6.024 minSeason 1 • Episode 24
LatestFinally, the time has come to deliver the final episode of "Third Aerial Girls Squad." Will Aoi and the others be able to get them delivered to all of the stations in time for broadcast?
In a school in northeastern Japan, five friends in the animation club, Aoi, Ema, Shizuka, Misa, and Midori swear to complete a new anime called "Shinbutsu Konkou SHICHIFUKUJIN" with some donuts. Since then, day after day, the five spend all of their time on anime production. The awe of going from rough sketches to animation, and the awkward acting in the after-recording session... The final product was finished at the cultural fair six months later. After they graduated they still pursued animation and swore on some donuts that they would make another anime together.
Writing
Love letter to animation that never romanticizes the grind
Direction
Meta-mastery: making office drama visually electric
Production
Painstaking accuracy from actual studio visits
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tsutomu Mizushima embedded real production crises from his own career, including a director who vanished mid-project.
The 'donut promise' mirrors actual anime industry rituals; some studios really do have sacred snack-based contracts. The show predicted its own legacy—P.A. Works staff later said it improved labor conditions by shaming exploitative practices.
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