>>461Anime has a bunch of talented animators, most of them are directors now though. I think it's owed to their different structure.
Instead of assigning an animator to each effect or character most of the time, japanese animators have to handle both characters and effects. They also have to time scenes in different perspectives and focal lengths too. Timing characters in animated perspective or 3 point perspective with wide angle lens projection is much more harder than timing characters in atmospheric perpsective with the human eye projection.
I recommend Hiroyuki Okiura or Kazuhide Tomonaga (animator of the Castle of Cagliostro carchase scene).