Newfound Alt-Kanada terms to die for!

Given that Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-Kuns have diversified so much in terms of drawing styles available, we can now popularise newfound terms that focus on alternative Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-Kun movements. 

The influential Toriyama/Nagai/Shirato/Ishinomori diversification has now become something to gawk at in hindsight. This means it’s mainly due to its strong associations with Studio Break’s actual founding master Yasunori Miyazawa, perhaps the most batshit animator alongside the already more influential and relatable kinds of Pers-Kuns in modern postwar Japanese history. As though it’s hard to fully imitate the late Dragon Ball creator, Akira Toriyama is one of the most mockingly adapted, deprecated and appreciated of them all as well as Sanpei Shirato and Keiichiro Kimura, Kazuko Nakamura, and Shotaro Ishinomori as well as Go Nagai and Morihiko Ishikawa. Shinya Ohira still keeps his own take on the deep canvas as drawn by Mao Lamdo. 

Iconic bits from the man behind the WebGen and spinoff Web-Kanada movements may as well deserve to be recognised in light of letting people with all kinds of Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita-like art styles go into the world of digital animation. 

Bodyguard Konno: His studies have a crap-ton of Studio Break influences, ranging from Shinji Hashimoto to Shinya Ohira to Glen Keane to Morihiko Ishikawa and Mutsumi Inomata. Since he watched a ton of Mecha works as a youth, his mech and human designs also have elements of all main inspirational styles combined into one magnificent whole. 

Konno Punch: He has a more Tarzanesque punch that’s fairly distinct from both the more easily known (Masami) Obari Punch and the even crazier Hisashi (Mori/Nakayama) Punch, just not as dizzying as the Shida Flip. The Naoyuki Konno Punch itself deserves a lot of recognition due to its grounded yet apelike raw power. 

Konno Smears: Given that Naoyuki Konno has pretty much broken the OG Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita school rules altogether, albeit in a usually good way to distract viewers from being bored to death by the Shida flip, so his highly distinct smears, loosely based on the mockable Miyazawa layout, finally found their use by many members of the Web-Kanada movement, with Yuki Hayashi and Takeshi Maenami being the most obvious examples. 

Konno Waves: Konno Waves are less commonly seen in full yet remain more inspired by real life waves that occur in less horribly pollution-ridden beaches. They’re mainly inspired by all the ways that Mao Lamdo and Toshiyuki Inoue do beautiful yet densely detailed waves. 

Konno Bishonen/Biseinen/Bishoujo: Muscular, steely, hardy, beautiful guys and resilient ladies, period. Heavily inspired by Shinya Ohira and Glen Keane all the way back from Keiichiro Kimura’s, Minoru Maeda’s and Kazuko Nakamura’s belated television time heyday in the late 1970s at least till the mid 1990s. KanadaPunkery was rampant even from the debut of Yoshiyuki Momose himself and would only grew somehow much stronger as Yoshinori Kanada himself became famous as a craftsman as well as his friendly rival Kazuhide Tomonaga, the master of fruitful strength. 



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