When one of the iconic companies in the world of anime offers compliments to a different work, it often makes many fans think. Especially if it’s Studio Ghibli.
It came as a surprise that the award-winning animation studio congratulated the Chainsaw Man manga, one of the stellar works of Shueisha’s recent Dark Age Weekly Shonen Jump. In a congratulation presented in response to a compliment to Ghibli’s latest production, Aja to Majo.
This came from the Twitter account of Koharu Nagayama, who claims and claims to be the sister of Tatsuki Fujimoto, the mangaka behind Chainsaw Man. This account usually features pieces from the Jump manga and related information and trivia, creating the legend. that it is an alias of Fujimoto for the social network.
It is with a token of appreciation to Aja to Majo that the courtesy of Hayao Miyazaki’s home studio was made for Fujimoto’s manga, considering that its long-awaited adaptation to the anime world has not been released.
Mappa seeks support
With the expectations of the fandom in the stratosphere, the prominent Mappa studio is the one who takes the reins of the anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man.
With an extraordinary journey in recent years thanks to outstanding productions such as Dorohedoro, Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season or recently with Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi, this animation house seeks to expand the edges of what we know within the world of anime.
But they recently stated that they need support, starting a talent search program to work directly with the development of Chainsaw Man. Being a work that shares the highest stage with pieces like Jujutsu Kaisen in the best-selling manga magazine, they cannot be give the luxury of failure.