Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

The Kagami Lineage (Tumbleweed)  Kagami School Itsuki Imazaki Takahiro Kagami  Arai School Jun Arai  Yoo-To  The Trigger Lineage  Trigger School  Yoshinori Kanada > Toshiyuki Sato   Hiroyuki Imaishi  Akira Amemiya  Kosuke Kato  Tamura School  Takuo Noda > Sushio Hideki Tamura > Fumiaki Kota  Ryo Tanaka  Fujio Suzuki  Takagi School  Hiroaki Takagi  Atsushi Nishigori  Yuuya Takahashi Takeshi Maenami The Shindo Lineage (Shindo-Lite)  Shindo School  Mitsuo Shindo > Atsushi Yano *Given that Yano is heavily influenced by Mitsuo Shindo, he’s perhaps the most radical first generation Kanada schooler out there.  The Kamegaki Lineage (Smash)  Hirayama School Satoshi Hirayama Yoshimichi Kameda Kamegaki School  Hajime Kamegaki  Takafumi Hori Yuki Hayashi  Yoshinari School  Koh Yoshinari  Yoh Yoshinari  Takumi Sunakohara  *The Yoshinari school is les...

Dear old and young adult fans of Latin American softcore fiction (due to the unhinged implications of both boobs and butts!)   For more accessibility towards beginners from multiple cultures that aren’t Latin American nor southern European, the author Caridad Bravo Adams has a largely posthumous shorthand, C.B. Adams. The three novels in many non-Anglo markets will expand into six novels for the Anglophone market, in order to let beginners read something fairly above the quality of Stephanie Meyer’s notoriously yucky Twilight series. The future six novels may as well be considered hood classics in the history of softcore fiction due to being better written overall than Tessa Dare’s otherwise fun bodice rippers.  Given that C.B. Adams might’ve been a closet straight ally in a time when misogyny was too flagrant even for most queer phobic humans (no wonder why she didn’t marry a guy), there is a good reason why a lot of her novels can indeed ascend beyond caste and class. 

The Otsuka Lineage  Otsuka School  Yasuo Otsuka Toshiyuki Inoue  Hiroshi Shimizu  Iso School Mitsuo Iso Kiyotaka Oshiyama *Mitsuo Iso began his career briefly at Neo Media by being taught simultaneously, yet indirectly and rather seldomly by Yuji Moriyama (a Kanada-Itano schooler) and Katsuhiko Nishijima (a Yamashita-Itano schooler), themselves friends of both Hideaki Anno and Ichiro Itano. Then again, as Iso’s frames are more similar to those of Moriyama’s and Nishijima’s, he merged both styles with the now late Otsuka’s while innovating them all with his own full limited process, the IsoLocation, allowing the rise of anime fluidity for decades to come. Though more influenced by Otsuka’s old style, Moriyama’s bawdy drawings and Nishijima’s inventiveness, it’s still a relevant surprise renovation in the anime world even today.  The Nagahama Lineage  Nagahama school Tadao Nagahama > Kenichi Yoshida Ayumi Kurashima Shigeta School  Atsushi Shigeta...

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It’s becoming increasingly well known that there’s a slow growing amount of generational diversity in terms of hybrid art styles.  Ichiro Itano himself is perhaps one of the greatest living effects animators in Japanese history, no wonder why the Itano school has most likely led to a rise in other fusion schools of thought from the early 1980s and beyond, which is pretty understandable when Yuji Moriyama now has a pretty strong, long running school once led by the two Kimuras. As one of the Kimura school’s older members, current leader Ryo Tanaka has long birthed the Neo Kanada movement over 2 decades ago, since members of his school’s first generation include Fujio Suzuki and Kenji Hayama, both masters of stylish comedic animation in their own right. Yuji Moriyama still does interesting craploads of so bad it’s good stuff that I still forgive him for doing his best to just even animate.   But it’s the Trigger school which unintentionally has continued Takuo Noda’s legacy more...