With a new anime feature film coming it’s a good time to revisit Shirobako. Heck, it’s always a good time to revisit the show. Crunchyroll has now added the second half of the series opening and closing sequences to their channel with the opening theme song “Takarabako” by Mamai Okui and the ending theme song “Platinum Jet” by Donuts Quintet. It’s a great way to get some upbeat and engaging material to start your day!
Check out our review of the first half of the series here and the second half here.
The series had Tsutomu Mizushima on board as the director with Michiko Yokote doing the overall supervision while Ponkan8 handled the original character designs and Kanami Sekiguchi adapted them into animation form.
The cast includes Juri Kimura as Aoi Miyamori, Haruka Yoshimura as Emma Yasuhara, Haruka Chisuga as Shizuka Sakaki, Asami Takano as Misa Todo and Hitomi Ohwada as Midori Imai.
P.A. Works was established back in 2000 by Kenji Horikawa, who has been involved in several animation studios previously. They worked on numerous shows over the years and produced their first on in 2008 with True Tears before going on to Canaan, Angel Beats and several others, including this seasons Glasslip.
Plot Concept: It’s official. Musashino Animation’s next production is “Third Aerial Girls’ Squad!” In a surprising turn of events, Aoi finds herself assigned as the production manager for the project, but from the very beginning it looks like she may be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the project. Of course, her old friend Ema is already aboard as one of the animators, while Midori makes an enormous contribution by taking on many of the program’s important research duties. And when Misa’s new company contracts to produce CG for the series, all but one of the members of the old animation club are working on the same production! Left out again, Shizuka auditions for a role, but, as a relatively new voice actor the odds of her being cast in a major part seem highly unlikely. That doesn’t break the bonds of their friendship, however, and there are tons of surprises ahead as TAGS’s journey to broadcast draws to the finish in the second collection of SHIROBAKO!
