Studio Bones has consistently been one of the best studios. They've made a lot of animes throughout
their time, it would take forever for me to mention them all, but some of the best ones
they've made include My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. With such
impressive diversity, they have left their mark on the industry. From what started from three
Sunrise staff members, they've expanded into 80 employees divided into five separate studios.
Join me in this video as we will be going over the consistent rise behind studio bones.
Anyways, Bones was founded by three Sunrise staff members in October 1998. CEO Masahiko Minami,
current president Toshihiro Kawamoto and Hiroshi Osaka together founded the company.
A handful of former Sunrise employees also joined Bones early on. The goal was to try
new things and make a place where they could work freely on a grander scale.
How would you feel if many of your employees left the company in order to create a rivaling
studio? Well, Studio Sunrise had no hard feelings. They even collaborated with Bones
to produce one of their first ever projects in 2001 known as Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Originally announced a year after the creation of the studio.
The massive success of the original anime series left the fans wanting more.
The film incorporated as much of the series as possible while making it accessible to newcomers.
After releasing on September 1, 2001, it quickly made over $3 million dollars worldwide.
They underestimated the impact of the film and the profit helped Bones to develop their
own anime original and create two more studios known as “Studio B” and “Studio C”. Let’s fast
forward a few years later to 2003. Where Bones Studio C would release Fullmetal Alchemist.
During production, the creator of the original manga, Hiromu Arakawa, requested for an anime
original ending. This led to the series deviating into an original storyline halfway through.
The manga was still ongoing at this time and Arakawa did not want to repeat the same ending
in both media, and wanted to continue writing the manga to develop the characters at her own pace.
However, on September 24, 2007, the studio suffered the loss of co-founder Hiroshi Osaka. His
health had deteriorated and he spent his remaining days in his hometown where he had been staying
at his family residence. He had been battling with cancer and passed away at the age of 44.
Since his passing, two new additions have been made to the studio's board of directors.
In 2009, the studio revisited Fullmetal Alchemist
producing a brand new adaptation fully faithful towards the manga.
While the manga concluded in July 2010, this new adaptation titled Fullmetal Alchemist:
Brotherhood, aired the finale only a month later. Production had already begun two
years prior thanks to the brand new Studio D, which greatly helped with their first project.
By this time they have four separate studios.
If you have seen their catalogue then you’ll see a variety of genres. They have two departments:
animation and photography. The studios that have been divided focus on their
own unique individual projects, but it’s not uncommon to see them working together.
During 2014 and 2015, they animated two seasons of Noragami and personally this was the first
anime I watched from them. Still waiting on season 3 though, but it seems like it’s not gonna happen.
A year later in 2016, it was possibly their best year so far as they released three major animes.
My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho and Bungo Stray Dogs. Studio C is currently devoted to My Hero Academia.
They're going to keep releasing more seasons while trying to improve the quality.
We really see how the studio can take the story to a whole new level with Mob Psycho.
Every scene is beautiful to look at and the fights are perfect.
Now we're in the present, 2022. They continued releasing more
seasons to the three projects we mentioned before:
My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho and Bungo Stray Dogs. Although I should also mention SK8 the Infinity,
a completely original project animated by Studio D. Season 3 of Mob will be coming soon,
along with My Hero Season 6 and Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4. No release date has been announced yet.
Some interesting things about the studio include that they have an animator training
program which is inhouse. Not only that, but they select what projects that want to work on.
They know what they want to do and they do it well. They love everything they create.
Anyways, this has been the full story so far behind Studio Bones. I know it's a short video,
but I hope you guys enjoyed it and thank you for 4 subscribers
and 600 total views, that's about it, see ya.