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 »
RE-MAIN, the original water polo anime from MAPPA, just dropped its first teaser. The series, which is due out sometime this year, also revealed four new cast members. Those cast members are: Sōma Saitō as Shūgo Amihama, Makoto Furukawa as Takekazu Ejiri, Tasuku Hatanaka as …Read more »
MAPPA has been busy working on RE-MAIN, an original anime about a high schooler named Minato who joins the water polo team. It’s scheduled to debut this year, though a release date has not yet been given. Masafumi Nishida, who worked as a scriptwriter for …Read more »
Puts the “beatdown” in narrative beats Just beneath the surface of the ordinary world lurks a spirit realm populated by monstrous curses, dangerous supernatural creatures born of fear, hatred, and other negative human emotions. But none of that mumbo-jumbo means much to Yuji Itadori, a …Read more »
Following up on an earlier reveal in Weekly Shonen Jump, the news is officially out about the Chainsaw Man anime. The eternally busy MAPPA—which is currently working on JUJUTSU KAISEN and Attack on Titan Final Season, among many other recent projects—is handling animation production for the …Read more »
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