Yoyogi Animation Academy, Starry Cube, Ryū Nakayama’s Andraft Build Aurora Animation Studio

Yoyogi Animation Academy, Starry Cube, and Andraft announced on Monday that they’ll jointly set apart the anime production company Aurora Animation on April 1 (the starting up of the next fiscal One year in Japan) in jap Tokyo. Yoyogi Animation Academy CEO Daiki Hashimoto can even wait on because the CEO of Aurora Animation. Andraft CEO Ryū Nakayama (Chainsaw Man director) and Starry Cube CEO Ryō Aizawa may be the new company’s board administrators.

Aurora Animation targets to fabricate a supportive ambiance for creators to work on high quality and inventive works. The corporate will have interaction in animation production industry centered for the Japanese and world markets.

Yoyogi Animation Academy has been practicing aspiring animators and sigh actors, and is celebrating its forty seventh anniversary this One year. The faculty is credited for collaborating on anime productions such because the RGB Trudge, Shin Hakkenden, and Macross 7.

Starry Cube is a company established in 2018 that plans, produces, and distributes anime series and motion photos. The corporate produced the Demon Lord, Retry! R, A No one’s Formula Up to an Exploration Hero, Protocol: Rain anime series, and is producing the 2d season of Aharen-san wa Hakarenai. The corporate handled the overseas licensing of the Peter Grill and the Thinker’s Time and Science Fell in Care for, So I Tried to Camouflage It anime series.

Nakayama established the Andraft animation production company in January 2024. Nakayama’s work on the 2022 tv anime of Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man manga used to be his series directorial debut work. Before that, he had worked as key animator and animation director on a substitute of anime projects, starting put with key animation on Tantei Opera Milky Holmes in 2010. He has served as animation director on episodes of Wake Up, Ladies!, Barakamon, Yatterman Night, Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale, Gamers!, Shaded Clover, Destiny/Huge Suppose Absolute Demonic Entrance: Babylonia, and Jujutsu Kaisen.

Sources: Anime!Anime! (八羽汰 わちは), PR Cases