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Fairly limited group of cuts but they each feel really solid in their construction. This is something that can be said of so many of Irie's works honestly, the floor or baseline understanding of animation is absurdly high.
Later in the series he would actually do genga a few times
The statues give him away entirely in case the acting somehow doesn't
Of course this wasnt the first time an episode lead by Sessha featured a surprise animator with zero connection to the franchise, like when Takafumi Hori blessed the Sakura vs Sasori fight
Once or twice might be a coincidence but after a while you have to assume it was his doing