Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

The Shindo Lineage (Shindo-Lite)  Shindo School  Toyoo Ashida > Atsushi Yano Mitsuo Shindo > Nishiki Itaoka  Yoshimichi Kameda *Given that Yano is heavily influenced by Toyoo Ashida, as well as by 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 styles too different to be considered normal Kanada styles, they’re instead lined up with Yoshimichi Kameda and Nishiki Itaoka rather than with the rest.  Otsuka School 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’s perhaps the most radical first gen Kanada type schooler out there, which suggests that Yuu Yoshiyama is perhaps an incredibly lucky animator thanks to being influenced by Otsuka from a young age. The Kaga...