Studio Break spinoff school lineage

The Studio Break Lineage

Mao Lamdo School 
Mao Lamdo > Hokuto Sakiyama
Atsushi Yano (by adoption) 
Takashi Mukoda
Naoya Wada
Takuji Miyamoto 

*Oddly enough, Atsushi Yano isn’t as internationally well known as his fellow more famous Studio Break fellas, having instead come from Kazuhide Tomonaga’s and Shinji Hashimoto’s effects lineage. Miyamoto is definitely the wackiest of the current bunch, with Mukoda instead being the cooler headed guy who does goofy long camel-ish necks not just to embarrass young audiences without knowing why they’re here to begin with, but also to unintentionally impress some well meaning animal lovers.  

Shibata School
Hisao Yokobori 
Katsunori Shibata 
Toya Oshima
Sho Oi

*Hisao Yokobori has a relatively milder early Shinya Ohira like style, which also has been used somewhat more clearly by Toya Oshima, who’s definitely his cuter looking junior spiritual successor. Kazuto Nakazawa and Souta Yamazaki do have some things in common, but instead are otherwise stylised flowing realists in origin. 

Yamazaki School
Norimoto Tokura
Kazuto Nakazawa (by adoption) 
Shinji Hashimoto (by adoption) 
Shingo Yamashita
Hiroto Nagata 
Souta Yamazaki (by adoption) 

*Frankly, Shinji Hashimoto seems to be still the most adaptable of them all, even though his style may seem rather too dense for some cartoonists to handle, having partly been inspired by Yoshinori Kanada through Waki Yamato. He even has a follower, Misaki Hashimoto, who also does highly colourful drawings similar to his due to their own stylised realist origins. He even has become one of the first to use mixed Jissoji-Nakamura style flowing animation thanks to having been recruited by Sunrise seniors for City Hunter and Dirty Pair in the late 1980s. 

Miyazawa Nakamura School
Kazuko Nakamura > Yasunori Miyazawa
Itsuki Tsuchigami 

*Kazuko Nakamura’s utter weirdness even by 1960s anime standards is perhaps the main reason why Yasunori Miyazawa dawdled into the anime industry in the first place during the early 1980s. Now that the effective Studio Break founding master himself will be followed by the franker Itsuki Tsuchigami. Itsuki Tsuchigami also has gained a lot of experience from Miyazawa’s still distinct yet easily parodied effects and panning techniques. 

Studio Break School 
Shinya Ōhira 
Akihiro Ota (by adoption) 
Kazuki Kawata (by adoption) 
Takuya Niinuma

*As usual, Shinya Ohira still has more surrealist influences than fellow Studio Break expressionists. His first known major influences are Mao Lamdo and Morihiko Ishikawa. Funnily enough, something similar can be said for the equally detailed yet more audience friendly Shinji Hashimoto, who is more likely to otherwise come from Kazuhide Tomonaga’s, Minoru Maeda’s and Masahito Yamashita’s found family lineage just due to retaining both early and later Yamashita features even after a stronger more Disneyish coming of age. 


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