#Chainsaw Man To be Produced At New MAPPA Office

Architecture Photo has uploaded a post about a new MAPPA office designed by architect Akira Koyama and his Key Operation Inc. company. Chainsaw Man director Ryū Nakayama said in a retweet that the anime will be produced at this new office, which was completed in June.

An Architecture Photo tweet said that the new office’s design was conscious of providing an improved work environment and paid attention to elements like the selection of desk material and a lounge space. The place has a total floor space of 468m². Like the main MAPPA office, it is situated in Suginami City.

Architecture Photo’s post about MAPPA’s new office comes days after the animation studio’s shortcomings were highlighted on July 2. Anime News Network reported that an animator had been paid $250 yen (~$2) “for in-between animation at a subcontracting studio for a film project made by ‘the company that recently made a viral PV.’” The animator’s tweet had been made the day after the release of the Chainsaw Man anime’s teaser, which has almost seven million views at the time of writing. An animation director for Mars Red replied that “that company” looked down on in-between animation and painting.

The main subject of the ANN report was another animator who spoke out against the low rates paid to animators for a Netflix anime produced at MAPPA. Although they later added that their issue was with Netflix, Sakuga Blog’s Kevin Cirugeda noted, in a thread that also highlighted various other MAPPA shortcomings, that MAPPA’s management had asked them to delete the tweet (which is still available at the time of writing). 

In May, ANN reported that a freelance animator who worked on Attack on Titan: The Final Season had left MAPPA due to terrible work conditions.