MAPPA

Japanese animation studio

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MAPPA Co., Ltd.

Headquarters in Suginami, Tokyo

Native name

| 株式会社MAPPA

Romanized name

| Kabushiki-gaisha MAPPA
Company type| Kabushiki gaisha
Industry| Japanese animation
Founded| June 14, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-06-14)
Founder| Masao Maruyama
Headquarters|

Suginami, Tokyo

Japan

Key people

| MAPPA:
Manabu Otsuka (CEO)
Masao Maruyama (board chairman)
Hiroya Hasegawa (executive vice president)
MAPPA Sendai:
Wataru Kawagoe
Products| Animation planning and production

Number of employees

| 408 (as of April 2024)[1]
Divisions| MAPPA Tokyo Asagaya 1st Studio
MAPPA Tokyo Ogikubo 2nd Studio
MAPPA Tokyo Ogikubo 3rd Studio
MAPPA Sendai Studio
MAPPA Osaka Studio
Subsidiaries| Contrail
Website| mappa.co.jp

MAPPA Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社MAPPA, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Mappa) is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo. Founded in 2011 by Madhouse co-founder and producer Masao Maruyama, it has produced anime works including Terror in Resonance, Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World, Kakegurui, Banana Fish, Zombie Land Saga, Dororo (in co-production with Tezuka Productions), Dorohedoro, The God of High School, Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Vinland Saga Season 2, Chainsaw Man, and Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku. MAPPA is an acronym for Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association.[2][3]

## Business[edit]

### History[edit]

The studio was established on June 14, 2011, by Masao Maruyama, a co-founder and former producer of Madhouse, at the age of 70.[4] Maruyama served as the company's first representative director, and the studio's initial goal was to produce Sunao Katabuchi's In This Corner of the World. Due to financial difficulties at Madhouse, Maruyama and Katabuchi established MAPPA in the hopes of producing the film; however, despite moving studios, the film had a lot of production troubles, and wasn't released until 5 years later.[5] Maruyama first started working with Katabuchi for the film in 2010 during Madhouse era, but it took three years to start the production due to difficulties to raising funds.[6]

In April 2016, Maruyama resigned as a CEO of the studio and became a chairman. Studio animation producer Manabu Otsuka, a founding member and a former employee of Studio 4°C, became the CEO following Maruyama's official departure.

### Controversies[edit]

The studio's scheduling, work, and culture have been the subject of intense scrutiny.[7] Veteran animator Hisashi Eguchi criticized the studio's low pay.[8] Mushiyo, another animator at MAPPA, also criticized the company for not properly training its animators and the studio's culture of overwork, which led to them eventually quitting their job at the studio.[9] Besides the animator's individual output within the studio, they also criticized the company's decision to produce four series concurrently.[9] Kevin Cirugeda from Sakugablog suggested the problems were due to the studio's incredibly fast-paced growth and "recklessness".[10]

Cirugeda also noted that in the 20 televised animes MAPPA produced from the beginning of 2015 to the beginning of 2020, the company had only been on the production committee for four of them, all of which listed MAPPA near the bottom or at the very bottom of the list, indicating that they served to a capacity almost as if they were being specifically contracted for work even on "original" series.[10]

MAPPA denied offering "unreasonable compensation" to "creators" in a response to claims that the studio underpaid workers;[11] however, animator Ippei Ichii claimed that an anime produced by MAPPA under Netflix was suggesting a pay of ¥3,800 per cut,[11] to which Ichii claimed that ¥15,000 is the minimum cost that animators should negotiate for.[11]

## Productions[edit]

### Anime television series[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director(s)  | Animation producer(s) | Source  | Eps. | Refs.

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2012  | Kids on the Slope
(co-produced with Tezuka Productions)  | Shinichirō Watanabe | Manabu Otsuka
Masao Morosawa
Sumio Udagawa  | Manga | 12  | [12]
Teekyu | Shin Itagaki  | Masashi Tanaka  | Manga  | 12[a] | [13]
2013  | Teekyu 2 | Shin Itagaki  | Manabu Otsuka  | Manga  | 12[b] | [14]
Teekyu 3 | Shin Itagaki  | Manabu Otsuka  | Manga  | 12[c] | [15]
2013–2014  | Hajime no Ippo: Rising
(co-produced with Madhouse)  | Jun Shishido  | Shintarou Hashimoto
Yasuteru Iwase
Masakazu Watanabe  | Manga  | 25  | [16]
2014  | Terror in Resonance | Shinichirō Watanabe  | Manabu Otsuka  | Original work  | 11  | [17]
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis | Keiichi Sato | Manabu Otsuka  | Video game  | 12[d] | [19]
2014–2015  | Garo: The Carved Seal of Flames | Yuichiro Hayashi | Manabu Otsuka  | Original work
Tokusatsu series  | 24  | [20]
2015  | Punch Line | Yutaka Uemura  | Manabu Otsuka
Fuuko Noda  | Original work  | 12  | [21]
Ushio & Tora
(co-produced with Studio VOLN)  | Satoshi Nishimura  |  | Manga  | 26  | [22]
2015–2016  | Garo: Crimson Moon | Atsushi Wakabayashi  |  | Original work
Tokusatsu series  | 23[e] | [23]
2016  | Ushio & Tora Part 2 | Satoshi Nishimura  |  | Manga  | 13  | [24]
Days | Kōnosuke Uda | Manabu Otsuka  | Manga  | 24  | [25]
Yuri!!! on Ice | Sayo Yamamoto
Jun Shishido[f] | Takahiro Ogawa
Fuuko Noda  | Original work  | 12[g] | [27]
2017  | Idol Incidents
(co-produced with Studio VOLN)  | Daisuke Yoshida  |  | Media-mix project  | 12  | [28]
Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul | Keiichi Sato | Katsuhito Masuda  | Video game  | 24  | [29]
Kakegurui | Yuichiro Hayashi  |  | Manga  | 12[h] | [30]
Altair: A Record of Battles | Kazuhiro Furuhashi | Wataru Kawagoe  | Manga  | 24  | [31]
Inuyashiki | Keiichi Sato[i]
Shuhei Yabuta  | Katsuhito Masuda  | Manga  | 11  | [32]
2017–2018  | Garo: Vanishing Line | Sunghoo Park | Takahiro Ogawa
Manabu Otsuka  | Original work
Tokusatsu series  | 24  | [33]
2018  | Banana Fish | Hiroko Utsumi | Manabu Otsuka  | Manga  | 24  | [34]
Zombie Land Saga | Munehisa Sakai | Manabu Otsuka  | Original work  | 12  | [35]
2019  | Dororo
(co-produced with Tezuka Productions)  | Kazuhiro Furuhashi  | Masato Matsunaga  | Manga  | 24  | [36]
Kakegurui ×× | Yuichiro Hayashi[i]
Kiyoshi Matsuda  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work  | 12  | [37]
Sarazanmai
(co-produced with Lapin Track)  | Kunihiko Ikuhara
Nobuyuki Takeuchi[j] | Manabu Otsuka
Masakazu Watanabe  | Original work  | 11  | [38]
To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts | Jun Shishido  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Manga  | 12  | [39]
Granblue Fantasy the Animation Season 2 | Yui Umemoto  | Masato Matsunaga  | Video game  | 12[k] | [42]
2020  | Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama?
(co-produced with Lapin Track)  | Kiyoshi Matsuda  | Tooru Kubo
Masakazu Watanabe  | Character franchise  | 11  | [43]
Dorohedoro | Yuichiro Hayashi  | Fuuko Noda  | Manga  | 12[l] | [45]
Listeners | Hiroaki Ando  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work  | 12  | [46]
The God of High School | Sunghoo Park  | Tooru Kubo
Wataru Kawagoe  | Manhwa | 13  | [47]
Mr Love: Queen's Choice | Munehisa Sakai | Fuuko Noda  | Mobile game
visual novel | 12  | [48]
The Gymnastics Samurai | Hisatoshi Shimizu  | Fuuko Noda  | Original work  | 11  | [49]
2020–2021  | Jujutsu Kaisen | Sunghoo Park  | Keisuke Seshimo  | Manga  | 24  | [50]
2020–2023  | Attack on Titan: The Final Season | Yuichiro Hayashi
Jun Shishido[f] | Masato Matsunaga (part 1)
Wataru Kawagoe (parts 2–4)  | Manga  | 35[m] | [n]
2021  | Zombie Land Saga Revenge | Munehisa Sakai  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work  | 12  | [56]
Re-Main | Masafumi Nishida[i]
Kiyoshi Matsuda  | Manabu Otsuka  | Original work  | 12  | [57]
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace | Seimei Kidokoro  | Fuuko Noda  | Manga  | 11  | [58]
Takt Op. Destiny
(co-produced with Madhouse)  | Yuuki Itoh  | Wataru Kawagoe
Yuuichirou Fukushi  | Media-mix project  | 12  | [59]
2022  | Dance Dance Danseur | Munehisa Sakai  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Manga  | 11  | [60]
Chainsaw Man | Ryū Nakayama
Masato Nakazono[f] | Keisuke Seshimo  | Manga  | 12  | [61]
2023  | Vinland Saga Season 2 | Shūhei Yabuta  | Hiroya Hasegawa  | Manga  | 24  | [62]
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill | Kiyoshi Matsuda  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Light novel | 12  | [63]
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku | Kaori Makita  | Wataru Kawagoe  | Manga  | 13  | [64]
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 | Shōta Goshozono  | Keisuke Seshimo  | Manga  | 23  | [65]
2024  | Bucchigiri?! | Hiroko Utsumi | Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work  | 12  | [66]
Oblivion Battery | Makoto Nakazono  | Hiroya Hasegawa
Kouya Okamura  | Manga  | 12  | [67]
Zenshu | Mitsue Yamazaki  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work  | TBA | [68] [69]
Lazarus
(co-produced with Sola Entertainment)  | Shinichirō Watanabe | TBA | Original work  | 13  | [70]

[71]

TBA
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Season 2 | TBA | TBA | Manga  | TBA | [72]
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Season 2 | TBA | TBA | Light novel  | TBA | [73]
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 | TBA | TBA | Manga  | TBA | [74]

### Anime films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director(s)  | Animation producer(s)  | Source  | Refs.

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2016  | Garo: Divine Flame | Yuichiro Hayashi | Manabu Otsuka
Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work
Tokusatsu series  | [75]
In This Corner of the World | Sunao Katabuchi | Ryoichi Matsuo  | Manga  | [76]
2019  | In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World[o] | Sunao Katabuchi  | Ryoichi Matsuo  | Manga  | [77]
2021  | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | Sunghoo Park | Keisuke Seshimo  | Manga  | [78]
2022  | A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot | Shinichiro Watanabe |  | Original work[p] | [79]
2023  | Maboroshi | Mari Okada
Seimei Kidokoro[f] | Fuuko Noda
Ryouta Kitsunai  | Original work  | [80]
TBA  | Zombie Land Saga the Movie | TBA | TBA | Original work  | [81]
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc | TBA | TBA | Manga  | [82]

### Original video animations (OVAs)[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director(s)  | Animation producer(s)  | Source  | Eps. | Refs.

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2017  | Days: OVA | Kōnosuke Uda |  | Manga  | 2  | [83]
Onihei: Sono Otoko, Hasegawa Heizou | Shigeyuki Miya  |  | Manga  | 1  |
2018  | Days: Touin Gakuen-sen! | Kōnosuke Uda  |  | Manga  | 3  | [84]

### Original net animations (ONAs)[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director(s)  | Animation producer(s)  | Source  | Eps. | Refs.

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2012–2015  | Komachi and Dangorō | Hisashi Abe  |  | Original work  | 4  | [85]
2020  | Oblivion Battery | Parako Shinohara  | Ayako Sekine  | Manga  | 1  | [86]
2021  | Yasuke | LeSean Thomas
Takeru Sato[f] | Takahiro Ogawa  | Original work  | 6  | [87]
2022  | Kakegurui Twin | Yuichiro Hayashi[i]
Kaori Makita  | Takahiro Ogawa  | Manga  | 6  | [88]

### Other productions[edit]

* Hana wa Saku (ONA, 2013) – music video for song by Yoko Kanno, the theme for NHK's Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Project; directed by Sunao Katabuchi[89]
* Korekarasaki, Nando Anata to. (ONA, 2013) – music video for song by Mishmash and Aimee Isobe; directed by Sunao Katabuchi
* Sex: Prologue (OVA, 2018) – promotional video for the 30th anniversary of manga Sex by Atsushi Kamijo; directed by Sayo Yamamoto[90]
* Kick-Flight Promotional Video; Kick-Flight × KANA-BOON (ONA, 2019) – promotional video for the mobile game Kick-Flight, featuring the song "Flyers" by Kana-Boon; directed by Munehisa Sakai[91]
* Persona 5 Royal (game, 2019) – opening animation for PlayStation 4 video game by Atlus; directed by Yuichiro Hayashi; co-produced by Domerica
* Oretachi Maji-kō Destroy (ONA, 2021) [92]– anime music video
* Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade (game, 2022) – opening animation for mobile game by Sumzap; directed by Takuji Miyamoto
* Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road (game, 2024) – in-game animation for video game by Level-5[93]
* Mechronicle (unknown, TBA) – directed by Shinji Kimura[94][95]
* Seventeen (ONA, 2023) – music video for song Seventeen by Japanese music superduo YOASOBI[96]

### Cancelled projects[edit]

* Dreaming Machine (film) – cancelled film, originally directed by Satoshi Kon and taken over by Yoshimi Itazu after Kon's death; planned co-production with Madhouse[97][98]
* Yuri!!! On Ice: Ice Adolescence (film) – cancelled film to be directed by Sayo Yamamoto and announced in 2017 before being delayed in 2019 and in production hell for several years. The film was cancelled in April 2024.[99]

## Notable staff[edit]

### Representative staff[edit]

* Masao Maruyama (founder, first president (2011~2016), board chairman since 2016)
* Manabu Otsuka (second president since 2016)
* Wataru Kawagoe (MAPPA Sendai representative)
* Makoto Kimura (board member, 2018~2024)[100]
* Hiroya Hasegawa (executive vice president since 2024)[101]
* Yasuteru Iwase (board member since 2024; former animation producer)[101]
* Yuusuke Tannawa (board member since 2024)[101]
* Shuuhei Yabuta (board member since 2024)[101]
* Kousuke Hosokai (board member since 2024)[101]
* Keisuke Seshimo (operating officer since 2024; also animation producer since 2016)[101]
* Eiji Matsuo (chief rights officer since 2024)[101]

### Animation producers[edit]

* Masato Matsunaga (2012~present)
* Masakazu Watanabe (2012~2014; co-founder of Lapin Track)
* Fuuko Noda (2014~2024)
* Takahiro Ogawa (2014~present)
* Koya Okamura (2015~present)
* Katsuhito Masuda (2017~2018)
* Ryota Kitsunai (2023~present)
* Ryo Oikawa (2024~present)
* Yuriko Waki (2024~present)

### Directors[edit]

* Munehisa Sakai (2017~2022)[102]

### Animators[edit]

* Tadashi Hiramatsu [ja] (2018~present)

## See also[edit]

* List of Japanese animation studios
* Grizzly, an animation studio specialized solely on BL titles

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Four special episodes were included in the Blu-ray/DVD release.
2. ^ Two special episodes were included in the Blu-ray/DVD release (volume 2).
3. ^ Two special episodes were included in the Blu-ray/DVD release (volume 3).
4. ^ A recap of the first six episodes was aired on November 17, 2014. Two special "short story" episodes were released on December 28, 2016, and February 20, 2017.[18]
5. ^ A special episode titled Imprint Butterfly was included in the BD/DVD release.
6. ^ a b c d e Chief Unit Director (演出チーフ)
7. ^ A special episode titled Yuri!!! on Ice: Yuri Plisetsky GBF in Barcelona EX "Welcome to the Madness" was included in the BD/DVD release (volume 6).[26]
8. ^ Three special picture drama episodes were included in the BD/DVD release.
9. ^ a b c d Chief Director (総監督)
10. ^ Chief Director (チーフディレクター)
11. ^ Two special episodes were streamed on March 28, 2020, and August 26, 2020.[40][41]
12. ^ Six short bonus episodes were included in the Blu-ray release (volume 2).[44]
13. ^ The season consisted of 28 standard-length episodes followed by two specials, which were later edited into seven additional standard-length episodes.[51]
14. ^

* Part 1[52]
* Part 2[53]
* Part 3[54]
* Part 4[55]

15. ^ An extended version of In This Corner of the World featuring about 30 minutes of additional footage for a total duration of 168 minutes. It surpassed the extended 70mm cut of Final Yamato by five minutes to become the longest animated film to date.
16. ^ Part of the Chinese Anthology TAISU project.

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* Kids on the Slope (2012)
* Teekyu 1–3 (2012–2013)
* Hajime no Ippo: Rising (2013–2014)
* Terror in Resonance (2014)
* Garo: The Carved Seal of Flames (2014–2015)
* Rage of Bahamut: Genesis (2014)
* Punch Line (2015)
* Ushio & Tora (2015–2016)
* Garo: Crimson Moon (2015–2016)
* Days (2016)
* Yuri on Ice (2016)
* Idol Incidents (2017)
* Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul (2017)
* Kakegurui (2017)
* Altair: A Record of Battles (2017)
* Garo: Vanishing Line (2017–2018)
* Inuyashiki (2017)
* Banana Fish (2018)
* Zombie Land Saga (2018)
* Dororo (2019)
* Kakegurui ×× (2019)
* Sarazanmai (2019)
* To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (2019)
* Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 (2019)
* Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama? (2020)
* Dorohedoro (2020)
* Listeners (2020)
* The God of High School (2020)
* Mr Love: Queen's Choice (2020)
* Jujutsu Kaisen (2020–present)
* The Gymnastics Samurai (2020)
* Attack on Titan: The Final Season (2020–2023)
* Zombie Land Saga Revenge (2021)
* Re-Main (2021)
* The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace (2021)
* Takt Op. Destiny (2021)
* Dance Dance Danseur (2022)
* Chainsaw Man (2022)
* Vinland Saga (season 2) (2023)
* Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (2023)
* Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (2023)
* Bucchigiri?! (2024)
* Oblivion Battery (2024)
* Lazarus (TBA)
* Zenshu (TBA)

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* Garo: Divine Flame (2016)
* In This Corner of the World (2016)
* Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
* Maboroshi (2023)
* Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (TBA)
* Zombie Land Saga the Movie (TBA)

ONAs|

* Oblivion Battery (2020)
* Yasuke (2021)
* Kakegurui Twin (2022)

OVAs|

* Days (2017–2018)

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* Lily Hoshikawa
* Oretachi Maji-kō Destroy (2021)

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Defunct|

* A.P.P.P.
* Arms
* Artmic
* Bandai Visual
* Group TAC
* Hal Film Maker
* J2 Communications
* Kitayama Eiga Seisakujo
* Kitty Films (Mitaka Studio)
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* Palm Studio
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