never ask me about animators unless you want a tl;dr wall of text and useless trivia

Osamu Kobayashi, Paradise Kiss' director and the guy responsible for its overall animation style, did Gurren Lagann episode 4 (and was, unfairly I think, shat on for it a lot )

even though that wasn't some of his best animation and the first half was really choppy, people only ever complained about the quality of the artwork. which I thought was fine, just intentionally ugly and surreal which is okay since every Gainax key animator always had their own unique way of drawing Gurren's characters (there's a picture comparing how every animator drew Simon in episode 27 and they're all radically different and vary depending on the mood of the scene, often he goes from "pretty bishonen" to "psychotic badass" over the course of five minutes); it just so happens that kobayashi's style of choice was intentionally not a very pretty one.

Paradise Kiss' (awesome) Franz Ferdinand ED was done by Hiroyuki Imaishi, the guy who directed a whole bunch of stuff like Gurren Lagann, Dead Leaves, Petite Princess Yucie episode 7, RE: Cutie Honey episode 1, FLCL episode 5 and is responsible for their cartoony & almost Looney Tunes-esque animation & art. the basic style was originally created by Yoshinori Kanada, who passed away recently

AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE~