Shirobako (2014)

Original title

SHIROBAKO

Directed by

Tsutomu Mizushima

Genre

comedy drama, slice of life anime and manga, work life

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five friends work in the anime industry and face the daily challenges of production. The series follows Aoi Miyamori as she tries to manage deadlines and creative problems at a small animation studio.

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What happens

Shirobako is a 24-episode anime television series produced by P.A. Works and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. It aired in Japan between October 9, 2014, and March 26, 2015. A manga adaptation began serialization in ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Daioh magazine in September 2014, and a novel was published by Shueisha in January 2015. An anime film premiered on February 29, 2020. The title Shirobako refers to videos that are distributed to the production staff members prior to their release. These videos were at a time distributed as VHS tapes enclosed in white boxes and are still referred to as "white boxes" (thus the meaning of shirobako) despite the fact that the white enclosures are no longer in use. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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