If you ask different people what “sakuga” is or means, chances are you’ll get different answers ; but all these answers will probably revolve around a few similar ideas : sakuga is good animation ;…
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Exploring sakuga – Part 2 : The birth of Western sakuga
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Exploring sakuga – Part 2 : The birth of Western sakuga
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Exploring sakuga – Part 3 : The sakuga debate
By 2016 and the creation of the companion Sakuga Blog, the sakuga community we now know had pretty much been formed. But that wasn’t without debates and heated…
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Exploring sakuga – Part 4 : What is sakuga good for, anyways ?
The idea here is not so much to add on complaints about the current state of the community, whether they’re justified or not. It isn’t either to be…
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