MAPPA, the studio behind productions like Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen and the currently airing Lazarus, has just added two new corporate officers to its organization. The first is Yuichi Fukushima, who will join MAPPA as a non-executive director, or outside director (shagaitorishimariyaku). Fukushima is known as …Read more »
At New York Comic Con over the weekend, Crunchyroll took the opportunity to share an English subbed trailer of ZENSHU, an upcoming original anime from famed studio MAPPA. ZENSHU Trailer ZENSHU is scheduled to start in January, and it will be streamed by Crunchyroll. The trailer …Read more »
A new song by Eve and Deu (of PEOPLE 1) recently launched, titled “Flatwoods Monster Mitai ni” (“Like the Flatwoods Monster”). Naturally, that means it needs a suitably stylish music video, and who better to deliver that than anime studio MAPPA of JUJUTSU KAISEN, Chainsaw …Read more »
Makoto Kimura, who has been involved professionally in the anime world since 2007, revealed that he’s left MAPPA Studios, where he was working most recently, to found his own business called Blue Rights. He said goodbye to MAPPA last month. Blue Rights sounds like a …Read more »
An exciting new project was revealed ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, with Variety reporting that Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe is teaming up with MAPPA and John Wick director Chad Stahelski on a new anime titled LAZARUS. The series is bound for Cartoon Network’s Toonami …Read more »
The MAPPA Stage 2023 event took place yesterday, and it gave us some teaser info on the upcoming anime movie The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black (Tsurubami-Iro no Nagiko-tachi in Japanese) that’s directed by Black Lagoon and In This Corner of …Read more »
Bucchigiri?! was revealed this weekend as a new original TV anime from MAPPA, mixing up school delinquents with the Middle Eastern folktales known as One Thousand and One Nights. The story follows a young man named Aladdin Tomobishi, who reunites with his former best friend …Read more »
The launch of the Chainsaw Man anime is two months away, and MAPPA, the studio behind it, might be bringing us more anime adaptations from its creator, Tatsuki Fujimoto. This is according to MAPPA CEO Manabu Ohtsuka, who spoke with IGN France during Crunchyroll Expo. …Read more »
Ever-busy anime studio MAPPA (Attack on Titan Final Season, JUJUTSU KAISEN) is looking to further expand its capabilities. MAPPA announced that it has established a new studio in Osaka, with the aim of focusing on computer-generated aspects of the animation process. The new studio will …Read more »
MAPPA is at it again with another anime production, this time adapting George Asakura’s Dance Dance Danseur manga, which is all about men’s ballet. The award-winning manga has been running in the pages of Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits since 2015, and the anime adaptation …Read more »
The MAPPA 10th anniversary celebration continues with the return of the studio’s showcase exhibition, which is coming back to Tokyo this month. This time around the exhibition will be greatly expanded, showing more material from titles ranging from Attack on Titan Final Season to The …Read more »
Anime studios have been feeling the heat lately with criticism regarding payment and working conditions for animators, but MAPPA is hoping to address at least one of those issues with a new branch studio. In addition to using the new studio to work on the …Read more »
Ippei Ichii has done key animation and animation direction for dozens of anime, and he criticized the pay he says animators are receiving for Netflix anime created by MAPPA. Anime News Network offered translations of his tweets: “Apparently, a producer working on a Netflix anime …Read more »
Lots of MAPPA news today following their 10th anniversary livestream. Aside from Chainsaw Man, we also got the news that the studio is animating a feature film called Alice and Therese’s Illusory Factory (Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kōjō). The film is written and directed …Read more »
A freelance animator who goes by Mushiyo on Twitter said that they used to work for MAPPA, and that the conditions there were so bad that they left. Anime News Network caught the story and translated the tweets, but since then Mishiyo has made their …Read more »
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