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Shirobako Second Half Visual & Character Designs Revealed

The official website of P.A. Works and Tsutomu Mizushima’ Shirobako anime has revealed a brand new visual and updated character designs for the second half of the 2 cour anime, which will continue broadcast from January.

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The site has revealed new updated character designs for the main cast of Shirobako, which includes:

  • Juri Kimura (First major role) will voice Aoi Miyamori, the production manager of Musashino Animation

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  • Haruka Yoshimura (Kouko Kaminaga in Akuma no Riddle) voices Emma Yasuhara, the lead animator at Musashino Animation

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  • Hitomi Ohwada (First major role) as Midori Imai, Musashino Animation’s lead writer

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  • Asami Takano (First major role) voicing Misa Todou, the 3D CGI director at the studio

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  • Haruka Chisuga (Tsugumi Harudori in Soul Eater Not!) as Shizuka Sakaki, a voice actress working with Musashino Animation

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The production staff of Shirobako will continue to produce the series, which consists of:

  • Director: Tsutomu Mizushima (Girls und PanzerAnother)
  • Series Composer: Michiko Yokote (GenshikenRDG: Red Data Girl)
  • Original Character Designer: Ponkan 8 (Original Artist of Oregairu)
  • Anime Character Designer and Chief Animation Director: Kanami Sekiguchi (Hanasaku IrohaTari Tari)
  • Animation Studio: P.A. Works (Angel Beats!Nagi no Asukara)

Shirobako is an original series about creating anime. Specifically, it features a small group of cute girls aiming to tackle on one of Japan’s largest industries. The 5 girls work at Musashino Animation and each have a different and important role in the production of anime. The anime is a collaboration between P.A. Works and Girls und Panzer and Another director Tsutomu Mizushima. The anime bagan in October during the Fall/Autumn 2014 anime season and will be a 2 cour series.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

Five girls chase their dreams. The story revolves around the everyday troubles and hardships that occur when working in the anime industry, and the results and conflicts that happen day-to-day among the group of girls.

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Shirobako will continue to air from January 2015 throughout the Winter 2014/2015 anime season, lasting 2 cours.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://shirobako-anime.com/
And follow their Twitter here: @shirobako_anime

Source Article and Images – Shirobako Website
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