Shirobako

It all started in Kaminoyama High School, when five best friends—Aoi Miyamori, Ema Yasuhara, Midori Imai, Shizuka Sakaki, and Misa Toudou—discovered their collective love for all things anime and formed the animation club. After making their first amateur anime together and showcasing it at the culture festival, the group vows to pursue careers in the industry, aiming to one day work together and create their own mainstream show.

Two and a half years later, Aoi and Ema have managed to land jobs at the illustrious Musashino Animation production company. The others, however, are finding it difficult to get their dream jobs. Shizuka is feeling the weight of not being recognized as a capable voice actor, Misa has a secure yet unsatisfying career designing 3D models for a car company, and Midori is a university student intent on pursuing her dream as a story writer. These five girls will learn that the path to success is one with many diversions, but dreams can still be achieved through perseverance and a touch of eccentric creativity.

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Miyamori, Aoi Main

Kimura, Juri Japanese

Yasuhara, Ema Main

Yoshimura, Haruka Japanese

Sakaki, Shizuka Main

Chisuga, Haruka Japanese

Imai, Midori Main

Oowada, Hitomi Japanese

Toudou, Misa Main

Takano, Asami Japanese

Yano, Erika Supporting

Yamaoka, Yuri Japanese

Ogasawara, Rinko Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Kinoshita, Seiichi Supporting

Hiyama, Nobuyuki Japanese

Kunogi, Ai Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Andou, Tsubaki Supporting

Hayama, Ikumi Japanese

Horikawa, Kenji Producer, Planning

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Kawase, Kouhei Producer

Nagatani, Takayuki Producer

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Mar 10, 2024

jusephhh

Recommended

Shirobako is a great anime, every second within each episode is worth watching. Though, I would definitely would emphasize to have PATIENCE first as the plot has as low build up, but that in it self is why it's worth watching for.

Shirobako Anime offers one of the unique and interesting plot in the Anime history, which is why the show is great in it's own way. The Series slaps you about life that it is not a fairy tale, once you graduate from school you are faced with a harsh reality that finding a job is hard. Some may be lucky, but often times some ... are not. That being said, the Series offers you a unique experience by showing you through the amazing cast of characters of their different circumstances in life. What's amazing is that you as a viewer you could possibly see your life situation through this series and gain knowledge of what you may or can do in life. That is exactly why I recommend watching this Series.

"When life gives you lemons, it's up to you to whether you make a lemonade or throw it away". A quote that I believe reflect every circumstances presented through out the Series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 29, 2018

seanmagicalweeb

Mixed Feelings

This anime will teach you quite a bit about how anime is made however the story isn't that great which is quite a problem for a slice of life anime leaving this show extremely boring.

This is a anime about making anime. If you want to learn more about what it is like working in the anime industry, you will find that here. Aside from that, there isn't much more I can say about this anime. Slice of life anime's live of of their story. If the story in a slice of life anime sucks than there is pretty much nothing left as it would be ... really hard to save it with art and music. The art and music in this anime are not bad, they are not anything special and are defiantly not good enough to save the show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 22, 2016

suigintou101

Not Recommended

Little Bit of Spoiler but not much to really spoil anything.

Shirobako is a dull anime with nothing special at what the other people have written in their reviews. I don't understand how people came up with its a beautiful anime, it's a masterpiece or a kiss to the anime production. The anime was very average and I believe it's a hit or miss anime and it was a miss for me. I will say that episode 1-12 was useless and watching from episode 13-24 is a much better choice. There is not much improvement still after episode 12.

The animation is smooth and beautiful, with great ... music that was beautifully done. The Voice acting was amazing and was very fitting for each of the characters and their personalities.

For the characters it mainly focuses on Aoi with the occasional other 4 girls. It shows how Shizuka is struggling with finding a voice acting job, how Misa wanted a change of work and Ema finding her own style and the artist blocks she faced. However that was for only couple of episodes and what happened to Midori? It was like they were saying hey Midori is in college still so forget about her now as we still don't know what to do with her yet. Oh nevermind lets just bring her to the same company as Aoi and Ema but as a person who's importance is only for researching and for nothing else.

Majority of the episodes was about Aoi managing her job and the experiences she faced. The only characters who feel fully developed other than Aoi is Ema, Yano, Gothic Lolita-san (Ogasawara), Endou, Segawa and Andou. Hell even Kunogi feels like a fully developed character compared to the three other main characters, and she can't even finish one sentence at all. It was like hey first 12 episodes forget about all the 3 girls except Aoi and Ema, then to bringing the other 2 main girls in for just a small screen time with little to no importance at all. Oh and forget about Shizuka and the fact that she even existed; she is more non-existant than Akari (Yuru Yuri)

I feel for Shizuka cause I liked her the most from the 4 other main girls, however, it pissed me off that they just dropped her in the last two episodes just because they felt like it. They must have forgotten that there was a 5th character and were trying to remember who the hell the red haired girl was and her importance. They suddenly remembered her and was like oh shit she was supposed to be a voice actor ok lets just put her for this minor roll and just end the anime with that.

There were like only 4-5 good jokes, the comedy it tried to push was stale. The characters are what you expect, with the variety of personality where it just gets annoying. Everything is happy and nice, where no one pays for a mistake they made even if it was a major mistake. Everyone just apologized and the matter got settled, come on if this is about the job force in making anime, at least, make it realistic.

Then there are those random daydreams with the two dolls, which didn't fit at all. It was fist at first as they only appeared once in a while. But after episode 12 they appeared constantly giving tips and descriptions for the anime industry. They had more speech dialogue than the actual characters and note that they don't even exist. Also WTF is with the unrealistic driving in this anime, are they trying to show how important it the key files or other papers are, so lets drive fast, or that this is an anime so we have to show something cool and awesome. Another thing how the F**K did Yano learn to sail a boat?

If they were trying to make an anime about the jobs and hardship in the anime production, they need to take it seriously and not put the illusionary images like for example the last episode. It was like they never took this seriously. If there is anoter anime about making an anime or manga (unless it similar to Mangaka-San to Assistant-San) then I will not read or watch it. I didn't enjoy this anime at all, the reviews here are misleading and was not correct for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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