Akiba’s Trip:

This series director is none more than Hiroshi Ikehata, one of the most promising directors of the last years, being one of the main people behind the actual webgen movement, the 37 year old director an instant iman for talented webgen animators, and Kanada-style animators, thanks to his Gainax links with Hiroyuki Imaishi and Akira Amemiya, that have benefited his career, being always the episodes directed by him a visual spectacle, previously he fully directed the series Sore ga Seiyuu!!, that presented animation by the likes of Tamotsu Ogawa, Hironori Tanaka, Akira Amemiya, Tatsuya Miki and Hajime Mitsuda, the last one is the one that is going to be the Character Designer of this new series, a new and talented webgen animator with an speciality on character acting, his designs, loose, round, and easy to animate, are perfect for what it seems like an webgen animation heavy series.

Youjo Senki:

Studio NUT is a newly founded studio created by Death Parade’s producer Takuya Tsunoki, and as that, it features a lot of peculiar talents linked to MAPPA and Madhouse, that will make this a very interesting production:

The director is Yutaka Uemura, and ex-GAINAX, that, after directing Dantalian no Shoka, left GAINAX and joined MAPPA, working on Zankyou no Terror and Shingeki no Bahamut before doing his own series: Punch Line, that is filled with fun animation all over the place, even with the production issues here and there, assisting him is another Ex-Gainax animator, Kana Harufujii, a very consistently good director, but inexperienced, i’m really expecting to see how good she has turned out with the years since her debut on 2012 as Episode Director on Medaka Box.

The series composer is Kenta Ihara, one of the most young and promising talents on the scriptwriting crew, already demonstrated his talents on Death Parade and Zankyou no Terror, this is his second time adapting someone else’s work, after scripting 6 episodes of the Polygon Pictures’s Ajin [2016].

Between the animation crew, the character designer is Yuji Hosogoe, that started out on Production I.G on the 90s, doing a buzz as an consistently awesome animation director on his last years with the studio, until departing and being trusted with sub-character design on Shingeki no Bahamut and GATE, two series with consistently awesome character designs, so that departament is in good hands!, assisting her will be the great Ryouma Ebata, a great animator with is destacable bouncing style that can be recognizable everywhere, even if his experience as character designer on Mahou Sensou was not very good, Hiromi Taniguchi, an amazingly talented ex-GAINAX animator, that was trusted with the totality of Kurage no Shokudō earlier this year, great OVA, go to watch it, You Moriyama, Tetsuro Araki’s friend, an stylish and in general, amazing designer, Haruhito Takada, a veteran, but fairly average Madhouse animator, and Takao Maki, another really veteran animator, with 30 years of experience, that was previously trusted with Donten ni Warau designs.

The Effects AD is none but the major effects animator of the industry: Takashi Hashimoto, with over 30 years of experience, he’s one of the most experienced and solicited effects and mecha animators of the industry, with his awesomely detailed effects that always looks great. Between the main animators, there’s 3 big talents: Shinichi Kurita, one of the best animators of the industry, that was the Character Designer of Death Parade, Shosuke Ishiibashi, another amazing animator, that showed his great talents on One Punch Man and Death Parade, with great effects works along with pretty character acting, and Hiroyuki Horiuchi, an incredibly versatile animator, capable of doing everything, from Mecha to complex character animation, and from animals to incredibly detailed effects animation.