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The cut at 0:48 is a beauty.
FierceAlchemist said:
The cut at 0:48 is a beauty.
The whole scene is masterfully led honestly. It's all about the character coming back to life, and it's told with an incredible efficiency, using Anime's unique pipeline tools.
At 0:26, she closes her eyes slowly, it's animated with Gousei (only parts of the drawing is animated (here the eyes), the rest is kept, throughout).
But then she starts moving her arm while re-opening it, a mouvement involving the entire body. Even though it begins off screen, it's shown here with a Bure (where the in-betweener has to trace over the same key multiple times to give a little shake (we'd say 'Faux fixe' in french)).
In the end within the same move (a blink), the entire story is told. The eye closing is bearly animated, making her feel static, dead. But the opening is made with a lot of drawings even though the onscreen elements are still static : the character is coming back to life.

Bure and Gousei are probably traced over the same key frame, so I'd say the entire episode is in one blink ,and a single key frame; isn't it elegent.