It's easy to call them trash -- zoomer flashing lights 3D slop....BUT. Name anything better TODAY? Japan's animation industry has fallen off with the competency crises like everything else.
they have established a distinct visual identity. That automatically makes them better than 99% of all studios that have 0 vision and just copy each other.
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Kinda, but they are a very good studio nonetheless. They have a very strong in-house digital team and also have a solid in-house animation team. They have some good directors too, though they haven't had any auteur types ever since Takayuki Hirao left following the God Eater fiasco.
>>281344723 >As the originators of the sakuga cancer
Explain how this is the case. Purist sakugafags tend to look down on Ufotable if anything because of the studio's fondness of digital effects and tools.