasa spinoff school lineage

The Yuasa Lineage

Yuasa School 
Yuichiro Sueyoshi 
Masaaki Yuasa 
Nobutaka Ito 
Ryōtaro Makihara
Naoyuki Asano 

*Tellingly, the Yuasa effects and character acting school is a downplayed hybrid of Kanada and expressionist styles as with that of the Kozuma school, yet tends to lean into less boredom inducing scenarios. However, it’s not quite closely related to the Mao Lamdo school lineage and is still more related to the Kozuma school, even though it feels similar to the former.

The Tomonaga Lineage  

Tomonaga School
Kazuhide Tomonaga 
Atsuko Tanaka 
Norimoto Tokura

*Despite currently showing off much different looks, Tomonaga and Tokura still have more in common than what they usually appear to be due to Masahito Yamashita’s obvious early fission-fusion influence on both. The ‘Tokura Tentacle’, the rough and slowly twisting acting style popularised by him but created by his indirect senior Tomonaga, also has become such a strong characteristic that Yuichiro Sueyoshi and Shingo Yamashita exploit it even further. Oddly enough, Koh’s style seems too unique at first to be considered a normal neo-Kanada style, but ultimately has roots in both Tomonaga and Kamegaki styles anyway. 

Kozuma School 
Yusaku Sakamoto > Shinsaku Kozuma 
Shingo Yamashita
Itsuki Tsuchigami 

*The unlikeliness of Shingo Yamashita’s effects lineage having survived the influential pre-Kanadafication age of Japanese tv is a telling indicator, since it began with Yusaku Sakamoto. Sakamoto indeed was one of the most influential Mushi Pro and Toei animators alive, which meant that Tokura himself has now gained a school of fellow distinct animators, who don’t just adhere to some bits of his own process but also have added a crapload of older effects from him. 

The Kameda Lineage 

Tanaka School
Minoru Maeda 
Tatsuo Yamada
Hironori Tanaka
Hiroshi Tomioka 

*Oddly enough, Hironori Tanaka’s got a more Kozuma like effects style, but enough not to be too jarring, given his stronger and more obvious inspirations in Dezaki, Yuasa, and Ohira, all via Yamashita, Kozuma and Kanada. Given that Shinsaku Kozuma and Atsushi Yano are his biggest influences after Masaaki Yuasa and Tatsuo Yamada, there are some cool Ohira like effects as well, though they’re more likely from Shinya Ōhira’s own early years since Yano’s friend himself has long been transformed into the master of surreal Mao Lamdo style wizardry. 

Kameda School
Yoshimichi Kameda
Sakiko Uda 
Kai Ikarashi 
Shuhei Yasuda
Hiroaki Takagi 
Ichigo Kanno

*Yoshimichi Kameda is influenced not just by Yoshinori Kanada and Takahiro Kagami, but also by fellow colleagues such as Hiroyuki Imaishi and Naoki Tate. Even so, there also are slight bits of both Shinya Ohira’s and Masaaki Yuasa’s early styles in his works, even though that’s from Shinya Ōhira’s co-founding of Studio Break with fellow Maeda and Kozuma (via Yamashita) fanatic Yano. However, as Sakiko Uda turns out to be his strongest inspiration, he remains one of the last animators to directly descend in terms of style from Kusube via Tate and Kanada.





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