Brains Base
Brains Base is a Japanese studio first established in 2000.
Compare Manglobe, Studio BONES and The Answer Studio, three other Japanese studios established in the 2000s.
Works created by Brains Base include:
- Baccano! and its Spiritual Successor Durarara!!
- Akikan
- Dororon Enma-kun
- Innocent Venus
- Gunparade Orchestra
- Kure-nai
- New Getter Robo
- Kamisama Dolls
- Mawaru Penguindrum
- Mazinkaiser
- Princess Jellyfish
- Natsume Yuujinchou
Additional Work includes
- Blue Exorcist (2nd Key Animation; Production Assistance)
- Code Geass (2nd Key and In-Between Animation; R2 season)
- Eden of the East (In-Between Animation)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2nd Key and In-Between Animation)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2nd Key, Key and In-Between Animation)
- Gintama (2nd Key Animation)
- Golgo 13 (In-Between Animation; 2005 series)
- Gosick (In-Between Animation)
- Halo Legends (Ink & Paint)
- Kamichu! (Animation; In-Between Animation)
- Ouran High School Host Club (In-Between Animation)
- Ponyo (Animation Cooperation)
- Saki (Finish & In-Between Animation)
- Sengoku Basara (2nd Key Animation)
- Sora no Manimani (In-Between Animation)
- Soul Eater (In-Between Animation)
- Tekkon Kinkreet (In-Between Animation)
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (In-Between Animation)
Brains Base provides examples of the following tropes:
- Animation Bump: They're one of the better Japanese studios.
- Off-Model: They still have their moments though.
- Their worst is probably Akikan