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(it's pronounced "SHI'e")

  • he/him

i guess i'll use this to post manga panels from all those volumes i bought on sale at comixology


i watched shirobako while i was stuck at home with covid and it was wonderful and heartwarming. i truly loved it! but i couldn't help but think about how it tended to romanticize things like, uh, working yourself to the bone to get an anime movie out in just a few months

the manga animeta!, on the other hand, is super transparent about things like "how much animators actually get paid" and "how much you're actually giving up by working here." yaso hanamura makes it a point to emphasize the work of people in the trenches, too: the protagonist is an in-betweener, not some visionary director, and the story focuses on how that work is often lost even to anime fans. it's well-researched, too, with plenty of sidebars on the nitty-gritty on animation

shirobako and animeta! both show how much their protagonists have bet their lives on anime. but that bet feels very different in each series. if you loved shirobako, i definitely recommend animeta! only five volumes out right now, but they're certainly a lovely AND informative five volumes


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