Takashi Nishikawa

The thing about a lot of anime porn is that it’s made on a tight budget, and that frequently means cutting corners. Framerates are low, animation cycles are recycled, and so on. What makes Takashi Nishikawa notable is the way his distinctive style works around those limitations to make surprisingly dynamic animation. To give a powerful impression of movement, he exaggerates the extremes of motion to an almost absurd degree. Breasts don’t just bounce, they fly. A forceful thrust sends a shockwave of compression through a body. The same sequence of frames is played at longer or shorter intervals to create variation, and sometimes parts of a loop are stuttered back and forth like a record scratch to introduce a new take on an existing sequence. Nishikawa also knows where not to cheap out: most motion cycles are full cycles, not the same set of frames played forward and backward. While playing a sequence back and forth for cyclical motion seems like an easy cost saving measure, it often gives a sense of cheap fakeness. A full cycle, even with fewer frames and less smooth interpolation, lets Nishikawa play even more with exaggerated squashing and stretching. The result is never even the slightest bit realistic, but it conveys a sense of lively motion that, to me at least, conveys a greater impression of enthusiastic sexual activity than a more reserved take would.

But hey, judge for yourself. Baku Ane: Otouto Shibocchau Zo is probably the best example of all his techniques at work. Fair warning: it’s incest porn, and that’s a plot element, but not taken very seriously. (Of his work that I’m aware of, it’s also the one with the least offensive premise and material… as previously mentioned, porn is problematic.)