Free! ED (youtube) sent waves through the anime community when it first aired, with its bold decision to star the cast in what looks like an underwater SM dance club. But putting that aside, there are a couple of powerful symbolisms and references in the ED, which made this ED particularly enjoyable for me. Desert…
Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu is the third season in its series. In addition to the main cast of 4 characters, in this season, 2 new characters join the cast to fill up all 6 places in the Hidamari apartments. Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu is animated by studio Shaft, who is known for their artistic creativity. In this…
Angel Beats ED and Mekaku City Actors ED have a shockingly similar storyboard, in one line: Main character has many friends appear one by one throughout the sequence. However, the difference in the way which they animate this storyboard shows the difference in artistic creativity between studios. Angel Beats ED is animated by PA Studio…
Fate⁄EXTRA Last Encore ED consists of mostly panning across beautiful stills with special particle effects, but they are stills after all. In addition, even though the vocals are acceptable, the music gets very noisy. However, the first 19 seconds of the ED was wonderfully executed. Full OP Youtube link. First 19 seconds of ED…
At first watch, Kyoukai no Kanata ED (by studio Kyoani) left me amazed with its bold move of having a singular pose for most of its storyboard. It’s definitely a challenge to limit the storyboard to mostly one pose while still being able to keep the whole ED interesting and making that one pose meaningful.…