Shaft to Produce TV Anime 'Sasami-san@Ganbaranai'

by dtshyk
Aug 10, 2012 2:08 AM | 90 Comments

According to Mainichi News, Aniplex has announced at Comiket 82 that Shaft will produce the new TV anime "Sasami-san@Ganbaranai".

Key visual of Sasami-san anime
Sasami-san anime official website

Staff
Director: Shinbo Akiyuki
Series Composition: Takayama Katsuhiko
Character Design: Harada Hiroki ("Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal")

The key visuals of Shaft's original anime "Magical Suite Prism Nana" was also revealed at Comiket 82.
Picture of Prism Nana key visual
Key visual 2
Prism Nana trailer
Prism Nana official website

Source: Mainichi

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Ohh god Shaft.
I'm ready to be blown, both physically and mentally.

Dec 12, 2012 1:26 PM by Pettersson

Doesn't look too bad in terms of narrative and story, but being never able to get into SHAFT's artistic direction I think I'll be letting this one slide, unless I somehow decide to give them another shot.

But I definitely see potential for this to gain at least a pretty good response (unless the story manages to completely flop on itself).

Dec 9, 2012 3:12 AM by Tensho

The guy sounds like some middle-aged man, not to mention he covers his face all the time (seems so) which is quite interesting. Also the last part...

Dec 7, 2012 6:03 AM by dreznovk

Judging by chara designs I wanted to say that Red is mine but after watching this PV... Every girl is the best girl. Also, faceless sensei onii-chan.
Dem seiyuus.
Serious contender to AOTS.

Dec 7, 2012 4:34 AM by Progeusz

PV 2

Dec 7, 2012 4:12 AM by dreznovk

Keys
credits to sirn@animesuki

Oct 19, 2012 3:09 AM by bippo

Kantoku, if there is his name, i dont care about content anymore, his artworks are enought

Aug 30, 2012 6:19 AM by jofori89

whatever SHAFT makes, I'm watching. Sasami's char design is good. and the probably new mahou shoujo series has good char design too.

Aug 18, 2012 1:18 PM by Aqua_Marine

jmal said:

SquadmemberRitsu said:
We get it SHAFT. Your the biggest animation studio in Japan at the moment. You don't need to rub it in our faces.

Yeah, how dare that animation studio keep doing more work and staying in business. >_>

See, they're not the ones bankrolling these projects. Animation studios are hired by investors (TV stations, video distributors, music labels, other production committee members) to work on something the investors think might make some money.

And the investors hire studios they 1) can get to work for a reasonable price and 2) think will do a good job for that price.

This isn't Shaft "rubbing our faces in" anything. They've been an extremely prolific studio for a long time, not just recently. They're actually handling it better than they used to.

They did Nisemonogatari at the start of the year. They've got two movies coming out this year and two more coming out next year and on top of that they have 3 anime series in production. That's a hell of a lot more than any other studio at the moment. Don't get me wrong. I really like SHAFT's work. It's just that the amount of shows they're working on at the moment is astronomical. More than they've ever had to do

Aug 12, 2012 2:37 AM by SeibaaHomu

Now if SHAFT can fix their animation standard....

Aug 11, 2012 12:01 PM by wakka9ca

Oh, it's Shinbo. I´ll give it a shot.

Aug 11, 2012 11:56 AM by BatoKusanagi

sayami said:
More Shaft is a good thing :D

Some would argue for Girth instead. Poke carefully, mon.

Aug 11, 2012 9:14 AM by tilitappaaja

I will not be anticipating anything until I see Gen's name!

SHAFT is still the best though xDD

Aug 11, 2012 7:28 AM by AzureHakua

mitch3315 said:

SquadmemberRitsu said:
We get it SHAFT. Your the biggest animation studio in Japan at the moment. You don't need to rub it in our faces. I'm pretty sure we all figured that out when you announced that you were working on three high profile moves at the same time. I would ask how SHAFT gets the money for all these big projects but I'm pretty sure I've already answered my own question by mentioning Madoka