Kraker2k said:
There were and still are plenty of talented animators that don't come up as 'sakuga legends' - I think it's a very naive of you to think only Ohira was capable of something like this, you're discrediting the work of other people doing so. Also there's no nice way to say this but Ohira's output from 1985-1987 was really not on the level of this film, nor anything like his work on Akira. Watch Ohira's stuff from Tobikage/Machine Robo/Bubblegum Crisis/ZZ Gundam; it's extremely Yamashita-like and unlike this. There's a reason why Ohira's Akira work is remarkable because there was such a drastic shift in the quality of his work.

In any case, I've done a bit of research on this film and found out it's the work of Hiroshi Harada, he was the sole animator on this film. This film was his thesis project for when he was studying at school/college. He'd work on commercial films like Doraemon during the day and come home and work on this film at night. It took him almost 3 years to complete this project. He was even nominated at the Pia Film Festival in 1985 for his work on this film.

gurdim said:
really awesome talent :)
uhm, just for the sake of asking, is Ohira the key animator, in AKIRA, of that awesome first-person fast sprint through the corridors of the hospital where Tetsuo is held? When he sort of psychic-link figures out where the other kids are?

SpoonyBard said:
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/13137
This one? That was Hirotsugu Kawasaki

gurdim said:
really awesome talent :)
uhm, just for the sake of asking, is Ohira the key animator, in AKIRA, of that awesome first-person fast sprint through the corridors of the hospital where Tetsuo is held? When he sort of psychic-link figures out where the other kids are?

Ashita said:
Here is Ohira's work in the film: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=shinya_ohira+akira+