La dignidad es para los débiles

Can’t think of a good caption.

Little Witch Academia by Hideki Kamiya?

Honestly, it isn’t even a matter of production quality. Take the following scene, for example.

It starts out with same, what is it, 4 frames? cycled about 4 times, but the cartoony nature of it does a great job at expressing the emotion of the scene. They follow it up with what really makes the shot great: watching the thing blow up as Akko’s face contorts. The thing starts growing in a couple of short bursts to get the viewer’s attention, before quickly expanding. Akko’s face, meanwhile, contorts and deforms in a number of expressive and quirky ways.

What makes Trigger awesome is that they make sure as many scenes as possible are expressive. As opposed to the anime standard of having nearly still shots where the people stay in place and just move their mouths, they make their characters move around as they talk, even if this means they half to use less detailed frames.

When they have people running down a hallway, they make them run down a hallway in a way that is visually interesting. When they are fighting monsters, they fight them in visually interesting ways. Hell, they even make the characters looking into a glass case interesting.

Trigger just straight up knows how to animate better than anyone else in japan. They often times use less detailed frames in order to make sure everything they put forward is dynamic and fun.

But they save a ton of their production budget for a few, important scenes, and boy, when they put their all into a scene…