GITM 74: A Year In Sakuga | 2020 Animation Analysis & Review

What an amazing year it has been for Japanese & Chinese animation! Despite all the crazy things that have happened this year, there are still so many cool animation moments to unpack. In this episode, I discuss the awesome animations of 2020 from Pokemon projects to Music Videos and everything else in between. What can we take from the works of this year and how do they present this information to us? All this and more on the second review episode of the year.

All the staff & works referenced in this episode (most likely not in order):

Staff Referenced: Masaaki Yuasa, Yuuki Igarashi, Norio Matsumoto, Shuuto Enomoto, Atsuko Nozaki, Shota Goshozona, yen_bm, Hero, Toshiyuki Sato, Ken Yamamoto, Yutaka Nakamura, Kouki Fujimoto, Kentaro Waki, Vercreek, Yoshihiro Kanno, riooo, Isuta Meister, China Kantoku, moaang, myoun, Koudai Watanabe, Naoki Yoshibe, Sou Miyazaki, Rie Matusmoto, Masaaki Iwane, Takeshi Maenami, Weilin Zhang, Yuki Sato, Shingo Yamashita, Lin Hun, Shuyu Li, Shingo Tamagawa, Ink, Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, Kojo Tanno.

TV Anime: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, My Hero Academia, SAO: Alicization - War of the Underworld, Black Clover (Sakugabooru)

Music Videos: Just Call It Love - Mafumafu, Study Me - Zutomayo, Blank Paper - Natsuki Aoya (YT)

Pokémon Projects: Pokémon: Twilight Wings, 「Gotcha!」BUMP OF CHICKEN - Acacia (YT)

Chinese Anime & Indie Anime: Fog Hill of the Five Elements (Bilibili), False Memory (YT), Puparia (YT), Apocalypse Day (Bilibili), Fudge Factor (YT), Kojo Tanno (Twitter)

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Thank You to all the staff who worked on anime this year!

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MUSIC IN THIS PRODUCTION:

Difference by chasersgaming

8Bit Title Screen by Joth

Mandatory Overtime by Joth

“Anomaly” Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org (Edited for length)