Shinbo spinoff school lineage

The Shinbo Lineage 

Wakabayashi School
Atsushi Wakabayashi 
Atsuko Inoue

*Oddly enough, Atsushi Wakabayashi mainly has realist school origins, but accumulated both Kozuma and Itano characteristics throughout his early career. Given a somewhat stronger Sano influence, Oishi’s the wackiest of the bunch, having led the Yoshinari Brothers to gain international fame.

Ishida School
Atsuko Ishida 
Rihiro Yamane 
Akio Watanabe 
Shota Goshozono 

*Shota Goshozono has inherited quite a lot of stylised Kanadesque realism from Rihiro Yamane, thus he is considered Rihiro Yamane’s own true successor.

The Obari Lineage 

Obari School
Yousuke Kabashima 
Masami Obari 
Kunihiro Abe > Munetaka Abe 
Yoshinari Saito 
Risa Ebata 
Ryuuta Ura 

*The Obari school is a Shinbo Anno hybrid, gaining quite a ton of expressive playfulness in the mid-late 1980s from both Hajime Kamegaki and increasingly later on Akiyuki Shinbo, while retaining the multiple details of Hideaki Anno. Obari usually does only mechs for a good reason, since his humans would look pretty gross in the 1990s, whereas Risa Ebata remains more known for creating leggy female character designs. 

Katsura School
Hisashi Hirai 
Yorihisa Uchida 
Kenichirou Katsura 
Shuichi Kaneko 
Shunsuke Aoki

*The Katsura School is founded by less radical Obari school members, but is somehow more associated with the Sano school. 




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