Wit Studio

Wit Studio, Inc.
Native name
株式会社ウィットスタジオ
Kabushiki-gaisha Witto Sutajio
Company typeKabushiki gaisha
IndustryJapanese animation
Founded1 June 2012 (2012-06-01)[1]
Founders
HeadquartersNakacho,
Musashino, Tokyo
,
Japan[1]
Key people
  • George Wada[a]
  • Tetsuya Nakatake[b]
  • Kyoji Asano[c]
Number of employees
311 (as of May 2025)[2]
ParentIG Port
Divisions
  • Kichijōji Studio[d]
  • Ibaraki Studio[e]
  • Toruku Studio[f]
Websitewitstudio.co.jp

Wit Studio, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社ウィットスタジオ, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Witto Sutajio), stylized as WIT Studio, is a Japanese animation studio founded on 1 June 2012, by producers at Production I.G as a subsidiary of IG Port. It is headquartered in Musashino, Tokyo, with Production I.G producer George Wada as president and Tetsuya Nakatake, also a producer at Production I.G, as a director of the studio. The studio gained notability for producing Attack on Titan (the first three seasons),[1] Great Pretender, Ranking of Kings, Spy × Family, My Deer Friend Nokotan, and the first seasons of The Ancient Magus' Bride and Vinland Saga.

History

The studio was founded by George Wada, a former employee of Production I.G, in 2012. After its founding, Tetsuya Nakatake was placed as the representative director of the studio. Several other former Production I.G staff members joined Wit after its founding, including animation directors Kyōji Asano and Satoshi Kadowaki, and director Tetsurō Araki, all of whom worked together on Attack on Titan.

Wit Studio was funded with an initial investment of ¥30,000,000 in capital from IG Port, Wada and Nakatake, who are reported to own 66.6%, 21.6% and 10.0% equity in the studio respectively.[3][4]

In December 2020, Wit Studio established a stop motion studio in partnership with Pui Pui Molcar director Tomoki Misato.[5]

In May 2022, Wit Studio in partnership with Aniplex, CloverWorks and Shueisha formed a new company called JOEN. The company's objective is to facilitate the planning and production of television anime series, anime films, and short clips.[6]

Works

Television series

Year Title Director(s) Animation producer(s) Source Eps. Refs.
2013–2019 Attack on Titan (seasons 1–3) Tetsurō Araki[g]
Masashi Koizuka 		Tetsuya Nakatake Manga 59 [7]
2014–2015 Hozuki's Coolheadedness Hiro Kaburaki Tetsuya Nakatake Manga 13
2015 The Rolling Girls Kotomi Deai Tetsuya Nakatake Original work 12
Seraph of the End Daisuke Tokudo Tetsuya Nakatake Manga 24
2016 Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Tetsurō Araki Maiko Okada Original work 12
2017–2018 The Ancient Magus' Bride (season 1) Norihiro Naganuma Hiroya Hasegawa Manga 24
2018 After the Rain Ayumu Watanabe Maiko Okada Manga 12
2019–2020 Kedama no Gonjirō
(co-animated with OLM and Signal.MD) 		Kenshirō Morii Shou Ootani
Hiroshi Utsumi
Takatoshi Chino 		52
2019 Vinland Saga (season 1) Shuhei Yabuta Hiroya Hasegawa Manga 24
2020–2021 GaruGaku: Saint Girls Square Academy
(co-animated with OLM) 		Hiroaki Akagi[h]
Norihito Takahashi 		Hiroyuki Katou Original work 50
2021 Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song Shinpei Ezaki Shou Ootani Original work 13
2021–2022 Ranking of Kings Yōsuke Hatta
Makoto Fuchigami[i] 		Maiko Okada Manga 23
2022– Spy × Family (co-animated with CloverWorks) Kazuhiro Furuhashi[j]
Takahiro Harada[k]
Yukiko Imai[l] 		Kazue Hayashi
Kazuki Yamanaka
Taito Itou 		Manga 50 [8]
2022 Onipan! Masahiko Ohta Shouyou Shishido Original work 12 [9]
2023 Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage Yōsuke Hatta
Makoto Fuchigami[i] 		Maiko Okada Manga 10 [10]
Kizuna no Allele (co-animated with Signal.MD) Kenichiro Komaya Shou Ootani
Takatoshi Chino
Keita Yoshinobu 		Virtual YouTuber
Kizuna AI 		24 [11]
2024 My Deer Friend Nokotan Masahiko Ohta Shou Ootani
Daisuke Nishioka
Lu Xingcheng
Kazuaki Mochikawa[m] 		Manga 12 [12]
Suicide Squad Isekai Eri Osada Shou Ootani DC Comics characters 10 [13]
2025– Yaiba: Samurai Legend Takahiro Hasui Maiko Okada Manga TBA [14]
2026 Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke Yoshiaki Iwasaki Keita Yoshinobu Light novel TBA [15]
Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring Ken Yamamoto Shou Ootani
Line producer:
Keisuke Satou 		Light novel TBA [16]

Films

Year Title Director(s) Animation producer(s) Source Refs.
2013 Hal Ryōtarō Makihara Tetsuya Nakatake Original work
2014–2015 Attack on Titan – Part 1: Crimson Bow and Arrow
Attack on Titan – Part 2: Wings of Freedom 		Tetsurō Araki Tetsuya Nakatake Manga
2015 The Empire of Corpses Ryōtarō Makihara Tetsuya Nakatake
Maiko Okada 		Novel series
2016–2017 Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – Part 1: Gathering Light
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – Part 2: Burning Life 		Tetsurō Araki Maiko Okada Original work
2017–2018 Laughing Under the Clouds Gaiden (3 films) Tetsuya Wakano Shou Ootani
Norio Yoshida 		Manga
2018 Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening Tetsurō Araki[h]
Masashi Koizuka 		Tetsuya Nakatake Manga
Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us (co-animated with OLM) Tetsuo Yajima George Wada
Hiroyuki Katou 		Video game
2019 Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Unato Decisive Battle Tetsurō Araki Kazue Hayashi Original work
2020 Attack on Titan: Chronicle Tetsurō Araki[h]
Masashi Koizuka 		Tetsuya Nakatake Manga
2022 Bubble Tetsurō Araki Kazue Hayashi
Kazuki Yamanaka 		Original work
2023 Spy × Family Code: White (co-animated with CloverWorks) Takashi Katagiri Kazue Hayashi
Kazuki Yamanaka
Taito Itō 		Manga

OVAs

Year Title Director(s) Animation producer(s) Source Eps. Refs.
2013–2014 Attack on Titan Tetsurō Araki Tetsuya Nakatake Manga 3
2014–2015 Attack on Titan: No Regrets Tetsurō Araki Tetsuya Nakatake Visual novel/manga 2
2016 Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins Kyoji Asano Tetsuya Nakatake Video game 1
2016–2017 The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star Norihiro Naganuma Hiroya Hasegawa Manga 3
2017–2018 Attack on Titan: Lost Girls Masashi Koizuka Tetsuya Nakatake Novel 3
2019–2022 The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Yūtarō Kubo
Satomi Maiya 		Line producer:
Kenta Yamada 		Manga 2

ONAs

Year Title Director(s) Animation producer(s) Source Eps. Refs.
2020 Great Pretender Hiro Kaburagi Maiko Okada Original work 23
2021–2022 The Missing 8 Naoki Yoshibe Tetsuya Nakatake
Shou Ootani 		Music videos 8
2022 Vampire in the Garden Ryōtarō Makihara Shouyou Shishido Original work 5 [17]
Pokémon: Hisuian Snow Ken Yamamoto Shou Ootani Video game 3 [18]
2023 Colors Tetsurō Araki Kazuki Yamanaka Toho Animation Music
Films Project 		1 [19]
Pokémon: Paldean Winds Ryohei Takeshita Kazuki Yamanaka Video games 4 [20]
2024 Great Pretender: Razbliuto Hiro Kaburagi Maiko Okada Original work 4 [21]
The Grimm Variations Yōko Kanamori
Yasuhiro Akamatsu
Jun'ichirō Hashiguchi
Yumi Kamamura
Masato Takeuchi
Shintarou Nakazawa 		Tetsuya Nakatake
Genta Ninomiya
Keiko Matsushita 		Brothers Grimm
fairy tales 		6 [22]
2025 Moonrise Masashi Koizuka Ryouma Kawamura Original work 18 [23]
My Melody & Kuromi Tomoki Misato Kenta Yamada Sanrio characters 12 [24]
Star Wars: Visions Junichi Yamamoto Ryouma Kawamura
2026 Love Through a Prism Kazuto Nakazawa
Tetsuya Takahashi
Saki Fujii 		Keita Yoshinobu Original work 20 [25]
TBA The One Piece Masashi Koizuka Ryouma Kawamura Manga; remake of One Piece anime TBA [26]
TBA Candy Caries Tomoki Misato Kenta Yamada Anime; television adaptation of 2021 stop-motion video TBA [27]

Video games

Year Title Publisher Format Notes
2017 Tales of the Rays Bandai Namco Mobile game Opening animation and cutscenes[28]
2018 Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri -Ran- Hajimaru Michiato DMM Games Mobile game Opening animation
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Arc System Works Console game Opening animation
Princess Connect! Re:Dive Cygames Mobile game Opening animation and cutscenes[29]
2024 Persona 3 Reload Sega Console game Opening animation and 2D cutscenes

Music videos

Year Title Artist Director Notes
2019 "We're Still Underground" Eve Nobutaka Yoda [30]
"This World to You" Eve Nobutaka Yoda [31]
2020 "Blue: Line Step Brush" Under Graph Kengo Saitō [32]
"Sakugasaku" Uchikubi Gokumon Dōkōkai Kyōji Asano [33]
2024 "Go-Getters" Mori Calliope Takashi Horiuchi [34]
"Allegro" Midnight Grand Orchestra Yuki Kamiya [35]

Notable staff

Representative staff

  • George Wada (founder and president)
  • Tetsuya Nakatake (founder and director)

Animation producers

  • Shou Ootani (2013–present)
  • Kazuki Yamanaka (2013–present)
  • Shouyou Shishido (2013–present)
  • Kenta Yamada (2015–present; Ibaraki)
  • Maiko Okada (2015–2025)
  • Hiroya Hasegawa (2016–2019)
  • Keita Yoshinobu (2018–present)
  • Ryouma Kawamura (2018–present)
  • Kazue Hayashi (2019–present)
  • Genta Ninomiya (2017–present)
  • Keisuke Satou (2018–present)
  • Daisuke Nishioka (2017–present)
  • Daiya Shiraishi (2019–present)
  • Kazuaki Mochikawa (2018–present)
  • Kiyoshi Kumada (2025–present)

Animation department

  • Kyoji Asano (2013–present)
  • Hirotaka Katou (2013–present)
  • Yoshimichi Kameda (2022–2025)

Notes

  1. ^ Co-founder, President, and CEO
  2. ^ Co-founder, Board Director
  3. ^ Board Director
  4. ^ WIT Kichijōji Studio (WIT吉祥寺スタジオ), the studio's Kichijōji branch located in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo.
  5. ^ WIT Ibaraki Studio (WIT茨城スタジオ), the studio's Ibaraki branch located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
  6. ^ TORUKU, a stop-motion studio established in 2020 with director Tomoki Misato.
  7. ^ Chief Director (総監督) for episodes 26–59.
  8. ^ a b c Chief Director (総監督)
  9. ^ a b Chief Episode Director (チーフ演出)
  10. ^ Seasons 1 & 2
  11. ^ Season 2
  12. ^ Season 3
  13. ^ Ep. 12

References

  1. ^ a b c "WIT STUDIO Company" (in Japanese). WIT STUDIO. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. ^ "株式会社ウィットスタジオ".
  3. ^ Ransom, Ko (20 April 2012). "IG Port Founds New Animation Planning and Production Subsidiary". Anime News Network. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  4. ^ "IGポート アニメ企画・制作子会社設立 「戦国BASARA」などのプロデューサー役員に" [IG Port Establishes New Animation Planning and Production Subsidiary Headed By Sengoku Basara Anime Producer]. animeanime.biz (in Japanese). 20 April 2012. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  5. ^ Mateo, Alex (24 March 2021). "Wit Studio Establishes Stop-Motion Studio With Pui Pui Molcar Director". Anime News Network. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  6. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (30 May 2022). "CloverWorks, Wit Studio, Aniplex, Shueisha Jointly Establish New JOEN Anime Company". Anime News Network. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  7. ^ "進撃！巨人中学校×進撃の巨人"進撃祭"Reading & Live Event イベントレポート" [Attack on Titan Junior High x Attack on Titan "Adventure Festival" Reading & Live Event Report]. shingeki.tv (in Japanese). 4 July 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  8. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (31 October 2021). "Spy×Family Domestic Spy Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime in 2022". Anime News Network. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  9. ^ Loo, Egan (3 February 2022). "Yuruyuri's Masahiko Ohta Directs WIT Studio's Original TV Anime Onipan! for April 2022". Anime News Network. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  10. ^ 「王様ランキング 勇気の宝箱」2023年4月に放送決定、キービジュ＆ティザーPV公開. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. 4 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  11. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2 December 2022). "Kizuna Ai's Kizuna no Allele Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, Visuals, 1st Promo Video". Anime News Network. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  12. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (13 March 2024). "Wit Studio Unveils TV Anime of My Deer Friend Nokotan Manga for July". Anime News Network. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  13. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (1 December 2023). "Suicide Squad Isekai Anime Reveals Main Cast in New Trailer". Anime News Network. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  14. ^ Loo, Egan (23 November 2024). "New Yaiba Anime's 2nd Teaser Unveils More Cast, April 2025 Premiere". Anime News Network. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
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  16. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (22 December 2025). "Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring Anime Reveals Winter Visual, Composer, Spring 2026 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  17. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (26 March 2022). "Netflix's Vampire in the Garden Anime Unveils New Trailer, May 16 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  18. ^ Mateo, Alex (26 April 2022). "Wit Studio's Pokémon: Hisuian Snow Web Animated Series Premieres on May 18". Anime News Network. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  19. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (9 March 2023). "TOHO animation Music Films Project's Trailer Reveals March 20 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  20. ^ 『ポケットモンスター スカーレット・バイオレット』を題材としたオリジナルWEBアニメ『放課後のブレス』発表。2023年9月6日にYoutubeにて配信. DenFaminicoGamer (in Japanese). 8 August 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  21. ^ 「GREAT PRETENDER」続編が2024に全世界展開、ドロシー登場のビジュアルとPVも ["GREAT PRETENDER" sequel will be released worldwide in 2024, visuals and PV featuring Dorothy have also been released]. Natalie (in Japanese). 17 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  22. ^ Mateo, Alex (20 March 2024). "Netflix Streams The Grimm Variations Anime on April 17". Anime News Network. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  23. ^ Peters, Megan (8 June 2022). "Netflix's Moonrise Releases First Poster". ComicBook.com. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  24. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (9 January 2025). "Sanrio's My Melody, Kuromi Characters Get Netflix Stop-Motion Anime in July". Anime News Network. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  25. ^ Anita, Tai (27 November 2025). "Boys Over Flowers' Yoko Kamio, WIT Studio Make Love Through a Prism Anime for Netflix". Anime News Network. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  26. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (10 August 2024). "The One Piece Anime Series Remake Reveals Main Staff". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  27. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (8 January 2026). "Pui Pui Molcar Director Tomoki Misato, WIT Studio Reveal Candy Caries Original Stop-Motion TV Anime, April Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  28. ^ "テイルズオブザレイズ -Tales of the Rays- Official Website" (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  29. ^ Pier (22 February 2018). "Friendship is Magic in Princess Connect! Re:Dive for iOS and Android". Play-Asia. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  30. ^ E ve (24 January 2019). "We're Still Underground – Eve MV". YouTube. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  31. ^ E ve (20 April 2019). "This World to You – Eve MV". YouTube. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  32. ^ amgchannel (13 February 2020). "【MV full】『BLUE – l i n e・s t e p・b r u s h -』 / ＡＭＧオリジナルアニメーション" [[MV Full] "Blue: Line Step Brush" / AMG Original Animation]. YouTube. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  33. ^ 打首獄門同好会 (11 September 2020). "打首獄門同好会「サクガサク」" [Uchikubi Gokumon Dōkōkai "Sakugasaku"]. YouTube. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  34. ^ Mori Calliope (6 September 2024). "【MV】Go-Getters – Mori Calliope (Ending Theme of Suicide Squad: ISEKAI)". YouTube. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  35. ^ Midnight Grand Orchestra (9 September 2024). "Midnight Grand Orchestra [Allegro] Music Video". YouTube. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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