5th live drawing questionnaire

What is your favorite part of being an animator?

Anonymous Otter

How is promare doing so far in box office?

Tony

As an artist myself, I find balancing between doing artwork for work and doing artwork for myself a tough thing to do sometime. I always feel tired from doing art at work and I just don't have energy to do more art for myself. How do you balance between life and work? do you schedule a certain day or time during the week to do personal art ?

Flimsy_Jar

Recently all star trigger animators like Yoshinari and Amemiya have been given the chance to direct their own series at trigger instead of hiring directors from outside the studio like in Kiznaiver. Are there any plans to let more trigger staff direct shows at trigger? I'd really like to see Sushio direct something.

When can we expect trigger's next projects to be announced? Will you attend AX this year?

Imaishi's projects are usually in development for a long time before they are announced. You guys said promare was in development since right after kill la kill ended. Are there already any plans for Imaishi's next project?

Taking into account that it already premiered, I don't think that's physically possible anymore.

Bill Erak

Chiba-san, I noticed you are credited as a douga-man on a lot of episodes of "Gridman," so I was wondering if you have worked on any other anime series/movies/OVA's, etc.? I'm assuming you are employed by Trigger, but I was wondering if you have worked at any other studios prior to joining Trigger, or is this your first major job as an animator? How is the work environment at Trigger? Did you apply to work at any other studios, or was it always your dream to work at Trigger? Yoroshiku ne!

Regarding the PROMARE Original soundtrack, is there a reason why did you guys work with Sawano Hiroyuki again? is it because of previous works like KLK ? or he's style works well with PROMARE. Anyway, the soundtrack is awesome!

サム１２７

Are there any special parts you really like to animate?

AnanasArtworks

I read that Galo's seiyu hoped Promare would show the world the fire/passion of Japanese people. Do you feel the same? What other kinds of big statements do you want to make with your work, if any?

HalloBruce

Will there be a Trigger verse, with all the characters of trigger together? kind of like what marvel does?

SSSS. Gridman has been getting a lot of new merchandise and Spin-off manga announced recently. Does this mean Gridman is Trigger's most successful show? Does the studio received any royalties from all the merchandise and spin-off being made from it?

ArtMark88

Were there any people that you would consider mentors; people whose revelations helped you to build on to get to your current level of status?

Does Trigger have any rival studios it sort of competes with?

Wendell Hong

Who are some animators that inspire you?

GentleFan

Is there anything you don't get to draw often in your work that you would like to draw more of?

Is a global premier of Promare likely?

Now that Promare is out, are you allowed to talk about future projects? Is Inferno Cop 2 still coming?

Bill Erak

In a previous stream, you mentioned that Trigger's original works often start from a single word or concept (like "drill" which I guess was for Gurren-Lagann). I'd love to hear what those keywords were for each of your projects. (and also maybe pre-Trigger works such as Dead Leaves, PSG, etc.)

Do you think the blending of 2D and 3D animation, like in SSSS.GRIDMAN and PROMARE, is the future of Japanese animation? How does it affect the production process compared to if it's just 2D animation?

Luke Roberts

Would you consider doing an Isekai Quartet esque anime where its slice of life of all the Trigger Main characters?