Wow this is insanely smooth

Woah. This is so f'ing great. Spectacular.

Wow that is so smooth!! Really nice work

Very smooth. Amazing work.

wow just stunning. I am unworthy XD

I feel like opening a new secret chapter of "what is possible in pixel art". 

So smooth and detailed animation!

hehe, thank you! yeah, getting the clothing to look right was probably the biggest challenge... i probably spent an insane amount of time just on that. 

thanks for the positive comments, everyone!

great details and animation 

Very smooth with a ridiculously impressive level of detail. I'm particularly taken with the movement of the puffed-out sleeves and tops of the trousers and the fabric/vines wrapped around the sword. I keep noticing more and more the longer I look, though. Just seen how expressive the movements of the left hand are!

This is UNREAL. Absolutely boss stuff.

That is superb! It's just so awesome to look at the moving reflections on the metal greaves. Although I wish the pink flower parts were reduced to larger clusters during movement rather than looking so noisy. Nit-picking.

Solid animation. Must have taken a lot of time to do all the little parts moving around. Nice job!

Damn, really smooth

very clean animation

Nice fluid animation and cool character