Shirobako

Shirobako
Promotional poster.
Genre	Comedy, slice of life[1]
Manga
Shirobako: Kaminoyama Kōkō Animation Dōkōkai
Written by	Musashino Animation Kenji Sugihara
Illustrated by	Mizutama
Published by	ASCII Media Works
Magazine	Dengeki Daioh
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	September 27, 2014 – November 27, 2015
Volumes	2
Anime television series
Directed by	Tsutomu Mizushima
Written by	Michiko Yokote
Music by	Shirō Hamaguchi
Studio	P.A. Works
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment BI: Anime Limited NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original network	Tokyo MX, TVA, MBS, TUT, BS Fuji, AT-X, NHK
Original run	October 9, 2014 – March 26, 2015
Episodes	24 (List of episodes)
Novel
Shirobako Introduction
Written by	Michiko Itō Hajime Tanaka
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Jump j Books
Demographic	Male
Published	January 27, 2015
Original video animation
Exodus! Exit Tokyo
Directed by	Tsutomu Mizushima
Written by	Hiroyuki Yoshino
Music by	Shirō Hamaguchi
Studio	P.A. Works
Released	February 25, 2015
Runtime	25 minutes
Original video animation
The Third Girls Aerial Squad: Falling Angel
Directed by	Tsutomu Mizushima
Written by	Hiroyuki Yoshino
Music by	Shirō Hamaguchi
Studio	P.A. Works
Released	July 29, 2015
Runtime	25 minutes
Anime film
Shirobako: The Movie
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Shirobako is a 24-episode anime television series produced by P.A. Works and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. It aired in Japan between October 9, 2014, and March 26, 2015. A manga adaptation began serialization in ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Daioh magazine in September 2014, and a novel was published by Shueisha in January 2015. An anime film premiered on February 29, 2020.

The title Shirobako refers to videos that are distributed to the production staff members prior to their release. These videos were at a time distributed as VHS tapes enclosed in white boxes and are still referred to as "white boxes" (thus the meaning of shirobako) despite the fact that the white enclosures are no longer in use.^[2]