Where did One-Punch Man's animators go? (Part 1) 

partially true, but not exactly, as there was at least 60+ key animators from other studios from names like Studio Khara, Trigger, Mu, and DR Movie for example. and even though some of these animators may have been freelancers at the time, a fair few big ones would join other studios or even make them in some cases. Such as Ryu Nakayama creating Andraft Inc. or Yoshimichi Kameda joining Studio Wit.

@@forgottenrelics1197 good to know

DR Movie... it's always DR Movie. I swear they're a shadow organization, silently controlling the industry from their innocuous little corner in the credits of EVERY show.

@@forgottenrelics1197 I'm not sure but I think that basically nowadays animators can be at same time working for a studio and free-lance on external projects? It's a bit like in the past was called a collaboration (although it actually still happens) but limited to one or a few numbers of artists. Probably I'm getting it all wrong, I dunno, it was a wild guess xD

​​@@forgottenrelics1197how much it will take to bring back those 169 ppl I bet if mappa madhouse make it a collab project for s4 they can do it.

Mappa's jjk and csm

Exactly the hype was unreal when it came out. Literally made any other anime airing at that time irrelevant

my glorious king yutaka carried

no way they got blue comments in youtube now

@@livingwater25 where

Yes, you are 10.

@@vegsmashed I am 24 actually, how old are U?

@@helloimuzumakikira1 I am ABC years old.

that cut me deep as a 41 yr old 😅

​@@vegsmashedlol it backfired on you

they're doing anything but dropping season 3 🤦🏻🤦🏻

@@gvauntq Let it die while it was good. We don't need something like it was in second season with DBZ slide show on repeat action.

@@McDinglefart_69 This aged poorly

a lot did, but there were many other productions they were working on around that time as well as after mob - Boogiepop, Acca:13, JJk, CSM etc. and the scope of there involvement varies pre heavy. for example Shingo Natsume only did 2nd ka on like one episode and never returned to mob :(

Man, the guy literally said so in the video. . Watch first, comments later

@@lenowoowhat if I wanna guess

@@lenowooYou have no clue whether he commented before or after the video and nothing signifies this. He simply assumed, as did I, majority of OPM S1 went to Mob S1 since there was only a year difference and had the same author.

Betta start making more OPM or ima do something devilish. (I can't do anything about it.)

Mob Psycho 🤩

thank you :)

Unless One pulls in a few favors

And that's fine, not everything has to be insane. You guys are spoiled brats, never happy.

@@AccelSternritter Sure, not everything has to be insane, but let's be real : When a first season delivers in such a stellar way that you feel like you just got offered a Lamborghini... then by season 2, SURPRISE MUDDAFUKKAZ ! It was a Volvo all along... You're kinda legitimately allowed to have some buyers remorse (the "buying" being the time of your life that you invested on the show, not just watching, but also raving about it... Think Game of Thrones, for example. From being touted as the best show in the history of television, raking in Emmys for the entire first 4 seasons... to a show NOBODY talks about nowadays after it ended, even by its stars, all of them, btw, having been catapulted by the show to superstardom, branching out to other pop culture classics like How to Train your Dragon, Star Wars, the MCU... only to all return to the void of darkness they all came from after season 8 ended... I mean, do you still remember the name of the actor who was Jon Snow for about 10 years ? Or Daenewhat's-her-name-again ?). Same goes for OPM. I remember the FEVER about it, with all of Twitter and Facebook (when it was still a thing) buzzing about it all around the planet. It was THE series that broke the bamboo ceiling and made anime cool for mainstream audiences, finally making them discover all the gems the industry had to offer. Fast forward 9 years later, after a lackluster s2 that was waited for 4 years, and a s3 that has been in limbo for yet another 4 years, and how many people are still talking about the show ? S1 was truly lightning in a bottle and it deserves to be remembered and celebrated as what it is : a milestone in the history of anime, assembling the dream team, the Avengers of the industry all together the time of one single season.

learn to enjoy anime without it being a nonstop sakuga fest. this approach to entertainment consumption is unhealthy

@@AccelSternritter And? Where did I mentioned that I'm not fine with it?

speak🗣📢

I dunno I've seen it bouncing --- relatively --- (lol xD) around on the social media. If you want to find a really underrated anime that was buried under the ground without deserving it, look after Heike Monogatari

The ending of that show to me was pretty ass...I get why they went with it but bro went through all that just to return to being a background character 🥲

@@Ticking-time-bomb isn't that most of us😑

@@Ticking-time-bomb wait sorry which anime?

for real, deserves more recognition

hilarious that keiichiro saito would come through with natsume on boogiepop, acca-13 and sonny boy and then go on to make a separate highly popular and acclaimed manga adaptation at madhouse with a huge concentration of supremely confident talent

thank you

thanks man, appreciate it!!

Also would not be surprised that a few of these names may be connected to Cloverworks current adaptation of "The Illusive Samurai" considering its first 2 episodes is a wellspring of hyper-polished and imaginative cuts of sakuga.

bless up Castro

yeah man sooo keen to cover Daima

ajay's coming back for daima

real recognize real 💯

Like we now know what peak looks like, there is no coming back

while they're down there, pls kickstart the production on Opm's 3rd season ty

@@forgottenrelics1197 seems reasonable xD

To be honest, after rewatching side-to-side the two, S2 isn't even terrible. As legions have said before, the matter is that the comparison with S1 disintegrates it xD. Sure it's got some jarring aesthetic choices, the general animation is worse, less cinematographic etc, but I think the real problem is that most of its directing is uninspired. I've seen a lot of early 00s and especially 90s anime, and a lot of them didn't have a giant amount of exceptional sakuga nor dynamic camera moves and similar, but the good ones developed directing styles that made the most out of animation cuts that were just good per se to elevate them. I think OPM S2 simply don't have that, else it would have been way easier to appreciate it and forgive the less stellar animation or the strange digital coloring choices. Just to give two very very small scale examples (cause I feel I'm talking in cryptic mumbo jumbo, sorry xD) 3 scenes come to my mind: the reveal of the Dragon Slayer sword and its fatal hit on Baron Mc Snakinson, Berserk 1997's first episode, and (but it's a bit more peculiar cause it's a show full of sakuga and great directing) the laser blast shot from Heavenly Delusion's episode 10 (which is literally NOT animated, and looks amazing nonetheless xD)

@@gurdimeikenskjaldi5060 I completely agree with you. Season 2 was cinematically BAD but animation wise it's not that bad, Season 3 trailer looked cinematic that's why it looked fabulous because now they have time. The main problem with season 2 was time.(I also liked season 2)

Yeah that was thanks to the director yooto who seems to be a big Gurren Lagann fan. He even posted some fan art - twitter.com/yooto40010/status/1509963077034610688/photo/1

thank ya and defs check out Sonny Boy!

Funny enough I was gonna mention it in this video, as its directed by Tetsuya Yoshihara, who also worked on OPM! (the script for his section is written so will mention him in the future)

yep its crazy how many of Aot's top action scenes Imai was behind and thank you!

Deep stuff around that I’m pretty sure. That’s basically opening up Pandora’s box. It’s a reason why the industry would never tell the general public on how to obtain a stack lineup for production. It’s a huge secret and it’s rigged. I’ve done tons of research and still can’t figure it out. Yes, the minority may say “ Connections “ which is true… but it’s more stuff involved.

it really is aye! crazy looking back to see how many of them there were. reminds me a lil of Akira's production as it too had many of the industries best at the time but also a lot of young animators that would completely change the industry down the line.

@@forgottenrelics1197 I used to say, as a joke, that basically everyone in japan worked on AKIRA xD As you said, a lot of veterans and future stars (back then at least). I even found, on Sakugabooru, a animation cut from Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, who I didn't even know had ever animated xD

thank you rex, because of your comment i'll hit an extra set of bicep curls tonight much love

​@@forgottenrelics1197🫡 we must become sam sulek

probably better animation than season 2 but not better than season 1

Honestly I'm not expecting anything out of the norm for shonen anime, but I don't believe it'll look as mediocre as the 2nd. At least going of the trailer the post-processing/colour design was a nice step up from the stale and airbrushed mess of the last season so even if this season isn't that animated, aesthetically it'll be an improvement at least. But yeah, as you mentioned talent is spread thin, even Chikashi Kubota despite reprising his role as character designer, has been very busy on Dragon Ball Daima and other Toei related works so unfortunately its unlikely he'll return as a chief animation director. Which sucks because you could really feel the lack of his presence in the 2nd. Although depending on who seasons 3 director is, you may see some interesting names? But again I'm not getting my hopes up. At the very least there were some skilled freelancers that popped up last season like Yen Bm, riooo and Julian Bentley who've really improved since then! So fingers crossed they might drop in for an episode or two.

Glad you enjoyed it man and thanks for the sub!

@@forgottenrelics1197 you're welcome, man ! I'm also very curious about how Shingo Natsume ended up being friends with all this hodgepodge of super soldiers, so that they would all answer his call for s1. Granted, the manga was awesome, so I get that they would all feel like this was the opportunity of a lifetime, but the simple fact that because he wasn't the director of s2, then almost none of them came back on it is also pretty telling of the Magneto level of pull this man has. What's their story together ? Did they all come from the same frat ?

@@jjstarrprod It's a mix. A large amount come through connections he formed when directing Space Dandy in 2014. He gave staff a lot of freedom and so many were keen to work under him again for OPM. With animators like Akira Amemiya he already was friends with Natsume back in the 2000s and I'm sure his time on Gurren Lagann would've given a few connections at Gainax/future Trigger staff. i go into in more depth about space dandy and how he for the team in this vid - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E-Cc6zwlHUU.html

i did and thank you

thank you Cursive font - "Brittany" Bold title - "Anton"

@@forgottenrelics1197 I just realized I said wishlist instead of watchlist lol. Anyway, thanks for the fonts😅

@@reezwave happens to me all the time, always re editing my comments hahah and no problem!

thank ya

I will mention him in the part 2. As mentioned in the outro i intended to mention all the big names in one video but the length woulda been about 40 minutes, so i had to cut the script down 🙃

@@forgottenrelics1197 understandable ! Looking forward ro pt 2

Seems like Shingo Natsume wanted to but he still was busy with Boogiepop and the comittee didnt want to wait so they threw it to an available studio that could make 12 episodes at record speed.

There was kinda a small handful that made it back, the series character designer - Chikashi Kubota kept doing designs and Yoshimichi Kameda dropped in once (thanks to a request from the author One). But a lot of it comes down to the fact that many of these talents came on thanks to connections the director Shingo Natsume and Madhouses producer Yuichiro Fukushi had.

Well J.C staff are decent but first season was animated by madhouse. Their lastest anime frieren was so damn peak as well

for sure and they also had a pretty bad schedule

i haven't watched mha 😶

@@forgottenrelics1197 oh…. *crumbles into a ball🥲*

@@forgottenrelics1197 oh…..

Actually a lot of them did keep in contact, as both Shingo Natsume and Yuichiro Fukushi (the 2 big names that brought many of these talented animators on to begin with) would continue to reach out to many of them for there future projects like Boogiepop, Acca:13, Sonny Boy and Frieren. There were also some of OPM's staff which would become big action directors down the line, so it hasn't been uncommon to see them reach out to there friends. Tetsuya Yoshihara is a prime example. the title for this was also rhetorical, this vid is just on what those specific shows they worked on as well as other stuff like founding studios or leaving studios

@@forgottenrelics1197 ah i see. me brain not okay🙃. i just hope we’re able to something of this caliber again some day. great video

@@Sergio-wm5du agreed haha and thank you :)