Yuasa spinoff school lineage

The Yuasa Lineage

Yuasa School 
Masaaki Yuasa 
Michio Mihara (by adoption) 
Nobutaka Ito 
Naoyuki Asano 
Hiroto Nagata 

*Tellingly, the Yuasa effects and character acting school is a downplayed hybrid of Kanada and expressionist styles as with that of the Asano 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 Asano school, even though it feels similar to the former.

Tokura Yamashita School 
Kazuko Nakamura > Norimoto Tokura 
Shingo Yamashita 

*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 Kazuko Nakamura. Nakamura 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 ‘Tokura Tentacle’, the rough and slowly twisting acting style popularised by him but created by his indirect senior, also is a such strong characteristic that Shingo Yamashita exploits it even further.

Sueyoshi School
Yusaku Sakamoto > Shinsaku Kozuma 
Yuichiro Sueyoshi

*Oddly enough, Sakamoto did do occasional work at Toei Animation, whereas Sueyoshi funnily enough has somehow more in common with Shinsaku Kozuma even in spite of obvious differences. Thus, Dezaki and Sakamoto are linked together more so than we think, resulting in an explosion of highly experimental animators decades later. Though still somehow related to the Tokura Yamashita school, all of them remain unique animators either way, it’s just that those two have become quite more well known internationally than their senior. 

Kawata school
Yasunori Miyazawa 
Kazuki Kawata

*Funnily enough, Kazuki Kawata is more known for having added some Yutaka Nakamura based gliding effects while retaining a lot of hidden similarities to Yasunori Miyazawa’s own drawing and action style, thus his Mushi-Toei effects lineage is slowly growing obvious. 







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