Jex
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penguin drum 1
is not drawing the unimportant people in crowds a trend or named technique or something, i've seen if before in at least one show
It's a fairly common approach for shows that can't afford/don't have the time/don't have the staff to actually animate crowd scenes see also Excel Saga and Trapeze. A far more common way to get around this problem is to simply not draw anyone in a city, so it also looks like people are going through areas of a city that are uninhibited see Bakemonogatari, Death Note and many more.