Oct 26, 2019 23:40:00

Talk event report from TRIGGER's Kazuya Enomoto producer who listened to the secret story of the movie “Promere”

The movie “

Promere ”, which was released on Friday, May 24, 2019, has a box office revenue of over 1.2 billion yen and is a huge hit with a completely original theatrical animation. TRIGGER's Kazuya Enomoto, the animation producer of “Promere”, gave a lecture on “Making” and “Manufacturing” of animation at the “Digital Creator Seminar” of Machi Asobi vol.23 .

Machi ★ Asobi
http://www.machiasobi.com/events/arekore.html

I will hold a seminar at Machiasobi this weekend.
26th 14:30-Large meeting room on the 4th floor of Awagin Hall.
・ About the scenes of anime ・ About schedule ・ About production costs ・ About digital drawing ・ Difference between TV works and theater works ・ Overseas evaluation ・ Changes in the last 20 years, etc. https://t.co/b2VpVoLR0q
— Kazuya Enomoto (@ kenji2413) October 24, 2019

TRIGGER's Kazuya Enomoto was the instructor at the digital creator seminar held at Machi Asobi vol.23.

Mr. Enomoto is a veteran who has been involved in the production of many anime works.

TRIGGER is involved in the production of the TV anime “

SSSS.GRIDMAN ” aired in 2018 and the movie “Promea” released in May 2019. MC, voice actor Kaede Yuasa, once had experience in shooting at an animation production company. In SSSS.GRIDMAN, I played the role of Saki Mikami.

Mr. Enomoto first asked the audience, 'A person who thinks it is ant to use an entertainer as an anime voice actor.' As a result, about half of them raised their hands.

Mr. Enomoto, who says that the biggest point is the “actor” as the opportunity for the audience to go to the theater, has decided to appoint five entertainers for the promere. In the recording site where Kenichi Matsuyama, the main character, Galo, and Taichi Saotome , who plays Rio, gathered, Masato Tsuji, who served as Clay, was the strongest impression.

When meeting Awkward ( Hail ) Mr. Tsuji who was showing a personality, but when the recording actually started, he performed a tremendous monster performance. The voice actor of the animation whose voice is the life is said that there are many people who moderate to some extent so as not to hurt the throat when acting, Mr. Tsuji is doing everything possible to see the color of fatigue during recording It seems that he was challenging. It was said that the design of the character was changed in such a way that it was influenced by Mr. Tsuji's performance.

Shigeru Koyama, who was in charge of character design, talked about the changes in design following the performance of Tsuji in a stage greeting.

The movie `` Promea '' stage greeting report that told Masato Tsuji, `` It was such a crazy animation ''-GIGAZINE

As a producer, schedule management is the biggest problem for Mr. Enomoto who leads the production of anime. Not only TRIGGER, but the situation that there is no room in the schedule of animation production has become normal for many years. Mr. Yuasa, who has experience in production, seems to think that the scene is now difficult when the recording movie is a line drawing that is not yet colored.

The reason why the animation production schedule becomes tight is that the animators do not just do the work, but work as professionals with a commitment. Anime usually involves 200 to 300 animators, even in a 30-minute video, and is very finely divided in the form of division of labor. In addition, the individual work that was divided is not proceeding in parallel, but it is done by batoning from the upstream process to the next process, so it is said that a little delay will spread to the whole .

In addition, it is said that many of the producers of anime are supremacy of quality, and this will spur this trend. However, it seems that there is an aspect that good animation is produced because all the people who are involved in the production work with a commitment.

And when talking about the work of a producer, the story of production costs is indispensable. According to Mr. Enomoto, general animation costs 15 to 20 million yen even with 30 minutes per episode, and about 200 million yen for one

course . Variety programs are expensive at 10 million yen per line, so you can see how much money is required to make anime.

However, it is said that 15 million yen per story is actually a rather short amount, Mr. Enomoto calculated 'the ideal amount that everyone can be happy', and it is said that 50 million yen per story is required It seems to have resulted. Moreover, since this is an amount equivalent to the “cost” in terms of industrial products, if advertising expenses and profits are further calculated, 2 billion yen will be required for one cool TV animation. If ten times the current amount is required, it is very difficult to secure an ideal production cost by the conventional method.

In the current situation that DVD and Blu-ray sales are said to be halved compared to 10 years ago, Mr. Enomoto is focusing on “export to overseas” and “distribution business” . Overseas distribution services such as Amazon's Prime Video and Netflix have grown rapidly in recent years, and they are also paying attention to Japanese animation, and the distribution business is already becoming one of the major pillars of revenue ... apparently ...

In Japan, where the birthrate is declining and the population is aging, the income industry is declining everywhere, and only the animation industry has managed to remain flat, making it an easy environment for investment by social game makers. It seems to be going. Against this background, TRIGGER and Mr. Enomoto will continue to take on further challenges.

Mr. Enomoto and others TRIGGER is working on the original new animation “

BNA BNA ”. Keep an eye on TRIGGER, which will continue to make animation with quality supremacy, including new works that are being worked on at the production site.