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 Akihiro Kanayama and more so Shinsaku Kozuma, he’s perhaps the most radical first gen Kanada type schooler out there, 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. 

Otsuka School 
Daikichiro Kusube > Masami Otsuka 
Yuu Yoshiyama

*Masami Otsuka 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 and Yuu Yoshiyama have a pretty fairly unique bond that will last for the rest of their lives. He’s also an honorary Kanada schooler, having been going for insanely knotty effects before there was even Crayon Shin Chan. Koike and Yoshiyama have a ton of things in common.

The Kagami Lineage (Tumbleweed) 

Kagami School
Takahiro Kagami 
Itsuki Imazaki
Keisuke Kojima

Arai School
Masayoshi Tano > Naotoshi Shida 
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 style especially in recent years, so his style is now closer to Jun Arai’s rather than to both Shinsaku Kozuma’s and Kazuhide Tomonaga’s. 

The Trigger Lineage 

Trigger School 
Hiroyuki Imaishi 
Toshiyuki Sato  
Akira Amemiya 
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 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 

*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.  

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 
Hideyuki Motohashi
Kazuhiro Ochi
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, and thus remains the first Gen person who’s still closest to matching Masami Obari’s hip and square mech timing. Funnily enough, though Shinbo remains more known for his unusually strong Itano influences (amongst the strongest in history, alongside Mitsuo Iso and Yuji Moriyama), 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 Hajime  Kamegaki and Kazuhiro Ochi’s early years, making it a high end spinoff of the Kamegaki 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. Oddly enough, Koh’s style seems too unique at first to be considered a normal neo-Kanada style, but ultimately has roots in both Tamura and Kamegaki styles anyway. 

The Yamashita Lineage (Bounce) 

Yamashita School
Hideyuki Motohashi 
Masahito Yamashita 
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 early career. 

Konno School
Takamitsu Kondo 
Naoto Hosoda
Shinpei Tomooka 
Naoyuki Konno

*Takamitsu Kondo’s faction of fellow animators includes Naoyuki Konno of Cyborg 009 fame. 


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