TOKOYAMI AND HAWKS HAVING A CUTE HANDSHAKE IS THE BEST THING EVER OMG 😭💖

The brother energy between Hawks and Tokoyami is so adorable to me, the little handshake between the bird boys ☺️☺️☺️

The fight choreography is STUNNING and when Hawks let loose his feathers in the giant circle it almost reminded me of a biblical Angel And I had no idea how much I was missing out on Hawks and Tokoyami content the handshake was so cute

Love Dabi’s “oh shit” face when Dark Shadow picked him up and shook him like a rag doll. This animatic is AMAZING, Neal!

I love how you made content of Hawks and Dabi both loving and being attracted to each other and also smacking each other around and being enemies 😂 Overall amazing art and amazing animatic! Edit: ….Holy- HI EVERYONE OMG-

1:54 hawks’ FACE when he goes feather rain, perfection

Neal Never Misses, Always Serves, Never leaves any crumbs. Neal is an icon, the moment and the movement. Stand Neal.💞

The context of the last animation makes this even better. Imagine this is all over like “You didn’t text me back” or something

That handshake was so ADORABLE!! And the animation is stellar!

BRUH THIS WAS SO GOOD THE ABILITY TO COORDINATE FIGHT SCENES, THE ARTSTYLE, THE LITTLE DETAILS, THE HANDSHAKE??? WONDERFUL

1:31 hawks in his head: *alright it's your moment it's your time and: model walk model walk*

OKAY BUT LIKE- NOT ONLY IS YOUR ART STYLE AWESOME, YOU ALSO HAVE AN INCREDIBLE MUSIC TASTE

Hori wishes he could choreograph fights like this 😤 THE PERSPECTIVE! THE TIMING! THE SKILL IS UNRIVALED IN THIS HOUSE!! Masterful, as always!

I just realized (or maybe imagined) the “and I’ll raise you like a phoenix” part could be an allusion to how Hawks is training Tokoyami. Pure genius

As far as I'm concerned, this is canon-- better than canon in all honesty! Everything about this is next level. Also, Hawks's move starting at 2:00 do be lookin' very much like Noctis's Armiger in FF15 and I am HERE for it. Also ALSO, the animation of when Hawks twirls his last tiny feather does something to my brain. It's like a burst of dopamine every time I watch it.

0:33 OMG THEY HAVE A HANDSHAKE THATS SO CUTE

The fact that phoenixs are birds associated with fire makes this the perfect fight song between Hawks and Dabi!!!

The Hawks/Tokoyami handshake is SO darling 😭💕 I love their mentor/mentee relationship, amazing as always

OMG TOKO MY LOVE LOOK AT HIM GO WITH HIS CUTE LITTLE HANDSHAKE. But Hawks and Dabi were of course gorgeous as well and you can feel the effort and love that seeps out of every line in this masterpiece. Truly a Christmas miracle ❤️❤️❤️

That first combo attack where Hawks just gets tossed right at Dabi was so fun to watch such a neat attack

I love the idea of Hawks taking Tokoyami under his wing!

Okay...wow??!! 😳 I can't begin to explain how cool this is. I love the fight choreography, and the way you take into consideration their quirks and fighting style. Not to mention the way you draw them, and the expressions on their faces and in their body language. I also like how it felt like just as much of a fight as it did playful banter. Props to you, I've enjoyed this, and everything else you've put out so far, tremendously. Happy Holidays, and once again, great job.👍💖

2:52 Dabi like “this looks familiar”

THIS WAS SO GOOD OMG. The fight was never boring and the dynamics of the fighting styles and the choreography was just amazing! And it was so cool to see Tokoyami and Hawks working together with Tokoyami coming in clutch at the end! Plus this is just an awesome song and Phoenix was just a great choice in general thematically You're doing amazing work and I cant wait to see what you come up with next!

3:14 WAS SO CLEANNN OMG

1:31 hawks moves so perfectly in time with the song here, it’s STUNNING

1:21 the burning feather and Hawks’ horror, oh my god! Beautiful

2:46 You know you love that scene

I hope that you’re all prepared to *”put on your war paint.”*

And thus, my war paint has been put on, and the battle has been won. With the power of fire and darkness, Dabi has been defeated.

I always wanted a little more exploration into Tokoyami's time with Hawks and this was EVERYTHING I WANTED. Also, the impeccable ways you have Hawks utilizing his quirk specifically the sequence starting at 1:54 is GOLD Neal your MIND

3:25 pigeoto I chose you!

2:36 why is Hawks so sexy when he gets hurt, its not fair

Let's be honest, these two are the type of lovers who enjoy fighting each other, but still love each other

Holy heck. I loved the Oops animatic so much, but this is just pure, unbridled talent! The timing is amazing, the fighting is on actual show levels, the art is *chef's kiss*, and it features my two favorite characters! Hawks was downright sexy in Oops, but here he's almost feral and even sexier?! Both characters are so true to the show (sorry anime only fan), and I just really love how playful Hawks is at first. If I could give you my firstborn in return for just 1% of your talent (which I'm sure took forever to master I don't want to downplay your achievements!) I would hand them over in a heartbeat. This is honestly one of the best animations I've seen on this platform, and just knowing there is more in store makes me weepy. Thank you so much for this blessed animation!

I'm not crying! You're crying! This is superb! The fluid wing motions and the 360 shot are all so fluid. Bravo!!!!

NEW ANIMATION YEESSSS!!!!!

Your animation is so fluid and your art is so textured, I'm in love with it tbh

Can we all just appreciate the CUTE handshake that Tokoyami and Hawks do throughout the animation like that was SO CUTE!

List of things that are freaking awesome: Impact frames Timing Choreography Perspective Special effects and their follow through Character dynamics Using the environment and other characters to work off each other and enhance the scene I'll add more later when I'm not falling asleep.

Let me just say I love how you draw it’s so good and your amazing at animation ❤

Dude! The fighting scene is so beautiful! The moevment, the stances they have when they’re staggering or wounded badly. The punches, kicks, and just grabbing and pushing them to them ground. It’s all just so amazing and It’s just all so well done!!!

The Animation was absolutley stunning,breath taking if i am honest. I just adore the bond between Hawks and Tokoyami in this video and honestly the cockiness of Hawks and Dabi between the fight just made it all a bit more better than before!

I am SPEECHLESS, this was incredible you ATE THAT UP I mean stunning animation, and the song choice 🤌perfect. I always love your animations and now as always I must binge the rest of them

You need more subs, also 3:30 when Dani gets picked up all I hear is NOM NOM NOM from dark shadow lol

OMG AMAZINGGG

Man, this animatic is definitely worth watching for. The battle, their attacks, and the moments were epic and pretty badass. Awesome Work and keep pursing on your work.👏👏👏👏⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️

Mha SERIOUSLY needs to hire you for their storyboard team goddamn

your animations are so amazing! it's so clear how much hard work and planning goes into every single one. loving your dabihawks animatics, they are always so dynamic and expressive!

One of the most beautiful and hype things I’ve ever seen. God, you even made his little bird beak look badass and that’s hard, man!! Birds are hard to draw! That was so cool I’m shaking rn

Oh gosh I just love this so much the fluidity, the dynamic between Hawks and Tokoyami, the hand shakes!! And how smooth the fight scene is! As always, your animatics are gorgeous! Absolutely delivered

I can't find adequate words to describe just how amazing this animatic is! I really love this song, so i am a little biased in the music department haha, but it genuinely fits the fight so well. The fight choreography is fricking sick, i rarely get to witness such incredible skill in creating great fight scenes! I also really love the fact that you can tell a lot about these characters just from the visuals, even if you don't know the source material. The way you draw facial expressions is so good - i love the beginning with the car driver, faces Hawks and Dabi make during their fight, and this relieved/greatful expression Hawks makes before the final handshake with Tokoyami. Handshake is another small detail i adore, i don't know if they do that in canon or if you added it, it just feels like something they would do

The heavy hitter attacks coming in right on the screech in the song is amazing. Love the animatic!

I’m love Tokoyami and Hawks relationship in this so much! It’s literally the father relationship

i do not know how to express how much i like this. i like this so much. i sent it to my two best friends, im screaming and hyperventilating- this may not be normal but im a little autistic and Fall Out Boy and BnHA are both hyperfixations, literally screaming this is my new religion this is everything

I just heard this song playing and knew I saw it with an action video and spent three hours trying to figure out where I had seen it! Finally found it and was not disappointed!

The fighting in your animations are always so amazing!! I've been thinking about the song "As It Was" while picturing Dabi and Todoroki fighting and I always imagine it in your style 🥰🥰

Love the animatic! Your art is always a big motivation:)

IM OBSESSED WITH THE WAY YOU DRAW HAWKS HES AMAZING

I love this so much!!!!! The fight choreo??? The expressions???? The story???? Slaps!!!!!!!!

Aww that was awesome!! Animation is stellar as usual and I love Hawks, Toko and Dabi

I've lost count of how many times I come back to watch your videos! They are amazing and you bring new life into these characters! Thank you for these amazing videos!

Oh my goodness! Neal This is freaking amazing! I've been watching your process into this animation through your posts and stories on Instagram but this is me! Like bro-I thought yah Phoenix yah bro omg Fall Out Boy is literally my favorite band that song menas a lot and honestly you gave it a new meaning but still I'm amazed by this ! This awesome really thank you so much but so much for all your work and this is amazing! I'm a little sad 'cause honestly I kinda hoped it was going to be a more of a dabihawks animation y'know honestly yah but this amazing it comes so well with this time of MHA fandom during season and all the debates about this 3 ! God this is precious thanks so much! Have an amazing day

I don’t even know how many times I’ve rewatched this since it came out. So many. Every frame is so gorgeous- over 4 minutes of pure fight scenes.

i just want to say im obsessed with your animations in the best way possible ! i have seen the MHA ones a bunch of times and i have been listening to the songs from them ! i just love the way you tell stories , everything is so so well drawn , the song choices are fun and everything about your work is just so incredible ! these videos make my day and i really look up on you :) i hope in 2023 there will be more of your awesome content !

I really love the art style, and the song! I especially love the cute birb handshake and the fact that hawks is sitting on a telephone pole while fans are fawning over him from below, just like in the manga. It's amazing how you really but effort into this unlike others! I would LOVE to see more Hawks stuff from you or I'ma explode PLEASEEEE

THE HANDSHAKE LOOKING LIKE LITTLE WINGS IS SOOOOOO CUTE !

THE SONG CHOICE WAS SO PERFECT I WAS SMILING THE WHOLE TIME I WATCHED- the choreography was so good and just so dynamic- was so entertaining to watch! The hawks and tokoyami handshake was adorable 🥺 love all your animations so much!!

2:27 Is that Phosphor I see? I love your attention to detail

AHHHH EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS AMAZING AND IM NOT EVEN HALF WAY THROUGH! THE STORY! THE BIRD HANDSHAKE! THE ART! THE BEAUTIFUL FIGHT SCENE AND THE MUSIC!!! IN LOVE ❤❤ New sub for you

2:49 Dabi: Well well what a nice position you got yourself in Hawks: You seem to be enjoying yourself

Im just saying I would literally die for you??? You could kill me where I stand and I would say "why thank you ma'am, my sincerest apologies for being near you" Like literally??? fr tho, thankyouverymuch for making this absolutely wonderful anamatic. I cannot stress ENOUGH- this is literally so awesome and I don't think I could have lived further if I didn't know this existed

I haven't actually been into BNHA for a while but your animatics ALWAYS are a worth watch no matter what, the SKILL??? The choreography??? The style??? The compositions and angles??? Dude ajdjjejdjejd I love seeing Hawks kicking ass, ALWAYS, this is so so cool, I was legit invested, and the Hawks and Tokoyami dynamic here is absolute top tier I would die for the bird boys In short? Outstanding as always ajdjwjjdjejd

this is so sick... the song and how it's perfectly timed + how smooth all of the animations are; i literally keep watching it over and over, def the best animation i have ever seen, not even kidding

i genuinely havent stopped thinking about this animatic since i first saw it, this is incredible

This is seriously better then some of the anime* battles I've watched, when I have some money to spare I will consider joining the patreon just to support this masterpiece more!

Hey, just a little tip to really flush out the background characters if you have the time, for example at 0:47 instead of just having her except her fate, you could have her try to use her quirk, but it fails as if it isn’t strong enough for an example she could have a plant quirk but her vines aren’t strong enough to hold up the Lampost Although I have no room to talk as I’m just a Rando on the Internet and you’re a person with an animation degree Amazing work

Yes! This is so awesome! The little secret handshake for Hawks and Tokoyami is so cute! And the whole fight was just so good!

oh god oh my god... I love this song, it's on every hawks (and hotwing) playlist I ever made how have I never seen this??? this is beautiful!!! perfect animation, I'm crying!! ❤️💙

These two really take foreplay to a different level

OH MY GOD YOUR WORK IS GODLY 😭. GOT MY TEARING UP.

THE LITTLE HANDSHAKE IS SO CUTE OMG AAAAAAAAAH😭

I love the tiny reference to the manga (1:53) Idk if that was intentional but it looks so good!

The fight scene was just amazing!! You did an amazing job! Can't wait what other projects you have up your sleeve

Idk if it was intentional but is that civilian from 0:18 supposed to be a Conan lookalike from ur webcomic Covenant?? I couldn't help but note the similarities LOL

THE FACE AT 2:33 IS DIABOLICAL HOW DOW YOU KEEP IT TOGETHER DRAWING THESE FRAMES

I wouldn't say that I'm that big of an MHA fan, I've seen it and it's not really my cup of tea but you... I'm a fan of yours, holy shit this was amazing Every time I watch one of your animations I want to watch MHA, but every time I do I'm like "Right, I don't like this... frik". I want to like it because I'm in love with your animations. WHY CAN'T I LIKE MHA

Neal gives us the energy to keep shipping badassery in this fandom😤

Bro I love your art style, it's absolutely beautiful. What apps and/or tools do you use to draw and animate?

OH MY GOD. I love all the smoothness, but at the same time the dynamism of the animation. It energizes me.But how do you convey emotions... I have no words. I just worship your animation skills. You're just amazing at what you do.

it's just incredible: the way the scenes are staged, I just can't tear myself away from watching. This work is so wonderful, interesting and detailed, that all what remains is to watch with a dropped jaw and enjoy it

Это непередаваемо завораживает! Просто потрясающе!!!✨✨✨

the way i've been conditioned to expect hawks x dabi content with you is concerning 💀 overall the expressions and the composition is so yummy!

The handshake omg I'm crying that's adorable 😭❤️ the details are so on point

the symbolism, the visuals *chefs kiss!!* i could attack this with the enthusiasm of a highschool english teacher! great content as always and with such a great portrayal of body language and facial expression that makes everything much fuller and tells a story!

nobody: a random guy from the vid: *MY CAR-*

Эта анимация невероятно крутая))

Gods I love watching you animatics so much. There is so much movement and fluidity to them and really gets what is happening across. Plus that fight was top notch felt the those punches were really hitting and leaving an impact.

the sheer grasp you have on movement and interaction (both with the subjects and environment) is just. so GOOD esp following with lines of action and camera movement yes yes

2:53 😏