Is there any studio nearly as cool as Studio TRIGGER? Formed from the ashes of the equally eminent GAINAX, the studio has gone from producing zero-budget shorts such as Inferno Cop to blockbuster TV series such as Darling in the Franxx in merely seven years since it was founded in 2011.

Even so, the studio is far from settling down and taking stock of their frankly unprecedented achievements in such a short space of time, as a recent long list of job openings posted today on their official website suggests.

The majority of the jobs are based in their Tokyo studio, which isn’t surprising considering that they do most of their business in the Tokyo area. The only opening not in Tokyo is for their Fukushima studio, where they need several in-between animators. Beyond that minor opening, however, there are some seriously big jobs up for grabs at the Tokyo studio, such as a production director, production assistant, and assistant director, as well as in-between animators – making for five postings altogether.

What makes these job openings interesting is that they all mostly begin in the next financial year, which will usually take place from April to March every year in Japan. TRIGGER previously announced at Anime Expo, along with the currently airing Darling in the Franxx, a new collaboration between the Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill duo Kazuki Nakashima and Hiroyuki Imaishi in the form of Promare, which fans were rightly ecstatic about.

As of the time of writing, that project doesn’t have a synopsis nor a definite airing date, but the fact that all of these jobs are scheduled to start in the next financial year means that it’s probably safe to assume that the studio will be pressing on with pre-production for the project around that time, and in order to do that, they need some extra hands on board. I wouldn’t be surprised if the decision to hire more in-between animators for the Fukushima studio was also made with an eye to the future project.

That being said, there is one job that seems unrelated to future projects – a part-time job doing marketing at the Tokyo studio. Applicants will be coordinating with merchandising and producing marketing materials for SNS platforms, and they’re asking for people under thirty. So, does anyone fancy working at Studio TRIGGER?