SHIROBAKO [P.A.Works]

[Tatsujin]

SHIROBAKO
AniDB | Official

Release: October of 2014
Description: Five girls chase their dreams. The story revolves around the everyday troubles and hardships that occur when working in the anime industry, and the results and conflicts that happen day-to-day among the group of girls.

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Premiers October. Animated by P.A.Works.

[krill]

so looking forward to this and there's another this season about a woman who's husband is a otaku and how she deals with it. looks fun.

[Tatsujin]

so looking forward to this and there's another this season about a woman who's husband is a otaku and how she deals with it. looks fun.

Yeah. This fall has the best releases for the year.

[krill]

wagnaria season three is this winter too i think its goona be a good next couple of seasons

[solidbatman]

The director slated for the show has a good track record, but the fact PA Works is involved scares me. They have not had one show that I've enjoyed. 

[Tatsujin]

The director slated for the show has a good track record, but the fact PA Works is involved scares me. They have not had one show that I've enjoyed.

P.A.Works have one of the best theatrical graphic quality works in every TV series thus far. Hanasaku Iroha has some really good scenes. Though I've yet to own any of their works on BD ... I do want Hanasaku Iroha on BD.

[Down]

First episode of Shirobako was interesting but certainly not flawless.

 

The idea of taking a peek at the in-depths of the production of animation in Japan is interesting, and it's well done. There's even references to a bunch of existing stuff.

 

The issue rather comes from the entertainment value. This really feels like purely slice of life: they didn't try to put a comedy or a personal story on it like you normally would (think Bakuman, Aoi Honoo, stuff like that). It really is a juxtaposition of scenes representing characters working in the animation industry. Issue being, you'd need to have interesting characters to make that worth watching (because it doesn't have the kind of informative value a documentary-type thing would and is not aimed to be that). And there's really lots of characters, it's hard to think so far as one of them as being interesting precisely because it doesn't seem to be the story of one or several of those characters (although there seems to be a main heroine and a main group of girls). It just doesn't feel like it's telling a story.

 

I'll keep watching because who knows, something might happen, and I'm interested in the animation industry description anyway, but so far it feels lackluster.