Shirobako Anime Gets All-new Film Project

The "Musashi-Sakai x Shirobako Harumatsuri" (Musashi-Sakai x Shirobako Spring Festival) event in Tokyo for the Shirobako anime revealed on Saturday that the franchise will get an anime film project. P.A. Works is starting production on the film, but the film does not have a set release date yet. The staff at the event confirmed that the film will be an all-new work.



The confirmed returning staff includes director Tsutomu Mizushima, animation studio P.A. Works, scriptwriter Michiko Yokote, character designer Ponkan8, animation character designer Kanami Sekiguchi, and production company Infinite. The staff at the event said that the "story will continue" in the film.

Producer Takayuki Nagatani stated at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival in March 2016, "if we could decide on a theme, there might be a chance [for a sequel]" to Shirobako.

Shirobako focuses primarily on Aoi Miyamori, a production assistant at a fictional anime studio called Musashino Animations. The story follows the daily office life and problems that arise in an animation studio, and the workflow in making an anime. Parallel to that, the show also focuses on Miyamori's friends, who all work or are aiming to work in the anime industry: a key animator, a CG animator, an aspiring voice actress, and a scriptwriter.

The 24-episode anime premiered in October 2014, and Crunchyrollstreamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, and released it on home video in North America in 2016.

 

A Japanese fan quoted what the producer mentioned that it will hopefully take 3 years to finish the movie. The director will have to finish producing Girls & Panzer Saishuushou movies first

https://twitter.com/ikkun501/status/990134769349419008

So expect this new movie at the earliest in 2021

 

@Supernatural-Knight Wew laddie new Shirobako anime in 3 years time. Think we'll see best supporting girl again?

 

ლ(°□°ლ) but i want a sequel.

with the tag "new" i have a feeling that this would be something not related to what we had seen in the anime but more likely movie about how each ended up in their first companies or even a pre-graduation anime.

 

Maybe, but we'll just have to wait and see what happens

 

It'll be a 2 hour Exodus movie.

 

hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

Like you didn't think it was a masterpiece