Interview with director Hiroaki Sakurai 桜井弘明 and Kanako Ayano 綾野佳菜子 (Furyu Pictures), with @tamara-anime.bsky.social and @kbnet.bsky.social www.anime-atelier.com/interview-fu...

Being against generative AI is the correct stance ethically, but people should really put more thought into what the stance means and how to interact with media through that lens. My first opinion piece in a while www.anime-atelier.com/sekiro-probl...

Hello friends. Me and my good friends are trying to crowdfund an independent feature film on Indiegogo and would greatly appreciate any and all donations you might send our way. Please, if you can, help us boost this project into a reality. Thank you 🙏🏻 www.indiegogo.com/projects/fea...

A friend of mine, @thehornswoggler.bsky.social, is helping to crowdfund an independent film in their hometown. If this sounds like something you'd be curious about, feel free to drop a little something to help them out. www.indiegogo.com/projects/fea...

This is such a stupid and superficial post. Yes Qzil.la is a bad company with involvement in Ai bu they also produced plenty of animation that has no Ai in it. This project is helmed by a talented team of industry veterans, and dismissing their work like this with no proof is a bad look.

The director is Kenichi Kutsuna, just because Qzilla is producing it, who have not this far used AI, and which has been in the works since before generative AI was a thing, does not make this an "affront to human creativity" Don't be a fearmongering idiot

I interviewed director Kinoshita; CLAP president Matsuo; and Pony Canyon producer Ito for their upcoming film The Last Blossom 🙇‍♂️

july 2025 anime production www.anime-atelier.com/summer-2025-...

The AX 2025 panel with mangaka Shinobu Seguchi, Akita Shoten editor Rei Hebiguchui, and DandeLion Animation CEO Kazuhiro Nishikawa www.anime-atelier.com/a-look-into-...

bits of the Qubic Pictures panel at Anime Expo, with members of Lucas Film, D'Art Shtajio, 3D studio Orange, N LITE, and an independent producer in attendance www.anime-atelier.com/the-global-p...

we interviewed Kazuaki Kuribayashi, Kenichi Shimada, and Fuuko Noda www.anime-atelier.com/interview-wi...

Tidbits of the GitS Anime Expo panel www.anime-atelier.com/behind-the-s...

June anime production notes www.anime-atelier.com/spring-2025-...

The one where I condensed my rewatch of the Umetsu series into a single review thing www.anime-atelier.com/director-yas...

Most know about SHAFT as the Monogatari, Madoka, & Nisekoi studio—series from the last 20 years under CEO Mitsutoshi Kubota; but the studio is turning 50 years old, and Kubota has only been CEO for 21 of them. Hiroshi Wakao was CEO for the other 29 www.anime-atelier.com/the-origin-o...

April anime production shenanigans www.anime-atelier.com/spring-2025-...

I haven't watched a movie in like a month and a half I should get back on that

Studio GRIZZLY dissolves www.anime-atelier.com/mappa-sister...

Hello yes I wrote this

March 2025 anime production notes www.anime-atelier.com/winter-2025-...

I am going to be doing convention highlights coverage for @anime-atelier.com in the future😊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG6x... THE MOURNING CHILDREN - Pilot Teaser New Edition for Sunao Katabuchi's upcoming film (release date TBD)

Shigeki Awai passed away www.anime-atelier.com/animator-and...

Monogatari Series Second Season #02 (Nekomonogatari White #02) storyboard Hiroko Kazui 数井浩子 C126d: Kazui + minor Shinbo touches C127a: Kazui C461-C464: Kazui

Take a look at who produced the previous month's seasonal episodes in this new installment of Production Notes by @sarcasc.bsky.social!

Yuuichirou Oguro: So, your primary motivation for coming to SHAFT was Pani Poni Dash. Naoyuki Tatsuwa: That's right. Originally, I was at a place called [Studio] Giants. I was in the animation department at the time, which was called [Studio] Lions, and we had separate rooms.

Yukihiro Miyamoto: First I worked as a production assistant at a company called Vega Entertainment, then I went to SHAFT. Yuuichirou Oguro: Since you've moved to SHAFT, have you only been directing? Miyamoto: That's right. I also directed while at Vega.

Animation studio Cloud Hearts files for bankruptcy www.anime-atelier.com/animation-st...

Animmony already did it but I took some of his screens (I asked, of course) for Atelier in the hopes that it is a little more visible to non-JP fans who are interested and don't know about his blog www.anime-atelier.com/monogatari-s...

Yasuomi Umetsu Newtype March 2024 issue The project did initially start at Shaft. Umetsu came up with 3 ideas and presented them to Mitsutoshi Kubota, Shaft's president. He did the OP for Shinbo and Tatsuwa's "Gourmet Girl Graffiti" after "Virgin Punk" was approved

When Tatsuya Oishi first heard the OP for "Maria Holic", he was surprised by its tone, as he was expecting something more akin to "Maria-sama ga Miteru" (2004, Studio Deen). He felt immediately drawn to the idea of "bullying" Kanako, but Akiyuki Shinbo told him not to include--

Owarimonogatari #09 storyboard Kazuya Shiotsuki 潮月一也 C33-C35: Shiotsuki C82-C84: Shiotsuki C211-C215: Shiotsuki C280-C285: Shiotsuki

Hello, contributing this for Anime Atelier too. Basically, just compiling the general episode-by-episode production circumstances for seasonals (listing if they're outsourced or not) with some notes as an extension of what I was already doing. www.anime-atelier.com/winter-2025-...

Owarimonogatari #07 storyboard Hiroko Kazui 数井浩子 C160-C164: Kazui (various rejections) C212-C214: Kazui C246-C249: Kazui (various rejections) C322: Kazui

Trump is already doing terrible shit what a surprise Insert the "meet the grahams" bar where Lamar says "I think [fellas] like you should die"

Seimei Kidokoro 城所聖明

Owarimonogatari #05 storyboard Mie Ooishi 大石美絵 C26-C27: Ooishi C56-C60: Ooishi C142a-C145b: Shinbo correction page C394-C398: Ooishi

Monogatari: Off & Monster Season underwent quite a few changes between the original broadcast and Blu-ray release! We took a look at the first three episodes! ✨Read: www.anime-atelier.com/monogatari-s...

Monogatari Off & Monster Season #1-3 (Orokamonogatari #1 & Nademonogatari #1-2) BD corrections. I'll be contributing to the new Anime Atelier now and then www.anime-atelier.com/monogatari-s...

Youichi Oonishi passed away animecorner.me/animator-you...

Zaregoto #02 authorship (PRESUMED) Original storyboard: Takuma Suzuki 鈴木拓磨 [blue] Director corrections: Yuuki Yase 八瀬祐樹 [red] Storyboard cleanup: Unknown animator/animation director, probably someone at Shaft (Itou, Shiotsuki, Takano) or Akio Watanabe [green]

Nisekoi: #02 storyboard Kenjirou Okada 岡田堅二朗 C25: Okada (rejected) C48: Okada (rejected) C49: Okada C67-C71: Okada C83-C86: Okada

Nisekoi: #01 storyboard Akitoshi Yokoyama 横山彰利 C28-C29: Yokoyama C124-C127: Yokoyama C197-C202: Yokoyama C269-C273: Yokoyama

Nisekoi #12 storyboard Takahiro Tada 多田貴大 (pseudonym) C49-C50: Tada C111-C114: Tada C210-C212(?): Tada C323-C326: Tada

Nisekoi #08 storyboard Mitsutoshi Satou サトウ光敏 C34-C35: Satou C61: Satou C71-C74: Satou C110-C112: Satotu, minor Shinbo correction(?)

Nisekoi #05 storyboard Naoyuki Tatsuwa 龍輪直征 C21: Tatsuwa C53-C54: Tatsuwa C150-C152: Manga panels/Tatsuwa C180-C183: Tatsuwa+manga panels

Nisekoi #04 storyboard Junichi Takaoka 高岡じゅんいち (高岡淳一) C27-C29: Takaoka C92-C95: Takaoka C149-C154: Takaoka C298-C300: Takaoka

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei #07 storyboard Atsushi Nishigori 錦織敦史 (GAINAX) C1-C3: Nishigori C4-C7: Nishigori C8-C9: Nishigori

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu #07 storyboard Naoyuki Kuzuya 葛谷直行 C28-C29: Kuzuya C30: Shinbo revision C31: Shinbo revision C32: Kuzuya C33: Kuzuya C34: Shinbo revision C35: Kuzuya

Akiyuki Shinbo: The style of the drawings [in the Hidamari Sketch manga] has changed. Is "refined" the right word? The anime is trying to match that, but Aoki-san's drawings are one or even two steps ahead, so it's difficult.