Studio Leo
Studio Leo (スタジオ レオ Sutajio Reo) is a Japanese animation studio used for outsourcing. This studio involved in some of the Detective Conan anime episodes production.
The first participation in episode 1034 looked fine, as they had Kenichi Otomo as animation director and Keiko Sasaki as assistant animation director. But it started to get outrageous in episode 1044, the drawing style looked rather weird and out of character, despite having Marie Nagano as animation director. The quality then get to the worst in episode 1049, where there are loads of different monstrous drawing styles that sometimes based on old character design, and the animation supervisor Seiji Muta did not correct the inconsistency as much.
Sumito Sasaki, president of Studio Leo, claimed in the interview that their participation in Detective Conan anime was not for the quality in the first place. It was actually demanded by TMS Entertainment to fill the staff vancancy, as most of the staffs were allocated to the production of movies and spin-off (Wild Police Story, Zero's Tea Time, and The Culprit Hanzawa). He also disclosed that when the anime production team approached him for the job offer, there were only four weeks before that episode was aired. In addition, the anime production team even wanted to diminish the production cost per key frame even further, to 4000 yen. Nevertheless it was comprimised afterwards with 5000 yen.
Currently, Studio Leo is not responsible for any Detective Conan anime production.
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Related staff
- Sumito Sasaki (president)
- Zhang Yi (affiliated)
- Yuka Sato (affiliated)
Participation in Detective Conan
Number of episodes outsourced: 4 (4 episodes)
- Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board (Episode 1034 only)
- The Deadly Pork Soup Signal (Episode 1044)
- The Threat to Megure's Police Career (Episode 1049)
- I Want My Husband Back (Episode 1056)
Other notable works
Anime
References
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Anime News Network
