Skybound Grows Animation Slate with New Japan-Based Studio

Invincible in season two of the titular animated series.
Invincible in season two of the titular animated series.

Skybound Entertainment is heading eastward to open up a new studio in Tokyo, Japan.

The studio behind Invincible and The Walking Dead are setting up shop there with the express purpose of focusing on properties made specifically from that country’s crop of manga and anime creators. Heading up the studio will be Ash Nukui, a producer on the Japanese miniseries Sniffer the Investigation Officer and the film Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. As Skybound noted in the press release, this is its second offshoot studio this year (preceded by Skybound North in Vancouver) and “marks a significant new chapter representing and producing Japanese content.”

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