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{{Short description|Japanese animation studio}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Shaft
| native_name = 株式会社シャフト
| native_name_lang = ja
| romanized_name = [[Kabushiki gaisha]] Shafuto
| logo = Shaft studio logo.svg
| image = Studio Shaft head office,.jpg
| image_caption = Head office in Suginami
| foundation = {{start date and age|1975|09|01}}
| founder = Hiroshi Wakao
| location = [[Suginami, Tokyo]], Japan{{efn|Both head office and production studio}}
| origins = 
| key_people = [[Mitsutoshi Kubota]] (CEO)
| area_served = 
| industry = [[anime|Japanese animation]]
| products = 
| revenue = 
| operating_income = 
| net_income = 
| equity = [[Japanese yen|¥]] 10,000,000
| num_employees = 100<ref name="kubota watanabe">{{Cite web|url= https://shizukuru.pref.shizuoka.jp/satellite_office/column/shaft.html|script-title= ja:首都圏集中型のアニメ業界に変革を。その第一歩は静岡市から(株式会社シャフト)|trans-title= Reforming the Anime Industry Concentrated in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. The first step is Shizuoka City (Shaft)|language= Japanese|date= December 23, 2022|access-date= January 9, 2023|archive-date= January 9, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230109234601/https://shizukuru.pref.shizuoka.jp/satellite_office/column/shaft.html|url-status= live}}</ref>
| parent = 
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| divisions = '''Former:'''<br/>Niigata{{efn|An animation substudio located in [[Niigata (city)|Niigata]], which is only known to have ever been credited for one episode of a series in 1989.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= ''[[Idol Densetsu Eriko]]''|language= Japanese|script-quote=ja:動画 - 新潟シャフト|trans-quote= In-between animation - Niigata Shaft|time=ending credits; episode 7}}</ref>}}<br/>'''Current:'''<br/>Digital@Shaft{{efn|Photography, painting, and visual effects division established in 2004. Around 2020, the CG group within Digital@Shaft split, with some staying as part of the Digital@Shaft team and others establishing a new department. In 2021, the division formed a background art team, which also separated into its own department later that year.}}<br/>Shaft Ten{{efn|Shaft Ten, the licensing division and online shop operated by the studio, founded in 2017.}}<br/>CGI Animation Room{{efn|{{nihongo|Shaft CGI Animation Room|シャフトCGI Animation Room}}, a [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] division established ''circa'' 2020, and spun-off of Digital@Shaft.}}<br/>Art Section{{efn|Shaft Art Section, a background art division separated from Digital@Shaft in 2021.}}<br/>Shaft Aoi{{efn|Shaft Shizuoka Studio Aoi, a substudio located in [[Shizuoka (city)|Shizuoka]] founded in 2022.}}
| owner = 
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.shaft-web.co.jp}}
| footnotes = 
}}
'''Shaft''' (stylized as '''SHAFT'''; {{langx|ja|株式会社シャフト}}, [[Hepburn romanization|Hepburn]]: {{transliteration|ja|Hepburn|Kabushiki-gaisha Shafuto}}), also known as '''Shaft Animation Studio''', is a Japanese [[animation studio]] headquartered in [[Suginami, Tokyo]], and founded in 1975. Since 2004, the studio's productions and staff have been broadly influenced by director [[Akiyuki Shinbo]], whose visual style and [[avant-garde]] cinematography are featured in works including ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' (2007), ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei]]'' (2007), the ''[[Monogatari (series)|Monogatari]]'' series (2009–present), ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' (2011), ''[[Nisekoi]]'' (2014), and ''[[March Comes In Like a Lion]]'' (2016).

==History==
===1975–1984: Early sub-contracting work===
Shaft was founded as a [[yūgen-gaisha]] on September 1, 1975, by ex-[[Mushi Production]] employee Hiroshi Wakao.<ref name="profile"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Loveridge |first1=Lynzee |title=SHAFT Opens 'Madogatari' Exhibit to Celebrate 40th Anniversary |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-07-03/shaft-opens-madogatari-exhibit-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary/.90048 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=July 3, 2015 |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130085714/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-07-03/shaft-opens-madogatari-exhibit-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary/.90048 |url-status=live }}</ref> Much of the company's early work was sub-contracting work for larger animation studios,<ref name="secret">{{cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2017-01-18/the-secret-of-studio-shaft/.110526|title= The Secret of Studio SHAFT|website= [[AnimeNewsNetwork]]|date= January 18, 2017|author= Creamer, Nick|access-date= April 29, 2020|archive-date= June 15, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200615203901/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2017-01-18/the-secret-of-studio-shaft/.110526|url-status= live}}</ref> which includes credits to cel painting and color coordination work, such as with ''[[Brave Raideen]]'' (1975–76),<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= [[Brave Raideen]]|language= ja|script-quote=ja:仕上 - シャフト|trans-quote= Painting - Shaft|time=ending credits; episodes 27–50}}</ref> and occasionally credits as an assistant production studio for projects including [[Pierrot (company)|Pierrot]]'s ''[[Urusei Yatsura: Only You]]'' (1983).<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= [[Urusei Yatsura: Only You]]|language= ja|script-quote=ja:アニメーション制作協力 - シャフト|trans-quote= Animation production assistance - Shaft|time=ending credits}}</ref> A large portion of the company's early painting work was contracted under [[Bandai Namco Filmworks|Sunrise]] productions.

===1984–2004: Move to animation production===
In 1984, Shaft was sub-contracted by studio [[Nippon Animation|Zuiyo]] to animate the ''[[Elves of the Forest]]'' television series, marking the company's first project as a primary animation studio.{{efn|Note: While Shaft is credited for "Production assistance", Zuiyo itself (in 1984) did not have its own animation department, so Shaft is the studio that was outsourced to for main animation work.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= [[Elves of the Forest]]|language= ja|script-quote=ja:制作協力 - シャフト|trans-quote= Production assistance - Shaft|time=ending credits}}</ref>}} Not until 1987, however, with the release of the ''Yume kara, Samenai'' [[original video animation]] (OVA),<ref name="first" /> did the studio release its first wholly-original production. In the same year, the studio produced the first episode of the ''Taiman Blues: Naoto Shimizu-hen'' OVA series.<ref name="taiman"/>

For the next several years, the company returned to sub-contracting work based on animation production services rather than its painting services, such as with the Mushi Production film ''Ushiro no Shoumen Daare'' (1991).<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= Ushiro no Shoumen Dare|language= ja|script-quote=ja:制作協力 - シャフト|trans-quote= Production assistance - Shaft|time=ending credits}}</ref> In 1995, the studio moved to producing full-length series, starting with ''[[Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger]]''.<ref name="juuni senshi"/> By this time, several directors and animators had joined the studio, such as [[Toshimasa Suzuki]] and Kenji Yasuda; however, one of the most important series in the company's early history was an outsourcing contract they took on in 1996: ''[[Legend of Crystania|Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring]]'', which began the studio's relationship with director [[Ryūtarō Nakamura]] and studio [[Triangle Staff]].<ref name="nakamura">{{Cite web|url= https://gigazine.net/news/20160916-playback-ryutaro-nakamura/|script-title= ja:中村隆太郎監督の作品をこれからも楽しんでいきたいという思いが詰まった「プレイバック中村隆太郎」レポート|trans-title= "Playback Ryūtarō Nakamura", a Report Filled with the Desire to Continue to Enjoy the Work of Director Ryūtarō Nakamura|website= Gigazine|date= September 16, 2016|access-date= April 12, 2022|language= Japanese|archive-date= April 5, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230405054610/https://gigazine.net/news/20160916-playback-ryutaro-nakamura/|url-status= live}}</ref> The second episode of the OVA series was outsourced to Shaft, and both Nakamura and Triangle Staff's president (Yoshimi Asari) visited Shaft while delivering the episode's storyboard.<ref name="nakamura"/> [[Mitsutoshi Kubota]], a studio color designer turned production manager at the time, met with the two,<ref name="nakamura"/> and from then they would collaborate on several more projects together, such as Shaft producing an episode of Nakamura and Triangle Staff's ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' television series,<ref name="nakamura"/> and Nakamura later directing a television series and ''Kino's Journey'' film at the studio.<ref name="nakamura"/>

In 1998, [[Radix Ace Entertainment|Radix]] produced a 26-episode adaptation of Kia Asamiya's manga ''[[Silent Möbius]]''; and although produced as a Radix production, Shaft was contracted as an outsourcing company for the entire series, and according to Kubota served as the production site for the series (rather than Radix).{{sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=240}} Shaft was also responsible for selecting the staff, and chief director Hideki Tonokatsu worked from the studio.{{sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=240}} [[Nobuyuki Takeuchi]] left Studio Giants in the early 90s, and Shaft offered him a seat at the studio as a freelancing animator; and for ''Silent Möbius'', he took on the role of "animation director" (not referring to the [[Animation director#Eastern production pipeline|correction of drawings]]).{{sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=240}} Kubota felt that Takeuchi would eventually play a central role in Shaft's works succeeding the series, and he eventually became an integral part of many of the productions made with Shinbo.{{sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=240}}

Shaft entered co-operations with studios [[Gainax]] and [[TNK (company)|TNK]] around 2000. The first of the productions under these co-operations was ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' (2001) and its sequel ''[[Mahoromatic|Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful]]'' (2002–03), both with Gainax and under the direction of [[Hiroyuki Yamaga]].<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.shaft-web.co.jp:80/history.html |publisher=Shaft |access-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613094355/http://www.shaft-web.co.jp/history.html |archive-date=June 13, 2007 |language=ja |url-status=dead }}</ref> 2002 was also the release of the studio's production with TNK, ''[[G-On Riders]]''.<ref name="g-on"/> In 2003 and 2004, the studio produced an adaptation of the visual novel ''[[Popotan]]'',<ref name="popotan" /> and later ''[[This Ugly yet Beautiful World]]'', an original series co-produced with Gainax and director [[Shouji Saeki]].<ref name="history" /> The development of ''This Ugly yet Beautiful World'' began when members of ''Mahoromatic'' said that they wanted to do another work with the team, which included both the voice actors and staff members.{{sfn|Suzuki|Harrada|Kirikata|2004|p=16-17}} While searching for scriptwriting and directing staff to work on the project, Saeki and Gainax producer Hiroki Satou mentioned that it would involve much of the ''Mahoromatic'' staff to those they invited, such as director Shin Itagaki and writer Sumio Uetake.{{sfn|Suzuki|Harada|Kirikata|2004|p=63}}

===2004–2017: Kubota and Team Shinbo era===
In 2004, Wakao was succeeded as Shaft's representative director by Kubota, though he remained a chairman on the studio's board.<ref name="profile"/> After watching ''[[The SoulTaker]]'' (2001) and ''[[Le Portrait de Petit Cossette]]'' (2004), both works directed by [[Akiyuki Shinbo]], Kubota decided that he wanted to work with Shinbo to create a uniquely identifiable brand for the studio.<ref name="kubota ann interview">{{cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2016-11-08/interview-studio-shaft-president-mitsutoshi-kubota/.108592|title= Interview: Studio SHAFT president Mitsutoshi Kubota|website= [[AnimeNewsNetwork]]|author= Jones, Evan|date= November 8, 2016|access-date= April 29, 2020|archive-date= December 27, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191227075147/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2016-11-08/interview-studio-shaft-president-mitsutoshi-kubota/.108592|url-status= live}}</ref> In October 2004, the studio animated its first production with Shinbo as director, ''[[Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase]],''<ref name="moon phase" /> and he began serving as an executive director and mentor to the studio's staff.<ref name="secret"/>

Shaft's final co-production with Gainax came in 2005 with ''[[He Is My Master]]''.<ref name="he master"/> The same year saw the first animated production under the influence of "Team Shinbo", a director trio consisting of Shinbo, [[Shin Oonuma]], and [[Tatsuya Oishi (director)|Tatsuya Oishi]], who played a vital role in the studio's early stylistic decisions.<ref name="secret"/><ref name="pani"/> Shinbo had invited both Oonuma and Oishi to direct episodes under him having seen their work under him on previous projects outside of Shaft.{{sfn|Maeda|Hiraiwa|2007|p=1}} The next two years also saw the release of the ''[[REC (manga)|REC]]'' (2006) and ''[[Kino's Journey|Kino's Journey: Country of Illness -For You-]]'' (2007),<ref name="rec"/><ref name="beautiful world"/> the aforementioned series directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura,<ref name="nakamura"/> which would be the last series produced by Shaft not to feature any involvement by Shinbo for more than a decade.

During the mid-to-late 2000s, the studio brought on a number of new directors and creators, including [[Ryouki Kamitsubo]], [[Naoyuki Tatsuwa]], [[Kenichi Ishikura]], [[Yukihiro Miyamoto]], [[Shinichi Omata]], [[Tomoyuki Itamura]], and [[Gekidan Inu Curry]]. Kamitsubo and Oonuma, however, left by the end of the decade, with the latter joining [[Silver Link]] where he established himself in a similar role to Shinbo's.

In 2009, Shinbo and Oishi directed ''[[Monogatari (series)|Bakemonogatari]]'', which was later characterized as a hallmark of the studio's unique aesthetics. It gained a cult-like following among fans in both Japan and the West for its narrative and "visually striking" animation and artistic qualities.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.thenerdmag.com/why-you-should-watch-the-monogatari-anime-series/|title= Why You Should Watch the Monogatari Anime Series|website= The Nerd Mag|date= October 10, 2019|access-date= October 13, 2020|archive-date= October 14, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201014081645/https://www.thenerdmag.com/why-you-should-watch-the-monogatari-anime-series/|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-list/2012-09-08|title= The List - 8 Most Visually Striking Anime Productions|website= [[Anime News Network]]|author= Loveridge, Lynzee|date= September 8, 2012|access-date= October 13, 2020|archive-date= October 17, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201017224950/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-list/2012-09-08|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.funimation.com/blog/2020/05/22/the-works-of-shaft-from-monogotari-madoka-magica-march-comes-in-like-a-lion/|title= The Works of Shaft, From Monogatari to Madoka Magica|website= [[Funimation]]|author= Funimation|date= May 22, 2020|access-date= October 11, 2020|archive-date= October 30, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201030163853/https://www.funimation.com/blog/2020/05/22/the-works-of-shaft-from-monogotari-madoka-magica-march-comes-in-like-a-lion/|url-status= live}}</ref> [[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] named it as the series that "pushed studio Shaft into the spotlight",<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/27/20828051/bakemonogatari-studio-shaft-best-anime|title= Bakemonogatari pushed studio Shaft into the spotlight|website= [[Polygon (website)|Polygon]]|author= Inoa, Christopher|date= August 27, 2019|access-date= July 29, 2020|archive-date= November 8, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201108012124/https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/27/20828051/bakemonogatari-studio-shaft-best-anime|url-status= live}}</ref> and the series was chosen as the "best anime series of 2009" by the [[Tokyo Anime Award|Tokyo Anime Award Festival]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Schley, Matt|date=March 27, 2017|title=Anime Festival Ranks Top 100 Anime of Last 100 Years|url=https://otakuusamagazine.com/anime-festival-ranks-top-100-anime-of-last-100-years/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413204632/https://otakuusamagazine.com/anime-festival-ranks-top-100-anime-of-last-100-years/|archive-date=April 13, 2020|access-date=October 13, 2020|website=[[Otaku USA]]}}</ref> Following ''Bakemonogatari'', the studio produced yet another critical and financial hit two years later with ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. ''Madoka Magica'' is regarded by several publications and critics as one of the greatest anime productions of all time,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uk-anime.net/anime/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_-_Complete_Series_Collection.html |title=Anime Review: ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' - Complete Series Collection |last=Hanley |first=Andy |date=October 22, 2012 |publisher=UK Anime Network |access-date=December 26, 2020 |archive-date=January 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112042400/http://www.uk-anime.net/anime/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_-_Complete_Series_Collection.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/puella-magi-madoka-magica/vol-3 |title=''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'': Vol. 3 Blu-ray |last=Bertschy |first=Zac |date=June 13, 2012 |publisher=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 26, 2020 |archive-date=October 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030033338/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/puella-magi-madoka-magica/vol-3 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2020/winter/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story/.155004|title=Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story|date=January 4, 2020|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=December 26, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414163921/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2020/winter/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story/.155004|url-status=live}}</ref> and the series' financial and critical success spawned a franchise consisting of several films, television series, and games produced in part or in whole by Shaft. Along with the ''Monogatari'' series, ''Madoka Magica'' is considered to be one of the most financially successful anime products in Japan, with both series maintaining the highest average sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays, and re-releases in Japan.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=18}} In 2012, the studio returned to animating the ''Monogatari'' series with ''Nisemonogatari'', albeit with director Tomoyuki Itamura in place of Oishi.<ref name="nise"/> Itamura and Shinbo produced a subsequent ''Monogatari'' season every year up until ''Zoku Owarimonogatari'' (2018), which is the only ''Monogatari'' season to feature Shinbo as the sole director.<ref name="zoku owari"/>

[[File:Studio Shaft.svg|thumb|left|English logo used from 2010–⁠2017]]

The early-to-mid 2010s brought more changes to the studio's creative staff and the studio itself. For one, 2015 was the year Shaft reorganized from a [[yūgen-gaisha]] to a [[kabushiki-gaisha]].<ref name="profile">{{Cite web|url= https://www.shaft-web.co.jp/company/|script-title= ja:会社概要|trans-title= Company Profile|website= Shaft|access-date= February 13, 2022|language= Japanese|archive-date= January 20, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220120085747/https://www.shaft-web.co.jp/company/|url-status= live}}</ref> Several directors also ended up leaving around this time, such as Kenichi Ishikura after serving as assistant director on ''[[Negima! Magister Negi Magi|Mahō Sensei Negima! Anime Final]]'' in 2011, [[Shinichi Omata]] around 2012, and Naoyuki Tatsuwa after he directed ''[[Gourmet Girl Graffiti]]'' in 2015. A number of other notable directors were brought into the studio around this time, however, such as directors [[Yuki Yase]], [[Kenjirou Okada]], [[Hajime Ootani]], and [[Midori Yoshizawa]]. Tatsuya Oishi disappeared from the public spotlight in the early 2010s after he began production on the ''[[Kizumonogatari]]'' film trilogy, which was released in 2016 and 2017.<ref name="kizu i ann">{{Cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/kizumonogatari-i/tekketsu-hen/sub.blu-ray/.99084|title= Review - Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen|website= [[Anime News Network]]|author= Creamer, Nick|date= February 26, 2016|access-date= April 16, 2021|archive-date= April 16, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210416212505/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/kizumonogatari-i/tekketsu-hen/sub.blu-ray/.99084|url-status= live}}</ref> Shaft's animation work on the trilogy has been praised as being uniquely experimental with 2D and CG effects, which some reviewers described as not always mixing well, but has nonetheless been called "gorgeous."<ref name="kizu i ann"/><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://animeuknews.net/2019/06/kizumonogatari-part-1-tekketsu-review/|title= Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu Review|website= Anime UK News|date= June 7, 2019|access-date= April 16, 2021|archive-date= April 16, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210416212506/https://animeuknews.net/2019/06/kizumonogatari-part-1-tekketsu-review/|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/kizumonogatari-iii/reiketsu/blu-ray/.114812|title= Review - Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu|author= Creamer, Nick|website= [[Anime News Network]]|date= April 15, 2017|access-date= April 16, 2021|archive-date= April 16, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210416212504/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/kizumonogatari-iii/reiketsu/blu-ray/.114812|url-status= live}}</ref>

In the late 2010s, a number of other creative staff left the studio. Yuki Yase left after directing ''[[Zaregoto|The Beheading Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense Bearer]]'' (2016–17),<ref name="zaregoto"/> taking animation producer Kousuke Matsunaga with him to work on ''[[Fire Force]]'' at [[David Production]] (as well as CG director Shinya Takano and at-the-time production assistants Reo Honjouya and Hisashi Sugawara); Tomoyuki Itamura, who had directed the rest of the ''Monogatari'' series after Oishi's commitment to ''Kizumonogatari'', left after the production of ''Owarimonogatari II'' (2017);<ref name="owari ii"/> Izumi Takizawa, a color designer with the studio since the late 90s, followed Itamura.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-28/the-case-study-of-vanitas-manga-gets-tv-anime-this-summer-by-bones/.171228|title= The Case Study of Vanitas Manga Gets TV Anime This Summer by BONES|website= [[Anime News Network]]|author= Hodgkins, Crystalyn|date= March 28, 2021|access-date= April 20, 2021|archive-date= June 5, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210605130930/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-28/the-case-study-of-vanitas-manga-gets-tv-anime-this-summer-by-bones/.171228|url-status= live}}</ref>

===2017–present: Post-Team Shinbo===

In 2017, directors Kenjirou Okada and Nobuyuki Takeuchi directed their debuts as series/film directors with ''[[March Comes In like a Lion]]'' (2016–18) and ''[[Fireworks (2017 film)|Fireworks]]'' (2017),<ref name="sangatsu i"/><ref name="fireworks"/> but the following year experienced a hiatus from the animation industry. The film version of ''Zoku Owarimonogatari'' was the studio's only original, non-continuing release that year, and its televised release was the studio's only main project the following year. The studio was, however, outsourced to for an episode of [[Tezuka Productions]]' adaptation of ''[[The Quintessential Quintuplets]]'' (2019).<ref name="quint">{{Cite web|url= https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/17626643/|script-title= ja:INTERVIEW アニメに無駄なシーンは一切ない。『五等分の花嫁』制作陣が明かす伏線回収のヒミツ|trans-title= INTERVIEW There Are no Useless Scenes in Anime: The Production Team of ''The Quintessential Quintuplets'' Reveals the Secret of Collective Foreshadowing|website= Livedoor News|language= Japanese|date= January 8, 2020|access-date= February 12, 2022|archive-date= February 12, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220212063000/https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/17626643/|url-status= live}}</ref> The entirety of the episode was produced at Shaft, with Midori Yoshizawa as episode director and a majority of the Shaft production team working on the episode, including the studio's colorists, animators, and photographers (the episode is also the only episode to feature a separate photography director, that being Shaft's Rei Egami). One version of the story that led to Shaft's involvement with the work was that [[TBS Television (Japan)|TBS]] producer Junichirou Tanaka met CEO Kubota at a dinner party once and had asked on his knees for Shaft's help in producing the first half of the series' 11th episode, but during conversation Kubota noted that he knew of the issues with the production and decided that Shaft would be capable of producing the entire episode.<ref name="quint"/> Alternatively, in another interview, Tanaka said that Tezuka Productions hadn't received enough time to produce the series, so he tried phoning a number of production companies and eventually landed on Shaft (who animated ''Hidamari Sketch'', another TBS-produced anime) and Kubota accepted the offer to contribute key animation only for the A-part (first half) of the episode.<ref name="shiotsuki unknown">{{Cite web |url=https://artistunknown.info/2023/08/04/interview-with-quintessential-quintuplets-tv-special-staff-at-otakon-2023/|title= Interview with Quintessential Quintuplets TV Special Staff at Otakon 2023|author=Nate "Kbnet"|date= August 4, 2023|website= Artist Unknown|access-date= August 5, 2023}}</ref> Later, Tanaka asked Kubota if Shaft could produce the entire episode, and since the two companies had history, and Kubota was on friendly terms with producer Hiroshi Oosawa form Tezuka Productions, Shaft eventually agreed to produce the entire episode.<ref name="shiotsuki unknown"/> Series director Satoshi Kuwabara drew the episode's storyboards but left the production of the episode entirely up to Yoshizawa and Shaft.<ref name="quint"/>

In 2020, Shaft returned to producing full-length series with ''[[Magia Record|Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]]'', an adaptation of a spin-off mobile game series based on the studio's ''Madoka Magica'' franchise. It was the first series since 2007 not to be directed in part by Akiyuki Shinbo (although he served as an animation supervisor),<ref name="magia record i"/> and was instead chief directed by Doroinu of [[Gekidan Inu Curry]], one of the original series' alternate space designers.<ref name="magia record i"/> Shaft's second and final project of the year, ''[[Assault Lily|Assault Lily Bouquet]]'', was also the first time since 2007 that Shinbo had not been involved with one of the studio's main projects entirely. ''Bouquet'' was instead directed by former Gainax member [[Shouji Saeki]] and Shaft member Hajime Ootani.<ref name="bouquet"/>

Shinbo returned to the director's chair in 2021 with his adaptation of ''[[Pretty Boy Detective Club]]'', which he co-directed alongside Ootani.<ref name="bishounen boys"/> The series served as the debut for Shaft's CGI animation division,<ref name="cgi room">The ending credits list {{nihongo|Shaft CGI Animation Room|シャフトCGI Animation Room}} for the series' {{nihongo|3DCG Work|3DCG制作}}.</ref> as well as the Umegumi division.<ref name="umegumi">The ending credits list {{nihongo|Shaft Umegumi|シャフト梅組}} for {{nihongo|Work|制作}} for the series' opening credits animation.</ref> The second season of ''Magia record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story'' later that year also debuted the company's background art division, albeit listed under Digital@Shaft, before being given their own department name in the third season of the series in early 2022.<ref>The ending credits list SHAFT Artsection as one of the background art teams on the series.</ref> The company opened a branch studio in [[Shizuoka (city)|Shizuoka]] (which is also the first animation studio in Shizuoka Prefecture),<ref>{{Cite Tweet|number= 1535086851530182657|script-title=ja:【お知らせ】静岡に新スタジオをオープン致しました！|trans-title= [Notice] We have opened a new studio in Shizuoka!|date= June 10, 2022|access-date= June 10, 2022|user= shaft_official}}</ref> with a few of the staff members from the head office moving to the city in order to establish operations and train new staff.<ref name="kubota watanabe"/> Veteran color designer [[Yasuko Watanabe (color designer)|Yasuko Watanabe]], who joined the company in 2000, became the branch studio's chief.<ref name="kubota watanabe"/> In 2021, a fourth ''Madoka Magica'' film titled ''Walpurgisnacht: Rising'' was announced to be in production.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=Madoka Magica Gets New Anime Film as Sequel to 2013 Rebellion Film |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=April 25, 2021 |language=en |date=April 25, 2021 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425094136/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103 |url-status=live }}</ref>

At the end of 2021, and following into 2022, the studio produced a short series based on the ''Assault Lily'' franchise entitled ''Assault Lily Fruits'';<ref name="fruits"/> and in March of that year, completed the ''Magia Record'' series with a four-episode finale.<ref name="shallow"/> In July of that year, the studio produced ''[[Strike Witches|Luminous Witches]]'' and ''[[RWBY: Ice Queendom]]'' jointly.<ref name=l-witch/><ref name="iq"/> In 2023, a special based on ''The Quintessential Quintuplets'' was announced to be produced at the studio. Prior to the release of the [[The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie|2022 film]], the show's producers had no intention of making another anime based on the project; however, they changed their minds upon seeing the positive reception towards the film.<ref>{{cite magazine |editor= Satou, Junpei |title= Megami Magazine June 2023|magazine= [[Megami Magazine]]|type= |series= |language= Japanese|publisher= [[Gakken]]|publication-date= April 28, 2023|department={{lang|ja|小倉充俊Pインタビュー}} [Producer Mitsutoshi Ogura Interview]}}</ref> The reason to produce the new project at Shaft was mainly due to the popularity of the first season's 11th episode, which Shaft produced as a gross outsource.<ref>{{cite magazine |editor= Satou, Junpei |title= Megami Magazine July 2023|magazine= [[Megami Magazine]]|type= |series= |language= Japanese|publisher= [[Gakken]]|publication-date= May 30, 2023|department={{lang|ja|宮本幸裕×松川裕也インタビュー}} [Yukihiro Miyamoto x Yuuya Matsukawa Interview]}}</ref>

2023 saw no new releases from the studio aside from the ''Quintuplets'' special. However, while the studio did not produce its own works, it was busy assisting other companies with theirs. Of those, the most notable collaboration happened between Shaft and Bug Films. The studio was producing its first series, ''[[Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead]]'', and Shaft was asked to assist with part of the production of the series at the start of the third episode (and ending with the fifth episode), according to Bug Films CEO Hiroaki Kojima.<ref name="kojima">{{Cite Tweet|number=1680495741343789056|user= kojima2019|author= Kojima, Hiroaki|date= July 16, 2023|script-title=ja:ご視聴ありがとうございました！ {{!}} 制作協力のSHAFTさまは#3からの作画や撮影などにご協力いただいております。 {{!}} 大感謝！！ {{!}} 来週もよろしくお願いいたします|trans-title= Thank you for viewing! SHAFT has been in production cooperation with the animation and compositing since #3. Thank you very much!! Thank you for your continued support next week}}</ref>

Noticeably, Shinbo's involvement at the studio lessened following the turn of the decade. Whereas he had previously been involved in every major production since 2004 (with the exception of their co-productions with Gainax and the two works directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura), various other affiliated directors began to take up the mantle{{emdash}}most notably Miyamoto and Saeki. Animator [[Kazuya Shiotsuki]], who joined just before Shinbo was invited to Shaft, noted that many of the staff from that time period became the {{nihongo|"Children of Shinbo"|新房チルドレン}}<ref>{{Cite Tweet|number=1687660248008429568|user=kbnet_|title= Sure, it was「新房チルドレン」|date= August 4, 2023}}</ref> in that his influence extended further than just to the directors, and that the team as a whole (including animators such as himself) were broadly influenced by the values he displayed.<ref name="shiotsuki unknown"/> With the new generation of staff members joining in the early 2020s, as Shinbo had decreased his overall output, many of the staff at the studio were instead being influenced by Saeki and, according to Shiotsuki, [[Yasuomi Umetsu]], who has been working on a project at the studio for several years.<ref name="shiotsuki unknown"/>

In early 2024, a new adaptation of the ''Monogatari'' series, specifically the ''Off'' and ''Monster Season'' series of novels, was announced with much of the series core staff returning and a July release date. Pre-production of the series started in fall of 2022 following the end of ''Luminous Witches'' and ''RWBY: Ice Queendom'' when Aniplex producer Tatsuya Ishikawa approached the studio about continuing the adaptation.<ref name="cut interview">{{Cite magazine|magazine= CUT|editor= Yasuda, Kinako|title= CUT July 2024|publisher= rockin-on|date= June 19, 2024|language= Japanese|department= {{lang|ja|新房昭之インタビュー}} [Akiyuki Shinbo Interview]}}</ref> Agreeing, studio president Kubota selected Midori Yoshizawa, who had been directing at Shaft for nearly a decade by that point, as the new series director under Shinbo.<ref name="cut interview"/> The same year, Shaft was announced to be producing an adaptation of HundredBurger's ''[[Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi]]'' manga series.<ref name="ninjahamburger"/>

==Style==
===Visual style===
Directors [[Akiyuki Shinbo]], [[Shin Oonuma]], and [[Tatsuya Oishi (director)|Tatsuya Oishi]], who formed "Team Shinbo",<ref name="secret"/> are essentially responsible for defining Shaft's production culture and experimental stylistic visuals in the mid-to-late 2000s.<ref name="secret"/> They each brought separate stylistic strengths that contributed to the eventual "Shaft style" the studio embraced, despite the fact that neither Oonuma nor Oishi had much prior experience as directors.<ref name="secret"/> Oonuma and Oishi's success with the studio is in part due to the "mentorship" system created at Shaft, which was centered around Shinbo.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=20-21}} The two former directors would work under Shinbo and the Shaft system as episode directors and storyboard artists until they were promoted to series directors with Shinbo maintaining a supervising role over them.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=20-21}} In turn, they, too, could begin mentoring other directors; in particular, Oonuma mentored [[Yukihiro Miyamoto]], [[Tomoyuki Itamura]], and [[Naoyuki Tatsuwa]], and Oishi's influence has been exerted across the Shaft studio as a whole (and most likely Itamura, who took over the ''Monogatari'' series from Oishi).{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=21}} Team Shinbo, Miyamoto, and Itamura's styles within Shaft as a whole tend to be more experimental in nature, whereas Tatsuwa was the sole director who took a more grounded approach to the series he was involved with (while still maintaining Shaft's style).{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=25}}

Several techniques that the studio's directors still employ were popularized by Team Shinbo, such as the usage of ostentatious or simple backgrounds and tones, unique editing cuts, flat color contrasts, the insertion of real-world objects into the animated medium, monochromatic color schemes, minimalistic and abstract backgrounds, extreme changes in background art, and sharp color contrasts.<ref name="secret"/> which are used to facilitate certain surrealistic narratives and imagery, but despite this, consistently exist through each of the studio's productions.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=7}} Miyamoto brought to the studio sharp color contrasts and changing color palettes, which Itamura was stylistically influenced by; Itamura himself also created his own style defined by the usage of "chapter breaks" and paper cutouts.<ref name="secret"/>{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=24}} Tatsuwa, in contrast to the others, maintained series with less visual surrealism, albeit he continued to use several of the stylistic elements from the other directors.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=25}} One of the studio's most well-known stylistic insertions, the so-called head-tilt, has also been acknowledged by Shinbo as one of the studio's staples.<ref name="secret"/><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2017/09/02-1/a-monogatari-art-exhibition-part-two|title= A Monogatari Art Exhibition, Part 2|author= Creamer, Nick|website= [[Crunchyroll]]|date= September 2, 2017|access-date= February 7, 2021|archive-date= January 1, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220101074616/https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2017/09/02-1/a-monogatari-art-exhibition-part-two|url-status= live}}</ref>

Miyamoto brought to Shaft the art troupe [[Gekidan Inu Curry]] in 2008 during ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei|(Zoku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei]]'', and the duo's style greatly influenced the studio's animation style as a whole, which later defined the ''Madoka Magica'' franchise that Miyamoto and Shinbo directed two years later.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=23}}

===Narrative style===
Shaft's work culture has also influenced the narrative writings of the studio's productions, which have been described as existing "somewhere between comedy and despair",{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=6}} which can be best seen through the works of director Miyamoto, who has headed some of the studio's most depressive series, and also their most comedic.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=23}} The studio's works oftentimes also include unconventional characters and experimentation within the genre of the series the studio produces, while also diverging from the expectations of the audience.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=7}}

===In-house departments===
Following Wakao's retirement in 2004, Kubota decided to restructure the studio's system itself.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=18}} While the arrival of Shinbo, Oonuma, and Oishi was a part of this restructuring, Kubota also founded Shaft's in-house photography, painting, and visual effects division, which would move the already-existing painting team, in 2004. The division, named Digital@Shaft, made its first appearance on ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'' episode 4, which was outsourced to Shaft.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= [[Gakuen Alice]]|language= ja|script-quote=ja:仕上 - DIGITAL@SHAFT|trans-quote= Painting - Digital@Shaft|time=ending credits; episode 4}}</ref> The new department reorganized certain staff members in the studio and hired new recruits interested in the newly formed photography team, the latter of which includes current chiefs of the department Rei Egami and Takayuki Aizu.<ref name="shizuoka mirai">Shaft Shizuoka Studio Aoi display, part of the {{nihongo|Mirai Innovation Design Exhibit|ミライイノベーションデザイン展}} at the {{nihongo|[[Shizuoka (city)|Shizuoka City]] Cultural and Creative Industry Promotion Center|静岡市文化・クリエイティブ産業振興センター}}. October 12, 2024, to November 10, 2024.</ref> Shinichirou Etou, who had been working at the company for three years as a production assistant, was asked to set up the department due to his experience in CG from when he attended {{ill|Japan Electronics College|ja|日本電子専門学校}}.<ref name="shizuoka mirai"/> 

Shaft opened a licensing division in 2017 which manages an online shop {{endash}}Shaft Ten{{endash}} selling Blu-Rays, production materials, and other merchandise for series the company produces, as well as for managing the licenses of these goods and works.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-04-28/shaft-art-exhibit-highlights-magia-record-monogatari-series-fate-extra-last-encore/.130941|title= Shaft Art Exhibit Highlights Magia Record, Monogatari Series, Fate/EXTRA: Last Encore|author= Sherman, Jennifer|date= April 28, 2018|website= [[Anime News Network]]|access-date= September 21, 2021|archive-date= September 21, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210921065700/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-04-28/shaft-art-exhibit-highlights-magia-record-monogatari-series-fate-extra-last-encore/.130941|url-status= live}}</ref> According to division manager Kouji Tanoue, president Kubota and himself intend to grow the division's business capabilities in order to support the studio's ventures and human resource needs.<ref name="shizuoka mirai"/> 

In August 2020, Shaft posted a recruitment notice for 3DCG animation staff,<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.shaft-web.co.jp/news/|script-title= ja:スタッフ募集のおしらせ|trans-title= Notice of Recruitment of Staff|website= Shaft|date= August 2, 2020|access-date= July 26, 2021|title= SHAFT Animation Studio|archive-date= July 26, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210726214000/https://www.shaft-web.co.jp/news/|url-status= live}}</ref> and the Shaft CGI Animation Room (a division spun-off from Digital@Shaft) debuted in the studio's ''[[Pretty Boy Detective Club]]'' series the following year.<ref name="cgi room"/> Etou had left the company in 2017, but when he heard that the studio was creating a 3DCG department, he rejoined the studio and intends to make the department a pillar of Shaft productions within 5 to 10 years.<ref name="shizuoka mirai"/> ''Pretty Boy Detective Club'' also used the name Shaft Umegumi for its opening animation production credit, a humorous title given to director [[Yasuomi Umetsu]] and part of his team at the studio who produced the opeing while working on their own project, the then-unannounced ''[[Virgin Punk]]''.<ref name="umetsu blog">{{Cite web |url=http://nailwonder.blog44.fc2.com/blog-date-202409.html|script-title=ja:次回監督作品・解禁です|trans-title= My Next Directorial Work: Now Revealed|language= Japanese|website= FC2 Blog|author-last= Umetsu|author-first=Yasuomi|date= September 17, 2024|access-date= September 17, 2024}}</ref>

In 2021, Digital@Shaft formed a background art team as well.<ref>{{Cite AV media|title= [[Magia Record|Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story - The Eve of Awakening]]|language=ja|script-quote=ja: 背景 - DIGITAL@SHAFT|trans-quote= Background art - DIGITAL@SHAFT|time=ending credits, episodes 1–8}}</ref> Art director Hisaharu Iijima, a common collaborator of the studio's since 2007, and of Shinbo's since 2004, as well as the CEO and president of his own studio (Ryuubidou) was employed by the studio as a technical advisor for the art department.<ref name="shizuoka mirai"/>

===Production methods===

Beyond the in-house culture the studio emphasizes in its works, Shaft has also emphasized using a common workflow from project to project to ease the transition from production to production.<ref name="kubota ann interview"/> The purpose of such commonality between productions is to allow for consistency and the continuity of Shaft's style between productions.<ref name="kubota ann interview"/> While this system allows for Shaft's style to manifest throughout each of their productions, it also allows for more creative freedoms across all individuals working with the studio, such as Shinbo's philosophy of "mix[ing] participating staffer’s feelings".<ref>{{cite web|date=November 15, 2016|title=Interview: Akiyuki Shinbo (Animage February 2005/Vol 320)|url=https://wavemotioncannon.com/2016/11/15/interview-akiyuki-shinbo-animage-february-2005vol-320/|access-date=April 29, 2020|website=Wave Motion Cannon|translator-last=Park|translator-first=Hyun|archive-date=February 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217133850/https://wavemotioncannon.com/2016/11/15/interview-akiyuki-shinbo-animage-february-2005vol-320/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Madoka Magica'' screenwriter [[Gen Urobuchi]] described the work environment as giving him a level of freedom he'd never had before, and that "I did not think I could have written this screenplay in any other place", and both original character designer [[Ume Aoki]] and alternate space designers Gekidan Inu Curry have expressed similar perspectives.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=26}} Although anime is a collaborative process, the signature style of Shaft can best be attributed to the whole of the studio and its members rather than a single individual, and the artistic freedoms across the entire production line allow for the convergence of different staff members and their ideas to freely explore the medium which they work in.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=27}} Director Midori Yoshizawa mentioned that during the production of ''Magia Record'', the directors consulted with the animators in the company and expressed the idea that the animators themselves could change the storyboards for action scenes if they could come up with better ideas, and Yoshizawa said that this was because the animators would be able to come up with better fights and effects overall.{{sfn|Maeda|Nakagami|Kawabata|Nishitani|2020|p=108}} Character designer and chief animation director Junichirou Taniguchi (from [[Doga Kobo]]) also said that he believed it was fine for the characters to appear more stylized (and off-model) during action scenes.{{sfn|Maeda|Nakagami|Kawabata|Nishitani|2020|p=110}}

Visual effects chief Hisato Shima stated that other studios commonly have animators and operators specializing in 3D (or certain aspects of the 3D process), but that Shaft artists tend to work in a more broad area and perform several tasks during anime production.<ref name="AnimeAnime CG">{{Cite web|url= https://animeanime.jp/article/2021/10/24/64894.html|script-title= ja:『マギレコ』で解説する「シャフト流3DCG活用法」―手描き＋デジタルでさらなるクォリティーアップへ【あにつく2021オンライン】|trans-title= Explained in "MagiReco", "How to Use 3DCG the Shaft Way" - Further Quality Improvement Using Hand-Drawn and Digital Techniques (Anitsuke-2021 Online)|language= Japanese|website= AnimeAnime|date= October 24, 2021|access-date= October 24, 2021|archive-date= October 24, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211024120659/https://animeanime.jp/article/2021/10/24/64894.html|url-status= live}}</ref> Shaft's production pipeline often utilizes materials created during the normal production pipine (that is: layouts, key animation, in-between animation, finishing (painting/coloring), photography, editing) that work as temporary reference points for both 2D and 3D animators, and assist with camera angles, reference points, and other processes.<ref name="AnimeAnime CG"/> Later in the production, these temporary materials are removed, and the final CG work is added.<ref name="AnimeAnime CG"/> In order to counteract the issues that come with productions that have a mix of traditional/CG animation in regards to paper and digital canvas sizes, the studio developed a format that would be convenient for both processes by standardizing a 2156 x 1526 pixel screen size for the 3D artists.<ref name="AnimeAnime CG"/> According to Kenjirou Okada, most studios would process things like tableware through 2D animation; but at Shaft, to guarantee a certain quality as opposed to sometimes distorted shapes, such materials are normally processed with CG instead.{{sfn|Maeda|Nakagami|Kawabata|Nishitani|2020|p=107}}

Although the ''Madoka Magica'' film trilogy was not Shaft's first work to be released in theaters, it's potentially their first work to be made in a "theatrical production." Animation producer Yasuhiro Okada said that in making the film trilogy, he was conscious of the fact that he had never been involved with a theatrical production and received advice from various people; however, he noted the uniqueness of Shaft's methods in production "Shaft animation", and found that the advice was not useful for Shaft works.{{sfn|Kizawa|Takayama|Saitou|2014|p=117}} For this reason, Okada set up the schedule so that the film was split into five units (A through E), and each one would be worked on in order rather than different parts moving forward at different times.{{sfn|Kizawa|Takayama|Saitou|2014|p=117}} This allowed for the work to prioritize a small, "elite" group of animators not just for the fact that it was a theatrical work, but so that director Yukihiro Miyamoto would ideally be able to see all of their cuts and supervise the work more closely.{{sfn|Kizawa|Takayama|Saitou|2014|p=117}}

Since the time Shinbo joined the studio, Shaft-produced series also had more [[cut (transition)|cuts]] than the average anime series, as well as more corrections and retakes in Blu-ray and DVD releases than standard. According to Shinbo, the first storyboard drawn for the studio and his newfound collaboration, ''Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase'' episode 1, was 308 cuts.{{sfn|Takahashi|2019|p=111}} The standard anime is somewhere between 300-400 cuts;{{sfn|Kizawa|Nakamoto|Yanagi|2008|p=104}} however, as he continued to work for Shaft, the number of cuts in their anime continued to increase. By the time of ''Hidamari Sketch'', episodes generally were 400-500 cuts per episode,{{sfn|Kizawa|Nakamoto|Yanagi|2008|p=104}} with other series like ''Monogatari'' and ''And Yet the Town Moves'' having an equivalent number.{{sfn|Takahashi|2019|p=111}} Considering the time and budget series like ''Hidamari Sketch'' had, Shinbo mentioned that he doesn't think any other studio would allow as many cuts and as many corrections to the home video release versions as Shaft.{{sfn|Kizawa|Nakamoto|Yanagi|2008|p=104}}

According to both Kubota and Shinbo, Shaft's productions as a whole also desire the involvement of the original authors or creators of the source material which they adapt in their productions.{{sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=251}} Kubota has also emphasized a particular focus on putting full studio effort into each of their works, and not increasing the number of productions purely to satiate demand.{{sfn|Rubin|2017|p=27}}

The uniqueness of Shaft's production system compared to other anime studios, with several directors and specialized roles per most series, has also introduced certain problems. ''Monogatari'' series character designer [[Akio Watanabe]] stated that Shaft's production system during the time of ''Bakemonogatari'' (2009) was "bad at the time."{{sfn|Kushida|2017|p=106}} Although Watanabe did not specify in what way, he mentioned that the series' pre-production could be difficult due to designs and finalizations needing to be checked by visual director Nobuyuki Takeuchi, series director Tatsuya Oishi, and director Shinbo (as opposed to one director's check).{{sfn|Kushida|2017|p=106}}

== Productions ==

===Anime television series===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year 
! scope="col" | Title 
! scope="col" | Director(s)
! scope="col" | [[Line producer#Japanese media|Animation producer(s)]]
! scope="col" | Source
! scope="col" | {{abbr|Eps.|Episodes}}
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}}
|-
! scope="row" | 1995–1996
| ''[[Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger]]''
|style=text-align:center |Kunitoshi Okajima
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Hiroshi Wakao
|Original work
|39
|<ref name="juuni senshi">{{cite web |title=十二戦支爆烈エトレンジャー |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C9172 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108145308/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C9172 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2000–2001
| ''[[Dotto! Koni-chan]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Shinichi Watanabe]] {{small|(#1–13)}}<br>Kenji Yasuda {{small|(#14–26)}}
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>[[Mitsutoshi Kubota]]
|Original work
|26
|<ref name="koni">{{cite web |title=ドッとKONIちゃん |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10038 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108084721/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10038 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | 2001
| ''[[Mahoromatic|Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden]]'' (co-animated with [[Gainax]])
|style=text-align:center |[[Hiroyuki Yamaga]]
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producers:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>Hiroki Katou
|Manga
|12{{efn|A summary episode of ''Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden'' aired on December 15, 2001.<ref name="auto" />}}
|<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=まほろまてぃっく Automatic Maiden |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10185 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107041718/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10185 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | 2002
| ''[[G-On Riders]]'' (co-animated with [[TNK (company)|TNK]])
|style=text-align:center |[[Shinichiro Kimura]]
|
|Original work
|13{{efn|An [[original video animation]] episode of ''G-On Riders'' was released on March 28, 2003.<ref>{{cite web |title=G-onらいだーす [未放映版] 14 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M182868 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108010729/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M182868 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|<ref name="g-on">{{cite web |title=G-onらいだーす❤ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10380 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107011003/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10380 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | 2002–2003
| ''[[Mahoromatic|Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful]]''<br/>(co-animated with Gainax)
|style=text-align:center |Hiroyuki Yamaga
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>Hiroki Katou
|Manga
|14
|<ref>{{cite web |title=まほろまてぃっく Automatic Maiden ～もっと美しいもの～ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10408 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107141704/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10408 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2003
| ''[[Popotan]]''
|style=text-align:center |Shinichiro Kimura
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|[[Eroge]] [[visual novel]]
|12
|<ref name="popotan">{{cite web |title=ぽぽたん |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10600 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108140155/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10600 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2004
| ''[[This Ugly yet Beautiful World]]'' (co-animated with Gainax)
|style=text-align:center |[[Shouji Saeki]]
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Original work
|12
|<ref name="beautiful world">{{cite web |title=この醜くも 美しい世界 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10790 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107021423/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10790 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2004–2005
| ''[[Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Akiyuki Shinbo]]{{efn-lr|name=chief 2|Credited as {{nihongo|Chief Director|総監督}}.}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|25
|<ref name="moon phase">{{cite web |title=月詠 MOON PHASE |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10993 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128114301/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10993 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2005
| ''[[He Is My Master]]'' (co-animated with Gainax)
|style=text-align:center |Shouji Saeki
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|12
|<ref name="he master">{{cite web |title=これが私の御主人様 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11133 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108104200/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11133 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Pani Poni|Pani Poni Dash!]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>[[Shin Oonuma]]{{efn-lr|name=series|Credited as {{nihongo|Series Director|シリーズディレクター}}.}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|26
|<ref name="pani">{{cite web |title=ぱにぽにだっしゅ! |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11170 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032553/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11170 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2006
| ''[[Rec (manga)|Rec]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Ryūtarō Nakamura]]
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|9{{Efn|An [[original video animation]] episode of ''Rec'' was released on June 30, 2006.<ref name="rec" />}}
|<ref name="rec">{{cite web |title=REC |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12343 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107033512/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12343 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2006–2007
| ''[[Negima!?]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Shin Oonuma{{efn-lr|name=chief 3|Credited as {{nihongo|Chief Director|チーフディレクター}}.}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|26
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ネギま!? MAGISTER NEGI MAGI |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13913 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032553/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13913 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2007
| ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>[[Ryouki Kamitsubo]]{{efn-lr|name=chief 3}}
|
|Manga
|12{{efn|Two special episodes of ''Hidamari Sketch'' aired on October 19, 2007.<ref name="hidamari" />}}
|<ref name="hidamari">{{cite web |title=ひだまりスケッチ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10984 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109012200/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10984 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=さよなら絶望先生 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11442 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108115853/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11442 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two|Ef: A Tale of Memories]]''
|style=text-align:center |Shin Oonuma
|style=text-align:center |Shigeyuki Amemiya
|Visual novel
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ef -a tale of memories. |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11328 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032604/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11328 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2008
| ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei|(Zoku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>[[Yukihiro Miyamoto]]{{efn-lr|name=chief 1|Credited as {{nihongo|Chief Episode Director|チーフ演出.}}}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=【俗・】さよなら絶望先生 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11615 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108061513/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11615 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Hidamari Sketch|Hidamari Sketch × 365]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo
|
|Manga
|13{{efn|Two special episodes of ''Hidamari Sketch × 365'' aired on October 18, 2009 and October 25, 2009, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=ひだまりスケッチ×365[特別編] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11996 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109005737/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11996 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ひだまりスケッチ×365 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11792 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032602/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11792 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two|Ef: A Tale of Melodies]]''
|style=text-align:center |Shin Oonuma
|style=text-align:center |Shigeyuki Amemiya
|Visual novel
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ef-a tale of melodies. |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11549 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032604/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11549 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="5" | 2009
| ''[[Maria Holic]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=まりあ†ほりっく |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11896 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107121055/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11896 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Natsu no Arashi!]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Shin Oonuma{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=夏のあらし! |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12035 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032601/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12035 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Bakemonogatari]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>[[Tatsuya Oishi (director)|Tatsuya Oishi]]{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Light novel
|15{{efn| '''TV''': July 3, 2009 – September 25, 2009 (12 episodes).<ref name="bake" /> '''ONA''': November 3, 2009 – June 25, 2010 (3 episodes).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Bakemonogatari's 1st Unaired Episode Begins Streaming |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-11-02/bakemonogatari-1st-unaired-episode-begins-streaming |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=en |date=November 2, 2009|archive-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105215209/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-11-02/bakemonogatari-1st-unaired-episode-begins-streaming |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Bakemonogatari's 2nd Unaired Episode Streams in Japan |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-23/bakemonogatari-2nd-unaired-episode-streams-in-japan |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=en |date=February 23, 2010|archive-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025224928/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-23/bakemonogatari-2nd-unaired-episode-streams-in-japan |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Final Bakemonogatari Episode Streams Today |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-25/final-bakemonogatari-episode-to-stream-today |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=en |date=June 25, 2010|archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003191551/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-25/final-bakemonogatari-episode-to-stream-today |url-status=live}}</ref>|name=|group=}}
|<ref name="bake" >{{cite web |title=化物語 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12067 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=December 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211205730/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12067 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei|(Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=chief 1}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=【懺・】さよなら絶望先生 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12053 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917102703/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12053 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Natsu no Arashi!|Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Shin Oonuma {{small|(#1–7)}}{{efn-lr|name=series}}<br/>[[Kenichi Ishikura]] {{small|(#8–13)}}{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=夏のあらし! 春夏冬中[あきないちゅう] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12110 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032554/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12110 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="5" | 2010
| ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Masahiro Sonoda{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>{{small|Line producer:}}<br/>Takeshi Baba
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ダンス イン ザ ヴァンパイアバンド |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12164 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032610/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12164 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Hidamari Sketch|Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Kenichi Ishikura{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|
|Manga
|12{{efn|Two special episodes of ''Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu'' aired on October 24, 2010 and October 31, 2010, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=ひだまり スケッチ × ☆☆☆[ほしみっつ] [特別編] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13471 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032615/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13471 |url-status=live}}</ref>|name=|group=}}
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ひだまり スケッチ × ☆☆☆[ほしみっつ] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12172 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109001742/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12172 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Arakawa Under the Bridge]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>{{small|Line producers:}}<br/>Tadao Iwaki<br/>Makoto Kohara
|Manga
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=荒川アンダー ザ ブリッジ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12251 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107073205/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12251 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Arakawa Under the Bridge|Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>{{small|Line producer:}}<br/>Tadao Iwaki
|Manga
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=荒川アンダー ザ ブリッジ*2 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13508 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013070854/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13508 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[And Yet the Town Moves]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=それでも町は 廻っている |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13487 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032611/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13487 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2011
| ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Tadao Iwaki
|Original work
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=魔法少女まどか★マギカ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13879 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106173553/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13879 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Maria Holic|Maria Holic Alive]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>[[Tomokazu Tokoro]]{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>Yuuji Kanno
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=まりあ†ほりっく あらいぶ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13794 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104153441/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13794 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Light novel
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=電波女と 青春男 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13869 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107010304/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13869 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Hidamari Sketch|Hidamari Sketch × SP]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo
|
|Manga
|2
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ひだまり スケッチ SP[すぺしゃる] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13754 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326032611/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13754 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2012
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Nisemonogatari]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>[[Tomoyuki Itamura]]{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Light novel
|11
|<ref name="nise">{{cite web |title=偽 物 語[ニセモノ ガタリ] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13944 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=December 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211205726/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C13944 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Hidamari Sketch|Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>[[Yuki Yase]]{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ひだまり スケッチ × ハニカム |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14117 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104034426/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14117 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Nekomonogatari (Black)]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tomoyuki Itamura
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|4
|<ref>{{cite web |title=猫物語[ネコモノガタリ] 黒 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14050 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108145127/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14050 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2013
| ''[[Sasami-san@Ganbaranai]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ささみさん＠がんばらない |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14178 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=November 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106081428/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14178 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Monogatari Series: Second Season]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tomoyuki Itamura<br>[[Naoyuki Tatsuwa]] {{small|(#6–9)}}{{efn-lr|name=series}}<br>Yuki Yase {{small|(#14–17){{efn-lr|name=series}}}}
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga<br/>Takuo Yukinaga
|Light novel
|23{{efn| '''Nekomonogatari (White)''': July 7, 2013 – August 4, 2013 (5 episodes). '''Kabukimonogatari''': August 18, 2013 – September 8, 2013 (4 episodes). '''Otorimonogatari''': September 22, 2013 – October 13, 2013 (4 episodes). '''Onimonogatari''': October 27, 2013 – November 17, 2013 (4 episodes). '''Koimonogatari''': November 24, 2013 – December 29, 2013 (6 episodes).}}
|<ref>{{cite web |title=[〈物 語 〉 モノガタリ シリーズ セカンドシーズン] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14919 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009211110/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C14919 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2014
| ''[[Nisekoi]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Naoyuki Tatsuwa<ref name="nisekoi">{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Nisekoi Manga Gets 2nd TV Anime Season |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-10-01/nisekoi-false-love-manga-gets-2nd-tv-anime-season/.79421 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 18, 2020 |language=en |date=September 30, 2014|archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810002546/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-10-01/nisekoi-false-love-manga-gets-2nd-tv-anime-season/.79421 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|style=text-align:center |Hitoshi Fujikawa
|Manga
|20
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ニセコイ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15030 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063655/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15030 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Kagerou Project|Mekakucity Actors]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yuki Yase<ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Mekakucity Actors' Animated & Live-Action Promo Videos Debut |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-04-05/mekakucity-actors-animated-and-live-action-promo-videos-debut |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 18, 2020 |language=en |date=April 5, 2014|archive-date=September 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904150404/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-04-05/mekakucity-actors-animated-and-live-action-promo-videos-debut |url-status=live}}</ref>
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga
|[[Media-mix]] project
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=メカクシティアクターズ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15055 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063655/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15055 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Hanamonogatari]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tomoyuki Itamura
|style=text-align:center |Takuo Yukinaga
|Light novel
|5
|<ref>{{cite web |title=花物語 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15358 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107172154/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15358 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Tsukimonogatari]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tomoyuki Itamura
|style=text-align:center |Kazuki Soumiya
|Light novel
|4
|<ref>{{cite web |title=憑物語[ツキモノガタリ] よつぎドール |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C7156 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108182812/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C7156 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2015
| ''[[Gourmet Girl Graffiti]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Naoyuki Tatsuwa
|
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=幸×腹 グラフィティ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15452 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063656/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15452 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Nisekoi]]:''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=chief 1}}
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga
|Manga
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ニセコイ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15434 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063657/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15434 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Owarimonogatari I]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Tomoyuki Itamura
|style=text-align:center |Kazuki Soumiya
|Light novel
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |title=終物語[オワリモノ ガタリ] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15249 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063726/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15249 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2016–2017
| ''[[March Comes In Like a Lion]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>[[Kenjirou Okada]]{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga
|Manga
|22
|<ref name="sangatsu i">{{cite web |title=3月のライオン March comes in like a lion |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15904 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063714/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C15904 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2017
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Owarimonogatari II]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Tomoyuki Itamura
|style=text-align:center |Kazuki Soumiya
|Light novel
|7
|<ref name="owari ii">{{cite web |title=終物語[オワリモノガタリ][第2期] |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C16227 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831063712/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C16227 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2017–2018
| ''[[March Comes In like a Lion|March Comes In Like a Lion 2nd Season]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Kenjirou Okada{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Kouichi Yasuda
|Manga
|22
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=March comes in like a lion Anime's 2nd Season Reveals October 14 Premiere, Visual, 22 Episode Count |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-21/march-comes-in-like-a-lion-anime-2nd-season-reveals-october-14-premiere-visual-22-episode-count/.120351 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=November 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106122239/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-21/march-comes-in-like-a-lion-anime-2nd-season-reveals-october-14-premiere-visual-22-episode-count/.120351 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2018
| ''[[Fate/Extra|Fate/Extra Last Encore]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=series}}
|style=text-align:center |Kazumasa Amitani
|Video game
|13
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Fate/Extra Last Encore Anime to Premiere on January 27 |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-12-02/fate-extra-last-encore-anime-to-premiere-on-january-27/.124780 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=December 2, 2017|archive-date=December 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207180610/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-12-02/fate-extra-last-encore-anime-to-premiere-on-january-27/.124780 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2019
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Zoku Owarimonogatari]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<ref name="zoku owari">{{cite web |title=「続・終物語」公式サイト |url=https://www.monogatari-series.com/zokuowarimonogatari/ |website=Zoku Owarimonogatari Official Site |publisher=[[Kodansha]]/[[Aniplex]]/Shaft |access-date=August 18, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=May 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504071557/https://www.monogatari-series.com/zokuowarimonogatari/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Kazuki Soumiya
|Light novel
|6
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Jennifer |title=Zoku Owarimonogatari Anime's Trailer Previews Opening Theme Song |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-11-08/zoku-owarimonogatari-anime-trailer-previews-opening-theme-song/.139230 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=November 8, 2018|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107125607/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-11-08/zoku-owarimonogatari-anime-trailer-previews-opening-theme-song/.139230 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2020
| ''[[Magia Record|Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Gekidan Inu Curry|Doroinu]]{{efn|name=gekidan|Doroinu credited as "Gekidan Inu Curry (Doroinu)"}}{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Yukihiro Miyamoto<br/>Kenjirou Okada<br/>[[Midori Yoshizawa]]{{efn|Doroinu was chosen to direct the project due to his deep involvement with the game; however, as Doroinu was inexperienced in directing television animation, Yukihiro Miyamoto acted as his assistant director.{{sfn|Maeda|Nakagami|Kawabata|Nishitani|2020|p=74}} Furthermore, this first season of the series was split into groups that would be handled by either Miyamoto, Kenjirou Okada, or Midori Yoshizawa acting as series directors for their given episodes.{{sfn|Maeda|Nakagami|Kawabata|Nishitani|2020|p=74}}}}
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Mobile game
|13
|<ref name="magia record i">{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Anime Confirms 2nd Season |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-03-28/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story-anime-confirms-2nd-season/.158067 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=March 28, 2020|archive-date=August 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828191943/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-03-28/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story-anime-confirms-2nd-season/.158067 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Assault Lily|Assault Lily Bouquet]]''
|style=text-align:center |Shouji Saeki<br/>[[Hajime Ootani]]{{efn-lr|name=chief 1}}
|style=text-align:center |Kouichi Yasuda
|Media-mix project
|12
|<ref name="bouquet">{{Cite web |url=https://anime.assaultlily-pj.com/caststaff/|title= CAST / STAFF|website= Assault Lily|publisher= Azone International, [[Bushiroad]], Bushiroad Music, Marui Group, [[Tokyo Broadcasting System|TBS]], Bushiroad Creative, Pokelabo, Shaft|language= Japanese|access-date= April 20, 2021|archive-date= December 4, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191204175006/https://anime.assaultlily-pj.com/caststaff/|url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2021
| ''[[Pretty Boy Detective Club]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Hajime Ootani
|style=text-align:center |Kouichi Yasuda
|Light novel
|12
|<ref name="bishounen boys">{{Cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-12/pretty-boy-detective-club-anime-reunites-monogatari-shaft-akiyuki-simbo-on-staff/.166283 |title=Pretty Boy Detective Club Anime Reunites Monogatari's Shaft, Akiyuki Simbo on Staff |date=November 12, 2020 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113074208/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-12/pretty-boy-detective-club-anime-reunites-monogatari-shaft-akiyuki-simbo-on-staff/.166283 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Magia Record|Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story - <br/>Eve of Awakening]]''
|style=text-align:center |Doroinu{{efn|name=gekidan}}{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Yukihiro Miyamoto
|style=text-align:center |Yuuya Matsukawa
|Mobile game
|8
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Anime's 2nd Season Premieres This Summer|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-06-10/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story-anime-2nd-season-premieres-this-summer/.173784|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=June 10, 2021|language=en|date=June 10, 2021|archive-date=June 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610121953/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-06-10/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story-anime-2nd-season-premieres-this-summer/.173784|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2022
| ''[[Magia Record|Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story - <br/>Dawn of a Shallow Dream]]''
|style=text-align:center |Doroinu{{efn|name=gekidan}}{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Yukihiro Miyamoto
|style=text-align:center |Yuuya Matsukawa
|Mobile game
|4
|<ref name="shallow">{{cite web|title=Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Final Season Anime Delayed to Spring 2022|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-13/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story-final-season-anime-delayed-to-spring-2022/.180585|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=December 13, 2021|language=en|date=December 13, 2021|archive-date=December 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213145350/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-13/magia-record-puella-magi-madoka-magica-side-story-final-season-anime-delayed-to-spring-2022/.180585|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Strike Witches|Luminous Witches]]''
|style=text-align:center |Shouji Saeki
|style=text-align:center |Kouichi Yasuda
|Media-mix project
|12{{efn|A special episode of ''Luminous Witches'' was released on December 23, 2020.<ref>{{Cite AV media|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbe5jUgzDDo&feature=emb_title |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/xbe5jUgzDDo |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|script-title=ja:TVアニメ「連盟空軍航空魔法音楽隊 ルミナスウィッチーズ」アニメーションスペシャルPV（Short.ver）|trans-title= Tv Anime "Federation Air Force Aviation Magic Music Corps Luminous Witches" Animation Special PV (Short ver.)|type= web production|language= ja}}{{cbignore}}</ref>}}
|<ref name="l-witch">{{cite web |title=Luminous Witches TV Anime Delayed From 2021 To 2022 |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2021-08-27/luminous-witches-tv-anime-delayed-from-2021-to-2022/.176718 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 27, 2021 |language=en |date=August 27, 2021|archive-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827055414/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2021-08-27/luminous-witches-tv-anime-delayed-from-2021-to-2022/.176718 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[RWBY: Ice Queendom]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Toshimasa Suzuki]]<br>Kenjirou Okada{{efn-lr|name=chief 3}}
|style=text-align:center |Yuuya Matsukawa
|Web series
|12
|<ref name="iq">{{cite web |title=Shaft Animates New RWBY TV Anime RWBY: Ice Queendom |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-24/shaft-animates-new-rwby-tv-anime-rwby-ice-queendom/.183977 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=March 24, 2022 |language=en |date=March 24, 2022|archive-date=March 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316205816/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-24/shaft-animates-new-rwby-tv-anime-rwby-ice-queendom/.183977 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope = row | 2025
| ''[[Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi]]''
|style=text-align:center |Yukihiro Miyamoto
|{{TBA}}
|Manga
|{{TBA}}
|<ref name="ninjahamburger">{{cite web |title=Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi Anime Reveals April 2025 Debut, Teaser Video, Staff, More Cast |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-25/ninja-to-koroshiya-no-futarigurashi-anime-reveals-april-2025-debut-teaser-video-staff-more-cast/.218262 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 25, 2024 |language=en |date=November 25, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|}

===Anime films===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year 
! scope="col" | Title 
! scope="col" | Director(s)
! scope="col" | Animation producer(s)
! scope="col" | Source
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}}
|-
! scope="row" | 2007
| ''[[Kino's Journey|Kino's Journey: Country of Illness -For You-]]''
|style=text-align:center |Ryūtarō Nakamura
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|<ref>{{cite web |title=キノの旅 The Beautiful World 「病気の国」 - For You - |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C411466 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090743/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C411466 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2011
| ''[[Negima! Magister Negi Magi|Mahō Sensei Negima! Anime Final]]''<br/>(co-animated with Studio Pastoral)
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota<br/>Yuuji Kanno
|Manga
|<ref>{{cite web |title=魔法 先生 ネギま! MAGISTER NEGI MAGI ANIME FINAL 劇場版 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412739 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090654/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412739 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2012
| ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie|Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Beginnings]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto
|style=text-align:center |Yasuhiro Okada
| rowspan="3"|Original work
|<ref>{{cite web |title=劇場版 魔法少女 まどか★マギカ [前編] 始まりの物語 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412800 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090654/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412800 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie|Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Eternal]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto
|style=text-align:center |Yasuhiro Okada
|<ref>{{cite web |title=劇場版 魔法少女 まどか★マギカ [後編] 永遠の物語 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412803 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090655/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412803 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2013
| ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie|Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto
|style=text-align:center |Yasuhiro Okada
|<ref>{{cite web |title=劇場版 魔法少女 まどか★マギカ [新編] 叛逆の物語 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412825 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090654/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C412825 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2016
| ''[[Kizumonogatari|Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tatsuya Oishi
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga<br/>Takuo Yukinaga
| rowspan="3"|Light novel
|<ref>{{cite web |title=傷物語[I] 鉄血篇 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C413525 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090745/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C413525 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Kizumonogatari|Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tatsuya Oishi
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga<br/>Takuo Yukinaga
|<ref>{{cite web |title=傷物語II熱血篇 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C413591 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090714/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C413591 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2017
| ''[[Kizumonogatari|Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Tatsuya Oishi
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga<br/>Takuo Yukinaga
|<ref>{{cite web |title=傷物語 III冷血篇 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C413612 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090714/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C413612 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Fireworks (2017 film)|Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Nobuyuki Takeuchi
|style=text-align:center |Kazuki Soumiya
| Live-action film
|<ref name="fireworks">{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=Shunji Iwai's 'Fireworks' Anime Film Previewed in Anime Music Video |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-10/shunji-iwai-fireworks-anime-film-previewed-in-anime-music-video/.119961 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=August 10, 2017|archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108112858/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-10/shunji-iwai-fireworks-anime-film-previewed-in-anime-music-video/.119961 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2023
|''[[The Quintessential Quintuplets]]''~
|style=text-align:center |Yukihiro Miyamoto
|style=text-align:center |Yuuya Matsukawa
|Manga
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mateo |first1=Alex |title=New The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ Anime Special Premieres on TV in Summer, Theaters on July 14 in Japan |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-05-04/new-the-quintessential-quintuplets-anime-special-premieres-on-tv-in-summer-theaters-on-july-14-in-/.197791 |website=Anime News Network |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=en |date=4 May 2023}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2024
| ''[[Kizumonogatari|Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp]]''
|style=text-align:center |Tatsuya Oishi
|{{N/A}}
|Light novel
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kizumonogatari-movie.com/staffcast/|title= STAFFCAST|website= Kizumonogatari Movie|publisher= [[Aniplex]]|language=Japanese|access-date= September 10, 2023}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2025
| ''[[Virgin Punk|Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Yasuomi Umetsu]]
| {{TBA}}
| Original work
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2345065/full/|script-title=ja:『ヴァージン・パンク』2025年初夏に公開 PV公開で梅津泰臣×シャフトのオリジナルアニメ|trans-title= "Virgin Punk" to be Released in Early Summer 2025 - PV Released Reveals Original Anime by Yasuomi Umetsu and SHAFT|website= Oricon|language= Japanese|date= September 16, 2024|access-date= September 16, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie|Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Yukihiro Miyamoto
| {{TBA}}
| Original work
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=Madoka Magica Gets New Anime Film as Sequel to 2013 Rebellion Film |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=April 25, 2021 |language=en |date=April 25, 2021|archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425094136/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-16 |title=Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- Anime Film Delayed to Winter 2025 |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-08-16/madoka-magica-walpurgisnacht-rising-anime-film-delayed-to-winter-2025/.214368 |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=Anime News Network |language=en}}</ref>
|}

===Original video animations===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year 
! scope="col" | Title 
! scope="col" | Director(s)
! scope="col" | Animation producer(s)
! scope="col" | Source
! scope="col" | {{abbr|Eps.|Episodes}}
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1987
| ''Yume kara, Samenai''
|style=text-align:center |Osamu Inoue
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Takuya Minagawa
|Manga
|1
|<ref name="first">{{cite web |last1=Loveridge |first1=Lynzee |title=SHAFT Opens 'Madogatari' Exhibit to Celebrate 40th Anniversary |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-07-03/shaft-opens-madogatari-exhibit-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary/.90048 |website=Anime News Network |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=July 3, 2015|archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130085714/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-07-03/shaft-opens-madogatari-exhibit-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary/.90048 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''Taiman Blues: Shimizu Naoto-hen''
|style=text-align:center |Takao Yotsuji
| {{N/A}}
|Manga
|1
|<ref name="taiman">{{cite episode |date=April 5, 1987 |series=Taiman Blues: Naoto Shimizu-hen |number=1 |language=ja |quote=アニメーション製作 - シャフト |time=29:10}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1997
| ''[[Sakura Diaries]]''
|style=text-align:center |Kunitoshi Okajima
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Hiroshi Wakao
|Manga
|12
|<ref name="sakura miyavi">{{Cite web |url=https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20140209-a062/ |title=遊人「桜通信」の続編が開幕！あの感動とリビドーが再び |website=Mynavi |language=ja |date=February 9, 2014 |access-date=October 4, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008031043/https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20140209-a062/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2002–2003
| ''[[Arcade Gamer Fubuki]]''
|style=text-align:center |Yūji Mutō
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|4
|<ref>{{cite web |title=アーケードゲーマーふぶき |url=http://www.shaft-web.co.jp/works/#entry-158 |publisher=Shaft |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009033257/http://www.shaft-web.co.jp/works/#entry-158 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2006
| ''[[Negima! Magister Negi Magi|Mahō Sensei Negima!: Spring (Haru)]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Shin Oonuma
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|rowspan="2"|Manga
|1
|<ref name = "negi">{{cite web |title=ネギま！？春･夏 |url=http://king-cr.jp/special/negima_ova/index.html |publisher=[[King Records (Japan)|King Amusement Creative]] |language=ja |access-date=December 26, 2019|archive-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430124244/http://king-cr.jp/special/negima_ova/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Negima! Magister Negi Magi|Mahō Sensei Negima!: Summer (Natsu)]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Shin Oonuma
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|1
|<ref name="negi" />
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2008–2009
| ''[[Negima! Magister Negi Magi|Mahō Sensei Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba]]''<br/>(co-animated with Studio Pastoral)
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://negima.kc.kodansha.co.jp/alaalba/staffcast.html |title=スタッフ＆キャスト |access-date=August 13, 2020 |publisher=[[Kodansha]] |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322221809/http://negima.kc.kodansha.co.jp/alaalba/staffcast.html |website=Mahō Sensei Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><br/>Hiroaki Tomita {{small|(#1)}}<br/>Yukihiro Miyamoto {{small|(#2)}}<br/>Tomoyuki Itamura {{small|(#3)}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|3
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://negima.kc.kodansha.co.jp/alaalba/shouhin.html |title=商品情報 |access-date=August 13, 2020 |publisher=[[Kodansha]] |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322221759/http://negima.kc.kodansha.co.jp/alaalba/shouhin.html |website=Mahō Sensei Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei|(Goku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=chief 1}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|3
|<ref>{{cite web |title=スタッフ&キャスト |url=http://king-cr.jp/special/zetsubou_oad/index.html |website=(Goku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei |publisher=[[King Records (Japan)|King Amusement Creative]] |language=ja |access-date=August 13, 2020|archive-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105115715/http://king-cr.jp/special/zetsubou_oad/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2009–2010
| ''[[Negima! Magister Negi Magi|Mahō Sensei Negima!: Mō Hitotsu no Sekai]]''<br/>(co-animated with Studio Pastoral)
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>[[Kōbun Shizuno]] {{small|(#1–2)}}<br>Tomokazu Tokoro {{small|(#3–4)}}<br>Tatsufumi Itō {{small|(#5)}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsusohi Kubota
|Manga
|5
|<ref>{{cite web |title=スタッフ&キャスト |url=http://king-cr.jp/special/negima_oad2/staff.html |website=Mahō Sensei Negima!: Mō Hitotsu no Sekai |publisher=[[King Records (Japan)|King Amusement Creative]] |language=ja |access-date=August 13, 2020|archive-date=October 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014030833/http://king-cr.jp/special/negima_oad2/staff.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei|(Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Bangaichi]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=chief 1}}
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|2
|<ref>{{cite web |title=スタッフ&キャスト |url=http://king-cr.jp/special/zetsubou3/staff.html |website=(Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei |publisher=[[King Records (Japan)|King Amusement Creative]] |language=ja |access-date=August 13, 2020|archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806151928/http://king-cr.jp/special/zetsubou3/staff.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2011
| ''[[Katteni Kaizō]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Naoyuki Tatsuwa
|style=text-align:center |Mitsutoshi Kubota
|Manga
|6
|<ref>{{cite web |title=かってに改蔵 |url=http://king-cr.jp/special/kaizo/ |publisher=[[King Records (Japan)|King Amusement Creative]] |language=ja |access-date=August 13, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910001642/http://king-cr.jp/special/kaizo/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2013
| ''[[Hidamari Sketch|Hidamari Sketch: Sae & Hiro's Graduation Arc]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yuki Yase
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Producer:}}<br/>Miku Ooshima
|Manga
|2
|<ref>{{cite web |title=13年10月記事 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/hidamari/news/news1310.html |website=Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb |publisher=[[Tokyo Broadcasting System Television]] |language=ja |access-date=August 13, 2020|archive-date=October 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011185655/https://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/hidamari/news/news1310.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2014–2015
| ''[[Nisekoi]]'' OVAs
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Naoyuki Tatsuwa
|style=text-align:center |Hitoshi Fujikawa (1–2)<br/>Kousuke Matsunaga (3)
|Manga
|3
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelkin |first1=Sarah |title=Nisekoi Manga #17 to Bundle Public Bath Original Video Anime |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-05/nisekoi-manga-no.17-to-bundle-public-bath-original-video-anime/.81795 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=December 5, 2014|archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810164410/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-05/nisekoi-manga-no.17-to-bundle-public-bath-original-video-anime/.81795 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2015
| ''[[Magical Suite Prism Nana]]''
|style=text-align:center |Yukihiro Miyamoto {{small|(#1)}}<br>Seiya Numata {{small|(#2)}}<br>Hajime Ōtani {{small|(#3)}}
|style=text-align:center |Yasuhiro Okada
|Media-mix project
|7
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pineda |first1=Rafael Antonio |title=Shaft's Magical Suite Prism Nana Anime Website Posts 2nd OVA |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-04/shaft-magical-suite-prism-nana-anime-website-posts-2nd-ova/.120908 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=September 3, 2017|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107054121/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-04/shaft-magical-suite-prism-nana-anime-website-posts-2nd-ova/.120908 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2016
| ''[[Nisekoi]]:'' OVAs
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yukihiro Miyamoto{{efn-lr|name=chief 1}}
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga
|Manga
|2
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=Nisekoi OAD's Promo Video Previews Newlywed Shorts |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-22/nisekoi-oad-promo-video-previews-newlywed-shorts/.94508 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=October 22, 2015|archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108132128/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-22/nisekoi-oad-promo-video-previews-newlywed-shorts/.94508 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2016–2017
| ''[[Zaregoto|The Beheading Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense Bearer]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br>Yuki Yase
|style=text-align:center |Kazuki Soumiya
|Light novel
|8
|<ref name="zaregoto">{{cite web |last1=Ressler |first1=Karen |title=Final 2 Kubikiri Cycle Anime Volumes Delayed Again |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-05-30/final-2-kubikiri-cycle-anime-volumes-delayed-again/.116782 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en |date=May 30, 2017|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107144328/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-05-30/final-2-kubikiri-cycle-anime-volumes-delayed-again/.116782 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|}

===Original net animations===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year 
! scope="col" | Title 
! scope="col" | Director(s)
! scope="col" | Animation producer(s)
! scope="col" | Source
! scope="col" | {{abbr|Eps.|Episodes}}
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}}
|-
! scope="row" | 2016
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Koyomimonogatari]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>Tomoyuki Itamura<ref>{{cite web |title=スタッフ＆キャスト |url=https://www.monogatari-series.com/koyomimonogatari/staffcast/ |website=Koyomimonogatari Official Site |publisher=[[Kodansha]]/[[Aniplex]]/Shaft |access-date=August 24, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107091818/https://www.monogatari-series.com/koyomimonogatari/staffcast/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|style=text-align:center |Kazuki Soumiya
|Light novel
|12
|<ref>{{cite web |title="暦物語"の検索結果 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/animation/search?q=%E6%9A%A6%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=August 1, 2020 |language=ja|archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821090655/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/animation/search?q=%E6%9A%A6%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2021–2022
| ''[[Assault Lily|Assault Lily Fruits]]''
|style=text-align:center |Shouji Saeki
|style=text-align:center |Kouichi Yasuda
|Media-mix project
|13
|<ref name="fruits">{{Cite Tweet|number= 1409487581117509633|language= Japanese|user= assaultlily_pj|access-date= June 28, 2021|script-title=ja:【ビジュアル公開】 7月よりスタートの「アサルトリリィ ふるーつ」のキービジュアル&キャスト/スタッフ情報を公開 / ミニキャラになったかわいらしいリリィ達の活躍を乞うご期待|trans-title= [Visual Release] Key visual & cast/staff information for "Assault Lily Fruits" starting in July is released / Stay tuned for the success fot he cute Lily who have become mini characters!}}</ref>
|-
! scope = row | 2024
| ''[[Monogatari (series)|Monogatari Series Off & Monster Season]]''
|style=text-align:center |Akiyuki Shinbo{{efn-lr|name=chief 2}}<br/>[[Midori Yoshizawa]]
|style=text-align:center |Yuuya Matsukawa<br/>Ryuusuke Suzuki{{efn|Suzuki credited from episode 6.5 to episode 8.}}
|Light novel
|14
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.monogatari-series.com/oms/|title= Monogatari Series Off & Monster Season|language= Japanese|access-date= January 18, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|}

===Video game work===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width=10 | Year 
! scope="col" | Title 
! scope="col" | Developer
! scope="col" | Animation producer(s)
! scope="col" | Role(s)
! scope="col" | Note(s)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}}
|-
!scope="row" | 2013
|''[[Fate/Extra CCC]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Type-Moon]]<br/>[[Imageepoch]]
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Production manager:}}<br/>Ryuusuke Suzuki
|Opening animation production
|Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo.
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Fate/extra CCC RPG's SHAFT-Animated Opening Streamed |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-01-24/fate/extra-ccc-rpg-shaft-animated-opening-streamed |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=January 24, 2013 |archive-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227022707/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-01-24/fate/extra-ccc-rpg-shaft-animated-opening-streamed |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | 2016
|''[[Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star|Fate/EXTELLA]]''
|style=text-align:center |[[Marvelous (company)|Marvelous]]
|style=text-align:center |{{small|Production manager:}}<br/>Kazumasa Amitani
|Opening animation production
|Directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto.
|<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO2w29PwoFk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/PO2w29PwoFk |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title= PS4/PS Vita『Fate/EXTELLA』オープニングアニメ|website=[[YouTube]] |date= September 11, 2016|language= Japanese|access-date= July 1, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | 2017–2024
|''[[Magia Record]]''
|style=text-align:center |f4samurai
|style=text-align:center |Ryuusuke Suzuki<br/>Yasuhiro Okada
|Production assistance<br/>Opening and cutscene animation production
|Various directors.{{efn|Shaft-produced sequences directed by Seiya Numata, Naoaki Shibuta, Yukihiro Miyamoto, Doroinu, Hajime Ootani, Kenjirou Okada, Shuuji Miyazaki, Mitsuru Ishihara, and Rina Iwamoto.}}
|<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002317.000016356.html|title= 『マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝』、5月18日17:00より『リリース1000日記念キャンペーン』と『若菜つむぎ ピックアップガチャ』を開催し、メインストーリー第2部OPムービーを公開！他|website= PR Times|date= May 18, 2020|language= Japanese|access-date= September 16, 2021|archive-date= November 15, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211115024452/https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002317.000016356.html|url-status= live}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2018
|''Monogatari Series PucPuc''
|style=text-align:center |[[NHN Japan Corporation|NHN PlayArt]]
|{{N/A}}
|Illustration assistance
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://monogatari-pucpuc.jp/ |title=〈物語〉シリーズ ぷくぷく |website=monogatari-pucpuc.jp |language=ja |access-date=January 6, 2020 |archive-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422025204/https://monogatari-pucpuc.jp/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|''[[Crystar]]''
|style=text-align:center |Gemdrops
|style=text-align:center |Kousuke Matsunaga
|Opening animation production
|Directed by Tatsuya Oishi.
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2018/06/22/20180622-crystar/ |title=PS4ソフト『CRYSTAR -クライスタ-』 豪華制作陣が贈る......｢涙｣がテーマの泣いて戦うアクションRPG |trans-title=PS4 software "CRYSTAR" Presented by a Gorgeous Production Team... An Action RPG with the Theme of "Tears" |date=June 22, 2018 |website=[[PlayStation]].Blog |language=ja |access-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023112837/https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2018/06/22/20180622-crystar/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | 2021–present
|''[[Assault Lily|Assault Lily Last Bullet]]'' 
|style=text-align:center |Pokelabo
|style=text-align:center |Kouichi Yasuda
|Planning and production<br/>Opening and cutscene animation production
|Various directors.{{efn|Opening directed by Seiya Numata, with cutscenes directed by Ayumu Uwano and Ken Sanuma.}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW5G7oSqMxM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/oW5G7oSqMxM |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title= 【ラスバレ】「アサルトリリィ Last Bullet」オープニング映像|website=[[YouTube]] |date= January 20, 2021|language= Japanese|access-date= September 16, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|}

=== Other productions ===
{{Columns-list|
*''[[Shina Dark]]'' (OVA, March 21, 2008) {{endash}} four music video shorts for the manga by [[Bunjūrō Nakayama]]; directed by Naoyuki Konno, Shinpei Tomooka, Shin Oonuma, and [[Toshimasa Suzuki]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Loo, Egan |title=Shina Dark Anime Music Videos' Samples Posted Online |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-03/shina-dark-anime-dvd-video-digest-posted-online |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=March 3, 2008 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135819/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-03/shina-dark-anime-dvd-video-digest-posted-online |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= http://pen.serio.jp/highwaystar/works/comic-shina.html|title= シャイナ・ダルク ～黒き月の王と蒼碧の月の姫君～|language= Japanese|website= Highway Star (part of [[Yukari Higa]]'s official website)|access-date= September 17, 2021|archive-date= September 17, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210917041156/http://pen.serio.jp/highwaystar/works/comic-shina.html|url-status= live}}</ref>
*''MAG Net'' (TV series, 2010) {{endash}} opening animation for the television series; directed by Tatsuya Oishi.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title= MAG Net|language= Japanese|script-quote=ja:アニメ制作 - 尾石達也 シャフト|trans-quote= Anime production - Tatsuya Oishi Shaft|time=opening credits}}</ref>
*''Palutena's Revolting Dinner'' (ONA, March 19, 2012) {{endash}} two promotional shorts for ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising#Animation|Kid Icarus: Uprising]]''; directed by Akiyuki Shinbo.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kid Icarus: Uprising - Watch Original 3D Animations! |url=https://www.nintendo.co.uk/games/oms/kidicarusuprising/anime/index.html |publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo UK]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-date=April 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405054600/https://www.nintendo.co.uk/games/oms/kidicarusuprising/anime/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''Goddess of Light'' (ONA, June 10, 2014) {{endash}} [[Palutena]] character reveal trailer for ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]''.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5CJMAQ-TM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/rS5CJMAQ-TM |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=【スマブラ3DS・WiiU】 光の女神 |language=ja |author=Nintendo |author-link=Nintendo |date=June 10, 2014 |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=March 28, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*''Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku x Monogatari'' (ONA, December 31, 2014) {{endash}} promotional video for Nisio Isin's ''Boukyaku Tantei Series'', featuring characters from the ''Monogatari series''; directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto.<ref>{{Cite AV media|script-title=ja:西尾維新最新作『掟上今日子の備忘録』×〈物語〉シリーズ　コラボＣＭ第二弾|trans-title=Nisio Isin's Latest Work "Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku" x Monogatari Series Collaboration CM 2nd|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXusSjThKk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/mYXusSjThKk |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|language= Japanese|date= December 31, 2014|access-date= February 25, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*''IRoid: Koi no Yūkō Frontier'' (ONA, December 14, 2015) {{endash}} Promotional short for the dating simulator app IRoid by QUICK.<ref>{{Cite AV media|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8JgNWY4xD8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/e8JgNWY4xD8 |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|script-title=ja:IRroid　恋の有効フロンティア　PV　30秒.ver|trans-title= IRoid: Koi no Yūkō Frontier PV 30 Second Ver.|date= December 14, 2015|language= Japanese|access-date= February 25, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*''[[Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition|Kakushigoto]]'' (ONA, June 14, 2016) {{endash}} promotional short for the manga by [[Kōji Kumeta]]; directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/191197 |title=久米田康治×シャフトで「かくしごと」PV制作！神谷浩史＆安済知佳が出演 |trans-title=Kōji Kumeta x Shaft "Kakushigoto" PV Production! Featuring Hiroshi Kamiya & Chika Anzai |date=June 17, 2016 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Natalie]] |access-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108094243/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/191197 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[Akuma no Memumemu-chan]]'' (ONA, January 22, 2018) {{endash}} promotional short for the manga by Keitarо̄ Yotsuya; directed by Seiya Numata.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Sherman, Jennifer |title=Akuma no Memumemu-chan Anime Short Streamed |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-01-22/akuma-no-memumemu-chan-anime-short-streamed/.126771 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=January 22, 2018 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125002509/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-01-22/akuma-no-memumemu-chan-anime-short-streamed/.126771 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*"Ikebukuro PR Animation" (ONA, January 17, 2019) {{endash}} promotional short for the [[Ikebukuro]] district in Tokyo's [[Toshima]] ward; directed by Yukio Takatsu.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Loveridge, Lynzee |title=Studio Shaft's Ikebukuro Tourism Anime Premieres Online |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-01-18/studio-shaft-ikebukuro-tourism-anime-premieres-online/.142277 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=January 18, 2019 |archive-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227030602/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-01-18/studio-shaft-ikebukuro-tourism-anime-premieres-online/.142277 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*"Limited Time Fate/EXTRA CCC x Fate/Grand Order Special Event 'Deep Sea Dennou Rakudo SE.RA.PH' Announcement CM" (ONA, May 7, 2017) {{endash}} promotional short for a crossover event between the ''[[Fate/Extra CCC]]'' and ''[[Fate/Grand Order]]'' video games.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdT8HYLw9Jg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/UdT8HYLw9Jg |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title= 期間限定Fate/EXTRA CCC x Fate/Grand Order スペシャルイベント「深海電脳楽土 SE.RA.PH」告知CM|publisher= [[YouTube]]|author= 【公式】Fate/Grand Order チャンネル|language= Japanese|date= May 7, 2017|access-date= November 4, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* "Hungry Days" (ONA, May 21, 2019, September 12, 2019, December 5, 2019, February 7, 2020) {{endash}} series of four commercials for [[Nissin Foods|Nissin]]'s [[Cup Noodles]] featuring characters from ''[[One Piece]]''; directed by Yūsuke Takase<ref>{{cite web |author1=Morrissy, Kim |title=Witness Roronoa Zoro's High School Teenage Years in Cup Noodle Ad |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-05-22/witness-roronoa-zoro-high-school-teenage-years-in-cup-noodle-ad/.146972 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=May 22, 2019 |archive-date=September 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930052647/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-05-22/witness-roronoa-zoro-high-school-teenage-years-in-cup-noodle-ad/.146972 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Loveridge, Lynzee |title=Cup Noodle Shows One Piece's Nami Struggle with High School Life |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-09-13/cup-noodle-shows-one-piece-nami-struggle-with-high-school-life/.151065 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=September 13, 2019 |archive-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227065406/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-09-13/cup-noodle-shows-one-piece-nami-struggle-with-high-school-life/.151065 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Morrissy, Kim |title=Latest One Piece Cup Noodle Ad Shows Vivi's Heartbreaking Departure |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-12-06/latest-one-piece-cup-noodle-ad-shows-vivi-heartbreaking-departure/.154046 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=December 6, 2019 |archive-date=January 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105115847/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-12-06/latest-one-piece-cup-noodle-ad-shows-vivi-heartbreaking-departure/.154046 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Choujuu Giga Gao Road Chocolate Dai 0-dan'' (ONA, February 20, 2021) {{endash}} promotional commercial directed by Kiyoyuki Amano.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000382.000014685.html|script-title=ja:新発売の『超獣戯牙ガオロードチョコ』のTVCMが明日から全国放送開始！監督はカヤックの天野清之が担当。|trans-title=The TV CM of the newly released "Super Beast Gi Fang Gao Road Chocolate" will start broadcasting nationwide tomorrow! The director is Kiyoyuki Amano of [Omoshiro Houjin Kayac]|website=PR Times|date=February 19, 2021|access-date=February 25, 2021|archive-date=February 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219022924/https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000382.000014685.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''Taishou Romance'' (music video, September 16, 2021) {{endash}} music video for the song by [[YOASOBI]]; directed by Yūsuke Takase.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJQ9ig_d8yY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/wJQ9ig_d8yY |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title= YOASOBI「大正浪漫」Official Music Video|website=[[YouTube]] |date= September 16, 2021|language= Japanese|access-date= September 16, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* ''[[Monogatari (series)|Bakemonogatari]]'' (ONA, February 17, 2022) {{endash}} promotional video for the manga adaptation of ''Bakemonogatari'' by [[Oh! Great]]; directed by Akiyuki Shinbo.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMHtiWvDQxA|script-title= ja:漫画『化物語』シャフト制作特別PV|trans-title= Manga "Bakemonogatari" Special Shaft Production PV|publisher= [[YouTube]]|author= shonenmagazine official|date= February 17, 2022|access-date= February 17, 2022|archive-date= February 16, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220216234123/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMHtiWvDQxA|url-status= live}}</ref>
* ''J:COM x U25 Kankyou wo Kangaeru Project CM'' (ONA, July 3, 2023) {{endash}} promotional video for J:COM's environmental awareness "U25 Kankyou wo Kangaeru Project"; directed by Ryou Shimura.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1CaNdW89qk|script-title=ja:J:COMサステナビリティ活動 {{!}} U25 環境を考えるプロジェクト アニメCM 30秒ver.|trans-title= J:COM Sustainability Activities {{!}} U25 Thinking About the Environment Project Anime CM 30 Second Ver.|publisher= [[YouTube]]|author= J:COM|date= July 3, 2023|access-date= July 3, 2023}}</ref>
*"Baton Concept Movie" (ONA, December 1, 2023) {{endash}} corporate short film promoting "Baton", an education-focused app; directed by Yūsuke Takase.<ref name="baton">{{Cite web |url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000151.000012901.html|script-title=ja:『「遊ぶように学ぶ世界」とは？』QuizKnockを運営する株式会社batonがコーポレートムービーを公開！　伊沢拓司の声の出演やふくらP制作の高難易度謎解きも登場|trans-title= "A World Where People Learn as They Play?" Baton Inc., operated by QuizKnock, releases its corporate movie! Featuring the voice of Takuji Izawa and High-Difficulty Riddles Produced by FukuraP!|website= [[PR Times]]|language= Japanese|date= December 1, 2023|access-date= December 3, 2023}}</ref>
*''Fate/Grand Order Explore Movie 2024 "Wanted"'' (ONA, August 3, 2024) {{endash}} promotional short film for the Fate/Grand Order mobile game; directed by Hiroto Nagata.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ECq4LBOkM|title= Fate/Grand Order Explore Movie 2024 “WANTED！”|date= August 3, 2024|website= [[YouTube]]|publisher= Fate/Grand Order|language= Japanese|access-date= August 3, 2024}}</ref>
}}

===Gross outsource===
Episodes, series, and other projects in which Shaft was not the prime contractor for but subcontracted to for animation services either across the entire series or to produce an episode or part of the work. These do not include minor outsourcing credits such as key animation, in-between animation, or cel-painting. Gross outsourcing is also referred to as "full" outsourcing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2021/06/09/what-actually-is-anime-outsourcing-the-historical-context-and-current-reality-of-animes-life-support/|title= What Actually is Anime Outsourcing? – The Historical Context and Current Reality of Anime's Life Support|website= Sakugablog|author= Cirugeda, Kevin "Yuyucow"|date= June 9, 2021|access-date= July 17, 2023}}</ref> The studio was active in gross outsourcing for companies and other studios from the time its animation department was formed in the early 80s up until 2004 when the company switched to almost exclusively contributing only to its own productions. Since 2019, the studio has occasionally worked as a gross outsource company for other studios once again.

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed plainrowheaders"
|+ class="nowrap" | List of gross outsources
|-
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Year 
! scope="col" | Title 
! scope="col" | Primary contractor(s)
! scope="col" | Director(s)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Episode(s)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Note(s)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Refs.|References}}
|-
! scope="row" | 1980–1981
|''Time Bokan Series: Time Patrol Tai Otasukeman''
|[[Tatsunoko Production]]
|[[Hiroshi Sasagawa]]<br>Nobuo Oonuki
|11, 19, 21, 25, 36, 47, 53
|
|<ref name="pa">Credited as {{nihongo|Production Assistance|制作協力}} in respective episodes.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1982–1983
|''Hitotsuboshi-ke no Ultra Baasan''
|[[Knack Productions]]
|Masuji Harata
|1–13
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1983
|''Superbook 2''
|Tatsunoko Production
|Masakazu Higuchi
|1–26
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
|''[[Serendipity the Pink Dragon]]''
|[[Zuiyo]]
|Nobuo Oonuki
|11–26
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1984
|''[[Attacker You!]]''
|Knack Productions
|Kazuyuki Okasako
|1–15
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1984–1985
|''[[Elves of the Forest]]''
|Zuiyo
|Masakazu Higuchi
|1–23
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1987–1988
|''[[Hiatari Ryōkō!]]''
|[[Group TAC]]
|[[Gisaburō Sugii]]<br/>Hiroko Tokita
|3, 8, 15, 21, 27, 38, 43, 48
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1988
|''[[Hiatari Ryōkō!|Hiatari Ryōkō! Kasumi: Yume no Naka ni Kimi ga Ita]]''
|Group TAC
|Kimiharu Oguma
|
|TV film
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1990–1991
|''[[Kyatto Ninden Teyandee]]''
|Tatsunoko Production
|Kunitoshi Okajima
|5, 9, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 27, 30, 32<br/>34, 36, 38, 41, 44, 47, 50, 52
|
|<ref name="ap"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1991
|''Ushiro no Shoumen Daare''
|[[Mushi Production]]
|Seiji Arihara
|
|Film
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
|''Oh! My Konbu''
|[[Kodansha]], [[VAP (company)|VAP]]
|Tetsuo Imazawa
|4, 8, 12, 16, 20
|
|{{efn|Credited as {{nihongo|Animation Production|アニメーション製作}} for respective episodes. However, Studio Toriumi produced most of the episodes, and neither Shaft nor Toriumi were primary contractors for the work.}}
|-
|''[[Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato|Dark Genesis]]''
|Tatsunoko Production
|Yoshihisa Matsumoto
|1
|OVA
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1992–1993
|''Little Twins''
|
|Toshio Hirata<br/>Isamu Tsuchida
|Unknown
|OVA
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1994
|''Goal Field Hunter''
|Image Key
|Masakazu Higuchi<br/>Kunitoshi Okajima
|Unknown
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1994–1995
|''[[The Legend of Snow White]]''
|Tatsunoko Production
|Kunitoshi Okajima
|
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod">{{Cite web|url=http://www.shaft-web.co.jp/history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623134535/http://www.shaft-web.co.jp/history.html|title= History|archive-date= June 23, 2007|website= Shaft|language= Japanese}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 1995
|''[[Bonobono]]''
|Group TAC
|Hitoshi Nanba
|8, 23, 29, 46
|
|<ref name="apa">Credited as {{nihongo|Animation Production Assistance|アニメーション制作協力}} in respective episodes.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1996–1997
|''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]''
|K-Factory
|[[Noboru Ishiguro]] et al.
|87, 90, 93, 96, 99, 102, 105, 108
|OVA
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Kiko-chan's Smile]]''
|Magic Bus
|Setsuko Shibuichi
|1, 4, 14, 17, 23, 38, 50
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | 1997
|''[[Legend of Crystania|Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring]]''
|[[Triangle Staff]]
|[[Ryūtarō Nakamura]]
|2
|OVA
|<ref name="nakamura"/>
|-
|''[[Mach GoGoGo (1997 anime series)|Mach Go Go Go: Restart]]''
|Tatsunoko Production
|Hiroshi Sasagawa et al.
|5, 9, 14, 19, 25
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Hareluya II Boy]]''
|Triangle Staff
|Kiyoshi Egami
|3
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
|''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''
|[[J.C.Staff]]
|[[Kunihiko Ikuhara]]
|15, 20, 29, 37
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 1997–1998
|''[[Battle Athletes|Battle Athletes Victory]]''
|[[Anime International Company|AIC]]
|[[Katsuhito Akiyama]]
|1–26
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1998
|''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes|A Hundred Billion Stars, a Hundred Billion Lights]]''
|K-Factory
|Noboru Ishiguro et al.
|5–8, 17
|OVA
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Generator Gawl]]''
|Tatsunoko Production
|[[Seiji Mizushima]]
|4, 6, 10
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Silent Möbius]]''
|Radix
|Hideki Tonokatsu<br/>[[Nobuyuki Takeuchi]]
|1–26 (except 14, 19, 23)
|
|{{Sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=240}}
|-
! scope="row" | 1998–1999
|''Totsugeki! Pappara-tai''
|Magic Bus
|Kenichi Maejima
|5, 10, 16
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan = "7" | 1999
|''[[Space Pirate Mito]]''
|Triangle Staff
|[[Takashi Watanabe]]
|2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure]]''
|AIC
|Katsuhito Akiyama
|1–13
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Power Stone (TV series)|Power Stone]]''
|Pierrot
|[[Takahiro Omori]]
|9, 16
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Magic User's Club]]''
|Triangle Staff, [[Madhouse (company)|Madhouse]]
|Junichi Sato
|10
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Dai-Guard]]''
|[[Xebec (studio)|Xebec]]
|Seiji Mizushima
|11
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]''
|AIC
|[[Akitaro Daichi]]
|5, 10
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Space Pirate Mito|A Pair of Queens]]''
|Triangle Staff
|Takashi Watanabe
|2, 4, 7, 9
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1990–2000
|''[[Blue Gender]]''
|AIC
|Masami Abe
|4, 10, 16, 22
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Excel Saga]]''
|J.C.Staff
|[[Shinichi Watanabe]]
|4, 9, 14, 19, 24
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2000
|''[[Boogiepop Phantom]]''
|Madhouse
|Takashi Watanabe
|2, 5, 7, 11–12
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[NieA_7]]''
|Triangle Staff
|[[Tomokazu Tokoro]]<br/>[[Takuya Satō (director)|Takuya Satō]]
|11
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Sakura Wars (TV series)|Sakura Wars]]''
|Madhouse
|Ryūtarō Nakamura
|1–25
|
|<ref name="nakamura"/>
|-
|''Kita e.: Pure Session''
|Studio D-Volt
|Mitsuko Kase
|
|OVA
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 2000–2001
|''[[Saiyuki (manga)|Saiyuki]]''
|Pierrot
|Hayato Date
|3, 9, 15, 21, 27–50
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2001
|''[[Initial D|Initial D: Third Stage]]''
|[[Studio Deen]]
|Fumitsugu Yamaguchi
|
|Film
|<ref name="apa"/>
|-
|''[[Sister Princess]]''
|[[Zexcs]]
|Kiyotaka Ohata
|4
|
|<ref name="apa"/>
|-
|''[[The SoulTaker]]''
|Tatsunoko Production/VCR
|[[Akiyuki Shinbo]]
|10
|
|{{sfn|Maeda|Hiraiwa|2007|p=1}}
|-
|''[[Android Kikaider: The Animation|Kikaider 01: The Animation]]''
|Radix, Studio OX
|Keitarou Motonaga
|2
|OVA
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2001–2002
|''[[Okojo-san|Okojo's Happy Apartment]]''
|[[Radix Ace Entertainment|Radix]]
|Yuusuke Yamamoto
|2, 5, 8, 19, 24-25, 27<br/>29, 33, 36, 39, 42, 45, 48
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Android Kikaider: The Animation]]''
|Radix, Studio OX
|[[Tensai Okamura]]
|2, 7–8, 12
|
|{{sfn|Shinbo|2012|p=247}}
|-
|''[[Cyborg 009|Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier]]''
|Japan Vistec
|[[Jun Kawagoe]]
|3, 27-28, 31, 34, 44, 46
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2002
|''[[Seven of Seven]]''
|[[A.C.G.T]]
|[[Yasuhiro Imagawa]]
|14
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3]]''
|Madhouse
|Fumihiko Takayama<br/>Takuji Endou
|
|Film
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | 2003
|''[[Heat Guy J]]''
|[[Satelight]]
|[[Kazuki Akane]]
|19
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Dear Boys]]''
|A.C.G.T
|Susumu Kudou
|3, 7, 12, 18, 23
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
|''[[Kino's Journey]]''
|A.C.G.T
|Ryūtarō Nakamura
|7
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd]]''
|[[Gainax]]
|
|
|Video game
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="6" | 2004
|''[[Misaki Chronicles]]''
|Radix
|Jun Takada<br/>Hiroshi Negishi
|2
|
|<ref name="ap">Credited as {{nihongo|Assisting Production|協力プロダクション}} in respective episodes.</ref>
|-
|''[[Maburaho]]''
|J.C.Staff
|[[Shinichiro Kimura]]
|11
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Gilgamesh (manga)|Gilgamesh]]''
|Group TAC, Japan Vistec
|Masahiko Murata
|16, 22
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Tetsujin 28-go (2004 TV series)|Tetsujin 28-go]]''
|[[Palm Studio]]
|Yasuhiro Imagawa
|3, 6, 9
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
|''[[Gakuen Alice]]''
|Group TAC
|Takahiro Omori
|4, 10
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
|''[[Uta Kata]]''
|[[Hal Film Maker]]
|[[Keiji Gotoh]]
|4
|
|<ref name="shaft history prod"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 2019
|''[[The Quintessential Quintuplets]]''
|[[Tezuka Productions]]
|Satoshi Kuwabara
|11
|
|<ref name="quint"/>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2023
|''[[Mashle]]''
|[[A-1 Pictures]]
|Tomoya Tanaka
|7
|
|<ref name="pa"/>
|-
|''[[The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses]]''
|Tezuka Productions
|Satoshi Kuwabara
|9
|
|<ref>{{Cite Tweet|number= 1664880773005033474|user= maguro09|author= Ushinohama, Yui|date= June 2, 2023|script-title=ja:シャフトグロス回です。原画しました。|trans-title= It's a Shaft gross this time. I did key animation.}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead]]''
|Bug Films
|Kazuki Kawagoe
|2–5
|
|<ref name="kojima"/>
|-
! scope="row" | 2024
|''[[Mashle]]'' 2nd Season
|A-1 Pictures
|Tomoya Tanaka
|2
|
|-
|}

==Notable staff==
<!--NOTE: representative staff and animation producers should be added here regardless of hyperlink/wikilink ability, or if they've founded/represented a notable studio afterwards. However, other staff members like directors and animators should only be added here if they can be wikilinked to a page on Wikipedia, such as EN Wiki or JP Wiki.-->

===Representative staff===
{{div col}}
*Hiroshi Wakao (founder, first president (1975~2004), and chairman (2004~))
*[[Mitsutoshi Kubota]] (Second president (2004~), managing director (1995~2004), and color designer (1981~1995))<ref name="kubota watanabe"/>
*Kouji Tanoue (board member, licensing division manager,<ref name="shizuoka mirai"/> former production manager)
*Tamiko Nishimaki (board member, former color designer)
*Miku Ooshima (board member, producer, and screenplay writer)
*Nobuki Maki (board member, former production manager)
*Natsuko Kubota (board member, former color designer)
*Kayoko Mizusawa (board member)
{{div col end}}

===Animation producers===
{{div col}}
*Shigeyuki Amemiya (2006~present)
*Kazumasa Amitani (2007~present)
*Tadao Iwaki (2010~2011, 2014~2017){{sfn|Kizawa|Takayama|Saitou|2014|p=117}}
*Kousuke Matsunaga (2010~2018)
*Kazuki Soumiya (2010~2019)
*Kouichi Yasuda (2010~2022)<ref>{{cite AV media| people =Kouichi Yasuda| title =Kouichi Yasuda Interview, Assault Lily Bouquet| type = Blu-Ray| publisher = Funimation|date= January 18, 2022}}</ref>
*Ryuusuke Suzuki (2010~present)<ref name="baton"/>
*Yasuhiro Okada (2010~present){{sfn|Kizawa|Takayama|Saitou|2014|p=117}}
*Hitoshi Fujikawa (2012~2015)
*Takuo Yukinaga (2012~2019)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2021/03/08/kizumonogatari-staff-interview-vfx-supervisor-michiya-kato/|title= KIZUMONOGATARI STAFF INTERVIEW: VFX SUPERVISOR MICHIYA KATO|website= Sakugablog|author= Cirugeda, Kevin "yuyucow"|date= March 8, 2021|access-date= April 2, 2024}}</ref>
*Yuuya Matsukawa (2012~present)<ref name="megami quintuplet"/>
{{div col end}}

===Production staff===
{{div col}}
*{{ill|Masahiko Murata|ja|むらた雅彦}} (animator, 1982~1987)
*[[Hiroyuki Morita]] (animator, 1987)
*Yutaka Nagaushi (production assistant, 1987~1995; founder of {{ill|Digital Network Animation|ja|デジタルネットワークアニメーション}})
*[[Toshimasa Suzuki]] (animator, 1987~2000; currently freelances as a director)<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://ddnavi.com/interview/1005788/a/|script-title= ja:15年振りのタッグが魅せる、日本アニメの表現力――『RWBY 氷雪帝国』鈴木利正（監督）＆冲方丁（シリーズ構成・脚本）対談（前編）|trans-title= The First Team-Up in 15 Years Brings us the Power of Expression of Japanese Animation - "RWBY: Ice Queendom" Talk with Toshimasa Suzuki (Director) and Tow Ubukata (Series Composition/Screenplay) (Part 1)|date= July 11, 2022|language= Japanese|access-date= July 12, 2022|interviewer= Hidekuni Shida|archive-date= July 12, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220712063323/https://ddnavi.com/interview/1005788/a/|url-status= live}}</ref>
*[[Yoshiaki Itou]] (character designer and animator, 1987~present)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.otaquest.com/yoshiaki-ito-interview-pt-1/|title= The Art Of Animating "Delicious": Interview With Yoshiaki Ito Pt. 1|website= Otaquest|date= October 10, 2019|access-date= March 8, 2023}}</ref>
*{{ill|Masahiko Nakada|ja|大田和寛}} (animator, 1990~1995)
*Makoto Kohara (animator, 1996~2001; founder of [[Diomedéa]])
*{{ill|Mai Ootsuka|ja|大塚舞}} (animator, 1998~2003)
*{{ill|Naoko Shiraishi|ja|白石直子}} (production assistant, 2000~2002; later founded [[Millepensee]])
*{{ill|Nobuhiro Sugiyama|ja|杉山延寛}} (character designer and animator, 2001~present)<ref name="shiotsuki interview"/>
*[[Kazuya Shiotsuki]] (character designer and animator, 2002~present)<ref name="shiotsuki interview">{{Cite web |url=https://animecorner.me/interview-quintessential-quintuplets-special-junichiro-tanaka-keiichiro-ohchi-kazuya-shiotsuki/|title= Discussing The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ Special With Junichiro Tanaka, Keiichiro Ohchi and Kazuya Shiotsuki|website= Anime Corner|date= July 29, 2023|author1= Himmelheber, Eric|author2= Sarca|access-date= July 29, 2023}}</ref>
*[[Yasuko Watanabe (color designer)|Yasuko Watanabe]] (color designer, 2000~present)<ref name="kubota watanabe"/>
*{{ill|Kazuhiro Oota|ja|大田和寛}} (character designer and animator, 2004~2009)
*[[Shin Oonuma]] (director, 2004~2009)
*[[Naoyuki Tatsuwa]] (director, 2004~2015)
*[[Tatsuya Oishi (director)|Tatsuya Oishi]] (director, 2004~2018)
*[[Akiyuki Shinbo]] (director, 2004~present)
*[[Tomoyuki Itamura]] (director, 2007~2017)
*[[Yukihiro Miyamoto]] (director, 2007~present){{efn|Miyamoto may have acted as a freelance director for much of his time with Shaft, but [[Megami Magazine]] referred to him and directors Kouji Matsumura and Midori Yoshizawa as {{nihongo|"directors belonging to Shaft"|シャフト所属の演出家}} in a 2023 interview.<ref name="megami quintuplet">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Megami Magazine]]|title=Megami Magazine November 2023|at={{lang|ja|『五等分の花嫁』メインスタッフ座談会}} ["The Quintessential Quintuplets∽" Main Staff Roundtable]|publisher=[[Gakken]]|date=September 29, 2023|language=ja|asin= B0CJ5TSXRS}}</ref>}}
*[[Yuki Yase]] (director, 2010~2017)
*[[Hiroki Yamamura]] (character designer and animator, 2012~present){{efn|Yamamura worked for Studio Pastoral between 2004~2012 and was oftentimes contracted for work by Shaft. Following his departure, he worked exclusively with Shaft, though his unemployment during the time period is ambiguous. In 2020, he and animator Genichirou Abe participated on ''[[Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!]]'' (2023) listed as members of "(Shaft)", and his Twitter account briefly mentioned his affiliation with the company.<ref name="ymmr twitter">{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/y_kaele|script-title=ja:山村洋貴(シャフト)／お仕事がアニメ！|trans-title= Hiroki Yamamura (Shaft)/My job is anime!|website= [[Twitter]]|access-date= March 8, 2023}}</ref>}}
{{div col end}}

===Notable associated freelancers===
{{div col}}
*[[Akio Watanabe]] (character designer and animator)
*[[Hajime Ueda]] (illustrator)
*[[Ume Aoki]] (illustrator)
*[[Gekidan Inu Curry]] (directors and animators)
*[[Ryouki Kamitsubo]] (director)
*[[Kenichi Ishikura]] (director)
*[[Shinichi Omata]] (director)
*[[Nobuyuki Takeuchi]] (director and animator)
*[[Shouji Saeki]] (director)
*[[Yasuomi Umetsu]] (director)
*[[Hajime Ootani]] (director)
*[[Kenjirou Okada]] (director)
{{div col end}}

==See also==
*[[Mushi Production]]—founder Hiroshi Wakao was a part of Mushi Production prior to Shaft's foundation
*[[Gainax]]—worked closely with Shaft in the early-to-mid 2000s
*[[Millepensee]]—founded by ex-Shaft production manager Naoko Shiraishi
*[[Diomedéa]]—founded by ex-Shaft animator Makoto Kohara
*[[Silver Link]]—ex-Shaft director [[Shin Oonuma]] works with Silver Link in a similar position to Shinbo's at Shaft

== Notes ==
===Production notes===
{{Notelist}}

===Credit notes===
{{notelist-lr}}

===Works cited===
* {{cite book|script-title=ja:この醜くも美しい世界公式ビジュアルブック|trans-title=This Ugly Yet Beautiful World Official Visual Book|last1=Suzuki|first1=Akito| last2=Harada|first2=Nobukatsu| last3=Kirikata|first3=Runta|language=Japanese|publisher= Media Works|year=2004|ISBN=978-4840229050}}
* {{cite web|script-title=ja:アニメ新表現宣言！新房監督作品の奥にアニメ表現の最先端を見た！|trans-title= Declaration of a New Expression for Anime! I saw the Cutting Edge of Anime Expression in Director Shinbo's Work!|url=http://www.p-tina.net/interview/81|author1-last= Maeda|author1-first=Hisashi|author2-last= Hiraiwa|author2-first= Shinsuke|publisher= Tamon Creative|language= Japanese|year= 2007|access-date= July 17, 2022}}
* {{cite book|title=Hidamari Sketch Album|publisher= [[Houbunsha]]|editor1-first= Yukito|editor1-last=Kizawa|editor2-first=Muneo|editor2-last=Nakamoto|editor3-last=Yanagi|editor3-first=Yuuichi|year= 2008|isbn= 978-4832277403}}
* {{cite book|script-title=ja:新房語|trans-title=Shinbogatari|last= Shinbo|first= Akiyuki|language= Japanese|year= 2012|publisher= [[Ichijinsha]]|isbn=978-4758012591}}
* {{Cite book|script-title=ja:劇場版魔法やまどかマギカ[新編]叛逆の物語公式ガイドブック only you.|trans-title= Movie Version Puella Magi Madoka Magica [New Edition] Story of Rebellion Official Guidebook only you.|editor1-first=Yukito|editor1-last=Kizawa| editor2-first=Atsushi|editor2-last=Takayama| editor3-first=Fusano|editor3-last=Saitou| publisher=[[Houbunsha]]|year=2014|ISBN=978-4832244290}}
* {{cite thesis |last=Rubin |first= Lucy Paige|year=2017|title= Between Comedy and Despair: The House Style of Studio Shaft|type= Bachelor of the Arts|publisher= [[Wesleyan University]]|url= https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/object/ir-978|access-date=May 24, 2021}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Kushida |editor-first= Makoto|year=2017|script-title=ja: 〈物語〉Febri |asin= B075QWP3NZ|trans-title= "Monogatari" Febri|publisher= [[Ichijinsha]]|language= Japanese}}
* {{cite book |editor-last= Takahashi|editor-first= Yumi|date=November 23, 2019|title= Akiyuki Shimbo x Shaft Chronicle|publisher= Dotcom|language= Japanese|isbn= 978-4835457017}}
* {{cite book|script-title=ja:マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝 TVアニメ公式ガイドブック 1巻|trans-title=Magia Record Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV Anime Official Guidebook Volume 1|year=2020|publisher=[[Houbunsha]]|last1=Maeda|first1=Hisashi|last2=Nakagami|first2=Yoshikatsu|last3=Kawabata|first3=Takeshi|last4=Nishitani|first4=Nanako|
language=Japanese|isbn=978-4832272019}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Shaft (animation studio)}}
*{{Official website|http://www.shaft-web.co.jp}} {{in lang|ja}}
*{{Anime News Network|company|677|Shaft}}

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