It’s no secret amongst anime followers that Wit Studio’s herculean efforts on earlier seasons of the mega-popular Attack on Titan and sleeper hit Vinland Saga helped make every sequence a family identify within the anime business. While each exhibits have since been handed on to Mappa, and followers have rising considerations over whether or not animators within the business engaged on such exhibits are being overworked, George Wada, president, CEO, and producer at Wit, instructed me that his studio’s unusual collaboration on Spy x Family helps stop employee crunch.
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Speaking with Kotaku at Anime Expo 2023, Wada revealed that Wit Studio’s collaboration with fellow animation studio CloverWorks (the makers of Wonder Egg Priority) to provide Spy x Family, his favourite anime in the intervening time, is an unheard-of apply inside the anime business.
“Each studio has its own color and own way of doing things so it’s really, really hard in most cases for multiple anime studios to be working together on a single series,” Wada instructed Kotaku. “And I believe it was possible only because it was Spy x Family.”
On the manufacturing facet of Spy x Family, Wada revealed that Wit and CloverWorks cut up the workload in half episode-wise. Under this mannequin, Wada says followers can “see all the good parts of Wit and CloverWorks melded together to create Spy x Family” whereas additionally offering new seasons of the present at a tempo that matches followers’ expectations.
Why Wit isn’t engaged on Attack on Titan and Vinland Saga anymore
As talked about, Wit is not animating Attack on Titan or Vinland Saga. Instead, each anime’s newest seasons are being made by studio Mappa. When I requested what led to Wit passing the baton to Mappa twice, Wada mentioned it was as a result of dealing with these exhibits didn’t work with Wit’s manufacturing cycle.
“There was a schedule set by like the manga side saying, ‘Can you air it on this and this date’ and it just did not mesh with the studio. We can’t really create something with that schedule because the fans want to get the show sooner than later,” Wada mentioned. “On the other hand, Spy x Family is created with CloverWork so we can give it to you sooner.”
Wada’s remark concerning the timeliness of Spy x Family’s manufacturing cycle is vital to notice as a result of followers had beforehand bemoaned that it took Wit 4 years to launch the second season of Attack on Titan.
When requested what Wit does to stop its workers from having to crunch in an effort to full an anime sequence, Wada responded by saying the very first thing Wit does is get price range for an anime challenge so it could guarantee its workers is being “properly paid.”
“We hire the creators as employees so that we can give them a salary,” Wada mentioned, including that Wit plan on having a “tag team” between worker creators advert freelancer to assist create “great anime.”
To enhance the working circumstances within the anime business, Wada means that studios make every creator a full-time worker in order that, whereas they’re within the negotiation course of, they will struggle for a extra affordable schedule to make sure that all of the creators can have good working circumstances with ample pay and “not too much crunch time.”
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Wada thinks family-oriented exhibits are going to be the brand new wave in anime
When requested whether or not he thought that the rise in recognition of family-oriented exhibits like Spy x Famly and Ranking of Kings was indicative of a brand new anime pattern transferring away from battle anime that includes energy fantasy characters, Wada mentioned he thinks it’s, stating that it’s good to have extra exhibits that informal followers can take pleasure in, particularly in the event that they don’t take pleasure in battle anime.
“You had your Demon Slayer, you had your Attack on Titan, but now it feels that there’s a new wave of anime genres coming in. Now that anime is becoming more prominent with [even] more fans, you’re gonna have a lot more casual watchers as opposed to the hardcore watchers,” Wada mentioned. “It’s nice to have shows that people can watch and have fun together. That might be why shows like Spy x Family and Ranking of Kings [are] getting up there in popularity.”
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