Kusube spinoff school lineage

The Kusube Lineage 

Kusube School (Kusube Rockabillies) 
Kazuko Nakamura > Shinsaku Kozuma
Daikichiro Kusube > Naotoshi Shida  
Norimoto Tokura 
Yuu Yoshiyama 

*Oddly enough, Shinsaku Kozuma now remains a better known liquid action animator who otherwise adds in a base variant of both Tokura’s and Shida’s own takes on Wakame Shadows, whereas Yuu Yoshiyama remains a part timer for the Arai effects school. Thus, Kusube and Dezaki are linked together more so than we think, resulting in all three of the main Rockabillies being amongst the most radical Japanese animators in the world by far. Norimoto Tokura on the other hand, is more related to Shida in terms of style, yet is still somewhat unique, although more associated to an extent with two of the three main Rockabillies. 

Hisashi Mori School
Osamu Dezaki >  Hisashi Mori
Hironori Tanaka 
Ryo Imamura 

*Hisashi Mori’s school remains the animation school somehow closest to Osamu Dezaki’s overall legacy. It’s so unnervingly close to all of Dezaki’s styles even with 3 divergent succeeding variations, that it still leans much more towards a Mushi Pro lineage, which remains obvious in the sheer intensity of the 3 successors’ own liquid styles, since they all share some bits in common with the late anime prettiness pioneer and his colleague-longtime friend. 

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