Imitation of Life

This is so stunning! And such a creative approach tk have Wednesday crawling out of his mouth WOW

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I’VE BEEN TRYING TO find this again for THREE YEARS but once Free! came out I couldn’t google ANIME SWIMMING CLIP ANYMORE

This is such a god damn amazing piece of animation

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I have a cryptic need to reblog this as much as possible

Are we gonna ignore the sounds this man is making

The transition at the end is SENDING ME

The guy who animated this is Mistuo Iso, the same person who did most of the Asuka’s fight against the mass produced EVAs in End of Evangelion. People often assume that comedy scenes are easier to animate than more dramatic action but I always think of this scene as proof that interesting dynamic animation can be the thing that pushes a joke from serviceable to an all time classic.