Following up on the distributor’s license last November, Eleven Arts has officially lined up a premiere date for SHIROBAKO The Movie. Fans of the hit anime about making anime will be able to see how the story continues when the film opens in select theaters …Read more »
The SHIROBAKO movie is officially coming over in English! ELEVEN ARTS made the acquisition announcement this week, following it up with plans for an extended trailer premiere for SHIROBAKO The Movie during the company’s Anime NYC Online industry panel on Friday, November 20 at 5:00pm …Read more »
Big events aren’t the only outings feeling the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The film market is also getting hit hard, and you can see some of the results in the latest box office report from Japan. Compared to last year at the same …Read more »
Everyone loves seeing how things are made, especially when it comes to animation. That’s one of the reasons this season’s Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is so highly regarded, and the SHIROBAKO TV anime is another fantastic example. Now the staff at Musashino Animation are …Read more »
Tsutomu Mizushima is a busy guy. The director, best known for Shirobako and Girls und Panzer, is working on sequels to both properties. The Shirobako movie is coming out next year, and the six-part Girls und Panzer finale series still has four films to go. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that …Read more »
Last year, P.A. Works announced a theatrical sequel to everyone’s favorite anime-about-anime, Shirobako. This weekend at AnimeJapan in Tokyo, producers Kenji Horikawa and Takayuki Nagatani revealed some details about the film. Some key deets that came out of the discussion: The script is written—and based on …Read more »
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 »
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 »
Believe it or not, we’re almost 20 years into the new millennium. Toyo Keizai, a Japanese finance magazine that also reports on pop culture, has assembled a list of 20 anime titles that have defined the first two decades of the 2000s. In chronological order, …Read more »
Shirobako , the 2014-15 anime about anime from studio P.A.Works is a fan favorite, and there’s been hopeful speculation ever since the series ended about its return. Now the official website for the series is hinting at a potential new project with an Under Construction …Read more »
The current season of anime has seen an above-average number of shows ( Long Riders and Brave Witches , to name just two) that have had to delay the broadcast of at least one episode because of production problems. The problem caught the attention of …Read more »
Anime Anime, one of Japan’s top anime news sites, runs a big survey every year asking its readers “what anime would you like to see get a sequel?” Kind folks they are, they’ve even broken the choices into original anime and stuff based on an …Read more »
We’ve all heard horror stories about just how little money rookie animators make in Japan (despite the high demand for their services). Now one lawyer has weighed about anime’s low wages in an opinion column that suggests the industry’s practices might not even be legal. …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 »
Back in 2014 (wow, has it been that long already?), P.A.Works gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the industry we love with Shirobako , a fictionalized account of what it’s like to work at an anime studio. Now they’ve made the real-life version. The 30-minute …Read more »
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