A-1 Pictures President Explains How the Studio Picks Its Projects
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A-1 Pictures has played a major hand in the anime industry for decades. Most recently, the production house has weaved stories including Solo Leveling, Too Many Losing Heroines, Nier: Automata Ver 1.1a, and Mashle: Magic And Muscles. Later this year, the anime studio will return to the world of Sword Art Online in the second season of Gun Gale Online, the side story that shifts from focusing on Kirito the Black Swordsman to Karen Kohiruimaki. With so many projects on their plate, A-1’s president recently spoke at this year’s Anime Expo regarding how the studio chooses which anime series to tackle.
At this year’s Anime Expo, A-1 Pictures’ Shinichiro Kashiwada, the studio’s president, used Mashle: Magic & Muscles as an example of how the production house chooses its anime projects, “For instance, Mashle as a manga itself, it’s extremely popular. We’re very thankful that we’ve chosen to produce its anime. With anime, there are many cases where we want to make something our studio puts content out there. Usually, for adaptations, the biggest factor for picking a series is a story that becomes popular and then an offer comes to us. Of course, there are also original productions, so there are things that we produce ourselves.”
On top of Gun Gale Online’s second season arriving later this year, A-1 Pictures is also working on the second season of Solo Leveling and new Lycoris Recoil web shorts. First opening its doors in 2005, it doesn’t appear as though A-1 Picture is slowing down in the anime industry any time soon.
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