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Shaft design animation series#
In 20, the studio produced an adaptation of the visual novel Popotan, and later This Ugly yet Beautiful World, an original series co-produced with Gainax. 2002 was also the release of the studio's production with TNK, G-On Riders. The first of the productions under these co-operations was Mahoromatic (2001) and its sequel Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful (2002–03), both with Gainax. Shaft entered co-operations with studios Gainax and TNK around 2000. Mitsutoshi Kubota, a studio color designer turned production manager at the time, met with the two, and from then they would collaborate on several more projects together, such as Shaft producing an episode of Nakamura and Triangle Staff's Kino's Journey television series, and Nakamura later directing a television series and Kino's Journey film at the studio. The second episode of the OVA series was outsourced to Shaft, and both Nakamura and Triangle Staff's president (Yoshimi Asari) visited Shaft while delivering the episode's storyboard. By this time, several directors and animators had joined the studio, such as Toshimasa Suzuki and Kenji Yasuda however, one of the most important series in the company's early history was an outsourcing contract they took on in 1996: Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring, which began the studio's relationship with director Ryūtarō Nakamura and studio Triangle Staff. In 1995, the studio moved to producing full-length series, starting with Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger. įor the next several years, the company returned to sub-contracting work based on animation production services rather than its painting services, such as with the Mushi Production film Ushiro no Shoumen Daare (1991). In the same year, the studio produced the first episode of the Taiman Blues: Naoto Shimizu-hen OVA series. Not until 1987, however, with the release of the Yume kara, Samenai original video animation (OVA), did the studio release its first wholly-original production. In 1984, Shaft was sub-contracted by studio Zuiyo to animate the Elves of the Forest television series, marking the company's first project as a primary animation studio. Much of the company's early work was sub-contracting work for larger animation studios, which includes credits to cel painting and color coordination work, such as with Brave Raideen (1975–76), and occasionally credits as an assistant production studio for projects including Pierrot's Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984). Shaft was founded as a yūgen-gaisha on September 1, 1975, by ex- Mushi Production employee Hiroshi Wakao. History 1975–1984: Early sub-contracting work
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1.2 1984–2004: Move to animation production.