SHIROBAKO

Synopsis

In a school in northeastern Japan, five friends in the animation club, Aoi, Ema, Shizuka, Misa, and Midori swear to complete a new anime called "Shinbutsu Konkou SHICHIFUKUJIN" with some donuts. Since then, day after day, the five spend all of their time on anime production. The awe of going from rough sketches to animation, and the awkward acting in the after-recording session... The final product was finished at the cultural fair six months later. After they graduated they still pursued animation and swore on some donuts that they would make another anime together.

First Air Date: 2014-10-09

Last Air Date: 2015-03-26

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 24

Networks: Tokyo MX

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Top Cast

Juri Kimura as Aoi Miyamori / Mimsy (uncredited) / Lolo (uncredited) (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Taro Takanashi (voice)
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Seiichi Kinoshita (voice)
Haruka Yoshimura as Ema Yasuhara (voice)
Masaya Matsukaze as Shun 'Nabe-P' Watanabe (voice)
Yuri Yamaoka as Erika Yano (voice)
Mai Nakahara as Yuka Okitsu (voice)
Wataru Takagi as Masato Marukawa (voice)
Manami Numakura as Yumi Iguchi (voice)
Hitomi Ohwada as Midori Imai (voice)

Seasons

Specials (2015)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: ''Exodus!'' Episode 1: Exit Tokyo (2015-02-25)

Episode 1 of Musashino Animation's Exodus! Akane, Aya, and Arupin, the members of the idol group Tracy, stage a performance at a supermarket, but no one stops to listen to their singing. As the girls redress into maid costumes inside bathroom stalls, Arupin remains optimistic of the reception, pretending the trio is living perfect lives as idols instead of being employees at the supermarket. However, she is scolded by Akane, who chastises her for not facing the reality of their situation. After comparing the dismal number of their fans to the fanbase of a rival idol, Ginger, they receive a call from a woman they call their "Onee-san", who praises a performance video they sent her. The girls then eat some manjū, which inspires Akane to speak to the trio's manager, Taguchi. Arupin follows her, but loses her and then finds Taguchi lying dead in a pool of blood. At the crime scene is a bloody knife identical to the ones the girls kept as part of their costumes, along with a partial message written by Taguchi with his blood, beginning with the letter 'A'. Shortly after, Akane and Aya stumble upon the scene as well, then all three are spotted by a man, who assumes they murdered Taguchi and alerts security. The girls then receive a call from Onee-san on Taguchi's cellphone; she instructs them to flee. Taguchi's murder is assigned to Inspector Miho Koigakubo, who declares the girls wanted criminals. Near Musashino Dome, Akane reveals her dream to sing in Musashino Dome in front of a crowd of fans. They then receive another call from Onee-san, who informs them that they were identified as murder suspects and their fanbase skyrocketed as a result. Seconds later, they are spotted by a fan and retreat to a basement parking lot, where they find a motorbike supplied by Onee-san that they use to flee. After stealing a policeman's revolver, the girls managed to evade police on a boat, although they wind up losing their makeup in the process, surprising them as they had never seen each other before without makeup.
Ep. 2: ''Third Aerial Girls Squad'' File:01: Falling Angel (2015-07-29)

Episode 1 of Musashino Animation's "Third Aerial Girls Squad".