For Attack on Titan The Final Season, which begins in the fall of 2020, MAPPA will be in charge of animation instead of WIT STUDIO, which had been in charge of animation until now. This means that a different company will be producing the animation, and naturally, with a change in production company, it is expected that this season will incorporate animation expressions that are different from previous Attack on Titan seasons. In this article, we will look into what kind of company MAPPA is, what kind of works they have been involved in, and consider how Attack on Titan The Final Season will evolve from the previous season.
Who created MAPPA in the first place?
MAPPA is an animation production company founded by Masao Maruyama in June 2011. Masao Maruyama has always been a driving force in the long history of Japanese animation, such as working with Osamu Tezuka at Mushi Productions, the birthplace of television animation, and is truly a famous producer that the Japanese animation world is proud of. In April 2016, founding member Manabu Otsuka became the second president, and Maruyama became chairman. MAPPA has continued to grow even after Maruyama retired from the front line, such as by establishing a studio in Sendai City in 2018.
3 works that MAPPA has been involved in that you should definitely check out
So, I would like to introduce three highly acclaimed animation works produced by MAPPA that you should definitely watch before watching "Attack on Titan The Final Season"! !
In This Corner of the World
Among the animation works produced by MAPPA, "In This Corner of the World" is arguably the most highly acclaimed. This work, released in 2016, won countless awards, including the 90th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Japanese Films, the 40th Japan Academy Prize Animation Award, and the 41st Annecy International Animation Award. It depicts the everyday life of wartime, but an enormous amount of detail is required to express that feeling, and the high level of MAPPA's work, which has been completed with great detail and enormous effort, is evident.
Kakegurui
This is an anime that aired in 2017. Although the work is based on gambling, it is characterized by a vivid and sometimes insane depiction of the real human bargaining that always keeps the viewer's eyes glued to it, making it a very complete gambling work. This is also a work that shows the high level of MAPPA.
Dororo
This is an animation work based on Tezuka Osamu's Dororo, which aired in 2019. MAPPA was founded by Maruyama Masao, who originally worked with the original author Tezuka Osamu at Mushi Productions, so it's a work that is truly worthy of MAPPA. This is a joint production between Tezuka Productions and MAPPA.
This is what makes MAPPA so great!
Here, I would like to introduce how MAPPA is different from other animation production companies and what makes it superior. As mentioned earlier, the most highly acclaimed animation produced by MAPPA is "In This Corner of the World," but as anyone who has seen "In This Corner of the World" will know, the strength of MAPPA's works is that they are rich in information and have a tasteful expression. Even in a scene where the main character eats with chopsticks, the main character picks up each chopstick, changes hands, grabs rice, brings it to his mouth, carefully changes hands again, and then puts it back on the table. MAPPA's technical ability to beautifully depict such a huge amount of information is something that only MAPPA has, and it can be said that it is a wonderful thing that only MAPPA has at the moment! ! Please look closely at every corner of the screen in "Attack on Titan The Final Season" which starts in the fall! ! I'm sure you will find something interesting! ! !
A thorough summary of MAPPA, the production company of "Attack on Titan The Final Season"
What do you think? MAPPA has released many high-quality animation works to the world, so it can be said that they are a company worthy of the important role of depicting the end of "Attack on Titan" in animation. We are looking forward to MAPPA's future works, including "Attack on Titan The Final Season"!
