The Cygames Invasion of Everything | Anime Studio Spotlight
3,092Canipa spotlights the mobile game developer Cygames, how they've expanded into the anime industry and how they're capitalising on every industry they set their eyes on.
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Sources and Further Reading:
Support Animators here! - https://gogetfunding.com/2018-animator-dormitory-project/
Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (A good introduction to media mix culture): https://www.amazon.com/Animes-Media-Mix-Franchising-Characters/dp/0816675503
Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production: http://www.justinecassell.com/CC_Winter10/pdfs/ito_TechnologiesOfChildhoodImagination.pdf
Interview with Nobuhiro Takenaka - http://www.animeanime.biz/archives/22633
Cygames Pictures Recruitment page - https://cygamespictures.co.jp/recruit/?job=recruit-0002
Akihiko Yoshida interview - https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/2680
Exploring CyDesignation - https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/2345
English interview with Akihiro Hino - https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/08/14/akihiro-hino-on-the-secret-of-level-5s-success-and-how-super-robots-are-now-a-blue-ocean/#e01b21466fd9
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Intro:
Animated by Christian Maize (@CookieficationJ)
Music by Steven Kelly (@Sarifus)
Produced for The Canipa Effect
Patreon Intro:
Animated by Dream High Animation (@DanimationH)
Anime series featured in this video (chronologically):
Granblue Fantasy: The Animation
Love Live! School Idol Project
Love Live! School Idol Movie
Last Period
My Hero Academia
Berserk
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Sword Art Online II
Pokemon
Yo-Kai Watch
Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie
Rage of Bahamut: Manaria Friends
Yuri on Ice
The Eccentric Family 2
Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Amagi Brilliant Park
Music:
Katalina's Theme - Granblue Fantasy: The Animation
Lyria's Theme - Granblue Fantasy: The Animation
Rendezvous with the Future - Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
Reality and the Woods - Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
Sea of Clouds - Granblue Fantasy: The Animation
祝賀パレードに潜む - Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
うまぴょい伝説 - Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
Surely to Beyond - Granblue Fantasy: The Animation
#Cygames
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