Kanada spinoff school lineage

The Shindo Lineage (Shindo Rogue) 

Shindo School 
Mitsuo Shindo > Nishiki Itaoka

*Given that Yano is heavily influenced by Toyoo Ashida, as well as by Masahito Yamashita, Shinsaku Kozuma and more so Tadayoshi Yamamuro, he’s perhaps the most radical first gen Yamashita/Kanada type schooler out there, other than Naoyuki Konno, Yuu Yoshiyama and Naoki Tate, at least in a typical sense. While Shindo and Ashida remain more known for having been colleagues of Kanada, they’re instead lined up with Nishiki Itaoka rather than with the rest. 

The Imazaki Lineage (Tumbleweed)

Kagami School 
Daikichiro Kusube > Takahiro Kagami
Naoki Tate 
Yuu Yoshiyama

*Takahiro Kagami instead is known for having long achieved the level of knotty, curly angularity that Yoshinori Kanada or the still living effects master Masahito Yamashita would not even do. Thus he, Naoki Tate and Yuu Yoshiyama have a pretty fairly unique bond that will last for the rest of their lives. He’s having long been going for insanely knotty effects before there was even Yugi-Oh, of which he has become most famous for, perhaps even leading the denser and wackier Shonen side of the Neo Kanada Movement as a whole for a long time, until Naoki Konno has taken over. Konno, Yoo-To, Naoki Tate, Jun Arai and Yuu Yoshiyama do have a ton of some minor things in common with Takahiro Kagami even in spite of outwardly much different styles. 

Arai School
Masayoshi Tano > Naotoshi Shida 
Itsuki Imazaki 
Naoyuki Konno (by adoption) 
Jun Arai 
Yoo-To 

*Naotoshi Shida currently belongs to the Jun Arai school of effects, a spinoff of the Yamashita effects and action school. Oddly enough, he also seems to be a big influence on Jun Arai’s and Naoyuki Konno’s styles especially from the 1990s onward, so his style is now closer in feel to theirs rather than to Masayoshi Tano’s. Konno nonetheless has more realistic intricacies, perhaps thanks to Studio Break’s mighty influence on him, with his body language studies being the reason why the Webgen thought still exists today.

The Trigger Lineage 

Trigger School 
Hiroyuki Imaishi 
Toshiyuki Sato  
Akira Amemiya 
Keisuke Kojima
Kosuke Kato 

*The Trigger School definitely has partly indie origins at least in Yoji Kuri’s art. Deviating from Kanada, but not far too much, Imaishi’s style still has more zapping than most other Neo-Kanada schoolers apart from Yoo-To and Yuu Yoshiyama, who’d already be taking the zaps into further territories than even him nowadays. 

Tamura School 
Takuo Noda > Ryo Tanaka 
Hideki Tamura > Sushio 
Fujio Suzuki 
Fumiaki Kota 
Kōsuke Kato

*The Tamura School, a Maeda Yamashita hybrid, is perhaps more known for plushy Neo-Nada character designs than any other, alongside the exaggerated character acting that comes with them. Fujio Suzuki usually does a mishmash of early Yamashita-Yano drawings nonetheless. 

Nishigori School 
Atsushi Nishigori 
Megumi Kouno
Takeshi Maenami

*Oddly enough, the Nishigori School is a Kanada Muraki hybrid, since there’s somehow more fluidity than is usual for a Kanada type school lineage.  

The Kamegaki Lineage (Smash) 

Kamegaki School 
Hajime Kamegaki 
Kazuhiro Ochi
Miho Shimogasa
Yuki Hayashi 

*Hajime Kamegaki is more often known as a talented director with much more playful cues than any other typical range Kanada schooler of the first generation, thus he also has become a famous inspiration for the whole Obari lineage, alongside Akiyuki Shinbo. Funnily enough, though Shinbo remains more known for his unusually strong Yamashita influences, he also was inspired by Kamegaki in turn at first, but only would finally spin off to form a different lineage at least towards the early 1990s. 

Yoshinari School 
Yoh Yoshinari 
Takafumi Hori
Atsuki Shimizu 
Takumi Sunakohara 

*The Yoshinari school is somehow less influenced by Yoshinori Kanada, yet more easily influenced by Takeshi Honda and Shinsaku Kozuma’s early years, making it a high end spinoff of the Yamashita school. Oddly enough, given that it’s still the most divergent Kanada type school in a typical range, both Yoshinari brothers have had a lot of experience with both Hirata-Flow and Obari styles since they also are inspired by both Endo and more tellingly Kamegaki, who otherwise remains the closest ever inspiration for Masami Obari and his whole effects lineage. 

The Yamashita Lineage (Bounce) 

Yamashita School
Kazuko Tadano 
Tadayoshi Yamamuro (by adoption) 
Masahito Yamashita 
Sakiko Uda (by adoption) 
Tatsuya Yoshihara  
Ryuuki Hashimoto 

Watabe School 
Yoshinori Kanada > Keisuke Watabe 
Seiya Numata 
Toru Takano 

*Though the Watabe school retains some cartoonish essentials of Yoshinori Kanada’s early and later career, it remains more closely related to the Yamashita effects and action school rather than to the Trigger school. However, both are still linked to the Arai school thanks to Jun Arai’s fun loving Kamishibai-like antics and Naoyuki Konno’s masterful nurturing of the Web-Kanada movement. 

Kondo School
Takamitsu Kondo 
Naoto Hosoda
Shinpei Tomooka  

*Takamitsu Kondo’s effects faction of fellow cartoony Kanada-Punk animators is otherwise made more famous internationally by the runaway Web-Kanada movement founder Naoyuki Konno of Cyborg 009 fame. This likely means that almost everybody in the mainstream anime world (Webgens and Web-Kanadas also included), may at least date back to Yoshinori Kanada, Shinsaku Kozuma, and perhaps even Naotoshi Shida and Takamitsu Kondo in some ways. 


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