Karakter & Staf — SHIROBAKO

Aoi Miyamori

Utama

Female

Occupation: Production assistant for Musashino Animation Aoi is cheerful and positive and has an interest in animation and was a member of the animation club in high school. However, she does not know what specific job she wants to do in the anime industry.

Juri Kimura

Ema Yasuhara

Utama

Female

Animator at Musashino Animation. Was a member of the animation club in high school.

Haruka Yoshimura

Shizuka Sakaki

Utama

Female

Occupation: Voice actress at Akaoni Production. Shizuka also works part-time as a waitress and is a former member of her high school animation club.

Haruka Chisuga

Misa Toudou

Utama

Female

Aspiring 3D computer graphics operator. Misa once worked at the computer graphics studio Super Media Creations and was a former member of her high school animation club.

Asami Takano

Midori Imai

Utama

Female

Aspiring scriptwriter and university student. The highly enthusiastic Midori is a former member of her high school animation club.

Hitomi Oowada

Rinko Ogasawara

Pendukung

Female

Rinko works at the same company as Aoi. She works with character design and is also the general animation supervisor.

Ai Kayano

Tsubaki Andou

Pendukung

She is a minor character in the anime Shirobako, and is a beginner in Production Support.

Ikumi Hayama

Ai Kunogi

Pendukung

A keyframe animator who begins working at Musashino Animation during the production of Third Aerial Girls' Squad. She is intensely shy, and speaks at most a couple of words at a time, sometimes even just a syllable. Ema serves as a mentor to her, and a sort of interpreter of her speech.

Shiori Izawa

Seiichi Kinoshita

Pendukung

The Director of Musashino Animation. Like many typical directors, Kinoshita tends to be nervous on the production of his team's work. The character is loosely based on Seiji Mizushima.

Nobuyuki Hiyama

Erika Yano

Pendukung

Female

Yano works as a production assistant at Musashino Animation.

Yuri Yamaoka

Sara Satou

Pendukung

Sara is a production assistant at Musashino Animation.

Madoka Yonezawa

Yutaka Honda

Pendukung

Production manager of Musashino Animation.

Shuuya Nishiji

Ochiai Tatsuya

Pendukung

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Daisuke Hiraoka

Pendukung

New production assistant of Musashino Animation after Honda's departure and Tarō's subsequent promotion, although he is in truth very experienced. He is known for being easily annoyed and standoffish. His experience lends him connections to various companies and people in the show, although all of them are mediocre at what they do. When he joins Musashino, due to past "trauma," he initially believes that anime just needs to get finished and that quality does not matter. He later comes around and starts to appreciate what professionals put in to their work and that quality does matter. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yuusuke Kobayashi

Ryousuke Endou

Pendukung

Key animator at Musashino Animation. The animation supervisor for the Exodus!'s third and eighth episodes. He has a rivalry with Misato Segawa. He gets annoyed when other characters voice their negative opinions of his work. He loves Idepon, citing it as his inspiration to work in anime, a common ground with Yūichirō Shimoyanagi, a CG animator. (Source: Wikipedia)

Shinobu Matsumoto

Tarou Takanashi

Pendukung

Production assistant of Musashino Animation. He is known around the company for being irresponsible, loud and being extremely protective of his ego and reputation. This often earns him rebukes from Aoi and Erika, as well as annoyance or indifference from all other characters. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Akane Uchida

Pendukung

Key animator at Musashino Animation.

Rie Takahashi

Hikaru Hotta

Pendukung

Key animator at Musashino Animation and Endō's junior. He is a massive proponent of hand-drawn animation being superior to CG animation. (Source: Wikipedia)

Riki Kitazawa

Yumi Iguchi

Pendukung

Key animator at Musashino Animation. The assistant general animation supervisor of Exodus! and the character designer of The Third Aerial Girls Squad. (Source: Wikipedia)

Manami Numakura

Shigeru Sugie

Pendukung

Senior key animator at Musashino Animation. He was once the character designer for the now-defunct Musashino Pictures. The character is loosely based on Yasuji Mori. (Source: Wikipedia)

Motoi Koyanagi

Wataru Nakabayashi

Pendukung

Editor at Musashino Animation.

Kazuyuki Okitsu

Nao Shinkawa

Pendukung

Color setter at Musashino Animation. (Source: Wikipedia)

Mari Hino

Hironori Madoka

Pendukung

The episode director of Exodus!'s third episode, and The Third Aerial Girls Squad's third and seventh episodes. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hironori Saitou

Yuuichirou Shimoyanagi

Pendukung

3D Director at Musashino Animation. He loves Idepon, citing it as his inspiration to work in anime, a common ground with Ryōsuke Endō, a key animator. (Source: Wikipedia)

Junji Majima

Masato Marukawa

Pendukung

The president of Musashino Animation. He was once the production desk at the now-defunct Musashino Pictures. He is more often than not seen cooking absurd amounts of food for his employees. In the past, he had a distinctive hippie look, with long hair past his shoulders and a headband, but in the present, he is nearly bald and has a distinctive gap between his front two teeth. The character is loosely based on Masao Maruyama. (Source: Wikipedia)

Wataru Takagi