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While Shonen Jump has seen several manga series become major anime hits, not too many of these examples had finished their source material before it hit the screen. This fall, one of the only examples of a Shonen series releasing a television series following its cancellation will be released. In recent days, there was a…

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.