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Sakaki-San and Kaori-San: the anime world's most famous *not-a-couple*.  This sequence is an extension of my drawing from last year: lookafar.deviantart.com/art/Sa…  One, I might add, that pleased me greatly.

I regret embarking on this animation. it was a massive time-suck! (Need to change my method, stat!)

Anyway, I developed a storyline and began creating frames. Many false starts. Hey! -I'll have them breathing!  <hours of work> Uh - no. Looks crap! ... and so on. 150 frames or part-images altogether, and that's only counting the ones I saved!

In order to get the tie-handling sequence, I set up a camera and filmed myself doing the same thing, with a pair of full-length ladies gloves on. I literally rotoscoped myself! That's why that bit looks so good!

The storyline kept changing and evolving. I kept going, mainly simplifying. Kaorin didn't grab Sakaki's boobs (the obvious cliche) simply because I would have had to set up and film it all over again. Bloody tiresome!

There is a sequence where Kaorin reaches for the tie, hesitates, looks up at Sakaki for permision, Sakaki smiles ever so slightly and nods her approval. Kaorin resumes. I never finished it. 

Acknowledging mangaka Kiyohiko Azuma for the characters, and for his original faces in profile - copied and used unaltered.
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Sakaki calls the police for sexual assault: