SHIROBAKO

In a school in northeastern Japan, five friends in the animation club, Aoi, Ema, Shizuka, Misa, and Midori swear to complete a new anime called "Shinbutsu Konkou SHICHIFUKUJIN" with some donuts. Since then, day after day, the five spend all of their time on anime production. The awe of going from rough sketches to animation, and the awkward acting in the after-recording session... The final product was finished at the cultural fair six months later. After they graduated they still pursued animation and swore on some donuts that they would make another anime together.

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Animation
Drama
Comedy
Created By

First Aired on

Oct 09, 2014

1 seaons till Mar 26, 2015

Popularity: 32.7905
63 votes
Networks
(JP)
Production

Warner Bros. Japan (JP)movic (JP)Showgate (JP)P.A.WORKS (JP)Docomo Anime Store (JP)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: The Delivery That Was Too Far Off

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 24 episodes

Specials

Aired

2 Episodes
  • Episode 1''Exodus!'' Episode 1: Exit Tokyo24 min

    Episode 1 of Musashino Animation's Exodus! Akane, Aya, and Arupin, the members of the idol group Tracy, stage a performance at a supermarket, but no one stops to listen to their singing. As the girls redress into maid costumes inside bathroom stalls, Arupin remains optimistic of the reception, pretending the trio is living perfect lives as idols instead of being employees at the supermarket. However, she is scolded by Akane, who chastises her for not facing the reality of their situation. After comparing the dismal number of their fans to the fanbase of a rival idol, Ginger, they receive a call from a woman they call their "Onee-san", who praises a performance video they sent her. The girls then eat some manjū, which inspires Akane to speak to the trio's manager, Taguchi. Arupin follows her, but loses her and then finds Taguchi lying dead in a pool of blood. At the crime scene is a bloody knife identical to the ones the girls kept as part of their costumes, along with a partial message written by Taguchi with his blood, beginning with the letter 'A'. Shortly after, Akane and Aya stumble upon the scene as well, then all three are spotted by a man, who assumes they murdered Taguchi and alerts security. The girls then receive a call from Onee-san on Taguchi's cellphone; she instructs them to flee. Taguchi's murder is assigned to Inspector Miho Koigakubo, who declares the girls wanted criminals. Near Musashino Dome, Akane reveals her dream to sing in Musashino Dome in front of a crowd of fans. They then receive another call from Onee-san, who informs them that they were identified as murder suspects and their fanbase skyrocketed as a result. Seconds later, they are spotted by a fan and retreat to a basement parking lot, where they find a motorbike supplied by Onee-san that they use to flee. After stealing a policeman's revolver, the girls managed to evade police on a boat, although they wind up losing their makeup in the process, surprising them as they had never seen each other before without makeup.

  • Episode 2''Third Aerial Girls Squad'' File:01: Falling Angel24 min

    Episode 1 of Musashino Animation's "Third Aerial Girls Squad".

Crew & Team

Shouji Souma相馬紹二

Line Producer

Kozue Kananiwa金庭こず恵

Producer

Jun Fukuda福田順

Producer

Takema Okamura岡村武真

Producer

Fuminori Yamazaki山崎史紀

Producer

Kenji Horikawa堀川憲司

Producer

Yukihiro Itou伊藤幸弘

Producer

Kohei Kawase川瀬浩平

Producer

Hiroyuki Tajima田島宏行

Producer

Takayuki Nagatani永谷敬之

Producer

Akira Yamamoto山本輝

Other

Masahide Hashimoto橋本真英

Other

Hiroyuki Tachimoto立本洋之

Other

Akihiro Kawamura川村明廣

Other

Kenji Horikawa堀川憲司

Other

Hisato Usui臼井久人

Other

Tsuneo Takechi武智恒雄

Other

Hideyuki Nanba難波秀行

Other

Naohiro Tafu太布尚弘

Other

Takeshi Yasuda安田猛

Other

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