The BEST action episode yet! | Animation Analysis: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Ep 13 

The process goes animator makes layout > checks by the episode director > cut gets corrected by the AD > animator (same or different one) makes the genga following the AD corrections. As for the other question, I'm not entirely sure, but from what I've seen, the animator that did the layout still gets credited for genga even if he didn't do it for his own scene, but 2nd KA animators get that credit if they made the genga for someone else's LO. Which I guess is why you see small KA numbers but giant 2nd KA ones.

Thanks for the explanation. Do they sometimes correct it after the genga again? Cause some scenes have 2 corrections on booru like… one by one of the ADs and one by CAD. And some of the corrections like the Nanami or Toji shots are just straight up used in the show.

The people making these LO are animators. Ideally they should always do their own genga. Layout is supposed to be a middle step between storyboards and animation, but now because of the state the anime industry is in it's more like the final work that most animators submit. This causes issues; Since it's the final product from the animators' side, they might make it the "best version" according to them, i.e., needlessly complicated movement but unfinished drawings, thus increasing the work load on 2nd KA and AD. Here's an example: www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/163492. This is Vincent Chansard's LO. This is really good "animation", but as a layout, it is a failure. It's complex with broken art, and if it had simpler composition and movement with better drawings, it wouldn't have completely gone to waste. Vincent of course learned from this experience and is now a great animator- He was given 14 days for 23 cuts of gear 5, and he spent only 4 of those days on animation and the other 10 on cleanup. He could have spent all 14 days on animation and submitted a much "better animated" but rough product, but that would be counter-intuitive. AD work is supposed to be "correction". Animators make genga, AD corrects some drawings either because they are sub-par or simply because they want it to look even better. But since most animators are now submitting LO instead of genga, AD work is now a mixture of "correction" and "completion". JJK gives high level of creative freedom to the animators, so a lot of the AD work here is "completion". Eg: Kosuke Kato did his own genga for this episode, which is why it's so different in style compared to the cuts that come before and after. It required no corrections though as the drawings were fully completed already and Kato is a great artist. Coming back to your questions. "Is it after LO and before genga or after genga and before douga?"- Could be at any single stage. Corrections can be made to the LO and animators use that as reference to make genga. AD checks genga if corrections are still required. CAD can overrule AD corrections in the genga and change it, which the animators use as reference to redo the genga. "Do some genga include AD work and some don’t?"- That's right. Depends on how good the genga is and what kind of project it is. For a show like mob psycho with max creative freedom, AD corrections are rarely made to genga. For a show like CSM however, almost every single cut goes through ADs to make sure there's uniformity in the designs. There are also mad-men like Naotoshi Shida who not only skip the correction phase because their art is always perfect, but also skip in-betweening phase as they animate everything themselves. "If LO and genga are done by different people who’s gonna be credited as the animator?"- Usually if the base animation techniques are present, LO artist is credited. If it's redrawn to such a great extent that the 2nd KA or AD's animation style starts seeping in, then they are credited. "Not really “quick” question lol"- Well, hope you find my quick answer useful. Feel free to ask more questions.

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That’s both a blessing and a curse. You now probably can’t enjoy anything that isn’t insane animation. Now that you have a trained eye. I see a lot of people like that… it sucks. Fortunately it hasn’t happened to me yet😂

​@@tehCostHDAbsolutely correct. While watching the masterpiece that was Vinland saga 2x23, a part of my brain was like "hey, this episode doesn't have as many good looking drawings as the previous one, I guess the schedule has caught up pretty hard now", and I was just there like "STFU brain, let me enjoy peak content."

@@-MankoMan exactly man!!! Glad you know what I meant haha

@@tehCostHD That's... actually kinda true, imagine there's someone learns this stuff and then their attitude is condescending and obnoxious.

yeah ive ended up doing that a lot more than I mean to lmao @@-MankoMan

and many of the past episodes also, sadly. huge fumble

@@DrakenRP yeh but atleast HI arc got a near perfect adaptation though ep 5 is still the best non action ep of all jjk

If this season had a healthy schedule, I'd imagine this season would have one of the best animated seasons of all time with a packed staff like that

​@@Echidonadonut69a healthy schedule almost dosen't exists in the anime industry

Skill issue literally everyone could understand what was going on

@@AJ-ry8qd no not really. there are rules in movies still. try touching grass

@@kipnaplayer5185 Wtf are u saying

watch it in a brighter screen I was confused as well when I watched it on my pc screen (which i forgot to brighten in). After I used family's tv (which is brighter), I can see anything clearly

That's neither confirmed nor denied. All we know is that yuji was way stronger than a normal person without using curse energy, and that megumi wondered in the first episode if he is like maki.

@@luceafarul5740 yuji has cursed energy if he has a heavenly restriction it doesn't operate like maki/toji's at all (since he has the strength but none of the drawbacks), there are other reason that make it clear that yuji doesn't have a heavenly restriction but I'd have to give some minor/major spoilers to explain.

@@Axel_2K I'm sometimes wondering what goes through the mind of people like you? Is it ignorance, is it pride or what? What do you gain by saying "you're wrong about that theory because the manga disproves it". Do you feel superior for reading the manga and want anime onlies to know your greatness? I trully cannot comprehend how you reached this conclusion

@@luceafarul5740 I mean, he gave a pretty solid reason based on the current anime stuff. But yeah, it's kinda a dick move to mention the manga.

@@luceafarul5740 you said something wrong and I corrected it nothing else went through my mind. Also the manga stuff is incredibly minor I didn't even think it'd bother anyone

My 22 minute homies pull up

@@arac_modeyt9467ong why do i always see notifications after 22 mins

I see no reason why it can't still be that since every episode after this one this season should be high-priority.

@@MrAnimasonI mean consider the fact the amount of things of large scale (if u read manga u know) they will animate latter on this season Im not saying jjk season 2 hasn’t had some phenomenal animation but the fact that the scedule has left animators being disappointed in their own work makes me question that. U may be right though later episodes have a better schedule.

​@@MrAnimasonidk I don't doubt that the remaining of the szn will look great, shibuya has been amazing so far, it just could be wayyyy better than even that if the production wasn't in hell. And that's sad bc studios see that you can slave these animators away but still put out quality work

⁠@@MrAnimasonWe still dont know yet😂 Every fight from now may hight priority but since work condition this bad and the animator have to suffer this much. I'm afraid there will be times when sacrifice will have to be made. //for me im love this arc so much and love every fight whether big or small…..see some sacrifice is heartache but sympathy for animator😢

@@Chrisby_fx It's easy to make laws promoting better work conditions. It's difficult to change a culture that has become obsessed with saving face to allow its workers time to breathe. As far as I'm concerned, Shibuya is great for the story and the series' best fights comes after this arc, so if the animation matches the theme and tone of the story, that's what I want more than anything.

I was so sure that another black flash was coming.

Thanks lol, the leak readers are so fuckin annoying

Very useful, thanks a lot! Now just need someone who understands Chinese to correct my pronunciation of Xiao Lin and Haojun Zhou.

I'm not Chinese admittedly but I did take it for multiple years in school. Honestly your pronunciation wasn't too bad. The only things I would note is that non native speakers tend to emphasize the sh sound when they see x more than they need to; it's a bit lighter like a balance between sh and s, but that's more nitpicky than anything. You can also think of the lin as being closer to lean when it's pronounced too. And if I had to try and explain it the jun in Haojun is more said like jin/juen, although trying to capture the nuance in writing is a little hard..@@-MankoMan

Of course it's easiest to correct these things when you can see the name written with the tone marks above characters, but I hope this helped with something.

If he is in this ep then I wonder who'll do the toji cut next ep cuz thatsthe highlight of the next fight

bro please give me source 😭

The source is that I made it the fuck up.

@@-MankoMan bruh💀

I hope you finish your collage after this

I don't think there will be(atleast for a while)

Production committee are too greedy to do that

I remember being introduced to him 2 years ago through those gartic phone vids

Yep great work

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I will be making "production hell: JJK".

FGO Camelot 2.

@@-MankoMan THANK YOU VERY MUCH😁👍👍

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