I Spent a Day Inside a Japanese Anime Studio

How is anime created? Who makes it? How long does it take? Today I went inside CloverWorks studios in Tokyo to find out the answers first-hand.

BIG thanks you to CloverWorks for letting me film at their studio!

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[ItsMe-imdj]

Let's be grateful to these guys, it's only because of them that we can all watch our favourite anime

[aurare]

"Cute 2D girls are the best"
Man speaking facts out here

[mayuri]

"Do you want me to say 2d girls are cute or something"

Me: RESPECT +

[Eddieyang]

I wanna see what the madlads over at Queenbee are doing.

[MonshiieeYT]

Imagine how hard they create this gem but other people just pirate it for money! The animation is easy to criticize but it's hard to work.. sorry for my bad English :)

[moon]

ceo of cloverworks: “do we even have overseas fans?”
anime weebs: let us introduce ourselves

[bigz]

"before we make animation we check the original manga first"
American film maker adapting a book: wait, that's illegal.

[getchicken]

Joey: " can you give viewers overseas a message?"
Shimizu: "2D anime girls are the best"

[arisaskeyboard_]

i cant ignore the fact that he's wearing a Miu Iruma t-shirt

[kkdarshaan]

appreciating MAPPA even more now that they somehow managed to adapt AoT S4 in less than a year

[Slayer-]

"I'm proud to say that anime is definitely necessary in our daily lives."


-Shimizu Akira San (Head of Clover Works)

[taranjk]

Cloverworks: "Anime is a necessity"
Me: I couldn't agree more

[jadejoy]

Meanwhile an Animator in the office : I will draw key frames with my right hand and make hot anime girls with my left hand. I will take a potato chip, and EAT IT!

[mikey]

9:53 she's not coloring she is playing osu!

[danieluzumaki]

he really just said:

"Anime is life."

[theduke]

"If you would please say a few words to your overseas fans?"

"Do we even have overseas fans?"
They have no idea.

[apro_saiyan]

Animators are legends, they do so much hard work for our entertainment and still some of them are underpaid 😓

[czxyz]

So, he basically spents 10-30 minutes to do 1/13000 frames in one episode and we get 1 episode a week, we should be greateful

[dumblucy]

The animator who said he didn't go to art school and still ended up with a job like that is my fucking inspiration

[creathechiboi]

Here we see Joey infiltrating an anime studio to make a better ending for Darling in the FranXX