Where did Dragon Ball Z's top animators go? 

Another great video.. Although shida is INSANE when it comes to fluidity of his animation and the crazy rotations, poses and motion in general, i've always loved satou's art style, it's kinda ridiculous how identical some of his shots are to the manga counterpart, but his key animation was kinda stiff...

For those looking for specific timestamps: 0:35 Masaki Sato 4:45 Naotoshi Shida 8:37 Keisuke Masunaga 11:04 Masahiro Shimanuki 14:04 Kazuya Hisada 15:07 Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru Anyways, great video as always dude!

It would be pretty awesome if Sato, Masunaga and Nakatsuru return to Dragon Ball in some capacity.

One Piece is so long every animator has had their fingers in one episode at least once xD

4:36 this man is my hero. It's bringing me to tears realizing he's blessing Naohiro Shintani and the younger talent to takeover. Thank you Sato for defining my childhood 🙏

I can’t believe how much hard work goes into researching for these vids keep up the good work!

Ur channel is god tier.

This is the kind of content I love watching on youtube.

4:47 Just... Look.. At... THAT!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I'm new here! This channel is amazing and made me watch many video of it, keep it up!

At this point, I have started to fall out of love with anime not just due to the animation, but to anime plots as well. Something I'd love to see is a modern day anime attempted with old school style; hell, imagine if Hunter x Hunter kept the look from the old anime. I don't know, maybe I'm just not good at telling art and animation, but I just... want to see something that doesn't look plastic or super bright and vivid. Modern things can look great and I've seen quite a handful of modern shows that have beautiful animation, but those are rare and not as frequent as I like. And shiiiit I miss series taking risks and making unique ideas like, uhhh, Kyatto Ninden Teyandee! Great video as always, loved it and learning about the animators!

OH MY GOD! Thanks a lot for the featuring, now I know why I got all those followers today haha

Wow man so much information you have gathered ,love your dedication and passion for DBZ

It’s good to hear masunaga is working on one of his dream series (and also one of my personal favorites) Yamato 2199. So good

Im actually very sad I haven’t seen Nakatsuru and Masunga on Dragon Ball lately. Especially Masunaga carried Dragon Ball Z for me in the Buu Saga

I really love your channel, man!

Masaki sato + hisashi heguchi= gold

The real question is "What is Shintani currently working on?"

I love watching your videos because it's always interesting and fun to watch

Very informative, thank you!

you always make amazing videos man. love hearing your voice

ForgottenRelics, I’m curious, what would you say is your favorite looking scene out of Z? Whether it be because of art, animation, etc.

I like to see video on one piece and Naruto_ love from India 😀

I love your content! Thank you for all the hard work you do on these videos 🙏

Masaki Sato's art is awesome and later today he said that he is not a big fan of of dbs super hero full CG movies but the story might be cool

Imagine if Sato returned in dbs season 2

It's interesting watching and learning about this. I wonder what animators think about the shows they work on; it's surely a unique view compared to viewers.

I miss masunaga really wished to see his animations in super

Make sure to make yamamuro in the next, I want to know where he is

Hopefully we can get dragon ball animtaed like current OP, its a bit of a stretch tho

Super cool vid, though I was sad to not see Onishi Ryo on here...only to realize he only started working on Dragonball after the end of Z in 1996. Man Dragonball has been around for a while hasn't it LOL

Ya boi is first zehahaha. Also noice video as always my boi

Like Masunaga and Yamamuro we need someone with a similar art like the one from sato in the saiyan saga art. It is amazing how do you get so much info about dragon ball serie animators and directors.

i didn't even know dr slump had a reboot lol..

The bigger question is, where did sugoisuketchi go?? 🤔

Man imagine if sato WAS able to work on DBS: Broly

I was LITERALLY wondering this the other day! Awesome work man!

shida pulled a piccolo and absorbed them all

Ok this was great. But now I want the sequel to this video!

I would like to see Yo son goku and friends returns animation breakdown

Did these animators carried over their styles or traits into their other works?

7:52, this scene was so good, it was reused in Dragonball Heroes when SSJB Goku fought Hearts, showcasing what SSJ Blue shoulda been in Super, delicate but powerful if your mind is in the right spot. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Xpl8iNP3Sc.html 9:46, yup..it's the queen herself. 10:23, gunna need to watch Star Blazers remake. 10:45, Dang it, Keisuke! You WANTED to draw Yuki like that! X_X 10:55, DUDE!!! I WATCHED THIS SHOW!! IT'S SO AWESOME. It's literally Kazuhiko Shimamoto and the Gainax gang. It's awesome. Check it out. Check it out. 15:23, love it. 16:39, that pirate looks like he can belong in Lupin the 3rd.

Great video. I wonder how each of these animators view their time on Dragonball in relation to their careers. Speaking of DB animators, did you see Yuya Takahashi's latest uploads? He walked us through short sequences of G and V doing their classic battle poses!

Do you have a favorite Naruto animator?

Great video Please Make a part 2.

What's the anime that plays at 13:15?

Dragon Ball doesn’t NEED great animation. It needs great story telling, pacing, suspense, character design, and only adequate animation. My father, whos never seen anything dragon ball, I showed him a few episodes of the old Z series and then the new broly movie. He said the Z series looked the best. When I told him that was the OLD series. He was blown away. He said the newer stuff lacked depth, and emotion.

bro expand beyond Dragon ball.

So basicly hired these gods

Early squad 🔥

What about Yukio Ebisawa and Masayuki Uchiyama????

This video is so well done and fascinating. Great job 👏👏👏

How do I become a featured artist?

9:29 What movie is this?

👍👍👌

They left because the anime industry didnt pay them enough to pay their rent lmao

make one piece related video too

Just be carfull using toe content they have been hitting people and striking them and abusing the copyright system for no reason i don't if you heard or know totally not mark that have been with taking down 150 of his videos; so yeah be carfull bro

Shida's great, but his animations are always lacking in weight and impact with all the waveyness.

Why animators like Nakatsuru weren’t in the staff of Dragon ball Super?

So... is it Masaki Sato's fault for disrespecting Record of Ragnarok's designs? Hopefully it was a comitee decision rather than his...

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4:48.. it blows my mind how anyone could prefer the Super animation over THIS..