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A Japanese creative startup and one of Japan’s largest publishers launched a project today that turns the conventional anime production pipeline inside out. Rather than making a show and then marketing it with a polished opening sequence, KUROGO and Kodansha Creators Lab debuted the Synchro Project (シンクロプロジェクト) on Wednesday — commissioning fully realized anime opening…

Entertainment service company KUROGO, with support from publisher Kodansha’s Creative’s Lab, has launched SYNXRO PROJECT, a new initiative that revolves around opening animations of fictional anime. The project hopes to build new IPs out of these openings, and will release a new work for each remaining month of 2026.