Transcription for Sakuga pt.11 - You Yoshinari: Gainax & Trigger Superstar, copied from Youtube's trasncript feature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSru3zGlm00
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I'm gonna talk to you about another Gainax guy,
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(cuz I love Gainax)
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You Yoshinari, who we showed the
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ninja-running Evangelion video from a little bit earlier.
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He is another founding animator
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of the newly-formed studio, Trigger.
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And on a side note, this is the second time I've mentioned Trigger.
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The studio has one announced show in the pipeline.
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It's in the preview stage, but
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it has a ton of buzz about it already,
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so it's something to look out for. It's called "Kill la Kill".
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They also did...
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Little Witch Academia.
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He directed it, yeah.
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That's got a Studio Trigger credit on it.
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That's really new.
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Yoshinari is a super veteran.
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He's been with Gainax since forever,
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and has been a storyboard artist, a mechanical designer, an animation director,
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a key animator, and every other staff position possible.
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And I'm sure he's probably voiced something...
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like Hideaki Anno voiced the cat in FLCL.
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Yoshinari is so cool that he gets his own eyecatch.
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Yoshinari [was] Gainax's flagship animator.
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He's arguably (you can argue with me if you like)
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been the backbone of Gainax since he left MadHouse in '92.
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Yoshinari has a few tells for his work.
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One of the most noticable tells is his explosions.
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I joke that he learned how to draw explosions
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by microwaving Peeps.
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The best way to describe them is by saying
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they sorta grow out of themselves,
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and blossom on top of themselves,
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like one, another, another, another...
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It's like... Cancer explosions. They're really organic.
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(I'm sorry if you have cancer.)
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(It's really sad!)
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I'm a big fan of this guy, but he's so good at being obscure,
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that it's really hard to tell what he's done & hasn't done.
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When watching any studio Gainax sakuga,
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I kinda operate under the assumption that I'm watching Yoshinari,
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unless somebody tells me otherwise, like the Internet.
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(And I'm sorry if I get in trouble for showing you any clips that aren't Yoshinari.)
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With all that being said, I'm actually gonna change it
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and not show you clips. I'm gonna show you a whole short.
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This is his 3-minute show-off session
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from the extras of Gurren Lagann.
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Part of it was used in the movie becuase it's so fuckin' dope.
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Yeah, let's just play it. This is You Yoshinari.
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The other thing that makes him kinda hard to follow, is that
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he doesn't really go off-model when he draws stuff.
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Though he certainly has a way of shading.
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Usually his effects animation is a big tell.
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If you know what his effects look like, you know it's Yoshinari.
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This is a homage to Captain Harlock. They do it a bunch of times in the show.
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It's dope every time.
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There's one of those growing explosions...
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These tentacles, when he's running in the next part of this scene
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will be pencil-drawn over cel animation
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and it looks really cool... in just a second...
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No, not now...
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Yeah, that.
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He does part of another short from this set
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as well.
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It's very cool.
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It's kinda like a replacement for
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that wonderful episode 4 of this series.
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(Audience: 4 is great!)
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Yeah, sure.
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Next we have Tetsuya Takeuchi
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and the one-animator episode.