Animeta! - Recommendations

• Vol: 7; Ch: 39
• 2014 - 2018

It’s two months into Ranmaru’s college career, and if he’s learned one thing, it’s that he’s really uncomfortable around other people. But when he stumbles into a zombie mob attack, he’s forced out of his comfort zone in the most dramatic way possible! Of course it’s just a movie shoot, but when he wakes up from his ignoble faint, he’s been whisked away behind the scenes with the Art Squad! Could this group of weirdoes be what Ranmaru’s been looking for all his life?!

• Vol: 7; Ch: 42
• 2004 - 2007

Ichino Fukuyama and her fraternal twin brother Nita are animators! Once they graduated from high school, they followed their dreams to Tokyo and joined the Memochi Pro anime company! They refused to let the warnings of their parents and friends keep them from accomplishing their goals. However, it turns out that being an animator is actually a difficult dream to accomplish, with lots of job pressure, deadlines, low-pay, and no job security. On top of that, Ichino discovers that many of the other female workers don't even like to watch anime, and are embarrassed to be caught even talking about it. Ichino and Nita continue to give it their all, and stretch their meager paychecks as far as possible, all to accomplish their dreams of becoming successful animators!

• Ch: 2
• 2017

• Vol: 3; Ch: 26
• 2015 - 2016

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2012 - 2014

Japanese animation—the globally acclaimed, family-friendly theatrical features are the exception rather than the rule for a TV-oriented industry that has been pushed into late-night slots in an era of fragmented audiences. When only three titles among fifty might turn a profit, topping the charts is hardly an overambitious aim. Yet as three women, a producer, a director, and an animator, survive in a business infamous for its murderous schedules, demoralizing compromises, and incorrigible men, moments of uplift emerge against all odds—and how. 

• Vol: 2; Ch: 17
• 2017 - 2021

Kaede Hashimoto is a young woman who wins the rookie screenwriter prize with her debut work on a smash-hit theatrical anime film. Kaede moves to Tokyo to pursue her dreams, but the reality of making a living as a screenwriter is much harsher than she anticipated. She finds more work doing part-time jobs than writing, but her luck begins to change when she gets a very important phone call...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2015

Okiguchi Hiroyuki is an animator who is doing something he truly enjoys - drawing key animation frames for animes. Then right before the deadline for another set of key frames, a new blonde-bomb-shell production assistant comes to pick up his work. But is that all she intends to take from our protagonist?

• Vol: 1
• 1989 - 1992

This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka—Japan's "God of Manga"—looks at one of the twentieth century's great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecdotal study of the evolution of Japan's early manga and anime business and its heroes. A never-before-seen popular culture history of postwar Japan, it is sure to fascinate fans and anyone interested in manga, anime, and the potential of the graphic storytelling medium.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 20
• 2017 - 2019

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2019

Tells the story of how Osamu Tezuka and a team of "reckless young people" took on the challenge of producing the first weekly television anime. Tezuka himself helmed the production of the 1963 Astro-Boy anime at his Mushi Production studio, and it became Japan's first half-hour animated series. The show pioneered animation techniques and production methods that gave rise to the earliest aesthetics and styles of television anime.