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Animator. Unofficial ‘Satsuma!’ PDF translator.

新人アニメーター3年目🔰。アマ日英翻訳者。「撮ま!」PDFの非公式な英訳を作ってます!
Thanks! 😊
January 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM
If you’re a LO animator, you never animate a cut in the storyboard that says BANK. There’s also no way to know whether a cut you draw will become a BANK cut in future episodes.

Lastly, BANK is written in English all-caps, usually never in furigana.

The more you know!
January 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Awesome!
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Lastly, here is a cut with camera movement—hope you enjoyed this thread!

- A⓪修
A0 correction

- A⓪ [しのぶ]
Cel A = Shinobu

(red text top & right)
- 修PANフレームこちらで
PAN frame correction starts here

- リムライト
Rim light

- 動画時リムライト別絵でお願いします
For Douga: Please draw rim light on a separate page
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Simple Dialogue cut notes, translated:

- [カナエ] A① 止め
A Cel = Kanae; Tome (fixed position)

- セリフ B{①,2,3,4} 4枚パク
B Cel = Kanae mouth flaps. Serifu = dialogue notation, 4 mouth variations

- C②END ①|―|―|-|-|-|②
Cel C has a spacing chart

- 前髪 D① 止め
D1 = bangs, fixed position
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Putting the kanji into the demons' eyes isn't done by the animatorーthe compositing team does this important part!

That said, the animator DOES notate a cross to show the location and center point for the item to be added! This note is called harikomi, or, in kanji, 貼り込み!
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Zenitsu cut notes:

- 善逸 A②END
Cel A = Zenitsu; Cel A2 END [of sequence]

- セリフ B{①(トジ口), 2, 3(アキ口)}
Cel B = Zenitsu's mouth flaps (kuchipaku)
Serifu = dialogue lines
B1 tojiguchi = closed mouth
B3 akiguchi = open mouth

- A②とクミ有ります
B2 has Kumi overlap w/ A2
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Labeling each layer:

- 炭治郎 A①
A Cel = Tanjirou

- A画ブレ
A Cel image shake (red, grey line indication)

- 義勇 C①
C Cel = Giyu

- てちてち E①
E Cel = techi-techi hiragana (noise for walking smoothly)

- C,D,Eセル ローリング
Cels C, D, & E do rolling back and forth motion
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I translated some of the notations shown in the Genga drawings in the video!

- B③END (すみませんAセルと多重クミ有ります"")
B3 END (There's multiple Kumi in A & B Cels--apologies!)

- A {10, 11, 12, 13, ⑭歯口END}
Kuchipaku (mouth flaps). A14 mouth shows teeth

- A⑫ ー|ーA⑭
中割り口
Tsumeshiji, spacing chart
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Lastly, the pricing is also concerning. Instead of purchasing a software license, you pay $160 USD for 1,000 Dondon credits, and each frame requested through the software costs 10 credits, which means $160 gets you 100 inbetweens.

Those inbetweens get used up faster than you’d expect.
February 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The instant coloring (Shiage) produced errors that seemed to get fixed at the end. Whether that’s done manually or not isn’t shown, but I would guess it’s done by hand.

The video doesn’t show inbetweens with partial holds, or multiple layer drawings either.

Video link:
youtu.be/Vr74PipOp-M?...
Introducing Dondon Technologies
YouTube video by Dong Chang
youtu.be
February 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM