The rumors have finally been confirmed: Shirobako, the anime about people who make anime, will be getting a cinematic sequel. The project was announced this weekend at a Shirobako-themed event in Tokyo. The film will bring back director Tsutomu Mizushima, scriptwriter Michiko Yokote, studio P.A. …Read more »
You know how they say you should never meet your idols? Chiyo Sakura learned this lesson the hard way, unfortunately. All she wanted to do was confess to the tall and somber Umetaro Nozaki. Unfortunately, she stumbles and ends up saying she’s his “biggest fan.” …Read more »
Behind The Magic We’re always told that the sky is the limit, that we all will have that one “dream job” we aspire to land no matter what. For Aoi Miyamori, that dream job lies in the anime industry. She, along with her four best …Read more »
It’s like Shirobako , but with video games. That’s how we imagine the upcoming anime New Game! was pitched to studio Doga Kobo, who are animating the series set to premiere July 4. New Game! centers around the purple-haired Aoba Suzukaze (Yuki Takada), who joins …Read more »
The course of true love never did run smooth, to borrow a line from Shakespeare, but few relationships have such backwards beginnings as the one that blossoms between high school students Chiyo Sakura and Umetaro Nozaki, the protagonists of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun . Driven to …Read more »
Chiyo has a crush on her classmate Nozaki, who’s tall, handsome, mysterious, and often shows up at school with bandages. When she tries to confess her love, the oblivious Nozaki doesn’t understand, but he does tell Chiyo his secret: he’s a manga artist! (The bandages …Read more »
Fans of Shirobako , hold onto your hats. The team behind the 2014-15 series, which detailed the lives of anime creators, are at work on an anime made for theatrical distribution, according to a tweet from the official Shirobako Twitter account. “This has nothing to …Read more »
There’s an old maxim in screenwriting that goes “write what you know.” The idea is that if you write about situations in which you have some personal experience, your stories will carry a certain sense of reality. And what do anime creators know more than …Read more »
Last week we posted a primer detailing many of the real-life counterparts to characters in Shirobako , the recently-finished very meta series about working in the anime industry. Some of those characters’ real-life inspirations were more obvious than others (Masahiko Inami/Masahiko Minami, for instance, was …Read more »
Shirobako has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the anime season: a delightful office comedy about the work of actually putting together anime. This is a very meta premise, with more than its share of industry in-jokes and not one but multiple shows-within-the-show. …Read more »
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