I love the look of cel animation

This was a Hell of a way for the series to end. After Iwane did all of the key animation for #187-188 and action cuts for #189 to see him turn out perhaps his most impressive action cuts for a throwaway fight in the last episode was a real charm. Head Writer Tomioka Atsuhiro, Episode Director Asada Yuuji (who was also credited as one of two series directors for Episodes #171-191), and Animation Supervisor and sole Key Animator Iwane Masa'aki really were the golden trio that made Pocket Monster: Diamond & Pearl the best incarnation of the franchise yet.

Another cool factoid: Asada Yuuji directed and storyboarded five of the last twenty last episodes of the series. What a guy.

Best cut in the whole video. Got a nice sense of weight to it. Kugai really outdid himself.

Yay, you're finally posting! :D I hope you upload a bunch more of Iwane's stuff.

Sure will. I'll try to upload a lot of Tamagawa's work as well.

Please remember to tag which show/movie the clip comes from.

Whoops! My apologies.

Is this an accurate visual reflection of how Precure fans feels when watching the show these days?

duckroll said:
Is this an accurate visual reflection of how Precure fans feels when watching the show these days?

and this cat was saying: "please stop bullying my friend" in this cut :P

But the show is good.
Also Sato is the AD on episode 40 next week!

Which version is this though? Yamakan infamously re-edited this episode for the DVD/home release to lower the frame count as he was upset the animators went above the allowed frame count for the episode, thus going over budget.

It's Numata's ep2 that got nerfed in the disc release, this one should be fine. Fugo episode, pretty great!

kViN said:
It's Numata's ep2 that got nerfed in the disc release, this one should be fine. Fugo episode, pretty great!

That's the one, my memory is not as good as it once was.

Kraker2k said:
Which version is this though?

It's the blu-ray version.

Why would he lower the framerate if they were already drawn? Just to be passive-aggressive?

Galap said:
Why would he lower the framerate if they were already drawn? Just to be passive-aggressive?

Yeah, it was obviously in vain with the episode already done. If the animation director goes overboard and "wastes" too many resources (keeping that under control was Yamakan's job to begin with, no one tell him) then the damage is already done, no point in going back and changing stuff around. You could claim it's for the sake of consistency but a) who the hell blatantly lowers the quality of an episode so that it looks more like the rest of the show b) it's Kannagi, there's plenty of other instances of outstanding character animation.

Effects and explosions should be Hashimoto's work, the character stuff in the middle were animated by Kawajiri.

Maybe the work of Masayuki Sato? Don't really know his work. Toei bros feel free to chime in.

https://twitter.com/satomasa516/status/318548028300595202

Sato tweet about what he did in that episode

Matsuo animated most of the first half of this episode.
http://bbs.saraba1st.com/2b/thread-740819-1-1.html

Haha looks like you were quick to the draw this time friend. Good stuff from Mir as usual.