Tetsuya Takeuchi's iconic hallway scene in Paradox Spiral isn't just cool action, it's also a neat sample of what it's like to let an ace animator to roam freely for the first time. The refusal to abbreviate movement & continuous shots are simply a pure animator enjoying himself
Takeuchi's good friends with director Hirao, and after expressing frustration over not getting the kind of action work he finds fulfilling, Hirao offered him this opportunity to do as he pleased - making this Takeuchi's first proper storyboard, all thanks to his drinking bud
As a result, you've got a sequence unlike anything else in the movie. More fixed cameras as the dynamism comes purely from the characters' actions (lots of z axis movement!) and where Takeuchi's characteristic lively over-articulation shines best
This is also the reason behind some of the less elegant details, like the constant cutting back to short yet carefully animated shots of every enemy yeeted off the building. Not the best for the flow, but ofc an animator starving for thorough body movement would include it!
All that said, my favorite anecdote about his scene is the start here, since originally it was a goddamn baby they threw at Shiki. They got away with lots of gruesome stuff, but apparently the line got drawn at projectile infants so it became a fire extinguisher
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