Literally "drawing pictures": the animation itself, and in fan usage a scene of unusually fine or ambitious animation. Filed under 6, the care.
6Reduced, this term gives 6. It sits on The Care with the rest of an obligation.
Sakuga (作画) is the industry word for the drawing of animation, the work of key animators who draw the important frames of a movement. Among fans it has come to mean a passage where that work is exceptional: a fight, a transformation or a piece of everyday acting animated with unusual fluidity or invention.
Television anime is made on tight schedules and budgets, and most episodes are animated economically. A sakuga sequence stands out because someone, often a specific named key animator, was given the time to do much more. Fans track these animators by name and collect their scenes.
For manga readers, sakuga is often what an anime adaptation adds that the page cannot: the timing of a movement that the manga only implies between panels. A famous manga fight can become a famous anime fight largely because of who animated it.
Fans use "sakuga" in contrast to episodes where the drawing breaks down under schedule pressure, with off-model faces and stiff motion. Both are signs of how anime production is organised.
Set against the Pythagorean table, the term totals 15. Reduced, that is 6.
The reference files it as an obligation. The number's contribution is care, community, and the weight of duty — and with it the 6's pull toward responsibility, care, and the people involved, which is the thread the reference follows here.
Beneath the 6 sit two smaller figures: 5 in the vowels, 1 in the consonants. Change underneath, initiative on the surface. The gap between them is where the subject is most interesting.
Read on the 6's terms, this entry asks you to name the people this was answerable to. The 6 smothers. The same instinct that protects a readership produces the paternalism several of these entries document. The other entries that reduce to 6 are collected on The Care.