On July 4, during the Production I.G x Wit Studio Industry Panel held at Anime Expo 2026, Wit Studio founder George Wada announced a new anime awards show called Tokyo Anime Next, which will take ...

Makoto Shinkai's influential romantic fantasy anime classic Your Name is officially returning to theaters in 4K to celebrate ...

The studio announced this news at Anime Expo 2026, and also provided a sneak peek at a cutscene with protagonist Yu Narukami ...

You’d think the number of animators would grow accordingly, but it didn’t increase that much,” said Fukumiya Ayano, of Nippon ...

Japan’s iconic Studio Ghibli has been awarded the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, widely considered Spain’s answer to the Nobel Prize (though unlike its Scandinavian ...

What’s your focus? First, determine what type of content you’ll be creating; this decision will inform every other choice in setting up your home studio. Different content requires different ...

Despite the global success of anime, animation studios are at their breaking point. The most recent victim of the unending crunch is Studio Kai, which announced insolvency to the tune of ¥565 million ...

Wit Studio has apologized after confirming fan suspicions that generative AI was used in the opening of Season 4 of its latest anime, Ascendance of a Bookworm. The studio, known for popular shows ...

Following fan roastings for the AI-generated background art in its Crunchyroll fantasy anime, 'Ascendance of a Bookworm,' the studio promises to actually animate the sequence with human artists.

However, following the fourth season’s debut, the series was embroiled in a major AI controversy after the opening theme was released. Ajia-do studio produced the first three seasons, but the latest ...

In the full statement on the website, Wit Studio stated that, while it’s interested in technological advances in animation, it did not used any generative AI in its works. It also said it does not ...