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OvergrownRover said:
No confirmation on what studio will make this but it’s highly likely it’ll be one of these three
Wit
Kafka
Mappa
Or maybe a collab between two of these

dmntgame7 said:
the first season was sublime if they return i will watch this religiously

ronie91 said:
You who claim to be a WIT fan are not enough to understand that the studio is not the same anymore. And that doesn't mean it's a bad thing, quite the contrary, it's a good thing. WIT was formed in 2012 by the Production I.G team that animated Guilty Crown. Tetsuro Araki and the rest of the Staff formed the modern WIT.

In 2013 there were serious production issues in Attack On Titan. Several delays, and many people at the time complained about the studio, the animators, as if they were getting in the way of the organization. But the reality is that the deadline to produce the series was very short, and there were reports of animators who stayed to sleep, and others who slept in the studio to finish the work.

WIT President Jouji Wada was heavily criticized in the online community, because whenever he went to an event he bragged about how much his animators were required to produce each year, almost without a break. After several losses of talented staff at the Xebec studio, and financial capital (profit), Production I.G began to change its way of managing the studios. WIT would no longer take on projects that put the team's health at risk, and soon the studio would abandon Aot.

With the departure of Studio Xebec from Production I.G Holding, a new studio would need to be established, but unlike Xebec, this studio would need a better, quieter environment where animators want to stay. Studio Kafka is the Holding's new studio, and proof of this is that it will produce content from it, and was founded by former WIT members. WIT has partnered with Netflix to train new animators for future productions, and apparently they are trying to focus on profitable work, but in a better environment.

Kafka may attract new animators or spare animators from I.G Port studios. However, WIT is gaining with this new work philosophy. A good studio is important, but so are the people who work in it. Shuhei Yabuta and Takahiko Abiru are talented, and they're in the right place.

I'm pretty sure WIT didn't continue AoT because the production committee wanted to rush the final season out in such little time that WIT knew they couldn't meet the deadline and deliver a quality product... hence why Mappa took over.

Tsarko said:
Director is MAPPA emloyee.

LLBird said:


I wonder if the reason(s) why Yabuta being employed at MAPPA is more than just the 3DCG of AoT S4.

RaphaelTobing said:

He directed inuyashiki, which is mappa's recent anime. And maybe he was a mappa fultime employee all this time

ronie91 said:


So you don't fully understand my point. Maybe I didn't mention it, but I'll explain: yes, in fact the producers threw the project to another studio, but this project was being agreed three years before the end of the third season, that is, since the second season. they had decided that WIT would not liven up last season. This was said by the studio's own producers.

Also, you should consider the fact that WIT was a lot like what MAPPA is today: a name studio, but it took on too many projects to do. Aot was a project that caused a lot of problems for the animators, problems of having to sleep on the job, or getting sick. WIT was heavily criticized for making its animators work incessantly on this project.

If you notice, they had fewer projects after 2013, when Aot went live. Saying "no" there is a producer can be anything, but it's not the result of chance. Aot never had a decent schedule, and according to WIT's producers, no studio three years before the third season premiere wanted to pick it up. Understand the studios didn't want to. That's when I said that this was positive, because it shows that the studio's producers changed their attitude, and started to think more about the team.

It wasn't the producers who said "no" to WIT, because they didn't think they would be able to produce, but it was WIT who said "no" to the producers, because they were sure they didn't need to take any more chances. The fourth season project was on the WIT table years before the third season was produced, so it wasn't a matter of timing, but rather a matter of choice by the studio's producers.

WIT will not take high profile projects, especially from producers who want the final product done as quickly as possible. The troubled projects WIT is over. Now WIT is a studio that prioritizes its animators. If the studio had continued as it was, it would have been in MAPPA conditions today: doing 3 projects, one high profile, and the other two rushed, ruining the staff, and hurting the others.

Tsarko said:
I guess this pretty much unofficially confirms who is handling season 2 of Vinland Saga and that is Studio Kafka.

MironBiron said:

Do you see this as good news? Does Kafka have the staff power to do a full cour season of Vinland Saga?

Also… How big is the chance that it’ll premiere in spring?

(I’m asking all this because I remember you’re a serious researcher of the current anime industry)

OvergrownRover said:
No confirmation on what studio will make this but it’s highly likely it’ll be one of these three
Wit
Kafka
Mappa
Or maybe a collab between two of these

BlizzardBoy026 said:
[WIT are in huge loss,that's the reason they can't take high profile projects...meanwhile MAPPA, swimming in money.

XCF_Konzarn said:


Lmao they picked up Spy X Family didn't they? Did you forget Wit id owned by IG Port who made a profit of 87.8 million USD just last financial year? It is enough to pay off Wit's entire debt more than 10 times over.

Not to mention Vivy did pretty well in BR sales. Ousama Ranking is already a big hit in Japan(top 3 in almost every japanese anime ranking website for this season). There is also the Netflix movie 'Bubble', and the possible theatrical release of 'The Girl from the Other Side'. SxF will also bring in a lot of money as well.

dmntgame7 said:
the first season was sublime if they return i will watch this religiously

Scordolo said:
@BlizzardBoy026 It's annoying seeing people like you spreading misinformation that they'll won't pick up more Anime because of financial struggles.
Basically what I wanted to say.

Scordolo said:
@BlizzardBoy026 It's annoying seeing people like you spreading misinformation that they'll won't pick up more Anime because of financial struggles.
Basically what I wanted to say.

Hentai_heaven said:
that doesn't work like that buddy.800 million yen is still a big debt.
from IG POV Its actually a loss and btw if IG was lending support they wouldn't have dropped AOT.

XCF_Konzarn said:


What are you talking about? IG is still a part of AOT S4 production committee. Wit never wanted to be the studio known for making AOT in the first place. But since the first season became such a massive hit, they had to go through with the sequels (since their parent company was making a lot of profit from being in the production committee). Just so you know, they earned basically nothing from AOT compared to how labour intensive it was. But the schedule that they were offered for S4 was just impossible to accept for a small studio like them. If the producers hadn't rushed the final season I really think Wit would have done it.

Also Wit wasn't made to bring in huge amounts of profits for the owners. But running into large amounts of debts isn't ideal either so steps have been taken to improve the situation like IG now has a say in the management of Wit which wasn't there before. So you don't have to worry about Wit going bankrupt.

The biggest problem of Wit still is their production schedules but I'm hoping that the change in management at the top will change the situation for the better.