{"id":186934,"date":"2021-02-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:00:00","slug":"feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/","title":{"rendered":"#FEATURE: How I Got Into Sakuga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c56c0edce3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c56c0edce3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/#Alls_Fair_in_Love_and_War_Games\" >All&rsquo;s Fair in Love and War Games<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/#An_Emerging_Style\" >An Emerging Style<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/#A_Little_History_Lesson\" >A Little History Lesson<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/#Why_Bother_With_Sakuga\" >Why Bother With Sakuga? \n&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feature-how-i-got-into-sakuga\/#Sakuga_Is_For_Everyone\" >Sakuga Is For Everyone \n&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#FEATURE: How I Got Into Sakuga<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Warp from &quot;Kaiba&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire2\/a62dc2a9e1cffc460a5eb13e3f416ecd1613638730_main.png\" style=\"width: 640px;height: 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/kaiba?utm_source=editorial_cr&amp;utm_medium=news&amp;utm_campaign=article_driven&amp;referrer=editorial_cr_news_article_driven\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\"><strong>Kaiba<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Directed by Masaaki Yuasa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a> fan, you&rsquo;re likely an animation fan in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>. But how do you know when an animation is &ldquo;good&rdquo;? How do you learn to identify an animator by only what you see, or tell when their drawings are better than usual?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>English-speaking anime fans have adopted <em>sakuga<\/em> as a general catch-all term for exceptional animation. While the word sakuga itself means &ldquo;animation,&rdquo; in this context, sakuga has come to mean something very specific: Not just animation that looks cool, but the deliberate handiwork of specific animators with specific artistic aspirations. For example, a single-animator project might have a lot of &ldquo;sakuga<em>&nbsp;<\/em>shots&rdquo; because it has a personal, highly-refined style. Meanwhile, a television <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> might have an entire team of varying specialists for a larger narrative. Some of this might be attributed to specific key animators, while some might be credited to an entire studio &mdash; transformation sequences, explosive missiles, robots &mdash; that&rsquo;s all fair <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> to be called sakuga. But how do you really know if what you&rsquo;re looking at really is this so-called &ldquo;sakuga?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like most art, it&rsquo;s almost entirely subjective. Here&rsquo;s my story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><br style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;color:#000000\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A-ko and C-ko window-shop in &quot;Project A-ko&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire4\/5dcb28525c1e3dca4fe3d59c023d52dc1613638775_main.png\" style=\"width: 640px;height: 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Project A-ko<\/em><\/strong>, a high-energy 1986 OVA series best remembered for its exceptional animation staff<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(<em>Image via&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retrocrush.tv\/series\/015763s\/project-a-ko%3A-the-complete-collection\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Retrocrush<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Alls_Fair_in_Love_and_War_Games\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>All&rsquo;s Fair in Love and War Games<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I got my hands on the English-dubbed <em><strong>Digimon: The Movie<\/strong><\/em> on VHS. This notorious release was a three-part recut of Mamoru Hosoda&rsquo;s Digimon OVAs released from 1999 to 2000, heavily featuring his second film <em><strong>Digimon Adventure: Our War Game<\/strong><\/em>. Of course, I didn&rsquo;t experience this package as a &ldquo;Hosoda anime&rdquo; at the time. Besides the <em>inspired<\/em> inclusion of Barenaked Ladies&rsquo; &quot;One Week&quot; to the <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mJ8BFffUe_E\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">soundtrack<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, I strongly associate these films with Hosoda&rsquo;s signature interpretation of Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru&rsquo;s original <strong><em>Digimon Adventure<\/em><\/strong> character designs. Compared to the Toei-produced television series, these renditions of the Digi-Destined are charmingly off-model and move with awkward intention, like actual kids up against terrifying monsters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, that&rsquo;s what most people mean by sakuga &mdash; animation that makes us lean in and notice traits about the world and characters that can&rsquo;t be communicated otherwise. Sakuga, in particular, places special emphasis on an individual animator&rsquo;s keyframes, or the drawings used as a basis for in-between frames during movement. That&rsquo;s what I mean by the phrase &ldquo;Hosoda anime.&rdquo; If you watch <strong><em>Summer Wars<\/em><\/strong> or <strong><em>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time<\/em><\/strong> enough times, anyone will notice a stylistic palette of idiosyncrasies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kairi holds Tai's hand in &quot;Home Away From Home&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire2\/a42f4a61b140122a9ff456f9ce7dde601613638829_main.png\" style=\"width: 640px;height: 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Digimon Adventure<\/em><\/strong> <em>&ldquo;Home Away From Home&rdquo; directed by Mamoru Hosoda<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(<em>Image via&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/digimon-adventure-0048dd25-d457-4539-841e-d5ac60154c91\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Hulu<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"An_Emerging_Style\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>An Emerging Style<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I got older and realized there was more anime than what was on cable, I kept returning to &ldquo;flat&rdquo; style animation with films like Tatsuo Sat\u014d&rsquo;s 2001 <strong><em>Cat Soup<\/em><\/strong> and Sh\u014dji Kawamori&rsquo;s 1996 <strong><em>Spring and Chaos<\/em><\/strong>. Around this time, contemporary artist Takashi Murakami also began developing his own &ldquo;superflat&rdquo; style (coined in his 2000 book <strong><em>Superflat<\/em><\/strong> and later in <strong><em>Little Boy: The Arts of Japan&#039;s Exploding Subculture<\/em><\/strong>) we&rsquo;ll return to. Once I got a taste for the experimental, I never turned back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But back to Hosoda. Less focused on the details of models and more fixated on a &ldquo;flat&rdquo; or fluid style of movement, the key animation in Hosoda&rsquo;s films makes body language a priority. This is perhaps the best thing about good sakuga&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;its potential to express deep emotion even under production constraints. My favorite example comes from the first <strong><em>Digimon<\/em><\/strong> short film Hosoda directed, the simply titled <em><strong>Digimon<\/strong> <strong>Adventure<\/strong><\/em> from 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><br style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;color:#000000\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tsubame, Midori, and Sayaka from &quot;Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire1\/5f61affbd055780ded46c2f0ee4287101613638901_main.png\" style=\"width: 640px;height: 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/keep-your-hands-off-eizouken?utm_source=editorial_cr&amp;utm_medium=news&amp;utm_campaign=article_driven&amp;referrer=editorial_cr_news_article_driven\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\"><strong>Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Directed by Masaaki Yuasa<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally conceived as a standalone for Bandai&rsquo;s then-new <em><strong>Digital<\/strong> <strong>Monsters<\/strong><\/em> virtual pet toys, this version of <strong><em>Digimon<\/em><\/strong> is less loud, more atmospheric &mdash; and sincerely preoccupied with the question: &ldquo;How would little kids actually handle a giant monster of their own?&rdquo; The result is an unforgettable shot of Kairi, Tai&rsquo;s little sister desperately blowing her whistle, stopping to catch her breath, then spitting and coughing in an attempt to calm down their newly evolved kaiju Greymon friend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the television series, Hosoda directed the episode &ldquo;Home Away From,&rdquo; depicting the two siblings clinging to each other as the other slowly drifts back to the Digital World. In both scenes, characters don&rsquo;t constantly move, but only act when necessary via careful manipulation of the frames. This technique not only makes everything seem more &ldquo;realistic,&rdquo; but also acts as a visual cue for the anxiety Tai and Kairi feel. In other words, painstakingly controlled animation serves both form and function, especially when you&rsquo;re selling an emotional climax of another kid-meets-monster plot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><br style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;color:#000000\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Yabuki ready to fight\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire2\/0246f57e94bf5e1988714608321bbc671613638976_main.png\" style=\"width: 640px;height: 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Tomorrow&rsquo;s Joe<\/strong>, 1980 film adaptation of the 1970 TV anime series directed by Osamu Dezaki <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Image via&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retrocrush.tv\/video\/016919v\/tomorrow's-joe-(subbed)\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Retrocrush<\/span><\/a><\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Little_History_Lesson\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>A Little History Lesson<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After <strong><em>Digimon<\/em><\/strong>, Hosoda and Nakatsuru collaborated on films like <em><strong>Summer<\/strong> <strong>Wars<\/strong><\/em> and the Takashi Murakami-inspired pop art short <em><strong>Superflat<\/strong> <strong>Monogram<\/strong><\/em>. Hosoda is no doubt inescapable to sakuga fans today thanks to the ubiquity of his feature films. Still, Hosoda obviously wasn&rsquo;t the first sakuga animator. Animators like Yasuo \u014ctsuka, known for his cinematic work in a pre-Ghibli era of anime film with Toei, documented the growth &lsquo;60s and &lsquo;70s of Japan&rsquo;s animation industry in his 2013 book <em><strong>Sakuga<\/strong> <strong>Asemamire<\/strong><\/em>. When the demand for films lowered in favor of anime television during that era, animators took risks. Classics of the era like <em><strong>Tiger<\/strong> <strong>Mask<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Tomorrow&#039;s<\/strong> <strong>Joe<\/strong><\/em> literally held no punches, and Osamu Tezuka&rsquo;s own Mushi Productions dove headfirst into experimental adult films. Animators, and especially keyframe animators, had creative control. In this perfect storm, the advent of sakuga was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"border:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ken Kubo learns about animation in &quot;Otaku no Video&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire1\/62d7389c4a0ae9787f0545a0b5612e8c1613639079_main.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Everyman Ken Kubo is taught the ways of eighties anime in&nbsp;Otaku no Video<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(<em>Image via&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retrocrush.tv\/video\/003142v\/otaku-no-video\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Retrocrush<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Bother_With_Sakuga\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>Why Bother With Sakuga?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 2013, animation aficionado Sean Bires and company hosted an informational panel titled &ldquo;Sakuga: The Animation of Anime&rdquo; at Anime Central Chicago. <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCvUCbVnQUSGoOu6c1VrlXg7XUGzPu-Xe\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Uploaded to YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/strong> that same year, this panel informed my younger self&rsquo;s understanding of not just the &ldquo;how&rdquo; of sakuga, but the &ldquo;why&rdquo; it even needed to exist in anyone&rsquo;s vocabulary. Accessible, meticulously researched, and full of visual references, Sean&rsquo;s two-hour panel-lecture does the heavy lifting of contextualizing anime not just through a historical lens, but within the broader project of expanding cinematic techniques. This primer might sound heady, but considering the popularity of Masaaki Yuasa&rsquo;s series like <em><strong>Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!<\/strong><\/em>, and references to animator Ichir\u014d Itano&rsquo;s &ldquo;Itano circus&rdquo; missiles in American cartoons like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gunzu0\/status\/1256745857568829440\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\"><em><strong>DuckTales<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>, it&rsquo;s hard to say sakuga isn&#039;t relevant. Nowadays, it&#039;s practically a trope to parody one of Dezaki&#039;s most iconic shots. Supplemented by a rich community of blogs and forums, it couldn&rsquo;t be easier to learn about animators like Yasuo \u014ctsuka or the early days of Toei if you want a bigger picture. Blogs like <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ep6Q5UcUlN?amp=1\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Ben Ettinger&rsquo;s Anipages<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and the aptly named <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sakugabooru.com\/\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Sakuga Blog<\/span><\/a><\/strong> are a good place to start, not to mention dozens of dedicated galleries of anime production and art books published by studios themselves. Now couldn&rsquo;t be a better time to vicariously live your art school dreams through anime masterworks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A crowd celebrates a parade from &quot;Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire1\/5ec1cd4cbce6674d2f277896a259a27d1613639175_main.png\" style=\"height: 360px;width: 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/little-nemo-adventures-in-slumberland?utm_source=editorial_cr&amp;utm_medium=news&amp;utm_campaign=article_driven&amp;referrer=editorial_cr_news_article_driven\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\"><strong>Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a 1989 film featuring animation by Yasuo \u014ctsuka best known for his work on the Lupin III franchise<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sakuga_Is_For_Everyone\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>Sakuga Is For Everyone<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Fans have always been obsessed with the technicalities of animation, even if they weren&#039;t artists. As early as 2007, uncut dubbed collector box sets for <em><strong>Naruto<\/strong><\/em> came with annotated booklets of episode storyboards. More recently, critically-acclaimed series like <strong><em>Shirobako<\/em><\/strong> further explicated this love for animation as a team effort &mdash; people love attaching other people to art. In contrast, psychological horror series like Satoshi Kon&rsquo;s <em><strong>Paranoia Agent<\/strong><\/em> features an episode about an anime studio&rsquo;s production going terribly wrong. Not to mention the endlessly self-referential Otaku no Video Gainax OVA and its depiction of zealous sakuga otaku. Anime fans adore watching anime be born over and over. It&rsquo;s that simple.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kairi plays with Koromon in &quot;Home Away From Home&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire4\/6f91dc813ac1a6ac1379a4631f300e9a1613639296_main.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Digimon Adventure<\/strong> &ldquo;Home Away From Home&rdquo; directed by Mamoru Hosoda <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Image via <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/digimon-adventure-0048dd25-d457-4539-841e-d5ac60154c91\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12\">Hulu<\/span><\/a><\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nToday, I&rsquo;d comfortably call some shots from Hosoda <strong><em>Digimon<\/em><\/strong> films great sakuga. But Koromon is still weird. Sorry.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe love for sakuga isn&rsquo;t a contest to one-up fans on production trivia or terminology. It&rsquo;s about taking the time to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciate the fact that anime is ultimately a collaborative artistic endeavor. From tracing back the lineage of animators like Yoshinori Kanada to <strong><em>Kill la Kill<\/em><\/strong>, to appreciating the visual sugar rush of <strong><em>Project A-Ko<\/em><\/strong> alongside slow-paced Ghibli films, &ldquo;getting into sakuga&rdquo; isn&#039;t a passive effort, nor a waste of time. Besides, wouldn&#039;t it be fun understanding how your favorite animator achieved your favorite scene? The phrase &quot;labor of love&quot; is clich&eacute;, but maybe that&rsquo;s a good synonym for what role sakuga inevitably plays for artists and fans alike &mdash; work that brings you joy, no matter how you cut it.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Who is your favorite animator? When did you get into sakuga? Let us know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/premium_comparison\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire4\/78f5441d927cf160a93e037b567c2b1f1595958516_main.png\" style=\"height: 43px;width: 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Blake P. is a weekly columnist for Crunchyroll Features. 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