Turns out that apart from linking to one for my first MADstravaganza panel notes, I’ve not posted a Masaaki Yuasa video yet. Well here’s one I’d overlooked from this year, that mainly focuses on his earlier, funnier work.

Denno Coil, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gurren Lagann, Noein, One Piece Movie 6, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Mukouda’s c.v. contains all the usual suspects for this feature! Here’s a whole load of clips of Mukouda’s nice naturalistic looking human movement. Well maybe. The poster of the video does say it is speculation to a degree. But there you go.

I’ve oft stated my love of characters just running for no reason in anime openings, well here’s a whole load in one lump! The video is marked as a test version, so I expect there’s more to come.

Hey it’s another Hisashi Mori compilation!

It’s MAD Monday time again~!

Tadashi Hiramtsu is primarily know for his GAINAX work, but he’s worked a whole of heap of other A+ neato shows like Denno Coil, the OP for BECK, Gad Guard (I need to get that at some point as it seems to have had so many good animators pop in on it), Paranoia Agent, and The Cat Returns.

He’s had a movie adaptation of Ghost Rhapsody on the boil for years, but nothing seems to have come to light yet.

AniPages Daily has a translated interview with him here.

And here’s the MAD. Music is “HIT IN AMERICA” by BEAT CRUSADERS. Be warned the sound mix on this is a out of whack at points.

A new sakuga MAD has shown up on youtube for Hiroyuki Imaishi with some new clips (obv. a certain drill based mecha show makes a showing):

MAD Mondays – Hiroyuki Imaishi

This was posted by sazankasan1234 today. It’s some work by Takeshi Honda, who most recently was the character designer and chief animator on Denno Coil. As part of GAINAX he worked on Gunbuster, Nadia, Otaku no Video, Evangelion. Other animation work can be found on Giant Robo, Tenchi Muyo, Perfect Blue, Naruto the Movie, Paranoia Agent. Lots of nice running/walking in this video, including credits running from Nadia. I’ve long said that anime with people running for no reason in the credits is a sign of a good show. I may expound upon that later this week, as I think I can actually back that up with some proper thoughts on the theory, rather than it just being a gut feeling.

Another from youtube user manuloz01 who continues to lovingly repost nicovideo sakuga MADs on the more easily accessible video site.

Anime News Network has, I’m guessing incomplete, filmography. Certainly he’s mentioned on AniPages Daily as having worked on the awesome Mononoke too. As per usual, if the music is light girly japanese pop, I have no clue as to the artist. Anyway, the vid is another good bit of ammo for those who want to argue against those that Toei doesn’t turn out good animators anymore (good directors… that might be a different case, is Mamoru Hosoda the only great director they’ve turned out in recent memory?).

Yeah, a Takeshi Koike AMV!

He seems to a be a talent we don’t see enough of nowadays (is he same as this Takeshi Koike. Certainly Viewtiful Joe shares a look with his work).The good news is despite the sparcity of his anime work since the Animatrix, he has a film in the works Redline, an over the top Wacky Races inspired story by the looks of the trailer.

His Trava Fist Planet series on Grasshoppa! is what made me first aware of him. I’d seen his stuff in other things unknowingly, Trava was first thing that really made me aware that there was an individual voice at work. Once you see that, spotting Koike’s work elsewhere gets rather easier (well… unless it’s Hiroyuki Imaishi…).

Here’s the AMV, the music is for once identifiable to these ears. Namely She Bangs The Drum by The Stone Roses.