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Shirobako

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Shirobako	comment	Five high school friends — Aoi Miyamori, Ema Yasuhara, Shizuka Sakaki, Misa Todou and Midori Imai — vow to produce an animated series together. As the Animation Club of Kaminomiya High School, they worked together to create an animated short for the school festival. Soon enough the former three graduate, but all five vow to one day meet again and see their dream of creating an anime professionally fulfilled.Fast forward to two-and-a-half years later: Aoi and Ema are now working as production assistant and key animator, respectively, at struggling Musashino Animation. Shizuka is a newbie voice actress, but still hasn't landed an anime role. Misa feels trapped in her well-paying but monotonous routine at a 3D graphics studio. Midori plans to be a writer, but is still in college. Day in and day out, they're exposed to the harsh realities of the industry they so loved, like long hours, production delays, and production staff at loggerheads with each other, never mind how this leaves little time for them to do what they want. Is it still possible for them to reach their high school goal of doing a series together?A 24-episode (though it was planned for 50 episodes originally) Anime First production from P. A. Works directed by Tsutomu Mizushima (known for his work on Squid Girl and Girls und Panzer), Shirobako (literally White Box, after the white box that finalized production videocassetes were packaged in) takes a look at the workings of the Japanese animation industry, particularly on the studio side of things.Two OVAs were released for the series, both connected to the shows that the Musani staff animated, both bundled in as specials for the Blu-Ray release. The first OVA tackled an early episode of Exodus, a Musani-original series, while the final Blu-Ray included the first episode of Third Aerial Girls' Squad, the anime adaptation the studio worked on during the series' second half. A movie was released on February 29, 2020.Shirobako ended up the first in a Thematic Series about young women working in Japan.In a hilarious bit of Defictionalization, Takeshi Nogami released a complete volume of Third Aerial Girls' Squad for the 2015 Summer Comiket, published as it would have appeared entirely in-universe, complete with an advertisement of a mousepad for Sailor Suits and F3s.If you are interested in understanding more about Japanese anime and manga related fields, we recommend Seiyu's Life! for voice acting, Bakuman。 for manga production (and Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says for hentai manga production), and Girlish Number for a more cynical spin on anime production. See also Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! for a look at animation specifically (not to mention an amateur project, rather than a professional work), as well as a view of the ups and downs of artistic endeavours.
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Shirobako / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Or "No Known Anime Production Staffs Were Harmed." Mitsuaki Kanno for Hideaki Anno. Endou's sensei in ep. 5, Saburo Kitano◊, refers to veteran animation director Ichiro Itano, famous for his stylized Itano circus and his other groundbreaking contributions to the mecha genre, which have laid foundations of its modern form. Exodus voice actresses Mei Nakaharu, Suzuka Itou, and Mui Kayana are not only the Bland-Names of their respective real-life counterparts, Mai Nakahara, Shizuka Itō and Ai Kayano, but they also made the case of being Ink-Suited too. In Third Aerial Girls' Squad, there's voice actress Popomi Toyomori, which is Megumi Toyoguchi in name but not performed. Then there's this very well-defined unnamed voice actress with no speaking role suspiciously being a visual cameo of Megumi Ogata. Manga author Takezou Nogame is based on Takeshi Nogami, who also provided the art for Third Aerial Girls' Squad, itself a blanded-out version of his own manga Shidenkai no Maki. Nogami himself was also the supporting designer for Mizushima's previous anime, Girls und Panzer. Sugie-san, the elderly animator who turns out to have had a big hand in creating Andes Chucky, is based on veteran animator Yasuji Mori, who worked on the World Masterpiece Theater anime Rocky Chuck the Mountain Rat (which Andes Chucky is largely based on). In regards to her suspected visual cameo, fans have been pouring onto her in search for her answer. And Megumi Ogata did made a reply on Twitter.
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Shirobako / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: A lot of staff members has this, which was resulted from various stages of realism. Hence, most of the character arcs come from this, and can become easy PTSDs depending on the person: Honda's practically Once an Episode cry of "We're out of options!", at various levels of despair. Yamada's first stint as episode director was Episode 9 of Jiggly Jiggly Heaven. Said episode was was so full of Off-Model, that the episode achieved an In-Universe Memetic Mutation, and he has refused to check online feedback regarding his works ever since. In Episode 5, it was implied by Honda that the reason Kinoshita is slacking off was due to the poor ratings of Jiggly Jiggly Heaven, which dashed his passion. He goes through a bad one in episode 12 during the crisis meeting for Exodus' last episode : he's unusually quiet, looks dejected throughout and it takes him a few moments before reacting to bad news, as if he wasn't really there. As Aoi founds out firsthand, the animation industry isn't pretty, and production schedules can be held back if one person in the chain screws up. Taro's bungle in Episode 1,note Not telling anyone when an animator quit the project. for example, disrupts weeks' worth of pre-planning. Ema has one in Episode 7, when it turns out that she cannot easily balance her efforts between speed and quality yet, and has to do retakes for the full four cuts that she rushed the previous day, severely hurting her self-confidence. Episode 15's finale was one for the producers, after Katsuragi and Nabe-P learn that Takezou Nogame, author of their current project Third Aerial Girls' Squad, didn't like the character designs af all, and ordered to redo them — after the first episode already progressed well into key animation stage. The blame for this lies with Shinsuke Chazawa, Nogame's liaison and probably the worst man on the job after Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun's Maeno, who airheadedly reassured MusAni that everything is OK without even consulting Nogame in the first place. The first half of Episode 22 explores at length a past one of Hiraoka, who was hit by the dark side of the industry, so much so by the time he was introduced he is but a burnt-out shell of his past self. The second half of Episode 22 has another one for Katsuragi, which mirrors the character design crisis in Episode 15, only this time Nogame the author didn't like the script, with Chazawa to blame again. This is resolved when Kinoshita defies Chazawa and arranges a meeting with Nogame himself, who turns out to be a pretty nice guy who agrees on a compromise ending for the series and later has Chazawa sacked for his incompetence.
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Shirobako / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Shirobako / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The five main girls hail from Japan (Aria), the United States (Cathy), Sweden (Christine), Israel (Noa) and Russia (Tatiana).
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Shirobako / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Shirobako / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Compared to Exodus! which at most dealt with false accusations of murder, this series deals with an alien invasion, psychological trauma (at least on Aria's part), and the death of one of the main characters towards the end of the series.
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Shirobako / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Shirobako / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In episode 5, huge schism grows between the 2D and 3D department due to Tarou doing a really bad job relaying messages about who would do an important cut. 3D's opinion that them doing it would give 2D time for other cuts is relayed as 3D being much faster than 2D. 2D's response that doing it by hand leads to more expression is relayed as 3D being crappy and not as good as 2D. Tarou also falls prey to this trope when he calls Aoi when she's out drinking with her friends, since he fails to make it clear that he's dealing with a serious problem. Aoi assumes he's just jerking her around and ends up getting annoyed and hanging up on him, not realizing the seriousness of the situation until the next time she comes in to work.
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Shirobako / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Shirobako / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The editors, Yamada and Madoka, are frequently used like a compound character which is a foil and the Only Sane Man to the childish Kinoshita. Watanabe and Katsuragi, the producers, also regularly work as a unit.
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Shirobako / int_2331f28c	type	Schoolgirl Series
Shirobako / int_2331f28c	comment	Schoolgirl Series: The manga prequel.
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Shirobako / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
Shirobako / int_2484396e	comment	Tarou, who somehow thinks he's the greatest thing to happen to Musashino. That he manages to avoid being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All (as he practically brags about how incompetent he is) while pulling off this trope says much about his character. Word of God also has it that Tarou is essentially series director Tsutomu Mizushima's projection of his younger self, when he was incredibly arrogant and self-important but had little to back it up with.
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Shirobako / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Shirobako / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Tarou, who somehow thinks he's the greatest thing to happen to Musashino. That he manages to avoid being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All (as he practically brags about how incompetent he is) while pulling off this trope says much about his character. Word of God also has it that Tarou is essentially series director Tsutomu Mizushima's projection of his younger self, when he was incredibly arrogant and self-important but had little to back it up with. Downplayed with Hiraoka. He's less arrogant than cynical and abrasive, but regards his coworkers as beneath him despite his poor work ethic and tendency to cut corners making him more of a liability than an asset. Madoka calls him out on it, asking Hiraoka if he thinks he can make a career with his attitude.
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Shirobako / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Shirobako / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: Musashino Animation's supposedly fictional phone line did work in real life! If you dialed their Japanese number during its airing season, that phone would connect to an answering machine with Aoi's voice actress, Juri Kimura enacting as Aoi as if Aoi's answering your phone call on behalf of the company and then start to go berserk, shelling out all of her inside gossips or stress on you with whatever was going on with her during that week's episode in under 50 seconds. Some fans managed to catch some of them in time.
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Shirobako / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Shirobako / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Or, specifically, companies. Check their Shout Out page.
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Shirobako / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Shirobako / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Alpine's publicized age is 17, but she's actually 29. Aside from having a noticeably bigger chest, she doesn't look that much older than the other two idols.
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Shirobako / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Shirobako / int_316e9da2	comment	Memetic Mutation: In-Universe, Yamada mentioned that his first stint as an episode director for anime was Jiggly Jiggly Heaven Episode 9. It was so full of Off-Model the episode became famous for all the wrong reasons, and the backlash burnt him so hard he lost the guts to read online feedback regarding his work ever since.
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Shirobako / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Shirobako / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: The ending of Episode 12 has a subtle one, where the bear doll finally succeeded in giving the other doll a love letter.
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Shirobako / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Shirobako / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: In spite of being in jet fighters no one is wearing helmets or oxygen masks.
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Shirobako / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
Shirobako / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: Episodes 11-12 revolve around Aoi's desperate search for someone to animate a herd of horses for the Exodus finale. Her meeting with Kanno revealed that Sugie, one of their senior members, was a master at animating animals; it turns out he even worked on her favorite anime from her childhood, Andes Chucky.
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Shirobako / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
Shirobako / int_36215b80	comment	An event organizer representative believes that Sex Sells, so his choice is a big-breasted ex-model who completely bombed her audition.
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Shirobako / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Shirobako / int_372bc105	comment	Endou to Segawa, whom are implied to have known each other early in their careers.
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Shirobako / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Shirobako / int_37499c8	comment	Honda's practically Once an Episode cry of "We're out of options!", at various levels of despair.
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Shirobako / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Shirobako / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Somewhat understated and not in-your-face, but if you pay attention, it's easy to notice the amount of work that went into the character's outfits. This is, however, treated quite realistically: while the more fashion-minded almost qualify as the Unlimited Wardrobe — Aoi alone has no less than six or seven outfits that are rotated and combined throughout the series — the other barely change the T-shirts. Katsuragi, for example, is almost characterized by his pin-striped dress shirt and suede jacket. In the movie, Aoi and Kaede both put on fancy kimonos to negotiate the copyright of the movie SIVA.
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Shirobako / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
Shirobako / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: The first episode begins with five high school girls promising to make an anime together, then flashes forward several years to them working low-level positions at best and not even in the industry at worst, showing how passionate people are about the anime but how much work it takes to succeed in anime.
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Shirobako / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Shirobako / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The cars throughout the series are rendered in 3D CG, which sticks out amidst the 2D elements. The idea of CGI in otherwise 2D anime was also used as part of the conflict for a few episodes, and is shown on computer monitors in varying unfinished states. The Zoo Park Story sequence in episode 10 is also done up in a different style. Though unlike most of the show's examples, it's a self contained sequence. Also appears in the two one-off episodes as a result. Again, mostly used for vehicle animation.
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Shirobako / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Shirobako / int_469e3e2f	comment	Sailor Suits and F3s, a previous work by Nogame, which suffered an In-Universe Adaptation Decay, the backdraft of which slightly ruined Nogame's reputation and served as a further catalyst for Hiraoka's bitterness.
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Shirobako / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Shirobako / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Episode 18 ends with Ookura on vacation, getting out a can of beer and some dried cuttlefish... then starting to work on his art.
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Shirobako / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Shirobako / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The whole "first episode broadcast party night" scene at MusAni,note Only smart enough to add the New Meat and change some people's clothing colors. even some staff members' spoken lines are completely the same. This is basically P.A.Works' sarcastic way of saying "Here We Go Again!".
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Shirobako / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Shirobako / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: To be precisely, "Most Japanese Animation Industrial Workers Are Japanese Animation Industrial Workers." This show is obviously talking about anime production from the eyes of the anime staff.
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Shirobako / int_4b8fae12	type	Creator Killer
Shirobako / int_4b8fae12	comment	Creator Killer: In-Universe, Jiggly Jiggly Heaven ran MusAni's reputation to the ground and ruined the once-promising career of its director, Seiichi Kinoshita. Viewers hated it, and publishers became skeptical of their ability to make faithful adaptations, at least until they redeemed themselves with the studio's first original anime in six years, Exodus!. Time Hippo almost bankrupted MusAni after it was canceled, causing most of the staff to quit.
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Shirobako / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Shirobako / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In Episode 23, MusAni casts a new character for the role of Lucy, and asks if she's come for ADR yet. The door opens and Shizuka Sakaki comes in.
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Shirobako / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Shirobako / int_4efe80e1	comment	Shunsuke Chazawa, the editor assigned by the 3rd Aerial Girls Squad's publishing house to oversee the adaptation, is even worse, so much so he makes Tarou look like a workhorse. He's a Lazy Bum who barely shows at meetings and discussions, consistently fails to connect the studio with the author despite this being his main job (leading to a pair of crises in Episodes 16 and 22-23), and always runs off to have fun in the middle of work.
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Shirobako / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Shirobako / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The series begins with the five girls putting together their animated short for the school festival, Shinbutsu Konkou: The Seven Lucky Battle Gods. At the end of Episode 24 they renew their vow to one day remake it for commercial release, and imagines seeing the characters in their short sail past by them from their flying boat. Episode 5 begins with the original version of Arupins' "I always knew" clip from Exodus, which the company spends the entire episode redoing because Kinoshita doesn't like it. It ends with the revised version.
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Shirobako / int_55f62ad4	type	Sleeper Hit
Shirobako / int_55f62ad4	comment	Sleeper Hit: In-Universe, this is how Exodus! was described, in the process helping Musashino Animation regain its reputation dashed by the infamous Jiggly Jiggly Heaven. In Real Life the show itself is this for P. A. Works, being their first A-list hit after a series of lackluster performances.
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Shirobako / int_57cd63e6	type	Art-Style Dissonance
Shirobako / int_57cd63e6	comment	Art-Style Dissonance: The three main characters have cutesy designs that make them look as though they've stepped out of kid-oriented idol franchises like Aikatsu! or Lilpri, which contrasts with the murder mystery plot of the anime (as well as all the Fanservice the girls provide).
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Shirobako / int_57e8aed6	type	Shameless Self-Promoter
Shirobako / int_57e8aed6	comment	Shameless Self-Promoter: Turns out to be painstakingly funny, especially when a character gives flattering comments about "Voice Actors".
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Shirobako / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Shirobako / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: all the girls are incredible Aces, taking their outdated late-60s aircraft up against F-22s and F-35s, and winning.
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Shirobako / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Shirobako / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Watanabe and Katsuragi announce that MusAni will now have to work on two projects at once; also, now that they finally made a professional work together, Aoi, Ema, Shizuka, Misa and Midori renew their vow to one day remake their animated short from their high-school days.
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Shirobako / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Shirobako / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Chofu Base, you can see a map of the world with red circle indicating the presence of Builder territory.
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Shirobako / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Shirobako / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: This anime literally dumps tons of characters filled with professional terminology Boss Subtitles towards us right from the first episode, with no further explanations. note Even their Official Website doesn't serve any purpose. As if they assumed their target audience knows everything about the business already.
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Shirobako / int_647afe03	comment	Rei Ayanami Expy: Aria, at the beginning. Stoic, emotionless girl with a short bob haircut? Yep! She turns more into a Defrosting Ice Queen over the series.
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Shirobako / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Shirobako / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The story is about girls who pilot vintage fighter jets. Tsutomu Mizushima, Shirobako's director, seems to be fond of the Military Moe trope; he previously directed the "girls operating tanks" anime Girls und Panzer, and would later direct The Magnificent Kotobuki, which has a very similar premise to Third Aerial Girls Squad as it focuses on girls who are fighter pilots.
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Shirobako / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Shirobako / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Episode 1 starts with a flashback to the five girls vowing to work together one day as professionals by holding their donuts in the air, ending with a shot of Aoi's donut. The scene then abruptly cuts into the steering wheel of her car as she frantically waits out the traffic light in order to check on Misato Segawa and her work for Exodus! Episode 4.
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Shirobako / int_68638045	type	Writer's Block Montage
Shirobako / int_68638045	comment	Writer's Block Montage: A couple for Kinoshita, though in his case it's the storyboard sheets and pencils that suffer rather than typewriter. In fact, it was Exodus scriptwriter, Maitake who pulled Kinoshita out of his blockage by clever managing their script brainstorming session. Inverted when work begins on 3rd Aerial Girls Squad - apparently, the process of working on Exodus invigorated Kinoshita, and he manages to finish the storyboards ahead of schedule, as also shown in montage.
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Shirobako / int_78c61d79	type	Idol Singer
Shirobako / int_78c61d79	comment	Idol Singer: The three main characters are this, making up the idol group Tracy.
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Shirobako / int_83445355	type	OVA
Shirobako / int_83445355	comment	Exodus! is the project for the first cour, a 13-episode anime which has its first full episode OVA release tied into Shirobako's DVD/Blu-ray Volume 3 limited edition.
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Shirobako / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Shirobako / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Endou and Shimoyanagi.
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Shirobako / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Shirobako / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Realistically speaking, a decent amount of people working in this industry wear glasses. It's a lot easier to count the cast members that actually don't wear them than the ones that do.
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Shirobako / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
Shirobako / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman à Clef: Nearly every character is a thinly-disguised version of a well-known personality within the anime industry. The inspiration for Chazawa real-life editor for Nogame's counterpart even threw a fit on Twitter...in response to his assigned author, who perhaps took advantage of this scenario.
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Shirobako / int_88d5cfb1	type	Military Moe
Shirobako / int_88d5cfb1	comment	Military Moe: It's about a group of cute girls who pilot vintage fighter planes in order to fight an alien invasion. A pretty straightforward example, really.
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Shirobako / int_896459e2	type	Adaptation Decay
Shirobako / int_896459e2	comment	Adaptation Decay: In-Universe, this is what happened to the adaptation of Sailor Suits and F3s, an earlier work of Takezou Nogame (author of Third Aerial Girls' Squad, which MusAni adapted in the second half of this series). The otherwise fairly serious sports manga was retooled into a Gag Series, with its battle-hardened Action Girl protagonist being turned into a vapid moeblob. The ratings were so poor Nogame's reputation declined (even though he had no say in the way it turned out) and working on it was a big step in production assistant Daisuke Hiraoka, himself a fan of the original manga, turning into a burnt-out cynic by the time he was hired by MusAni.
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Shirobako / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Shirobako / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Again Nabe-P and his classic Volvo, Okitsu's Alfa-Romeo in the finale.
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Shirobako / int_9ac1ff5c	type	Creator Recovery
Shirobako / int_9ac1ff5c	comment	Creator Recovery: In-Universe, at the start of the series Seiichi Kinoshita is still having nightmares about Jiggly Jiggly Heaven, but after the success of Exodus! restores his reputation and self-confidence he performs far better as director. He even completes the storyboards for Third Aerial Girls' Squad ahead of schedule, much to everyone's amazement. Kinoshita once again fell into depression after Time Hippo was canceled, thought it wasn’t his fault. It took Aoi and Honda encouraging and bribing him with cake to get him back to work.
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Shirobako / int_9c224098	type	Deliberately Bad Example
Shirobako / int_9c224098	comment	Deliberately Bad Example: MusAni is a reasonably good company that made two hits- Exodus to Tomorrow and Third Aerial Girls' Squad- on the heels of the massive failure Jiggly Jiggly Heaven, and most of its employees are competent, even if some have their flaws. Hiraoka's previous employers were not good places to work, with lazy and often verbally abusive employees, and one was responsible for producing a bad adaptation of a work by the creator of Third Aerial Girls' Squad. Not only do they provide a Freudian Excuse for Hiraoka's poor attitude, but they make MusAni look better by comparison.
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Shirobako / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Shirobako / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Kinoshita often says that his goal for Third Aerial Girls' Squad is to produce a "win-win" project that will make everyone happy. Then in Episode 23 he goes to talk with the author, Takezou Nogame, trying to find a compromise that will give the anime a proper ending while staying faithful to the source material. The conversation not only results in Kinoshita getting the permission to make a much happier ending than Nogame originally demanded, but it also helps the latter decide how he wants to proceed with his manga. This conversation even results in Shizuka Sakaki getting her first significant anime role. This was foreshadowed back in episode 14, where she was the director's second choice for Cathy; she ends up voicing Cathy's younger sister, a new character created for the compromise ending. "Win-Win" all around.
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Shirobako / int_9f037665	type	Quit Your Whining
Shirobako / int_9f037665	comment	Quit Your Whining: Endou ends up receiving this from an old colleague, who tells him not to blame the rise of 3D animation for declining work opportunities.
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Shirobako / int_9fbf92c3	type	Creator Career Self-Deprecation
Shirobako / int_9fbf92c3	comment	Creator Career Self-Deprecation: The series runs on this, as it's pretty obvious that much of the production staff's (particularly Mizushima's) real-world experiences go into each episode. Even the high-profile voice actors cast for this series are tasked with the heaviest lines that shed light on the dark side of their glamor, which can be seen especially clear within the Third Aerial Girls' Squad Casting Committee.
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Shirobako / int_a1b27125	type	Nervous Wreck
Shirobako / int_a1b27125	comment	The second half of Episode 22 has another one for Katsuragi, which mirrors the character design crisis in Episode 15, only this time Nogame the author didn't like the script, with Chazawa to blame again. This is resolved when Kinoshita defies Chazawa and arranges a meeting with Nogame himself, who turns out to be a pretty nice guy who agrees on a compromise ending for the series and later has Chazawa sacked for his incompetence.
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Shirobako / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Shirobako / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Shizuka's boss at her waitress job is kind and supportive, encouraging her to clock out to spend time with her friends.
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Shirobako / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Shirobako / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: As Ema is depressed over Segawa's criticism of her work, the scene briefly cuts to Kaori and Midori enjoying themselves in Tokyo. Episode 15 is mostly a walkthrough of the various meetings involved in anime production with commentary by Roro and Mimuji, Aoi's toys and the most purely comic relief characters, Watanabe gets a call from Katsuragi and learns that Nogame rejected all the character designs, forcing the staff to start key animation from scratch. Episode 22 ends on a positive note, with Third Aerial Girls Squad completed and everyone celebrating, and then in the last minute or so of the episode, they learn that Nogame rejected the last episode's storyboards, thus causing the drama in the penultimate episode.
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Shirobako / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Shirobako / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Aoi has an active imagination, and frequently imagines her two favorite dolls talking to her, offering advice or giving voice to her fears. Occasionally the two will also act out little skits to illustrate Aoi's state of mind.
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Shirobako / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Shirobako / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Exodus! universe has an amusement park named "Musashino". There is an amusement park in Musashino in Real Life, but as it is in the middle of a large Inokashira park that straddles the border between the Musashino's neighborhood of Kichijouji and the adjacent Shimorenjaku, most of it is technically in Mitaka, a neighboring suburb.
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Shirobako / int_a89b070a	type	Career Resurrection
Shirobako / int_a89b070a	comment	Career Resurrection: In-Universe, Exodus! helped MusAni repair some of the damage dealt to its reputation by the disaster that was Jiggly Jiggly Heaven. In the movie, after almost going bankrupt after a project was canceled mid-production, SIVA is the first original work MusAni attempts to create since.
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Shirobako / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
Shirobako / int_ab17f66	comment	Erika Yano to Tarou Takanashi. With a reason.
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Shirobako / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Shirobako / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The series begins with an intense car chase between Aoi and Tomigaya to see who gets first to Misato... all the while Aoi sings along to the cheerful opening theme of Exodus! over her stereo.
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Shirobako / int_ac4fcf2b	type	Work Com
Shirobako / int_ac4fcf2b	comment	Work Com: More on the work side than comedy, however.
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Shirobako / int_ac7b87df	type	Off-Model
Shirobako / int_ac7b87df	comment	Yamada's first stint as episode director was Episode 9 of Jiggly Jiggly Heaven. Said episode was was so full of Off-Model, that the episode achieved an In-Universe Memetic Mutation, and he has refused to check online feedback regarding his works ever since.
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Shirobako / int_b1cfd9e5	type	The Big Race
Shirobako / int_b1cfd9e5	comment	Okitsu in episode 24 does this while delivering the final episode of Third Aerial Girls' Squad to the broadcaster. It's hinted in that episode that she's had a prior history with the police because of her driving, earning the nickname "Speed Limit Goddess" by them.
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Shirobako / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Shirobako / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Jiggly Jiggly Heaven, MusAni's previous work before Exodus!, bombed so hard Kinoshita and Yamada were psychologically scarred for life. The anime was plagued with three Whole Episode Flashbacks (for a 12-Episode Anime, even), one of which was a flashback of a flashback, loads of Gainaxing which never sat well with Moral Guardians and Media Watchdogs, and grating examples of Off-Model which alienated otakus everywhere.
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Shirobako / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Shirobako / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-Universe, Yotaka Bookshop ends up being this in regards to MusAni's adaptation of Third Aerial Girls' Squad. The demands of the author, Takezou Nogame, are even described as "God's Words." The editor, Chazawa, would frequently wait to the last minute to drop editorial mandates,note First with changing the character designs, and later with demanding the ending changed. causing production to halt to a complete stop.
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Shirobako / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Shirobako / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Aside from the newbies like Shizuka, the more popular voice actresses are practically copycats of their actual voice actresses, some of which are even Bland-Named.
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Shirobako / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Shirobako / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Shimoyanagi and Endou might be rivals, but they are actually pretty similar to each other and have the same interests, bonding over the Idepon Exhibit in Episode 6 — it was a show that motivated both of them to take up animation, in fact. By the end of their argument arc they even asked each other to be taught with their respective disciplines.
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Shirobako / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
Shirobako / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: Nabe-Pi's old-school Ural with all bells and whistles, which also served as a model for the Alpine's bike in the Exodus.
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Shirobako / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Shirobako / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: The three main characters; Akane is red, Aya is blue, and Alpine is yellow.
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Shirobako / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Shirobako / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Aoi (honey-blonde), Ema (brunette) and Shizuka (redhead). Also Tarou (blonde), Yukata (brunette) & Tatsuya (redhead)
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Shirobako / int_c044f854	type	Speak in Unison
Shirobako / int_c044f854	comment	Speak in Unison: In Episode 6, Endou and Shimayanagi, both Idepon fans, yell "You're wrong!" in unison when correcting Aoi and Tarou's misconceptions about the show, despite both men being at odds over the animation.
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Shirobako / int_c0abbbc2	type	Serkis Folk
Shirobako / int_c0abbbc2	comment	Serkis Folk: Shown during the opening theme. Though oddly enough, no motion capture occurs in the actual series.
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Shirobako / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Shirobako / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Given the nature of the show, this will naturally abound. Exodus! is the project for the first cour, a 13-episode anime which has its first full episode OVA release tied into Shirobako's DVD/Blu-ray Volume 3 limited edition. Third Aerial Girls' Squad, the A-list project for the second cour and the adaptation of the popular manga by Takezou Nogame. Andes Chucky, Aoi's favorite anime that was produced in The '70s, among whose artists was none other than current key animator Shigeru Sugie, and had a great deal of input by his then production manager, current Musashino Animation president Masato Murakawa, who was personally responsible for the very tone of Aoi's favorite episode. Jiggly Jiggly Heaven, the infamously fanservice-overdosed anime which drove MusAni's reputation to the ground and ruined Kinoshita's once-promising career six years ago. Sailor Suits and F3s, a previous work by Nogame, which suffered an In-Universe Adaptation Decay, the backdraft of which slightly ruined Nogame's reputation and served as a further catalyst for Hiraoka's bitterness. Shinbutsu Koukou: The Seven Lucky Battle Gods, Aoi, Ema, Shizuka, Misa and Midori's animated short during their high-school days. At the end of the series they vow to one day remake it.
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Shirobako / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Shirobako / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: While more than likely nothing more than coincidence, the episode that focuses on outside episode subcontracting was in and of itself also outsourced to another studio. Specifically, notable episode co-production studio Magic Bus.
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Shirobako / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Shirobako / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Now has its own page.
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Shirobako / int_cc6d95ac	type	Generic Cuteness
Shirobako / int_cc6d95ac	comment	Generic Cuteness: Completely incidental to the show's Work Com plot, but all characters in the series are uniformly gorgeous. Even the elderly ones, like Marukawa and Sugie spouses are pretty easy on the eyes. The only possible exceptions are the Joke Characters like Tarou and Tomigaya, but even they are Hollywood Homely at worst.
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Shirobako / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Shirobako / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: Aria uses the Mitsubishi F-1, which is long outdated and out of service with the JASDF. Everyone else is using similarly outdated craft from the 1960s and early 70s.
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Shirobako / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Shirobako / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: Quite realistically varied: some characters are almost never seen in the same clothes, or at least regularly mix-and-match their available options. Others, OTOH, are characterized by their Iconic Outfits; for example, when Tarou awkwardly asks Aoi if her brown overalls are new, she quickly points out that she's often worn them.
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Shirobako / int_d8827578	type	Alternate Character Reading
Shirobako / int_d8827578	comment	Alternate Character Reading: Aria's surname is read Hitotose ("one-year") yet written with kanji that means "Spring-summer-autumn-winter."
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Shirobako / int_db15f008	type	ReallySeventeenYearsOld
Shirobako / int_db15f008	comment	Really 17 Years Old: Inverted; Alpine is 29 years old, but her age is publicized as 17.
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Shirobako / int_ddb124b3	type	Cast Herd
Shirobako / int_ddb124b3	comment	Cast Herd: There's too many people to cover for this show, therefore each episode would focus on a selected group of cast depending on the progress of their project.
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Shirobako / int_e1aed0a9	type	Boss Subtitles
Shirobako / int_e1aed0a9	comment	Boss Subtitles: Because of its large cast, this is compulsory for everyone, even for Aoi.
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Shirobako / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz This is a plot point in Episode 2, as Kinoshita and the rest of the production were arguing about exactly how ditzy Exodus!'s Alpine should be. Among the characters, Tarou, the MusAni head PA, and Chazawa, a Yotaka Bookshop editor, have clearly graduated from here straight into The Load category, especially the latter.
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Shirobako / int_e35b1a96	comment	Everything Is Big in Texas: Cathy plays just about every Texas stereotype perfectly straight. Outlandish cowboy outfit? Check. Grew up on a ranch? Check. Always talking about cattle? Check.
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Shirobako / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: A number of characters' less than stellar performances have endangered the studio more than once. Tarou Takanashi is an airhead who always forgets things and has the sensitivity of a sleepwalking hippopotamus, though at least he can be trusted to get the basics right with regular supervision. In spite of his shortcomings, he is cheery, enthusiastic and readily available to lend a hand at the mere mention of his name. When Doumoto and Shinkawa discuss the slackers who are working with Aoi, the former mentions Tarou three times. Shunsuke Chazawa, the editor assigned by the 3rd Aerial Girls Squad's publishing house to oversee the adaptation, is even worse, so much so he makes Tarou look like a workhorse. He's a Lazy Bum who barely shows at meetings and discussions, consistently fails to connect the studio with the author despite this being his main job (leading to a pair of crises in Episodes 16 and 22-23), and always runs off to have fun in the middle of work.
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Shirobako / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Shirobako / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: All five girls are wearing completely different outfits, most of which are fetishized.
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Shirobako / int_f0f03464	comment	Andes Chucky, Aoi's favorite anime that was produced in The '70s, among whose artists was none other than current key animator Shigeru Sugie, and had a great deal of input by his then production manager, current Musashino Animation president Masato Murakawa, who was personally responsible for the very tone of Aoi's favorite episode.
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Shirobako / int_f52828b0	comment	Sitcom Archnemesis: Erika Yano to Tarou Takanashi. With a reason. Endou to Segawa, whom are implied to have known each other early in their careers.
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Shirobako / int_f733ab64	comment	School Club Story: The manga prequel, serialized at the same time the anime airs. It's mainly about the time when the girls were still in high school.
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Shirobako / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
Shirobako / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: Late in the Exodus arc, MusAni holds job interviews, and most of the interviewees end up making mistakes like misidentifying an anime as a MusAni production. Surprisingly, two of the applicants get hired, even though Andou admits to wanting money for her hobbies and Satou wants a shorter commute.
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Shirobako / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
Shirobako / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: Downplayed. The series begins with the leads in high school together and promising to work together on an anime one day... flashes forward to Aoi being little more than a gofer, Ema barely eking out a living as an animator, Shizuka waiting tables as she struggles to get acting work, Misa in a non-anime company and Midori in college. In short, all five of the leads are a long way from achieving their goals.
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Shirobako / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Shirobako / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Aoi and Tomigaya make a habit of racing to get the same parking spot, doing terrifying jumps that shouldn't be possible and drifting around corners — in the cheap ultracompacts, mind you. One shot to the speedometer shows "50 km/hr", however, so this may be an exaggerated glimpse into their imaginations. In episode 16 even Nabe-P does this, driving his old Volvo with Katsuragi to find Chazawa. Satou in episode 17, after she ended up in Ogawa, a good 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Musashino, because she has No Sense of Direction and missed her ramp on a highway — all the while everyone were awaiting her and the keyframes she went to deliver. Okitsu in episode 24 does this while delivering the final episode of Third Aerial Girls' Squad to the broadcaster. It's hinted in that episode that she's had a prior history with the police because of her driving, earning the nickname "Speed Limit Goddess" by them.
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Shirobako / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Shirobako / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: The voice actress preferences raised by some members of the production committee for Third Aerial Girls' Squad in Episode 14 accounts to this: A game developer representative wants a famous actress despite her voice not fitting her character at all. A record company representative wants someone who can sing, even if that means an In-Universe case of Dawson Casting (i.e., a 60-year-old lady playing a 17-year-old girl). An event organizer representative believes that Sex Sells, so his choice is a big-breasted ex-model who completely bombed her audition.
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Shirobako / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Shirobako / int_fc151e9d	comment	Tarou Takanashi is an airhead who always forgets things and has the sensitivity of a sleepwalking hippopotamus, though at least he can be trusted to get the basics right with regular supervision. In spite of his shortcomings, he is cheery, enthusiastic and readily available to lend a hand at the mere mention of his name. When Doumoto and Shinkawa discuss the slackers who are working with Aoi, the former mentions Tarou three times.
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