Popular Sakuga Website DMCA'd by Warner Brothers (What It Means)
Whether you are a superhero fan, an appreciator of animation, or just someone with an ear to the ground in the business world, Warner Brothers have been undergoing quite a purge as of late. Unfortunately, another addition to the list of questionable choices has affected the anime community, with a DMCA targeted at the animation forum Sakugabooru.
Sakugabooru is a website centered around showcasing clips of animation, primarily from Japanese anime, but also including some animation from China, Korea, and beyond. The clips in question are stripped of audio to stress the visual component and — if possible — the names of the animators that worked on the cut are attributed to it among the tags. On August 16, Reddit and Twitter posts were abuzz about the removal of approximately 536 posts, including key animation, storyboards, and other illustrations, all from one show. The show in question was none other than Mob Psycho 100, the critically acclaimed hit from Studio Bones, produced by Warner Brothers Japan.
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Every trace of Mob Psycho 100 is gone from the website and though some URLs still link to the pages of individual clips, there is naught but the tags, the comments, and a message of deletion. Among these tags are the names of the animators, but they can't serve a purpose without showing what the animators accomplished. Sakuga as a community is built around an appreciation and understanding of the animation process and thereby encouraging a more enriched discourse about the finer points of the medium. No matter where the animation is from or what style, sakuga is about spotlighting individual animators and their styles.
Over the last decade or so, this community
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