Production I.G, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社プロダクション・アイジー | Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Purodakushon Ai Jī) is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. Headquartered in Musashino, Tokyo, Production I.G was founded on December 15, 1987, by producer Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and character designer Takayuki Goto as "I.G Tatsunoko", a branch studio of the animation giant Tatsunoko Production, changing its name to the current Production I.G in September 1993. The letters I and G derive from the names of the company founders. Since 2007, Production I.G is a subsidiary of the IG Port holding company. Ishikawa was president and CEO of the studio until August 2022 when that position was given to George Wada with Ishikawa remaining as chairman of the company. Since its inception, Production I.G has been involved in the creation of theatrical films such as Patlabor 2, Ghost in the Shell (which would spawn a media franchise), Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, animated sequences in Kill Bill Vol. 1, among other works. It has also worked on anime television series such as Blood+, Guilty Crown, Kuroko's Basketball, Psycho-Pass, and Haikyu!! among others. The studio has been involved in the production of numerous original video animations (OVAs) and original net animations (ONAs). It is also known in the video game industry for developing intros, cut-scenes, and artwork for games such as Bandai Namco's Tales series.
Production I.G
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for Animation Studio in Pluto (2003)
Suggested by demurelyhydrated
In a world where humans and sapient robots co-exist, someone or something is targeting the seven most advanced robots, killing them off one by one. Even more disturbingly, the same killer seems to be murdering humans as well. Only a supremely powerful robot could be killing the other robots—but all robots are hardwired to be unable to kill humans, with one very important exception. German robot detective Gesicht, who is so advanced as to be nearly indistinguishable from a normal human, investigates the killings in an effort to learn the secret link between the advanced robots and humans being murdered. This is an especially urgent matter for Gesicht, since he's one of the scheduled murder victims... ║ fancast for if the Pluto anime and its dub had been made twenty years earlier. English & Japanese voice options available, professional VAs only, no celebs, and VAs have to have been active during the early 2000s. For an extra challenge if you want it, don't use the cast from the original series (if they were working at the time) or the 2003 Astro Boy anime.
