Anime is a job.

NEXT TAKE! is an original workplace comedy about the professional actors and crews behind familiar anime conventions.

In this world, anime is produced like live-action film and television. Impossible hairstyles, transformation sequences, exaggerated reactions, supernatural effects, speed lines, enormous weapons and all the rest have to be performed, rigged, staged or built by somebody who is trying to finish the day on schedule.

Studio Uraomote

Studio Uraomote is the fictional production company at the centre of the series. The actors work across many fictional productions and genres while developing careers, specialties, rivalries, friendships and a worrying amount of highly specific technical knowledge.

The joke has a job too

The point is not that anime conventions are stupid. The cast are professionals, and the comedy comes from treating ridiculous conventions as perfectly ordinary occupational realities: who performs this, who builds it, how does it work, and what does everyone think about having to do it again for another take?

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