Sakuga in Japanese just means the work of animating, but if it’s used as western-language loanword, it means any especially detailed, realistic, or noteworthy animated sequence or scene. Directors will sometimes create a sakuga scene to draw attention to thematically important, or to reinforce an aspect of the mise en scène or kind of world the characters inhabit, or maybe just to show off their studio’s capabilities?
And what do you know? There are compilations of sakuga scenes…on the Internet, no less. This one is a compilation of machine- and robot-based sakuga. I put this kind at the opposite end of magic sakuga, where you can be a lot more freeform with the physics. With mechanics, even fictional and futuristic mechanics, there has to be an illusion of realism.
If you turn on the closed captioning, it shows what movie the scene is from. Not sure why there is a funk soundtrack but it feels oddly appropriate.
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From a western viewpoint, that is some weird stuff. We would never think of some of that imagery.