Shikama spinoff school lineage

The Shikama Lineage 

Enomoto School
Shuto Enomoto

Shikama School
Hiroyuki Nishimura 
Takahiro Shikama 

Kawamoto School
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Masahide Yanagisawa 
Takahiro Komori 

*Tellingly, though a realist in origin, Kawamoto inherits quite a lot of styles and philosophies ranging from Mitsuo Iso, Mamoru Kurosawa, Yoshinobu Inano and Atsuko Nakajima, to Mutsumi Inomata and Ichiro Itano. Thus he is an honorary glider alongside Takahiro Shikama! 

Takeuchi School
Tetsuya Takeuchi
Ryo Araki 
Koji Yabuno

Hirata School
Yukiyoshi Hane 
Tomohiro Hirata 
Hirofumi Suzuki 

*Tomohiro Hirata was influenced by Urushihara and Itano school lineage animators shortly after his career had begun, such as Toshiki Hirano and Mutsumi Inomata. Hirofumi Suzuki instead has a stronger dual realist origin, at least in both Takashi Nakamura’s early works and Yasuji Mori’s Nippon Animation period. 

The Nakajima Lineage 

Nakajima School
Atsuko Nakajima  
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto 
Tokuyuki Matsutake 
Akira Matsushima 
Tomoaki Takase

*Funnily enough, Atsuko Nakajima’s original school does come in various kinds of colours and modulations, but is usually rather fluid even with too many rather decadent details going on, making it the most diverse effects and character acting school in Japanese animation history.

The Imai Lineage  

Sai School
Masahiro Ando 
Fumihide Sai 
Masahiro Sato 
Kanami Sekiguchi 

Imai School 
Yasuyuki Ebara 
Arifumi Imai 
Takuma Ebisu 
Yukina Kosaka

Suzuki School
Shingo Suzuki
Katsumasa Yokomine
Hiromitsu Kanazawa 

*It’s a shame that though Shingo Suzuki isn’t too bad of a character and mech designer with a lot of good and still promising skills, has already seen much better days, since he has long been accused of various controversial decisions, such as stealing images without photographers’ permissions years back. He’s a good mech designer at heart, but his directing skills are like a poor man’s trashy C grade matinee equivalent of Fumihide Sai’s own. To make this sadly more complicated, he does have a few redeeming qualities such as his so garish it’s decently ugly cute character designs and his more genuinely awesome mech designs, thus he and fellows behind the current most trashy anime studio GoHands still have to tone down the creepy premises, alienating camerawork and the so garish it’s tiring art direction considerably. Pretty messy, if not as otherwise frogging downright draggingly godawful as that of the all time master of crap anime directing Yoshiteru Sato. 

Ryo-Timo School
Ryo-Timo 
Keisuke Okura 

*Tellingly, while adding in a mild renovation of the Kanada style thanks to Trigger’s help, Ryo-Timo’s style has a lot of Tsukioka and Itano style characteristics, suggesting that his style still has a stylised realist origin. 

Nakatsuru School 
Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru 
Takashi Kojima 

*Oddly enough, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru definitely has the same Itano and Kanada school training as Mitsuo Iso, meaning that his style is actually a fast paced mix of Hirata-Flow and Full Limited! 

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