Wit Studio

Template:Nihongo, stylized as WIT Studio, is a Japanese animation studio founded on June 1, 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), 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 Template:JPY 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.

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

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.

Works

Television series

Year	Title	Network	Director(s)	Animation producer(s)	Source	Eps.	Refs.
2013–2019	Attack on Titan (seasons 1-3)	Template:Plainlist	Tetsurō ArakiTemplate:Efn Masashi Koizuka	Tetsuya Nakatake	Manga	59
2014–2015	Hozuki's Coolheadedness	Template:Plainlist	Hiro Kaburaki	Tetsuya Nakatake	Manga	13
2015	The Rolling Girls	MBS	Kotomi Deai	Tetsuya Nakatake	Original work	12
	Seraph of the End	Tokyo MX	Daisuke Tokudo	Tetsuya Nakatake	Manga	24
2016	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress	Fuji TV	Tetsurō Araki	Maiko Okada	Original work	12
2017–2018	The Ancient Magus' Bride (season 1)	AT-X	Norihiro Naganuma	Hiroya Hasegawa	Manga	24
2018	After the Rain	Fuji TV	Ayumu Watanabe	Maiko Okada	Manga	12
2019–2020	Kedama no Gonjirō (co-animated with OLM and Signal.MD)	TV Tokyo	Kenshirō Morii	Shou Ootani Hiroshi Utsumi Takatoshi Chino		52
2019	Vinland Saga (season 1)	NHK G	Shuhei Yabuta	Hiroya Hasegawa	Manga	24
2020–2021	GaruGaku: Saint Girls Square Academy (co-animated with OLM)	TV Tokyo	Hiroaki AkagiTemplate:Efn Norihito Takahashi	Hiroyuki Katou	Original work	50
2021	Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song	Tokyo MX	Shinpei Ezaki	Shou Ootani	Original work	13
2021–2022	Ranking of Kings	Fuji TV	Yōsuke Hatta Makoto FuchigamiTemplate:Efn	Maiko Okada	Manga	23
2022–2023	Spy × Family (co-animated with CloverWorks)	TV Tokyo	Kazuhiro Furuhashi Takahiro HaradaTemplate:Efn	Kazue Hayashi Kazuki Yamanaka Taito Itou	Manga	37
2022	Onipan!	TV Tokyo	Masahiko Ohta	Shouyou Shishido	Original work	12
2023	Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage	Fuji TV	Yōsuke Hatta Makoto FuchigamiTemplate:Efn	Maiko Okada	Manga	10
	Kizuna no Allele (co-animated with Signal.MD)	TV Tokyo	Kenichiro Komaya	Shou Ootani Takatoshi Chino Keita Yoshinobu	Virtual YouTuber Kizuna AI	24
2024	My Deer Friend Nokotan	Tokyo MX, BS NTV	Masahiko Ohta	Shou Ootani Daisuke Nishioka Lu Xingcheng	Manga	12
	Suicide Squad Isekai	Tokyo MX (Japan)	Eri Osada	Shou Ootani	DC Comics characters	10
2025	Yaiba: Samurai Legend	YTV, Nippon TV	Takahiro Hasui	Maiko Okada	Manga	Template:TableTBA
2026	Ascendance of a Bookworm (season 4)	Template:TableTBA	Template:TableTBA	Template:TableTBA	Light novel	Template:TableTBA

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 ArakiTemplate:Efn 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 ArakiTemplate:Efn 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	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	Template:Small 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
	Pokémon: Hisuian Snow	Ken Yamamoto	Shou Ootani	Video game	3
2023	Colors	Tetsurō Araki	Kazuki Yamanaka	Toho Animation Music Films Project	1
	Pokémon: Paldean Winds	Ryohei Takeshita	Kazuki Yamanaka	Video games	4
2024	Great Pretender: Razbliuto	Hiro Kaburagi	Maiko Okada	Original work	4
	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
2025	Moonrise	Masashi Koizuka	Ryouma Kawamura	Original Work	TBA
	The One Piece	Masashi Koizuka	Ryouma Kawamura	Manga; remake of One Piece	TBA

Video games

Year	Title	Publisher	Format	Notes
2017	Tales of the Rays	Bandai Namco	Mobile game	Opening animation and cutscenes
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
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
	"This World to You"	Eve	Nobutaka Yoda
2020	"Blue: Line Step Brush"	Under Graph	Kengo Saitō
	"Sakugasaku"	Uchikubi Gokumon Dōkōkai	Kyōji Asano
2024	"Go-Getters"	Mori Calliope	Takashi Horiuchi
	"Allegro"	Midnight Grand Orchestra	Yuki Kamiya

Notable staff

Representative staff

• George Wada (founder and president)
• Template:Ill (founder and director)

Animation producers

• Shou Ootani (2013–present)
• Kazuki Yamanaka (2013–present)
• Shouyou Shishido (2013–present)
• Kenta Yamada (2015–present; Ibaraki)
• Template:Ill (2015–present)
• 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)

Animation department

• Template:Ill (2013–present)
• Template:Ill (2013–present)
• Template:Ill (2022–present)

External links

• Template:Official website Template:In lang
• Template:Ann